As a Bills fan since the 80s I've been conditioned to deal with this. As a Cuse fans since the 8Os I have not. I've always been loyal to the Bills through the muck and I will be loyal to Cuse. For those of you saying you don't care or won't watch, I question just how important your team is to you. Through the lowest of the lows i've always watched one team. Now I will watch the other. Each and every game.
I’m also a Bills fan, but this is completely different.
1) In a condensed 16 game season, theres hope and excitement each and every year. Perhaps false hope, but hope.
2) Theres a draft where you convince yourself you’ve picked some game changers.
3) Theres Free Agency, with contracts. The good players you have don’t just leave after one year.
4) The Bills were making coaching changes during the drought. It wasnt the same dude holding the team hostage.
5) Football is way more entertaining than the watered down product CBB has become. (My opinion, but seems to be quite evident)
Contrast that with a team who has slowly been in a death spiral for years, culminating with a bottom feeding ACC team, that has nothing to look forward to... No exciting recruits, no new coach and the same played out philosophies that no longer work as they used to.
With the Bills, at least there were shakeups in coaching and/or personnel every year. We seem held hostage by this coach, with his antiquated philosophy and, the saddest thing, draining the lifeblood of our program - the ability to recruit.
Finally, I never stopped supporting the Bills during the drought, but I sure as hell checked out...which is what I’m doing now with Syracuse Basketball. This program is a disaster and I’ll still wear my Cuse gear and check in here and there, but I can’t... it’s a chore... it’s tedious... it’s boring... I can’t keep spending money, and forcing myself to care, about a program that doesn’t care enough to change what isn’t working.