That's No Moon

College football is doing the same thing. Big schools recruit 5 stars and transfers. That's it. If you are something other than that he prepared to start at a lower tower school. D1 scouts lower D1 and 1-AA, 1-AA scouts, D2, D2 scouts high school and D3.

The highest remaining seed in the sweet 16 was a 10 seed and it was John Calipari's Arkansas. All of the mid major schools were gone in the first weekend.

It's not just NIL, it's the transfer portal that goes with it. The major programs scout the mid-majors more than they scout HS kids. The days of Loyola of Chicago making a run are over. The players they had to make that run will get pilfered away before they get to that point. IMO, this is the beginning of the end of what makes the tournament special. Maybe there are a lot of people out there who are happy to see all 4 #1 seeds make it to the end. For me it's just very uninteresting. As you said there were very few upsets, very few nail biting games at the end, no Cinderella team at all. Boring. Making brackets, which seemingly the whole country does, is boring if you can just mark down the favorites and be right most of the time. It will take a couple years to be noticeable, but if we have a couple years in a row like this you'll see decreased interest. Jacking up ticket prices at the sites didn't help either. I noticed a LOT of empty seats in most of the early round games regardless of who was playing or where it was played.

When Terry bought the team the most expensive seat was $88 a game now it's $155. The arena used to be fairly uniform in its pricing structure, now it's subdivided into 32 different tiers. Mind you this is for a team that doesn't win and hasn't won for a long time. For the current Bills? I'd expect 5-10% increases annually maybe depending on your seat location, maybe not. It depends how strong their waiting list is. Wherever the waiting lists are is where the biggest annual increases will be.

The list of successful NHL goalies at his size is very short. No pun intended.

How long are your tickets prices good for? Lord Terrance's hockey team has been a disaster for a very long time but they've been very punctual with their ticket price increases. You'd be pretty foolish not to expect a similar trajectory or worse with a product that people actually want. Don't think of it as a leak, think of it as being blessed by the Lord's urine that Lord Terrance has graciously directed towards you. Expect to pay a premium for that.

This isn't an investment then. It's a purchase. Those are different things and we shouldn't conflate those words. I'm glad you understand the difference but there are people who buy things like timeshares every day who don't.

If any actual investment advisor tells you this is an "investment" fire them immediately. If any of you believe this is an investment opportunity DM me because I have some amazing opportunities for you.

For a team that seems to draft so many RAS all stars how is that they seem to be so slow and unathletic?

I heard they are going to build a 300' dirigible to fly them across the street.

It doesn't cost $20 to park anymore either. Of course they have my money. It's supply and demand and they have something I want. A parking spot.

Abbott Rd is closed now, why are walkways needed?

Yeah, if I'm a team I'm gonna need my own MRI of that knee. Lots of dudes run 40's. Most don't have a knee buckle like that.

Yes, but a 4.9 and a 5.1?

I feel like we've been asking for this player since 1987.

You are correct, but I had the BMI conversation about my other kid who played hockey 6 days a week and had a resting heart rate of 53. He's be sitting in the doctor's office with his shirt off obviously in amazing shape but had to have the talk every year because the height/weight math didn't add up. Whaddya gonna do?

Yeah, I'll try to read that tomorrow as I snap crackle and pop my way out of bed.

And all of that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid with a 15 year old. He was 225 during freshman football. He's still roughly 225 now after throwing shot for indoor, and he's throwing shot for outdoor also. He's a leaner 225 than he was in the fall and he's significantly stronger. He's been able to lift all the way through and not have to cut weight for anything and he's had less wear and tear overall and no injuries. By the fall he will have at least another 10-15 on board and repeat the process. The goal of him being bigger next year than last year, not just churning the same 25 pounds back and forth season to season. The yo-yoing weight isnt good for you anyway, nor are all the things kids do to make weight. You're also talking about a kid who was a state champion swimmer at age 12 who got fat shamed out of the sport by his coach (who is also his high school's coach) because he's not shaped like a traditional swimmer. Fast forward 2.5 years and he's not a chubby little kid anymore and if he were still in the pool he'd be slaughtering people. IMO he doesn't need another sport that's going to start off by immediately putting him on a scale and telling him to weigh less because that is exactly what would happen. Football is great for him and it's why he likes it. In his own words, "At swim I constantly got crap for being big, at football I get praised for it."

I agree with a lot of that but it's unfortunate that it's a winter sport that comes immediately after football and the culture of weight cutting isn't great either. As a mid sized, very strong, lineman, my kid is one of the ones they would want to beef up for football and then immediately try to cut down to wrestle at a lower weight class and also having two consecutive high contact/collision sports is not preferable. As a result, indoor track wins. He throws, can stay the same weight (or grow) without getting crap for it and it gives the kid's body time to recover from the pounding it takes from August to November. It isnt. It's not even in the name and they don't even claim it to be a sport. It's entertainment. It's a show, not a sport.

I don't think anyone is calling with an offer good enough to make this happen.

You can feel however you want. The strength of the team is the offense. It needs to act like it. 30 points a game until it matters most.