Matt Rawlings retweeted
Pass pressure, A crazy Justin Herbert throw, a Quentin Johnston drop, and a Ladd McConkey catch all on the same play makes this a dangerous level of Chargers concentrate
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People call being a sports fan a one-sided relationship. You give a team decades, and it doesn’t even know your name.
Then you see a video like this. An 81-year-old man in a Brewers jersey, crying, with his wife next to him, watching his team win the World Series. The Brewers came to Milwaukee in 1970, when he was about 25. They made the World Series once, in 1982, and lost in seven games. He waited 56 years, through decades of losing seasons, to see this. You don’t see an 81-year-old in that video. You see the kid who started rooting for them.
The psychologist Daniel Wann has spent years studying why fans stay. His research found that identifying with a local team gives people real connections: the friends you watch with, the strangers you high-five, the shared language of a city. In one of his studies of older fans, with an average age around 71, people who identified more strongly with a local team reported feeling less lonely.
So maybe it’s not as one-sided as it looks. The team never learns his name. But it gave him 56 years of people to share it with, and one night he’ll never forget.
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I don’t know what has to change but I can’t watch this offense anymore. It’s not that players can’t execute. I mean we aren’t great at QB but we are good enough to have a competent offense.
It’s complete sabotage from the play caller. I’ve held off and wanted to see the changes they said I’ve made. It’s gross man.
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It's hard to watch a basketball team that games the officials to the point that it's a core piece of who they are.
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Two crucial moments permanently changed our relationship w/the regular season:
1) 2000: Washington beats Miami, Miami beats FSU, all finish w/1 loss. BCS computer picks FSU for title game, UM 2nd, UW distant 3rd
2) 2001: Oregon wins Pac-10 outright, 11-1. Nebraska gets trucked by Colorado, 62-38, to end season. Finished 3rd in the B12 (didn’t even qualify for conference title game). BCS computer sends Nebraska to BCS championship Rose Bowl over the Pac-10 champion
Everything since then has been a slow decay regarding the preeminence of the regular season
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College athletics is terrible at seeing problems around the corner. The 24-team playoff is the latest example.
A lot of schools that supported this will regret it because in the end it won't be about the playoff or even the now diminished regular season.
Notre Dame now has the best situation in all of football - almost 100 percent guarantee to make the playoff, freedom to schedule as it wishes, maximization of its own media value.
To use the Big Ten as an example, why wouldn't Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State follow? If you can, be independent. That's the future.
The 18-team Big Ten is bloated, distant and winning it carries little intrinsic or competitive value for the biggest brands.
Those three schools can create a scheduling agreement that would increase their media revenue 2-3x and give the same control over everything. No sharing money. No forced TV times. Eight or even nine home games. Select your own schedule.
Staying in the Big Ten now makes little and perhaps no economic sense. And yes, I do understand the league-wide research grants and so on, but there is always a way around everything.
In terms of athletics, for those schools (and maybe a few more) it's lost revenue for the sake of loyalty and we know how that usually gets settled.
All these middle and lower schools -- even in the P2 -- that supported this because they'll get in the "participation playoff" with an 8-4 record are facing significant risk in the future.
There will come a day when they will now get a share of the Ohio State-Michigan windfall; only Ohio State and Michigan will.
Maybe not tomorrow, but I believe a 24-team playoff makes it closer than ever.
Thoughts?
Matt Rawlings retweeted
I’ll miss seeing Dana on the road, talking basketball with him, and getting his calls of encouragement. When I arrived at UCLA, my biggest challenge in conference play was going against his Oregon teams.
He is a great coach and a class act. Congratulations on a great career!!
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One Last Time:
His name is Dana Altman.
And he aligns Rubik's Cubes.
After 16 seasons and 382 wins at Oregon, head coach Dana Altman has announced his retirement.
Tony Stubblefield has been named interim head coach for the 2026-27 season.
More: goducks.com/news/2026/10/7/d…
#GoDucks
Matt Rawlings retweeted
Desman Stephens II has been at USC for 3 years. He just head-hunted Dante Moore and then taunted Oregon’s roster after he knocked Moore out. Then he laughed on the sideline and dapped up teammates. People are gonna see that as a reflection on the USC staff. They should.
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Why do the anti-Justin Herbert takes never include visual evidence?
When we do the "not his fault" takes, we have plenty of it
