That Aud Smell

I peeked at our basic advanced metrics. We’re hovering around 20th in the league on Corsi/Fenwick. Our PDO’s pretty high - top 10, iirc. So, we’re a developing team that’s had some good luck of late, yeah? I mean, I’m good with that. I just want to have a fair understanding of who and what the team is.

And the article details the regrettable odyssey with the NCAA and its member institution in some detail. Including: “Yet now the NCAA may force her to choose between accepting that financial help and maintaining her eligibility to participate in the sport she loves.” The article also appears to have been updated. It didn’t have a rosy ending when I first read it. Also, the article, even as updated (maybe just the headline?), concludes as follows: “Whether she will be abandoned in the end by her school and the NCAA remains to be seen.”

The Tweet states: “So far they have told her to choose donations or eligibility.”

Easy, Grace. (I didn’t even hit you with an ambiguous .gif!) I’m legitimately confused. I’d heard and read that the NCAA was initially like “too bad, so sad” about her situation. I inferred that they’d changed course.

What. A. Game.

That pass from Dahlin was *filthy*.

Sometimes a picture’s worth a thousand words, bruh. It sounds to me as though her participation with that cross country team is hugely important. To her. Right now. You quoted what came out very recently. Prior to that, there were weeks and months when they were saying something else.

/spit take. (Um, that’s maybe not quite what I meant.)

These guys are ... good? For sure: I am drunk.

Having the college honour the scholarship would not address one of her most pressing concerns: Her need to be eligible for cross country. It sounds like that team is her principal support network. I won't pretend to know the machinations of NCAA enforcement. I know enough to know that their rules and regs are cumbersome and Byzantine, and those who enforce them often come at issues in the same spirit. There's a creative solution to be had there. I hope they find it.

Between being a Domer and spurning the Sabres, sure -- fook that guy.

I heard about that story a little while ago -- I actually gave to her Go Fund Me before it was shut down (by which time it'd raised over $25,000). The NCAA stuff is so discouraging, but not really that surprising given how ... complicated NCAA regulations are and how tone deaf the enforcement people can be. It's the stuff with the young lady's parents that just kills me. I think that's probably the issue. I wonder if there's some way in which the money could be transferred and re-papered such that it could be in compliance and non-precedential.

Bylsma sighting. Huh.

The going gets no easier, but I think that's just how this team likes it. Maybe. ... We'll see! Let's go, Buffalo!

He was a very incomplete player, but, as far as I recall, he always played like a runaway freight train.

Good stuff here:

We oughta cross post this in the PSE Creative thread. Solid content. Find the good personalities. Come up with a goofy idea. Let it rip.

Merely an honourary one, I hope.

Hmm. Really? Careful there. Let us not tempt the hockey gods.

Well, I'm definitely unsure of what you're saying, then. My point is as stated above: Peterman's demonstrated himself to be spectacularly incapable of playing QB in the NFL. (And there is no shame in that.) The fact that McDermott and his coaches on the O-side of the ball have failed in putting together a modern NFL offence doesn't, to me, suggest that Peterman's lost out on an opportunity to become an NFL QB (because he was drafted by and played for McDermott). On the contrary, the fact that McDermott selected and then believed in Peterman as an NFL QB is symptomatic of the incompetence that McDermott has exhibited with regards to offence in the NFL.

The idea that Peterman would have performed about the same in that game is laughable. I understand and even agree with people having some sympathy for the guy -- Sal Capaccio at WGR spoke well to the issue -- but I'm perplexed by the emerging narrative that Peterman could have been, might still be a good NFL quarterback, and, to this point in time, has had that opportunity dashed by McDermott & Co. Also: The Jets D is dispirited from what I can tell, but they have some decent personnel on that side of the ball.

They have 4 of them listed on the teams' directory pages. Maybe it's been the Sabres' improvement, but I haven't noticed much that's irked or disappointed me in a while on this front. And I vaguely recall thinking they'd done some good stuff, too.

Whoa. Was it AKA the Rolston Centipede?