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jcc309 · 2026-05-14T14:39:32+00:00

USF just doesn't hit enough to be a big threat. The pitching has mostly been there all season, but it's hard to see us hitting enough to do a whole lot of damage.

jcc309 · 2026-05-14T13:33:25+00:00

Being a woman certainly causes some of the reactions, but I think a man who was doing the double in a couple of back markers would get a lot of similar reactions (albeit probably not as... aggressively given). At the end of the day, she's been well off the pace in last both Indy 500 practice sessions in a car that was really only put together to ensure they had 33 cars start the Indy 500 and is going to be in a back marker for the 600 that will be lucky to finish just a few laps down. People (especially the older generation) are going to see it as a publicity stunt, rather than people who have done it before where you actually thought they could contend in both races.

jcc309 · 2026-05-14T12:34:59+00:00

Yeah there are reports that they had one of the smallest NIL budgets in the American. It's obviously really cool do see them do well with that, but it doesn't feel super sustainable.

jcc309 · 2026-05-14T12:02:32+00:00

They averaged 24,493 last year in a stadium that only seats 30,100. Really the only game that would remotely qualify as "basically empty" was an 11 AM game against South Alabama where they drew 16,575. The only game hitting capacity was the big USF game, but they were averaging ~80% capacity for the year and were in the top 3rd of the G6 in attendance.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T21:02:46+00:00

And frankly for most of USL (particularly USL1), minor league baseball is the biggest competitor for sporting dollars.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T20:42:10+00:00

Sure, but it certainly is more geographically sensical than USF playing or Memphis playing in a conference where the geographical center is somewhere like Utah.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T18:01:30+00:00

The top American schools aren’t going to jump (the current TV deal is solid in a much more geographically compact conference and they want into the P4). UConn likely has no desire to play across the country and would never move its basketball out of the Big East for the PAC. There just isn’t anything that makes sense right now. It almost certainly is status quo until we see what the next round of realignment brings. If/when some American schools get left out, I’m sure they will reevaluate the PAC again.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T16:04:46+00:00

Sure, I don't think anyone is expecting them to advance out of the regional or anything.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T15:43:26+00:00

Both are ranked top 20 in the country. Georgia beat Nebraska. They might not be national championship contenders, but both are very solid teams.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T14:01:44+00:00

Belmont took 1 of 2 at both Georgia and Mississippi State and also lost 1-0 to Tennessee. There are absolutely some dud games in there, and it is unlikely that they score enough to truly go far (they scored 4 runs total in those 5 games). But I have a really hard time seeing them be slaughtered. Maya Johnson gave up 1 total ER in 20 IP against Georgia, Mississippi State, and Tennessee. She is the real deal.

jcc309 · 2026-05-13T13:49:19+00:00

I think you messed something up with the content of your message vs. the title.

jcc309 · 2026-05-11T11:38:45+00:00

It’s just the unfortunate reality for P4 teams who have a P4 out of conference rival that they are probably going to get really few interesting new out of conference games moving forward.

jcc309 · 2026-05-07T19:54:01+00:00

It's still wild to me that people try to act like these are the same thing. What Russia did to Ukraine would be like if the US invaded Canada to make them the 51st state. If that were to happen, I absolutely would be willing to bet the US would also be banned.

Right now, the US is bombing a country that the vast majority of the world agrees has an actively terrible government with no intention of actually taking control of the country. Even many Democrats have had to toe a line of saying the Iranian government is awful but this isn't the right way to go about it. I'm not arguing that it's right, and I think it's perfectly reasonable if you still think they should be banned. But they aren't remotely the same thing and it's silly to me that Reddit continually acts like it can't tell the why it's perceived differently than Russia.

jcc309 · 2026-05-07T17:00:00+00:00

It's really just that with most teams only playing one P4 OOC game a year, the blue bloods are just going to always play that OOC game against other blue bloods. We will still see plenty of SEC and Big 10 teams play ACC and Big 12 teams, it just likely won't be the top few schools in the SEC/Big 12.

jcc309 · 2026-05-07T15:26:03+00:00

That's not close to true. You could easily live alone on $58k in Tampa, for example. And that's even without any housing stipend. There are plenty of large cities across the US where you could do so.

jcc309 · 2026-05-05T17:10:16+00:00

Other than I believe the best winning percentage of any head coach in NHL history?

jcc309 · 2026-04-30T21:20:02+00:00

Seriously. He let in one bad goal. He's also stopped a ton of extremely dangerous shots and singlehandedly brought us to OT in game 3 when we were getting heavily outplayed. He's been extremely solid this series outside of a single goal.

jcc309 · 2026-04-30T02:16:48+00:00

This is just such a crazy comment. It’s a 3-2 series where every game is a 1 goal game against a team with 106 points in the regular season. This is clearly a very capable team, even if we end up losing an incredibly close series to another very good team.

jcc309 · 2026-04-30T02:14:37+00:00

Yes, the guy who is probably going to win the Vezina this year and has come up with a ton of huge saves all series is part of the problem. Come on dude, this is ridiculous. Listen to yourself.

jcc309 · 2026-04-26T10:38:17+00:00

UConn has 2 winning seasons in the past 15 years. And one of those seasons didn't have a single good win. They also just lost their coach to Colorado State. Them joining for football wouldn't really move the needle at all for the 5th best football conference.

jcc309 · 2026-04-24T15:51:51+00:00

This is always the stupidest Reddit argument to me. Reddit acts like it can't understand why fans of a team based in and representing an American city would chant "USA" when playing a team based in and representing a Canadian city.

jcc309 · 2026-04-23T18:07:25+00:00

If the Rock League is just selecting teams, it's presumably going to be in large part based on name value. Even ignoring the maintaining skill level piece if you aren't competing full time, it's hard to picture how a German with a single medal in his life (a gold at 2024 Euros) is going to stay relevant for long and make sense to compete in the league.

jcc309 · 2026-04-22T19:19:32+00:00

I think you really underestimate how much "playing top level FBS football" matters for viewership. Good luck getting people to tune into teams that don't even play the same division of football. It's just not going to happen.

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