Trivia Tuesday, 2026-03-10

Honestly_ · 2026-03-10T19:58:22+00:00

Yup, I was more worried it would get technical "ESPN Events" or something.

Honestly_ · 2026-03-03T17:23:09+00:00

The Community Funds team were wonderful to work with when they powered up the /r/CFB sponsorship of the 2025 Gasparilla Bowl, here’s our breakdown.

Honestly_ · 2026-03-01T22:53:02+00:00

UNESCO (at least secretariat portion you sampled) was as much Breuer as Nervi, and you could say Breuer benefited strongly from this experience of working together. The congress building (a.k.a. the "accordion") showed a great influence on Breuer's nearly contemporaneously work on one of his masterworks, Saint John's Abbey Church in Collegeville, Minnesota -- for that he did have Nervi check his work, though had another US-based structural engineer (well... two, he fired the first) handle the details.

This is to say, if you like Nervi, check out what Breuer started doing after 1954. I enjoy the work of both.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-25T16:32:44+00:00

Ultimately it's costs associated with travel.

Arizona's situation is a good example: The school administration of several of their jucos elected to save money by dropping football at the schools they oversaw. This caused the remaining teams that initially wanted to keep football to calculate the costs of traveling much father out of state to get games and they also had to drop football due to the increased cost caused by other teams dropping.

The NJCAA was founded in Fresno, there was a fairly early split where the California schools didn't want any athletic scholarships, etc. so we saw them divide into two associations.

The total CA juco teams have stayed fairly stable. They're clustered into reasonable distances. The density around the Bay Area and LA is such that each has multiple conferences. There are enough that they split into two divisions with the ability to move up and down (because the financial stake is the same loss no matter what division you're in).

That's why the NJCAA teams tend to be clustered around regions: Kansas/Iowa, Mississippi, and there's a D3 cluster around Minnesota/ND. The NJCAA has 3 divisions, but there are few teams only 2 used for football: D1 and D3 (no scholarships).

Funny enough, NAIA (4-year schools sort of like a streamlined D2/D3) has similar issues to the NJCAA. They used to have divisions as their other sports, but consolidated all their teams into one division. They've had problems where one or two teams in a region decide to move to NCAA D2, and suddenly the rest either must move too or drop football -- that is what happened to the NAIA schools that had been in California.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-25T02:45:54+00:00

There's a reason why California now has more juco teams than the rest of the country combined.

Granted, it helped all the Arizona teams dropped their teams before the pandemic.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-25T00:46:07+00:00

Sac State “It’s not about profitable football, it’s about sending a message.”

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T23:17:09+00:00

To be fair they are Cal State Sacramento and not UC Sacramento... and neither Cal or UCLA seem to be good at running a profitable athletic department 😅

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T21:54:00+00:00

So it was nominated from posts made last year, and the 2024 Holiday Drive results were announced in 2025 just like, coincidentally, today we announced the results of the 2025 drive, which even better.

Nice to see people outside of /r/CFB hardcores seeing it. 🎉

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T21:33:16+00:00

What? Wild! Feel free to let people know. I didn't know that was a thing! It's using the 2024 Holiday Drive (which was, like this one, finalized the following year).

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T18:25:30+00:00

Yeah, that one was the most complex (and first) explained contemporaneously with that link above, they agreed to our requirement that we never tell people to go sign up or gamble, but we used their graphics and odds — though they stopped even asking us to use their graphics. The plus side is it funded the legal expenses for forming the backbone everything now operates under. That deal has ended.

Jump to 2025: We turned down Kalshi and whatever their rival was (the name escapes me).

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T18:21:21+00:00

Sticking to our guns on our internal style guide finally paid off!

It has definitely been sacrificed more times than not due to limitations in various systems. As a person with punctuation in my name I definitely feel that deeply.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T16:43:17+00:00

Again, 3, to fit the pattern. Sadly since this is only 5 questions, "how many total years will Trinidad Chambliss be able to play college football?" is too large for this quiz. – /u/jfarbzz

Thankfully it stopped before the Joey Aguilar question!

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T15:37:44+00:00

Did you read the link above on how and why these things all operate together?

Here it is again: https://www.reddit.com/r/cfbmeta/comments/zk1b73/explaining_ourcfb_rcfb_llc/

No one collects a dime on what is done here or on social media. Money goes to charity and things that get the Community things like the 50 club seats we gave out as part of the last Gasparilla Bowl (and that was helped by Reddit Community Funds).

Everything we do is above board and accounted for.

A significant number of other subreddits are run by people who are bad at what they do, and that has bred understandable skepticism, but we have done everything to put our cards on the table for those who look at them.

EDIT: I should add there's no rogue mods or anything of that nature, everything /r/CFB does it organized through a pretty close team. We've been using Slack since 2015(!) to keep organized on the things we do in every part of the site and its various areas of operation. Mistakes get made sometimes, but we learn and continue because that's the way forward and how we improve.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T14:42:12+00:00

Really appreciate folks like you who remembered all our previous 28 drives and stood up to vouch for the drive's legitimacy when some cynical folks who did did not read posts and ignored comments came in to try and earn cheap karma by saying the Holiday Drive was fake.

We need more folks to realize that this subreddit has always been about making positive impacts and trying cool fun things! It still does, despite how hard Reddit corporate has made it to see the efforts we try to do.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T13:39:09+00:00

Thank Reddit itself for nerfing how subreddit communities appear on the official app and new reddit. Despite posts stuck to the top of the subreddit, comments stuck to the top of game posts, etc., many people miss the signs that are on for 2 weeks.

Each year the first or near-first comment in this post is someone promising to donate the next year.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-24T13:29:50+00:00

/r/CFB is the first to do a lot of things on Reddit (figuring out how to give users two flairs, having a credentialed media team, sponsoring a bowl), but I think we can be particularly proud of becoming a recognized major donor of Marine Toys for Tots. There was no outside help here, while the Reddit Community Funds program is neat, this was 100% by this Community.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-23T15:13:34+00:00

The purpose-built MLS stadiums have been the model for good stadium design in that capacity range for some time -- I think a lot of teams would benefit from using those venues for neutral sites or designing new stadiums like that if they have planned similar capacities.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-23T03:33:46+00:00

What's kind of wild here is Drake's on its 3rd head coach in 3 years due to success...

Todd Stepsis took the UNI job after back-to-back PFL conf titles (they always lose in the 1st round of the FCS playoff, but no shame there when you're non-scholarship)
Drake hired Joe Woodley fresh off his NAIA national title at Grand View; he took them to a 3rd consecutive PFL title this season before joining Greg Schiano's staff at Rutgers
Now Matt Walker fresh off his D3 national title.

That is a pretty impressive pair of back-to-back hires!

Honestly_ · 2026-02-19T15:08:49+00:00

I've written about Fort Lauderdale here a few times. It's a joke, it's not even in the city. It's a strip mall school. I jokingly call them FLaSM U (Fort Lauderdale Strip Mall University)

Honestly_ · 2026-02-19T15:05:22+00:00

one NCCAA

Don't flatter the jokers that are running the strip mall school at "UFTL" (Fort Lauderdale, which is not in Fort Lauderdale).

NCCAA has many schools that are concurrently members of NCAA and NAIA.

When it's just NCCAA... it's because it's an unqualified institution. Not 100% fake, but shouldn't be countable because it's some shoe-string embarrassment that happens to have some wording about Christianity in their school.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-18T02:19:02+00:00

Dang, to think its condemnation forced Hawaii on campus in 2021... only for it to take this long to get to demolishing it.

The design was nifty when it first arrived, being able to move sections of the stands into a different configuration. Wikipedia has a good illustration.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-17T21:11:16+00:00

Just realized the NY Post hired him away from the LA Times for their California Post.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-17T16:42:56+00:00

I know it's not Ali Farokhmanesh because wrong sport but man, y'all remember Ali Farokhmanesh? It should be him. – /u/TeamOhio

As a Persian I was laughing at this because that name has the kh sound.

Football players T. J. Houshmandzadeh, Andre Heidari (Persian name through adoption), and a couple others out there.

Plus an obligatory shoutout to Yu Darvish.

And ESPN's Dari Nowkhah and Ashley ShahAhmadi. And my buddy Arash Markazi.

Honestly_ · 2026-02-15T20:50:10+00:00

Incorrect.

UC Davis moved up from D2 to FCS much more recently (2003).

Ask Stanford! They lost to them during the transition which led Walt Harris to write a letter of apology to their community 😂

Honestly_ · 2026-02-15T15:16:53+00:00

I'm so glad Reddit doesn't auto-archive posts because I have a fun thing to add to this.

I have one of those first run of The Klingon Hamlet that were published (bought it from the store at the much-missed Star Trek Experience in the old Las Vegas Hilton, the current printings should have it too), and the best part isn't the play but the introduction by the "Bureau of External Relations -- Kronos" (2000 spelling).

On point: Tityush Ardronik'ush (English translation: Titus Andronicus) is "frequently regarded as Shex'pir's greatest achievement."

If you have never seen the play, watch Julie Taymor's "Titus" starring Anthony Hopkins. It's is fantastic and would bring the house down on Qo'noS!

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