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I was listening to Doug Gottlieb predicting Clark is comparable to Jimmer Fredette (apparently their college shooting percentages are similar), and she would struggle in the WNBA the way Fredette did in the NBA. As much of a dink as Dougie is, it was the first critical analysis I’ve heard that...

I’m confident it wasn’t Jeremy, because he was too busy doing Jell-O shots.

Several years ago, some guy at a Fine Mess tailgate was trying to convince me Syracuse should drop out of major college athletics and join the Patriot League - I may not have the exact details correct, but it was something that absurd. I’ve learned to never underestimate how bad of an idea...

Jeff Carter getting handshakes from all the Islanders after playing his last game with the Penguins was cool to see.

If you flopped tier 3 and tier 4, I'm not sure it would make any difference. Which honestly shows how stupid most of these lists really are. But considering Louisville or (even more so) Indiana desirable spots is absurd - whoever thinks that cannot possibly be under the age of 50.

I think its mostly because OSU has fully adopted the old Richard Petty quote "if you ain't cheatin' you ain't trying" as their motto-slash-mission statement. Just looking up Google articles on Ohio State cheating scandals, there's barely been any point in my lifetime where there wasn't some...

The switch to TBS was probably initially driven by, and is now accelerating, lower ratings. A huge number of my friends who are casual fans took vacation days to hit sports bars the first two days of the tournament, started dropping out as their brackets fell apart, and NONE watched the Final...

He started with a ten high hand, expecting he could leverage that into anything with ESPN - even in 8 years - is unrealistic. It took 30 years of mismanagement to get into the situation he took over. Hopefully he can right the ship in less than 30 - but in 8 had no chance of happening.

Back in the 90s I was reading articles in places like Sports Illustrated that Syracuse was a key piece in the college athletics landscape that both the ACC and Big Ten would die to have. But the administration back then neglected to invest in athletics (and actually plundered athletics revenues...

You may think rebuilding the program is the only thing that matters - but I think that means you massively underestimate the political challenges Wildhack faced to even get to the point rebuilding was a possibility. JB certainly made sure to make it as difficult as he possibly could…

Looking like Arizona moving to SLC is pretty close to a done deal. Makes sense, every arena proposal they come up with in Arizona get torpedoed…staying in a college arena with no end in sight doesn’t make any sense.

It’ll be hilarious if UCLA wins a title in the next few years to see the Big Ten bragging about finally ending their title drought. The blowback they’ll get for it would be even more hilarious.

There will absolutely be “UFOs” (or more correctly, unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) as NASA would call them) as long as we have videos of stuff we can’t identify or verify is faked. What’s crazy is adding any additional context to UAPs than the video demonstrates (like, “It’s a...

What more concerning is that we’ll keep on improving until it’s impossible to tell AI vs reality. Although that may be an improvement, since instead of defaulting to “video doesn’t lie”, we’ll need to assume all video is a lie until proven valid.

From 2016 - 2022, the women’s championship game drew between 3-5MM. Last year drew 10MM, this year will likely be over 15MM. Just dropping back to last year and holding would be a huge win for the sport - without knowing anything about how next season plays out I’d expect it will be closer to...

Comparing ratings from 1979 - when most people had 4 channels still - to today really doesn’t work. 14.2MM would beat the lower rated men’s semi every year except one going back to 2016, and a couple years it would beat both men’s semis rating. Syracuse - Texas in 2003 got 12.6MM. The...

Most sports work hard to sell the idea that you can watch the best ever RIGHT NOW. Montana was the best ever, then Brady - now the question is if Mahomes is better than Brady. From a marketing perspective it makes sense - you don’t want to tell your customers they are paying more for an...

My high school football coach had us practice the national anthem every week - we’d line up single file, right hand on heart, helmet under left arm…he’d play it over the speakers. Usually took 2-3 times for it to meet his standard, and he’d yell at whoever screwed up. He was insanely detail...

Most stumpy comment ever. Nice.

You’re not making the best possible argument for your position on why the Kiss Cam is obsolete. Broadly, the issue is some percentage of fans don’t want to be on Kiss cam. They could be married but not like PDAs, or it could be a first date, or it could be a mixed work outing with no romantic...

The first two (Lazar/Vasey) to drop gloves got 5 for fighting, everyone else got game misconducts. As noted, what was “bullshit” was Rempe injuring a Devils player in the last game (AGAIN…), refusing to fight, and taunting the New Jersey crowd. If the NHL really wanted to avoid situations like...

Was inevitable with Rempe not fighting after he injured Siegenthaler in the last game against the Devils. Reminded me of the 5-on-5 brawl between these teams in 2012.

I don’t miss watching Dean Smith’s UNC teams “four corners offense”, which was basically a five minute passing drill while they tried to run out the clock. I think they went with 45 seconds because people were concerned the shot clock would alter the “strategy” of stall ball to win games too much.

Random thoughts: While I am a die hard who is there for the game, my kids are not. And while they love watching the band and seeing the cheerleaders perform before the game, during the game they’d rather hear songs they can sing along with. Having a DJ is a good idea - if it doesn’t work the...

Others might have more direct knowledge - but I doubt you’ll get full face value on most games if you try to sell them. If you’re willing to take a loss, you’ll be able to recoup some money on most games. I know I was buying ticket for basketball in the portable stands for far below face value...

Two things could be simultaneously true - you shouldn’t have to fear for your safety playing basketball, AND this didn’t happen. While it’s overwhelming likely this occurred, there’s been plenty of proven false incidents of racism over the last several year to expect everyone immediately...

That’s more than the majority of NBA finals and World Series games the last three years.

I’m thinking more about this…I think women’s college basketball is poised for big growth. Players are likely to stick around for four years to build a reputation and following, unlike the men’s game. Quality of play is solid, games are entertaining. I think that’ll continue to grow regardless...

Baty proving he’s an everyday third baseman would be huge for future roster construction. Hopefully last year was just due to lost confidence, I remember him at Binghamton thinking he had a lot of upside. So far, so good… How key guys in Syracuse and Binghamton do is going to give a lot of...

If it’s the name you found bothersome, they’ll all change to Maverick this year. If it’s that they’re everywhere, that seems to be a Midwest thing - I don’t think I was ever out of sight of a Kwik Trip sign the entire time I lived in Wisconsin.

I'm kinda curious about Reese's comments after the game - she was alleging a lot of potentially criminal behavior. Hopefully it wasn't blown off or minimized if she was reporting that to people within LSU (or the police) - I'm not sure what would possess anyone to threaten to kill someone, but...

The bolded part is absolutely true…but that says more about how biased and stupid the average person is and not much about the accuracy of the media. I’ve had both the pleasure and misfortune to be intimately involved in stories which ended up with significant media coverage. Not one of those...

Iowa had a huge flood back in 2008 which caused massive damage at the university. I’d managed a manufacturing plant that had severely flooded in 2006 which took millions of dollars and a couple months to get back up and running - as they were fundraising for repair work I sent in a donation...

A few years ago I took my kids to the Louisville - UConn East regional in Albany, tickets were around $25. Tickets to the regional final last night were the same, about $25. Tickets to this LSU - Iowa game were $250. Shows the impact Clark has had on interest…and I think fans got their...

As the NFL increases the number of games, they don’t adjust season records for the additional games. The only league that ever did it was MLB to Maris…and they got hammered for it. While your complaint is arguably valid, the rest of the world has decided it’s irrelevant and moved on.

That quote sums up perfectly why the idea that refs calling fewer fouls will lead to a faster, more fluid game play is idiotic, to the point I question if the person proposing it has ever watched the sport of basketball. Even if they’ve watched it - they sure don’t comprehend it.

25 years ago, I could have told you. I remember it being a topic on the old AOL boards, but media coverage in the 90s is nothing like today - so there doesn’t appear to be any trace of it left on the internet.

The Louisville message board is thrilled with this hire, with lots of predictions he’ll get them back into the NCAA tournament next year.

Considering this is from a guy who every year seemed to have his “best recruiting class ever”, I think we can safely say JB tailors his comments to the moment with little regard for their factual content. Not an interesting take, just a typical hyperbolic one from JB.

Will be interesting to see if Bama stops cheating towards Girard to prevent easy looks like this for Hall…JG might be set up well to have a huge scoring game to get Clemson to the Final Four.

Probably trying to figure out a way to congratulate Gerry in a way that won’t lead to more speculation he really wanted Gerry to replace him. Doesn’t matter though - lots of people will still think that regardless.

He had some opportunities to potentially leave and opted not to. Sometimes loyalty isn’t a strength but rather a character flaw - if he’d left and subtly hinted Syracuse wasn’t financially committed to football, things might have gotten back on track a decade sooner.

Can we send Rob Konrad’s invitation by carrier pigeon, delivery sometime just after Thanksgiving?

The narrative around Tua is becoming that he can’t play in the cold. From Hawaii, played at Bama/Miami, can’t handle the cold and his stats show that. Part of why Buffalo wanted Allen was they knew he’d played in rough weather at Wyoming and could handle WNY. Syracuse is the ideal situation...

I mostly agree with this - although my standard for “good human” is inversely related to how good a coach he is. Belichick isn’t the greatest human being in the world - that didn’t bother Patriot fans when they were winning Super Bowls. If Fran can get us into the newly expanded playoffs, not...

Unrelated to Siena, but…the rumors of Shaheen Holloway to Louisville baffles me. He’s got a sweet 16 run with St Peters, but the rest of his resume is uninspiring. I think he’d be better off staying at Seton Hall - if nothing else goodwill is going to buy him more time there to improve than...

Going back to Mike Deane, half the head coaches at Siena have moved on to bigger programs - location, facilities, and history have all been reasons to go there historically. I’m not sure any of that is relevant in the NIL era, so Cornell may give a higher probability of success now - that was...

I can’t see the upside to Gerry for a Siena-Syracuse game either. I’d be slightly surprised if any games were scheduled as long as he is coaching there. And I’m good with that.

When the NJ Devils had to change their goal song, I think they tried out about six songs through that season before they found one that kinda worked. It took about another year for the fan base to fully embrace it. One advantage to WWE is they assess quickly if something is working or has...

If the goal is to create something that’s a tradition, I can’t see how this works. Unless the tradition is a new song picked by students every year, which is sorta pointless. I’m not going to get excited about something I know will be used for six games and thrown in the trash bin. But If the...