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Well Pegula said when he bought the Sabres that the sole reason for the team's existence was to win a Stanley Cup. Then he spends tons of money on everything from FA's to locker room upgrades.
Yet, he turns around and hires a guy who makes tons of money for the owns but can't put a winning team together to save his life.
It makes zero sense.
Are you that dense? It makes perfect sense to hire someone who will make you money.
Where does it say that Pegula made Russ in charge of team personnel?
As a matter of fact, his CEO title was stripped from him when Pegula bought the bills.
And btw, the Sabres sold 15,000 seats to a rookie scrimmage in July, just a few short months after finishing last in the league and setting several franchise records for futility. They sold 97% of their tickets last season despite being terrible. They don't need Brandon's used car salesman tactics to make money.
Thats why you're an employee. You can always use more expertise to make MORE money.
why do people assume that brandon has been helpful selling football in buffalo? this was the easiest job on the face of the earth. and he had to "manufacture his sell outs" using his own words.
Great way to sell out games is to win. which means the mularkeys and the chan gaileys and doug marones can't be your choice. and your GM can't be done in committee. it means you pay your qb, and you find one.
and the bills have historically just kept their guys until they had to fire someone.
That isn't management. it's being completely incompetent at your job.
what he's good at is making morons think that he hasn't be responsible for the failures and somehow solely responsible for people loving football over the last 20 years.
It'll be interesting if the Sabres don't get measurably better in the next couple of years, than certain people can once again re-write history and blame all of the Sabres woes of the past few seasons on Brandon as well.
YardRat Wall of Fame #56 DARRYL TALLEY #29 DERRICK BURROUGHS#22 FRED JACKSON #95 KYLE WILLIAMS
Which ones are you talking about that are his fault?
I'm not defending the guy, just asking a question.
What exactly has his responsibilities been over the years? What can we hold him accountable for, and I mean exactly?
When he was General Manager, he had input on ALL personnel decisions. That's no different than taking feedback from the woman who cleans the offices at OBD. He has, to this day, ZERO qualifications on anything to do with football, but he felt entitled to oversee the draft.
This ******* was in ticket sales for a BASEBALL team that won a world series and still couldn't sell tickets. Then he came here. He is no more qualified than you or me or even Mace or Meathead to make decisions on football.
He's always credited with "regionalization" of ticket sales. This is what passes for genius? That's Marketing 101. That's not genius.
I just heard John Murphy on the radio. He said "I'm a Russ fan. The most important thing I learned about Russ in the past three years is that he really wants to win."
Seriously? Who the **** DOESN'T want to win? That doesn't mean he has a sliver of a clue how to win or build a winning team. Or a clue about hiring people to build winning teams.
This is Terry Pegula saying "OK. I'm bored. I did my part to keep the teams here. Now I'm putting them on auto-pilot. If you need anything, I'll be on my yacht."
Awwwww....Terry's honeymoon sure was short. I guess just any ol' dude with a boat load of money might not be the panacea everybody was hoping for, hmmm?
YardRat Wall of Fame #56 DARRYL TALLEY #29 DERRICK BURROUGHS#22 FRED JACKSON #95 KYLE WILLIAMS
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