Recent content by the juiceman cometh

The hair's fine, but Betts has too much neck length. Wasted height. Pass.

It's college basketball, you're getting all these guys before they hit their potential. Every single team that made the Final Four this past tournament started or had major contributions from at least one freshman (Michigan started Nimari Burnett every game, but McKenny actually played more...

What year are we talking about? Brad's worst year was year 2 when we went 12-21. And it's true we relied a lot on freshmen that year. But it was not the last time we relied on multiple freshmen. If multiple means more than one, then that would be last season, when we made the Final Four...

Northwestern probably spends next to nothing on basketball while we spend near the top. Looking at this chart you can see that a lot of the top basketball programs are near the bottom of this, and I bet the reverse is also true. NIL dollars aren't an infinite resource and most dollars probably...

And the fact that the Big East was too cowardly to suspend him for the Marquette incident does not mean he was in control of himself. It means the Big East is a joke and didn't want to harm UConn, whose tournament success is a source of income for the conference.

Mo came to do like a brief talk and Q & A with a class I was taking during law school, a joint law school/B-school thing, either early in the 2011 season or just before the season started (it was Spring semester 2011 I'm pretty sure). A friend of mine asked him about Pujols' impending free...

Are national pride and state pride really the same thing? And if you live in one of the 33 states that does not have an MLB team, does that mean you don't get to cheer for one? You have just go all-in for the best minor league or independent league team in your state? A huge chunk of them are...

Why on earth would state matter more than proximity? There are parts of Illinois that are a 30 minute drive from St. Louis and a 5 hour drive from Chicago? It's unreasonable that people should root for the team whose games they can actially attend, just because another team much further away...

The locker room tirade is going to get all the attention here but what this case is really about is that CBM claims USC waited until they were out of realistic contention for the a tourney spot and then dismissed him from the team to avoid paying him the balance owed on his NIL.

Just wanted to add (but thought of it too late) that one thing this would almost certainly do is kill the path to playing in college ball for international athletes that project as role players or non-stars or however you want to describe the vast middle that most college athletes belong to...

It's exactly like that, or like foreign player limits in various soccer leagues globally. An interesting side effect of those policies is always that they artificially inflate the value of domestic players, since teams are required to have a certain quota of them. In our case that would mean...

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