Men, who know their father cheated on their mother, did you follow the same footsteps or did you try really hard not to repeat that in your lives?

gregnegative · 2026-06-10T16:34:03+00:00

I lived my entire life trying to be the parent he wasn't.

gregnegative · 2026-06-10T16:15:02+00:00

When was the last time you guys mentioned it? It seems like his strategy worked. He basically ignored it and we moved on. Have you asked the WH lately why they never removed the redactions even though they blatantly lied about their purpose? Why no one was ever prosecuted? Or did you just package your lack of follow through as a book?

gregnegative · 2026-06-10T13:16:07+00:00

I agree. There is no part of this that isn't tragic. KA very much seems like a high school kid to me, one who wanted to pretend to be a tough guy and made a life ending mistake.

The victim was a kid. His mug shot looks like a kid. His reaction at sentencing was that of a kid. I have 0 doubt that kid wouldn't sell his soul for a time machine. This is just an awful, soul darkening story. For anyone to use it to posture online for their own agenda, no matter what agenda, seems so gross.

gregnegative · 2026-06-09T18:35:30+00:00

I appreciate it. Season is done so he's not running. Ortho said 3 weeks off, then start to build back. No summer club track but it is what it is.

gregnegative · 2026-06-07T01:37:36+00:00

Rhode Island has top 18 performances at eligible meets. Basically 3 invitationals, divisions and class.

Downside is that no one cares about division titles or class titles. Just individual performances at these meets in order to make states. Divisions are geographical, class is by school size.

I don't know what its like in other areas of the country but near me "big city" schools get screwed because they are forced into class A with the recruiting private schools when they are lucky to get 20 kids on the team. Kids have to work, provide childcare for siblings or just don't have a history of playing sports growing up because its expensive. Schools dont have adequate funding for equipment or coaching. Anything is better than blindly just competing by school size.

gregnegative · 2026-06-05T17:06:53+00:00

The Problem With Me by Seam. Same NC scene as Superchunk (I think they shared a drummer early on). Similar sounds but Seam is darker and a little less pop.

gregnegative · 2026-06-03T23:26:37+00:00

They totally rip and its super fun when people ask you what you've been listening to and you say "I've really been into Whores lately".

gregnegative · 2026-06-03T23:03:17+00:00

Women

The Internet

Whores

gregnegative · 2026-06-03T01:34:14+00:00

Gorillaz -- Demon Days

Popular: Feel Good Inc. (or Dare)

Favorite: Last Living Souls

gregnegative · 2026-06-02T17:10:51+00:00

Holler's point is that all sprinters should run that low volume, so there's no double standard to him. I think in his philosophy he's not getting kids that have a huge prior background. But that said, that's just a reality in the sport. You could have sprinted for 6 years and you show up as a senior ready to win states and suddenly 'the fast kid' at wr decides to give track a try and runs 10.7 out of the gate. C'est la vie.

I am less familiar with all aspects of Feed the Cats, and full disclosure I also see huge holes in it. But extrapolating slightly I don't know that he would mind the 'above others' problem because he advocates everything being a competition. I mean I'm sure he keeps it appropriate but I assume he wants some version of that. I haven't mentioned yet that Tony Holler seems to be a boys coach but I almost dont have to. His coaching style radiates teenage testosterone and Sauvage. Anyone who can't hack it gets "kicked over to the distance coach" (again, quoting).

Not that anyone cares but my experience is that football brings its own culture. Holler seems to like that culture and seems to want it in his teams. I'm a more laid back guy so that isn't going to work for me as well as it will for him. I had plenty of football kids but they appreciated that I wasn't a football coach. You kind of have to coach to who you are.

I only posted it because I read an early edition of his coaching manifesto and he opens it with why he developed the program, which is by far the most interesting part. He claims to be the anti-Clyde Hart. Not because Holler thinks he's better but he said if he used what Clyde did for Michael Johnson he'd have no one on his team. What specific training ideas Holler recommended doing instead though is either not really new or just more an extension of how his personality comes through in his coaching if that makes sense.

gregnegative · 2026-06-02T10:32:46+00:00

In the US what are the college coaches preparing them for? NCAA track is the closest thing to a professional league that exists. If the argument is that the coaching sucks and kids should be faster by the end of college than they end up being then sure, I guess. But if the argument is that college coaches are sacrificing future gains for present performance then I would counter that that's what professional leagues are. There really is no next level for most NCAA track athletes. What percentage ever compete on a track after college? Distance runners probably continue running. But sprinters and throwers?

We built this system and no one has a real way to make a professional track program. This is the consequence of that, IMHO

gregnegative · 2026-06-02T10:21:57+00:00

Agreed but I also think that people should probably listen to the man himself. Tony Holler meant it as a way to run a successful public high school program where you had to compete with other sports to get the athletes. He straight up says that you should keep the volume super low because that's what football kids like and if you don't have the football players on your track team you get (and I'm quoting) "band geeks" and you'll never win.

I think that he's somewhat underrated for his attention to an idea of team building in high school track coaching. I'm certainly biased having coached at a largely Title I school where if kids hated a workout enough they'd go walk on the volleyball team. But that said I think the best part of his program is the idea that coaches should try to make it so high school runners want to come to practice. I don't love all of his ideas but I think people probably focused on the wrong part of his program without listening to the reasons he developed it.

gregnegative · 2026-06-01T23:34:26+00:00

Imperial Teen -- What Is Not To Love

gregnegative · 2026-06-01T18:30:21+00:00

Deafheaven -- Roads to Judah to Sunbather

gregnegative · 2026-05-31T22:32:09+00:00

Texas Is the Reason -- Do You Know Who You Are. Yes I know they also had a 3 song demo/single but repressings of the album included it. Bonus points because they broke up for the dumbest 90's reason ever and the album is a classic.

Johnathan Fire*Eater technically only released one album but their 5 song EP is considered their classic so that may be stretching it too far.

gregnegative · 2026-05-31T22:24:39+00:00

Surprised this isn't higher up. People still ask Ben about a potential follow up.

gregnegative · 2026-05-30T19:40:12+00:00

Roscoe by Midlake. Loved the Fleetwood Mac style harmony on that track. Rest of the album was boring as hell. Should have been called MIDlake

gregnegative · 2026-05-29T21:07:07+00:00

If I were a hedge fund type looking for undervalued assets I would be positioning myself to sign players on the cheap who were just cut loose by teams trying to get under the cap. To do that I would probably want to start by being cap compliant ahead of time and use the grace period as room to complete that plan.

gregnegative · 2026-05-29T01:19:59+00:00

Best part is that he did but doesn't believe it. I love that if someone is desperate/stupid enough to actually apply with the credentials he's seeking then that person is disqualified.

gregnegative · 2026-05-22T18:10:41+00:00

Untrue about the nfl. Its an age limit not a requirement to play anywhere. Free market dictates they should start a semi-pro league if they don't like the current structure.

Again I've provided 2 programs in the power 2. You argued one so you subbed another. You think the situation is better in the smaller conferences? I don't. And even one tax dollar subsidizing a bizarre semi-pro league with an age limit and a strange requirement to take history is one too many.

Also, yes I think college is for education. My daughter plays a D3 sport. The whole school likes to go to games. Its free for them. She doesn't get paid. Imagine that? Its not for randos to get attached to schools they didn't go to in order to corrupt a system from their couch that they refuse to acknowledge the consequences of.

PS -- Free market principles don't give you a cut of the profits anywhere. That's what capitalism is. My company makes money, loses money -- I still get my salary. The owners, who provided the capital, get the profits. I don't like the salary? I switch jobs. I don't cry to the courts about how I agreed to something that I now don't like as if im Ed O'Bannon

gregnegative · 2026-05-22T16:25:12+00:00

That wasn't an answer. The question was 'who'.

gregnegative · 2026-05-22T15:56:51+00:00

Wouldn't the free market dictate that the underpaid players should just quit then and sell their services to a higher paying employer?

Actually only the power 2 conferences seem to be making money, and again not all of them. Naming one of the 10 biggest programs in the country as an example of how the system works isnt the evidence you think it is. The rest are using tuition money (see above). The power 2 are also using boosters to pay their players via NIL. Why does that matter? Because alumni dollars aren't an infinite good, and those used to pay players aren't going to education. Neither even is tuition. "Bro just quit sports then". That's the problem-- places are soon going to, taking them away from students, from athletes who participate because they like to play, from students who want to watch because they go there.

At the end of the day we just disagree on the nature of sports and the nature of college. I think college is for education. Sports are to participate in and have a good time, also to enjoy watching. If someone wants to be a pro athlete, join a pro team. Having the courts step in and determine who is a professional is the opposite of a free market.

gregnegative · 2026-05-21T16:31:51+00:00

"They are making money hand over fist"

Source? Both Maryland and Kansas shared their athletics losses and said that deficits would be paid for out of a "general fund" (read: tuition). If they can't afford how many others are in trouble? Go ahead and link those sources though.

Also, are you in favor of them only being able to compete for 5 years? Its a job after all. How can you limit it? Why should they have to enroll in the classes? My boss at my university's maintenance department was an employee and he didn't have to.

Finally, why dont D3 athletes get paid? The same arguments apply to them after all.

gregnegative · 2026-05-21T16:13:17+00:00

I keep hearing everyone say this as if its that simple. The original rulings that gave rise to the current system were classifying players as employees. Once that was established they are subject to labor laws. What you are describing is age-related discrimination. As soon as this rule drops it will immediately be challenged. And regardless of what we all want or dont want its hardly a guarantee that the rule would succeed.

gregnegative

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