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  1. The problem with gimmicky moves like going to the BIG3 or Barstool is the lack of a long-term investment opportunity. She is a household name, and whether we believe the WNBA is a great product or not, the profile is being raised by merely talking about her being in the league and her exposure to the masse$ being realized. That said, $10M is $10M.
  2. It does, which is what most people keep ignoring.
  3. We will see what the investigation shows, but assuming nothing nefarious took place (which does not seem to be the case), that crew has to be sick to its stomach.
  4. This is an all-time take that nearly melted my screen.
  5. Whatever the opposite of what the mainstream finds interesting, he looks for an opposite take in hopes of being seen as an intellect. Not because he always believes what he’s saying, but because it’s his only available oxygen. One of my favorite past times is to have a big story come out (normally around race or other sports and culture crossover topic) and I go to his twitter to see his “take.” I can guess where he is going 95% of the time without seeing his posts. Whitlock has become a caricature of himself and has become the most dreaded thing a provocative journalist can become: predictable. If you haven’t seen the Stephen A. Smith evisceration of Jason Whitlock, it’s something else. And for the record, when he was a real journalist, he was probably my favorite and I was a huge fan. But at some point when you’ve been ostracized by literally everyone you’ve come in contact with, it may be time for some self-reflection.
  6. I believe the distress signal went out to emergency responders and they halted traffic.
  7. Why college basketball is tough to evaluate is because so much rides on the NCAA tournament. Had UK gone into this tournament as a 10 seed, yet they catch a break or two, a guy on another team gets injured, upsets occur in their region, etc. and they find their way into the Final Four without playing anyone beyond a 5 seed, we would be praising Calipari despite a lackluster regular season. In a vacuum, it's silly. That is why I generally try and look at where teams are seeded at the end of the year. In the last three years, UK has been a 2, 6, and 3. Not horrific, but not world-beating either. Over time I do believe the results of a single elimination tournament bear out patterns, and they have yet to advance to the second weekend in those same years. Which, by UK standards, is horrific. And not just failing to make the Sweet 16, but losing to a 15 and 14 seed. Double horrific. The loss to Oakland wasn't the end of the world. It was the fact they lost to St. Peter's two years earlier that made last Thursday so bad. I know I am in the minority on this one, but I do not hold that '20-'21 season against Calipari, Coach K, etc. It was a whacky year with a group of Freshmen never practicing, COVID sitouts, games being canceled, and UK's best pro prospect missing most of the season. On balance, you could say when given lemons Cal can't make lemonade and I would be praising him had he won. Fair points.
  8. Also don’t doubt the advantage of playing at home and receiving more foul calls because of that. We see this all the time in college basketball.
  9. They obviously worked on it as evident by how UK was attacking it from the jump. Preparing for something and playing against something are two totally separate things.
  10. This all gets back to the Calipari decision or any other university hire. What is in this long term for universities? To invest millions of dollars a year when they are losing control of their assets seems short-sighted.
  11. Looking out 5-10 years, what do you believe college basketball will look like? Will it even exist? It feels like we are angling towards a true minor league system not dependent on the college model. When I saw the first invitational tournament with a $1M payout, beginning next fall, it sunk in that college basketball is on its last legs. The players that can play will follow the money, leaving behind a true amateur model for colleges. Once the NBA gets involved and finds a way to bolster its minor league system with these folks, its game over.
  12. Spot on. Coaching in college offers very little prestige now and the future of the sport is hanging in the balance.
  13. Assuming Sheppard goes top 10, that’s at least $4M in the bank. He would have to be one of if not the top college earner to make that amount.
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