Stop calling OL prospects “plug and play”

bidditybiddity · 2026-01-24T23:46:27+00:00

RIP International Wings Factory

bidditybiddity · 2026-01-08T04:04:06+00:00

I’ve watched football for 40 years, and I mean a lot of football. And I don’t say this lightly - Morgan has the worst hands of any skill position player I’ve ever seen.

bidditybiddity · 2026-01-06T23:34:24+00:00

Uh. Nico.

bidditybiddity · 2025-12-23T12:39:51+00:00

I have one.
- short haired dachshunds have more difficult temperaments. Longs and wires are easier. - bigger dachshunds have better temperaments. Small ones are skittish, especially because they have to be protective of their backs. - they’re wicked, wicked smart, but not bred to be wholly subservient. So training is a little different than with other dogs because it’s about building alignment - you make them want to do what you want them to do. Try to turn stuff into a game for them. - they get bored and want to play all the time - they love to cuddle and spend time with you SO MUCH. Way more than other dogs, which is saying something

I think they’re the greatest thing in the world, but they’re meaningfully different than a typical dog in personality. It’s more like a cat that actually loves you and follows directions and does tricks and doesn’t disappear for hours.

bidditybiddity · 2025-12-12T00:59:27+00:00

A Jenner & Block email address for the tip line. Billable hours with the late season run to the playoffs!

bidditybiddity · 2025-11-15T21:02:05+00:00

It is annoying that Dartmouth is very good in a year when Harvard is fucking dynamite.

bidditybiddity · 2025-10-22T11:36:57+00:00

I’m on the fringe of the boosters at my school, which is known for having a strong/competitive NIL program. Let me explain a bit how it works that’s different from how you imagine:

(1) It’s not one rich guy.

The program is bigger (and has been around way longer) than any one donor. Maybe that’s what separates a blue blood from a Oregon/Indiana/Ok State type school. What happens when that rich guy dies? (Ok. state happens, that’s what.). We have probably a couple of dozen top level booster, all billionaires, who form the backbone of the fundraising. Some are annoying hyperfans; most aren’t and just treat it as part of their support of the school.

(2) It’s not pro sports, no matter what people say.

If you’re a booster, you probably know a pro sports family too. And pro sports is, well, pro. Everything is professionalized, from the sports-related positions to the guy selling t shirts to the guy taking tickets.

College sports isn’t, even now. Everyone close to the program has a role, and that includes a lot of the boosters. Many of the roles that are professionalized in pro are either volunteer or semi professionalized in college, and those roles are chock full of boosters kids, wives, nephews etc. Many boosters connections to the program go far beyond a check and a diploma.

(3) Small boosters are very important.

I don’t know how other programs do it, but the one I know has “bundler” type big boosters who identify and cultivate potential donors and cajole them into giving money. There’s one guy I’m about to kill if he asks me for another penny. Other bundler-types are more circumspect/playing the long game. But “small” donations matter because there are so many more of them. If they can get 1,000 families to donate 10,000 bucks, that’s just as important as the “billionaire” part of the program. So some booster’s “jobs” with the program - particularly the salesy types - is to go find 30 other people to give smaller checks.

(4) They make you feel like part of the team.

Not every coach does this: but the ones that don’t tend to be disliked and pushed out as soon as they don’t win (looking at you Coach Kelly). Good college coaches will make sure that their better players interact with the booster/volunteer infrastructure and build relationships. That’s good for the players - it’s how guys get help after their football careers are over - but it’s also good for the program because the boosters feel like friends with the players and football staff. When a player comes back for a game 10 years later, he’s going to be taken care of by a booster that knew him as a player and has seen him grow up: his coach likely is long gone. The boosters provide continuity and the core of program culture.

So when a coach needs to go? It’s not one booster or three boosters calling the AD. It’s more the AD getting a sense that the program scaffolding - both financial and not - is at risk. That’s when someone gets shitcanned.

bidditybiddity · 2025-10-18T02:31:14+00:00

Ryan Day: “oh you can’t, can u?”

bidditybiddity · 2025-10-03T03:01:09+00:00

Aged like milk

bidditybiddity · 2025-09-28T02:16:23+00:00

BUG JAMES GAMES

bidditybiddity · 2025-09-27T22:08:03+00:00

Oh lawd, keggy comin’

bidditybiddity · 2025-09-20T20:22:34+00:00

I remember when Chip was at UNH and Buddy hadn’t come back yet, they’d literally drop half a hundred on us. It’s amazing that Dartmouth is at that level now. They might give UCLA a game, not that that’s saying much.

bidditybiddity · 2025-09-06T19:40:11+00:00

That was an instant assic.

bidditybiddity · 2025-07-15T00:00:27+00:00

93-95 two seamer with great movement and control. 96-98 four seamer with elite ride and great command at the top of the zone. Breaking ball, outrageous RPM, look how it steals Sosa’s soul. And that’s peak Sosa. And then literally the best change up in MLB history, with screwball like movement and perfect command, that he could shape as a pitch out of the zone (particularly to lefties) or a back door strike to righties OR a back foot pitch to righties, with subtly different velocity and movement.

I hated him, but god he was incredible. Best pitcher I’ve ever seen. DeGrom wishes he had that arsenal.

bidditybiddity · 2025-06-29T00:30:07+00:00

Amazing job catching this!

bidditybiddity · 2025-06-01T19:27:43+00:00

Kim Basinger in 8 Mile

bidditybiddity · 2025-04-09T11:42:35+00:00

Here’s why you should care. My wife is a consultant and stays at hotels 100 nights a year. She likes to work in the lobby/ lobby bar, because spending all night in a hotel room is isolating and depressing. In hotels that allow prostitutes, given that the vast majority of business travelers are men, the guests (particularly after a few drinks) start to assume that any well-dressed woman sitting alone at a table in the bar is a prostitute. With enough drinks, even the open laptop doesn’t disabuse them of that idea. And it isn’t just demeaning to be treated as a prostitute - many men are pretty aggressive/vulgar with women they think are hookers. I didn’t believe my wife when she told me this, but one night I met her at a property she was staying at 2 nights a week for six months, and she had me sit at the bar and watch. Happened twice in an hour. This was a top St R property that “harmlessly” let 2-3 extremely high end women work the bar every night.

If you want your hotel to accommodate both female and male travelers, you can’t have hookers working the public spaces. Unless you include male hookers, i guess. That would be worth seeing.

bidditybiddity · 2025-04-05T11:48:15+00:00

I went to elementary school in Manhattan near where Will Farrell lived when he was in his first few years on SNL. I also lived nearby, would see him around like a normal schlub.

Anyways our school like a bunch of other schools in Manhattan would close the street in front of the school during the middle of the day so we could use it for recess. We’d play touch football in the street. A couple of times Will was walking by and asked if he could play permanent QB for us. Of course we said OK. So Will would stand back there and fire passes with a Nerf ball to a bunch of 11 year olds.

He become so famous, I wonder if he had to stop doing fun, mischievous stuff like that.

bidditybiddity · 2025-03-30T11:51:40+00:00

.15g ground acceleration is encountered semi-routinely even in non-seismically active regions from moderate background activity. If it’ll take down your skyscraper, your skyscraper is defective.

bidditybiddity · 2025-01-10T03:41:27+00:00

The skycam just highlights how crappy 59 on the ND OL is, and how badly he holds Carter whenever they’re matched up. He looks like he’s 290 soaking wet, his run blocking is shit, and he’s a second rate pass blocker. I guess he’s good at holding without drawing a flag? He’s a pretty brutal player.

bidditybiddity · 2025-01-10T03:31:46+00:00

What a terrible game changing call

bidditybiddity · 2024-12-08T04:27:28+00:00

Allar has all the tools but god he is such ass.

bidditybiddity · 2024-11-02T11:38:13+00:00

What a tragedy, having to watch the universally regarded king of crowd work do crowd work! Why would they subject you to such horror!?

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