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Indiana's has been selling more tickets the last couple of years, is making upgrades on the stadium and player facilities, signed a $50M deal with a local bank - they haven't been standing still. With the caveat that this an AI mined number, the IU AD revenue was $173M last year. They are playing in the big leagues now monetarily. It's not the same Hoosier program DiNardo and Cameron worked for.

Stalin had an awesomely powerful country and his 'geneticists' were still laughed at. That's the beauty of science - it's one place were truth is self reinforcing, because if you don't have it right, it just isn't going to work, and you will eventually find yourself behind everyone else. The Admin will try to throw money around to validate the use of bad science in other places, and they might well have some "success" (otherwise known as failure for the recipients) with that as long as they can find grifters in other places at the receiving end, which usually isn't hard if you look. And this admin knows how to find other grifters.

I think I'd put it the other way around - in the game today, no matter how good a coach you are you are not going to win if your school isn't competitive on resources. That is probably my biggest disappointment/worry about where college sports are going. How many schools are going find themselves net diverting student tuition into their sports programs just to keep up in a system where their sports programs cannot be self-sufficient? That's going to be a terrible outcome.

It's objectively true as catalogued in this article that some of their roster decisions on pitchers have turned out to be wrong. No org is going to get it right all the time but Harris and Co have gotten enough wrong this season that it's hurting. Add that to the pitching injuries and they just can't pitch like they did down the stretch last season. That actually doesn't bother me that much. In modern sports with every athlete trained to a fine edge, and especially pitchers in baseball, you are going to have seasons where because of injuries alone the best laid plans gang aft agley. What bothers me more is the way the hitting has gone south. Too many guys seem to be going up there without a plan or with the wrong plan or too tight to execute a plan. Doesn't seem to comport with Hinch's mantras.

Great, we'll go from a market that is frozen because current owners don't want to give up low rate mortgages to one where current owners can't sell because they are underwater. 🙄 Actually I wonder how much drop in $/ft^2 we are getting as opposed to builders building smaller units.

what is your problem? Tone it down or take it somewhere else.

golden sombrero for Tork. He's been having a great month but at this point they are probably all pressing.

a couple of weeks ago I would have said it was still nuts to call him up, but the offense is in such a total meltdown right now I think I would do it anyway just to get some new enthusiasm/confidence in the clubhouse

I wonder how this breaks out though? Is this cash being held by the super wealthy who are already in the market in a big way and the cash holdings are just ordinary diversification (so in effect it's another measure of wealth concentration), or is the market unusually widely split between bulls still buying at any price and bears that have already bailed out with fewer people in between.

Good strategy by the Browns there to go for a play just long enough for their kicker but short enough to get to the line fast. Even if they had missed the kick it was the only way to do it.

teams seem to have figured out the Tigers system for scouting their pitchers because whatever secret sauce they were giving hitters to prep them in the first half of the season isn't working anymore. They aren't hitting anyone.

I wouldn't be surprised if some one valuable gets traded for pitching, you don't get something back for nothing. OTOH, Harris doesn't seem to like to trade anyone at all.

Point

If this team is going to have a leader it's going to have to be either Torkelson or Dingler that grows into it, and a catcher probably has too much on his plate to pay a lot of attention to what all the rest of his mates are doing.

well, if he can fail because he's too green to be able to pitch/not pitch to Ramirez as a reliever, he might as well be given a chance to fail as a starter too.

And they even have their own internecine warfare. At one time when Fieger was still running Fieger law they had a big tiff going with Morse - threats of suits and countersuits and allegations flying around about each other. Somehow it all seems to have gone away now, I can't tell you how any of it turned out.

right, the question goes to where the decision derived from -- because of feedback to local stations in their system or simply a fiat from corporate management? IOW, who was mad? Local publics or just suits?

Maybe I'm missing your arg here. All dollars are fungible. Every dollar the state collects goes toward every service the state provides doesn't it? Even when funds are supposed ear-marked -- remember "lottery money only goes to education"? just a sleight of hand as equivalent #s of dollars that would have gone to Ed now go somewhere else.

Do what we mostly do - just turn the thing off. You do a lot more living when you stop sitting and watching. And I mean that seriously.

Dolan. His biggest regret is probably that he's a few hundred years too late enforce a little discipline like Torquemada did.

but was it the affiliates who wanted it or just Sinclair management?

You don’t really know what that means do you?

the thing which is stupid is that Sinclair probably really didn't have much leverage - what are they going to do, run "Bowling for Dollars"?. ABC could have called their bluff and they'd have been back in pretty short order once their viewers gave the affiliates an earful. Put the shoe on the other foot with the viewers.

Charlie is also among the 40,000+ each year who no longer have *any* form of 2nd amendment right either. Somehow I think that is a parallel they will miss.

She taking over the leadership of an org that stands in opposition to other people's rights - she better expect to get push back. You take a position like that why should you expect to get any passes from the opposition fighting back. It's always been that way. Does anyone think anyone on the right ever cut Bobby Kennedy any slack because his brother had been killed, or cut Teddy any slack because he'd lost *two* brothers? Political activism is a full contact sport - she knows that full well. Assassination of the character kind is the stock and trade on all sides.