Ron Raccucia out as EVP/COO

[Augie]

1 minute ago, NoSaint said:

we have missed the boat on a world class WNBA franchise. 
 

I am not sure that will be received how he expects. 

 

I’ll tell you all I know about the WNBA, and it should not come as news to anyone: Do NOT try to smuggle hash oil into Russia. 

[Draconator]

10 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Oh I stopped reading his essays long ago. But I know he also graces UBfan.com with his wisdom.

Gotcha

[JoPoy88]

9 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

You want to host MLS and Rugby in the new 60,000 seat stadium?  😂😂😂

 

Where are the attendance numbers to back that up, or are you okay with 5-10k for soccer and a few hundred for rugby in this huge stadium?

dude this guy is just…gone. He has some grudge against Pegula and PSE and it has obviously infested his mind to a point where there’s no going back. 

[JoPoy88]

7 hours ago, Beck Water said:

 

Well I'm not sure, but I think the Cliff Notes are "the plans for the new stadium suck because it isn't designed for MLS and rugby."

Honorable mention to Ken and Barbie as apparent Bills fans, News to Me

I don’t want to ever, even inadvertently, make light of anyone on here that has mental health troubles. So I’ll just say, good for @I am leaving for good for stringing together 4 or 5 paragraphs at a time of his or her or their thoughts. 
 

give us 2 soccer teams! Give us rugby! Why stop there? Give us weekday cricket!  Freeze the f’n field in January and give us extreme curling!

[WotAGuy]

8 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said:

……and give us extreme curling!

It just might be crazy enough to work!

[Sierra Foothills]

Tim Graham, The Athletic:

 

"Ron Raccuia was among seven dignitaries welcomed on stage for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Buffalo Bills’ new $1.54 billion stadium.

He sat at owner Terry Pegula’s right arm and was brought to the lectern first, introduced by the emcee as “instrumental” in the team’s business operations and having “a huge hand in making this stadium a reality.”

 

"As the event unfolded, few likely noticed what wasn’t said for the next 31 minutes after Raccuia sat back down. These kinds of ceremonies feature a blizzard of shoutouts and thank-yous that quickly numb an audience’s ears. But those who paid close attention might have noticed that nobody — not Pegula, not Gov. Kathy Hochul, not Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz, not NFLcommissioner Roger Goodell — credited Raccuia as the Bills’ chief operating officer and lead stadium negotiator.

 

Perhaps the silence should have been a hint. Six weeks after Raccuia stuck his golden shovel into the dirt on June 5, the Bills fired him, punctuating one of the most meteoric career arcs in Buffalo sports history and hitting yet another reset button within a Pegula front office."

 

 

[JoPoy88]

10 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:

Tim Graham, The Athletic:

 

"Ron Raccuia was among seven dignitaries welcomed on stage for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Buffalo Bills’ new $1.54 billion stadium.

He sat at owner Terry Pegula’s right arm and was brought to the lectern first, introduced by the emcee as “instrumental” in the team’s business operations and having “a huge hand in making this stadium a reality.”

 

"As the event unfolded, few likely noticed what wasn’t said for the next 31 minutes after Raccuia sat back down. These kinds of ceremonies feature a blizzard of shoutouts and thank-yous that quickly numb an audience’s ears. But those who paid close attention might have noticed that nobody — not Pegula, not Gov. Kathy Hochul, not Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz, not NFLcommissioner Roger Goodell — credited Raccuia as the Bills’ chief operating officer and lead stadium negotiator.

 

Perhaps the silence should have been a hint. Six weeks after Raccuia stuck his golden shovel into the dirt on June 5, the Bills fired him, punctuating one of the most meteoric career arcs in Buffalo sports history and hitting yet another reset button within a Pegula front office."

 

 

I mean, all that being almost certainly true, the guy must have been a colossal pr*ck.

[Doc Brown]

2 hours ago, JoPoy88 said:

I don’t want to ever, even inadvertently, make light of anyone on here that has mental health troubles. So I’ll just say, good for @I am leaving for good for stringing together 4 or 5 paragraphs at a time of his or her or their thoughts. 
 

give us 2 soccer teams! Give us rugby! Why stop there? Give us weekday cricket!  Freeze the f’n field in January and give us extreme curling!

I think if he wasn't quickly sedated a Buffalo 2032 Summer Olympic Games proposal paragraph was coming next.

Edited August 6, 2023 by Doc Brown

[Doc Brown]

13 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

I really don't think the overrun had much to do with it. Be it $500M or whatever it runs it's not actually coming out of Terry's pocket. 

 

The money he has to front will be reflected in the final prices for tickets, PSLs, concession and souvenir items. In the end WE are the ones that will be reimbursing those funds.

Correct.  He's making a great investment.  There's a reason he's a self made billionaire and all the power to him.

[teef]

So…who is the most concerned?  Let’s just put it all on the table. 

[JoPoy88]

23 minutes ago, teef said:

So…who is the most concerned?  Let’s just put it all on the table. 

i’d put my concern-o-meter at about a 1/10. Right in that “who gives a ****” range

[teef]

4 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said:

i’d put my concern-o-meter at about a 1/10. Right in that “who gives a ****” range

I’m right there with ya. Someone is going to have to force me to be worried about this. 

[Bob Jones]

22 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

"He was said to be “obnoxious” and “arrogant” in his business dealing and reportedly turned off NY Gov. Kathy Hochul during negotiations."

Hochul strikes me as an incompetent hack, so there’s that. Her only experience in the real business world was that she worked (for a short time…a couple years) as a government relations executive for M&T Bank. So obviously she was NOT someone well versed or experienced in making these kinds of deals.

[Mr. WEO]

12 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:

Hochul strikes me as an incompetent hack, so there’s that. Her only experience in the real business world was that she worked (for a short time…a couple years) as a government relations executive for M&T Bank. So obviously she was NOT someone well versed or experienced in making these kinds of deals.

 

Leaving aside what does and does not strike you, do you really believe she was the only one in the room dealing on behalf of NYS?

 

No, you don't.

[UConn James]

5 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

I think if he wasn't quickly sedated a Buffalo 2032 Summer Olympic Games proposal paragraph was coming next.

A paragraph on that?

 

Fake Fat Sunny and his long string of aliases who all go on and on in a free association tangent and say the same thing twenty times… is back / has changed names yet again.

[davefan66]

23 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

 

i thought the 100% responsibility of cost overruns by the Bills could be a contributing factor in the firing.

 

The budget is $1.54 billion and they're already looking at 30% over after barely breaking ground?

 

This was a huge concession by the Bills IMO and purely from the team perspective, not a good one.

 

Atop the other reasons this could have been the last straw.

 

 

 

It could be this.

 

It could be he didn’t interact well with others and this is the reason attached to it.

 

He worked closely with Beane and I’m Twrry consulted with him before he made the move.

[Thurman#1]

On 8/5/2023 at 10:37 PM, JohnNord said:

I think there are questions to be raised with PSE.  This move kind of reminds me of what happened with the Sabres.  Rather than hiring people from outside to fill departures they just promote and shuffle around the staff they already have.  Terry has assumed mote responsibility since the firing.  
 

 

 

What's "mote responsibility"?

 

 

Edited August 6, 2023 by Thurman#1

[Augie]

2 minutes ago, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

What's "mote responsibility"?

 

 

 

How mini guesses do you need?      😋

[Mr. WEO]

18 hours ago, Augie said:

 

Anyone care to provide Cliff Notes? 

 

 

 

We should have a Buffalo MLS team because there is no Buffalo MLB team.

 

MLS is so popular that fans would travel from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Rochester and Syracuse to watch Buffalo MLS.

 

Middling is both an adjective and a verb.

 

NYS and Western NY representatives should have forced PSE to buy an unavailable MLS franchise--and an WNBA franchise (Buffalo is not on the WNBA list for expansion, but still...).

 

Barbie and Ken are getting married in the new Bills stadium.

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

I am on strike until Buffalo gets MLRD franchises for both sexes.

🤐

Major League Roller Derby.

Edited August 6, 2023 by Ridgewaycynic2013