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I think it’s more Wall Street - mercenary MBAs, traders, corporate raiders - get the best for you short-term every step of the way, no patience for the long term or the team. A sort of extreme financial libertarianism, eff you, got mine. The gig economy is happening to interchangeable workers...

Ah yeah it might just be too late in the cycle to fly direct, and not a trend outside of those days.

I don’t think it’s about profitability as much as relative profitability/ROI. Fake numbers for laziness, but let’s say ESPN gets 100M a year in ad money and carriage fees that it attributes to ACC content. They pay 80M of that to the schools. If they think half of that values is coming from 1/3...

Wow, does Dublin hate Atlanta for some reason? Just checked based on this thread my local west coast ticket prices vs out of Atlanta (Delta for both to try to be fair) and !!!! wtf

I think it’s gonna be hard to be an undrafted player competing for those spots with late-first and second round picks. If he can’t at least get drafted in the first like a developmental guy like Maxence-Prosper last year, I think he’d be better off showing another year’s worth of development at...

I thought you meant go straight there instead getting picked through the regular draft - that’s an inauspicious path https://gleague.nba.com/nba-draft-history Though I still think aiming to be a second round is a bad strategy, good chance of going unsigned at the NBA level and washing out after...

It's not common to get drafted - and especially not in the first round - out of the G-League. Visibility is low and the money is pretty poor too, that's not a path someone who wants to be a high pick is going to voluntarily choose. If he takes a big step forward next year, especially with...

Rumors of Disney+ considering adding linear channels - https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/disney-adding-channels-to-disney-plus-company-calls-report-speculative - nothing confirmed but it would make a lot of sense given the large still-existing demand for passive-background-TV watching. (I...

I don’t think he’s there quite yet but not shocked he wants to check it out. I also think that with his raw potential and frame, when he DOES get draft-ready it would be for lottery money that NIL would struggle to compete with anyway - especially since the second contract is where the huge...

This bottom pic looks super weird, are there AI shenanigans going on? Things are at weird angles all over the place, the banners don't seem to line up right with the pic here, https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g39588-d279970-Reviews-Rupp_Arena-Lexington_Kentucky.html , there's a...

King definitely forced some throws especially when trailing or games felt in danger in the second half, but due to those circumstances I’m less concerned than if he was digging holes himself with a bunch of first-half ints. Let’s just stop falling behind against the BG’s of the world. ;)

Yeah the idea that ESPN would try to arrange the top ACC teams to the SEC at a higher rate, another bunch of teams to the Big 12 where they still get a bunch of those content for about the same effective spending per team as today, and leave the Wake Forest and whoevers out to dry instead of...

I wonder if you’d have made or lost money if you just bet UConn to win it all every time they made the tourney.

I'm talking about the ones who will complain loudly - either in the stadium or online - about not winning enough and also think they're too smart to donate to the football program. Whole bunch of them out there. Too good with numbers to give a bunch of money, not good enough with numbers to know...

That’s just a fancy way of saying “we don’t have enough money to give millions to the football program.” (I definitely dont!) “Everyday millionaires” don’t move the needle unless you have WAY more of them than GT does. “Rich people” do. And there are a good number of occupations that have lower...

That “Ball is loose” radio call during that Vandy game, Jeeeeze… still bugs me lol

It wouldn’t have to be an either thing. There are other jobs at universities only available to students.

Hm. IMO the weakness of the weak teams on a schedule shouldn't matter much at all, but you should have at least a few OOC wins in the top-100 unless you have a LOT of conference wins in the top 50ish...

Just how good would you want the replacements for Charleston Southern, NJIT, Delaware State and Elon on that schedule to be before you'd think it's tourament-worthy? Is the real issue that those teams were super-terrible instead of merely most-terrible, or is it that they lost to Utah and...

Ideally someone in the ACC office would be making noise honestly or not, someone's gotta push the narrative. Marketing, anchoring, blah blah blah, it's all BS but you'll get left behind if you're the only one not playing the game.