Augie

So, are you saying we can NOT find our new punter this way? I’d like an open competition and all options available!

In the WAY BACK, I’d take my dogs to the beach down by the Salty Dog, then go drink at the bar while they dried out and dropped some sand before riding home in my convertible. Those were the days. I didn’t even own leashes. It was a bunch of regulars avoiding the tourists in Harbor Town. Now? No dogs allowed near the Salty Dog. Bummer, but it’s so crowded it’s hard to even park nearby. Can’t add dogs to that mix. We banked the guy who built the big expansion down there. He sold well, the next guy thinks it was a bargain. If you can get to Harbor Town there is a trolly shuttle that will take you to the Beach Club, the Plantation Club (golf courses and a nice restaurant) and down to South Beach, home of the famous Salty Dog. I am positive you have seen one of those tee shirts somewhere, some time. A bartender down there told me he’s made more on the tee shirts than selling food and drink. All I know is he’s a VERY wealthy man! The shuttle is seasonal, but it should be available. If you have time, I’d recommend it to see the highlights of Sea Pines. Also, if you like golf at all, the Harbor Town clubhouse is open (with a nice restaurant) and you can walk thru the locker room where all the PGA players have their names on lockers. Pretty cool. Have fun!

I know other fanbases would disagree, but I don’t think there is any tighter fan community than our Bills fans. It’s more than football to us. I’m glad you had the gift of experiencing this personally. When my boys turned 16 I took each to a Bills home game as a rite of passage. I’ll never forget taking my oldest to dinner at the Creekview restaurant in Williamsville the night before the game. I explained what we were doing to some nice folks, and they LOVED it! Before long, we had several groups of people begging us to be their guests at their tailgates. We were a couple strangers in a bar/restaurant. That doesn’t happen the way it did in many places. I’m glad for your good fortune, and despite not knowing your benefactor, I’m sorry for the loss.

We don’t want to hear about your swimming history! Try to stay on topic, would you?

That is an excellent idea, as it creates bonds beyond just “exposure” .

GOOD FOR YOU! I started going to HHI in 1977, moved there after college in 1982. Met my wife there and our kids were born there. Moved to Sarasota in 1993, but get back maybe every other year. I will be buried there (hopefully no time soon) with much of my family. I would have been a great source decades ago, but I’m not your “up-to-date” guy now. I’m certainly good for general questions. Daufuskie is beautiful, but remote and quiet. I’m sure you know it’s only accessible by boat. There were two main developments back then, Haig Point at the north end of the island and Melrose Club (?). Melrose was proud of their international membership showing their list of members to prospects. Unfortunately, the people from Japan and Finland rarely dropped in to buy a burger. The monthly minimums rose to cover expenses went up so much you could’t give Melrose memberships away. They started at $35K (maybe 1985), rose to about $65k because it was so “cool”, then they jacked up the minimums and my parents eventually bought one for $500. A lawyer buddy I used for bank forecloses, etc would take us over for golf, tennis, food and drink trying to meet the minimums. “WAIT! Don’t you need a hat and maybe a putter?” Melrose was awesome but is now known as something else. It’s beaches looked across Calibogue Sound to Harbor Town and South Beach. I’d go there tomorrow for a vacation. Cabanas along the beach were great. Bloody Point came a little later with what I think is a Jack Nicholas course I think I played once. Outside the plantations, it was rough, and the roads were not all paved. Pat Conroy wrote the book The Water is Wide, turned into the movie Conrack, with Jon Voight. It’s a beautiful place. I don’t know the current version, but I’m sure you’ll have a great time. They have water taxi’s over to Harbor Town still, I believe. Harbor Town is awesome, and quintessential Hilton Head. It’s not huge, but it would be a mistake not to visit once. The 18th Green of the Harbor Town course (the week after the Masters every year) goes right up to the harbor and is a classic golf venue. If you get to Harbor Town, I highly recommend dinner at CQ’s. I hope it lives up to what it was for decades, but, restaurants…..you never know. .

There should be more strict laws guarding against the poaching of Wildgoose. What is this world coming to?

Only in states…..NOT anywhere near me. I got myself a broken time zone!

Maybe I should have bolded brain fart and live and learn. It’s over, I’ve moved on. I guess that’s my point.

If you are talking about the 13 seconds, seek help. That wasn’t about talent and developing, that was a brain fart. Live and learn.

Don’t be shocked if it’s BOTH a 1st rounder and a mid-rounder. It’s a passing league and the old saying of “you can’t have too many CB’s” is a true one. Not saying it will be, not saying it’s impossible. .

Yep, sounds interesting, though I don’t know enough to have an opinion here. They DO know how to coach them up (easier in zone coverage), but that doesn’t mean we will only stick with lower round guys and UDFA’s. See: Tre White for reference. They know how to coach them, and they know how to pick good ones wherever they may be.

They are never correct, but the one positive is that it’s a way for me to start learning about these college guys. That’s all I got, but it helps me get ready for the draft reading the mocks.

If you have to chose between paying the QB or paying the WR, you pay the QB. ALL DAY LONG! The QB can make a WR far easier than a WR can make a QB. Miami got this backwards.

Little known fact: playing in Miami he got so sweaty the ring slipped off. They searched the field with no results. It is believed to be lost somewhere in his beard or chest hair, but so far metal detectors have been inconclusive as to location. I have Arnold Palmers for lunch every day. I feel a bond.

It’s about time for some talent to land in the NFC!!!

So………he’s ranked! That sounds good!

I went to St Joes on Kenmore Ave (near UB) but lived out in Williamsville and East Amherst. It was 3 hours a day round trip on the bus. I eventually got a car, but it was still 45 minutes each way driving direct. I had my friends where I lived, and they all went to school together. I had friends I went to school with, but I never really saw them outside of school until a little bit in our senior year. I wasn’t fully a part of either group. It was a bit odd, I admit. My wife helped start a sorority while in college. She has a group text thread with her college buddies, and once a year all ages who were part of the sorority will rent a bunch of beach houses and gather. They all mix together, but mostly the “adults” tend to stick together. As mentioned earlier, I have a text thread with a bunch of college buddies. Half of them….I couldn’t tell you a thing about them. Some I just have numbers, and don’t even know their names. It’s a crossover deal, where I was friends with a couple, and casually knew a couple more with no idea who the others were. My junior year I lived in the only off campus housing between school and the only bar you could walk to. It was known as Stan & Stu’s, a couple of my housemates. There were 12 of us in this three story former tri-plex. On any given “night” (NOT just weekends - it could be a random Tuesday morning in February) one of us would be closing the bar at 2:30 am and people would buy 12 packs then march to Stan & Stu’s. I was often asked “are you going to Stan & Stu’s tonight?”. It was even funnier when they asked the same question of Stan or Stu! It was a generic name for the “after party”, even if you didn’t know who Stan or Stu were. It was like public property! We had some crazy parties there (probably the best was 1980 Olympic hockey which we rented giant TV’s for), but a lot of people recognized us as they would crash our house one or two nights a week, but I had no idea where they even lived or even what their names were. You know the characters in Animal House, the people at the keg party are anonymous guests not listed in the credits. This might explain a few things about me…… 🤷‍♂️

Mike is battling anorexia or he’s missing a twig? Or both? HFBD!

Live by the “you split, I pick method”.

Not living in the dorms is key, in my mind. Learning to live with other people and get along may just be more important than anything that happens in a classroom. College is about learning how to grow up first, learning a trade second. My wife went away to school her first year. Piano performance major at a stuffy school. HATED it, came back to school in her home town. Her parents wouldn’t pay for the dorms since it was home town. She got a job at a jewelry store to pay for the dorms. Life can be what you make it. She’s done nothing but rise ever since. EDIT: I’m on a text thread with about 8 other college buddies that I hear from almost daily, and another who was the best man in my wedding. I didn’t LOVE college like some people did, but I can’t complain. .

Ummmm, how long has it been since the Jets made a team punt? 🤷‍♂️

You want to stick to ex-Panthers? 😊 I’m with you, I trust Beane. Nobody is perfect, but he’s much better than most.

It’s more effective if the disappointment is delayed. Don’t let them see it coming, then pull the rug out!

You might be happy with another CB, followed by WR later in a deep WR class.