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Ben Breiner

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Ben Breiner@benbreiner.bsky.social · 15h ago

There's a real eerie calm when you're like "I can't get freaked out at this point because we've been to this point before, and it was just some downed branches and whatever." And then it's like "wait, what happened? Do I still have time to drive to Indiana?"

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL@edsbs.bsky.social · 15h ago

I’ve had some people ask “why won’t they cancel the game” and I’m not even going to entertain the football psychosis of it all and just say: The problem with hurricanes is that you can be kinda casual about them, until an unspecified and unpredictable point where you absolutely can’t

Ben Breiner@benbreiner.bsky.social · 6d ago

At a point, you can't keep losing games you can't afford to, and can't keep doing it in ways that create horrendous vibes. That's been the recent Shane Beamer era and really seems like it'll be the end of it.

Ben Breiner@benbreiner.bsky.social · last wk.

So after listening to an episode with @espnbillc.bsky.social and it being chsime season, I took a crack at the question: what percent of hires succeed? I pulled every hire since 2000 and gave a quick grade of success or failure. The answer: 42 percent succeed docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (Cont)

Steven Godfrey@stevengodfrey.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW “Phantom Island“ #CHISME: From USC to USC, here’s the latest on the coaching cycle that’s supposed to be quieter this year (lol) rss.com/podcasts/pha...

Ben Breiner@benbreiner.bsky.social · last wk.

It's probably Bill C's fault, but I also kind of fell into this. Spreads are interesting because they underlying analytics are interesting, and if one does a bit of small-scale gambling, one quickly learns that the spreads edge vibes a whole heck of a lot, so they're worth knowing about.

Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com · last wk.

Kentucky-South Carolina this week is an example. It's legitimately interesting to me that South Carolina is -3.5 while UK is ranked and Shane Beamer is circling the drain. This is brought to you by me, not by a prediction market (which I've personally said no to like five times this year btw)

Ben Breiner@benbreiner.bsky.social · 2w ago

My big takeaway is that Smith likely got to watch Caitlin Clark score 38 points with 12 assists, but stands accused of watching Steph Curry score 60.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

Ben Breiner@benbreiner.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obviously this is good stuff. It also reminds me of 2 questions that live in my head forever. - What share of coaching hires leave a fanbase feeling like it was a success? - How does one see a mid-level performance that flames out? (Maybe Beamer at SC, Odom at Mizzou for @espnbillc.bsky.social)

Steven Godfrey@stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW "Numbers & Words" with @espnbillc.bsky.social: The Jimbo-back-to-FSU chatter sent me into an angry tirade about the fallacy of nostalgia hires rss.com/podcasts/pha...

Amos Posner@amosposner.bsky.social · 3w ago

As a secular Jewish friend's father once told him, "They don't ask whether you keep kosher before they send you to the camps."

Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

French, a right-wing Christian, suggested to the NYTimes that antisemitic death threats made by his supporters against the Democratic candidate aren’t actually antisemitic because Rosenthal is “not practicing Jewish” - although he doesn’t actually know how religiously observant Rosenthal is.