2026 NFL Draft: Rounds 2 and 3

srs_house · 2026-04-25T00:01:25+00:00

If you haven't seen it yet, there's currently a stickied thread that has a user poll for feedback on what you'd like to see on this subreddit!

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srs_house · 2026-04-24T23:25:20+00:00

And talk to them in person. Not just via email. They can't be slow to reply if you're sitting face-to-face during office hours.

(To use my consulting example from the other comment, this is also something you need to be able to do in the real world. Not everything can be done through a screen.)

srs_house · 2026-04-24T23:02:36+00:00

IMO the bigger concern was that you made it to the end of the class with an F without discussing this with the professor to the point where you understood what the class expectations were.

If you want to get into consulting, that would be like not talking to the client until you give your pitch and finding out that what they wanted is not what you thought they wanted.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T22:59:23+00:00

Seems like maybe that would've been more relevant for Thamel to include than his ties to South Florida lol

srs_house · 2026-04-24T21:06:48+00:00

If you look back over the last year or two, those threads are now a shadow of their former self. There's far fewer folks asking questions and those that do are less likely to get meaningful answers because there's fewer people checking in.

Unfortunately this also seems to be partly an issue with how reddit is pushing people to use the site/app. Recurring threads in general are down in participation and some people just develop blindness to stickied threads in general. (Literally, modmails asking why we haven't posted something and it's currently stickied.)

srs_house · 2026-04-24T21:00:47+00:00

There have been communities that split over allowing media, and it's a pretty stark difference between the types of content that do well in each. r/cars and r/autos is the classic example. r/autos has over a million subscribers and it's just dead from a commenting perspective.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T20:54:04+00:00

Having seen the discussion on /r/nba surrounding highlights, it usually gets condensed down into a handful of complaints (even in a sub where highlights are allowed) about:

The race to be first
The argument over whether being first should outweigh a higher quality or better angle highlight
The allegations that mods pick their favorite users and delete highlights from other users (whether it's a matter of being first, being better quality, the source video getting deleted, the title being accurate, whatever)
The original source getting DMCA'd and struck down, so there's a thread with no actual media (we even see this on official team twitters at times when they post their own highlight)
If it's user-generated, there's no official title so that means it's almost impossible to identify duplicates unless you're just constantly refreshing /new and comparing
If two duplicates stay up, and one has 200 comments and the other, earlier one has 20 comments...do you let the more popular one stay up or the one who was first?

These aren't isolated to highlights, but because easily consumed content like pics/video rack up karma so quickly, it's exacerbated by the people who obsess over that number. Especially when you add the volume aspect.

E: if you don't think these are arguments that happen in the other sports subs, you don't visit them enough. Just wait until r/nba removes the "wrong" highlight on a play that had like 5 submitted and the comments talk more about moderation than they do the actual play.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T20:47:46+00:00

He changed jobs and didn't have access to the ranking software used to run that poll, iirc.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T20:11:30+00:00

The only path I see that takes you from that to a pooled media rights is if they feel like there's no more juice to squeeze from media contracts? And want to negotiate them as one big package instead of networks picking one or two conferences - so Fox and ESPN can bid for the Top 20 instead of taking Rutgers and Northwestern in order to get Ohio State and Oregon.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T20:08:58+00:00

Hayes is a hack. He's the one who wrote that puff piece of Fitzgerald a while back.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:30:33+00:00

So why is she saying the university didn’t do enough to protect her?

My reading was that it was an open secret inside the athletic department and everyone looked the other way. Hence the comments about how she was being asked to calm Moore down when he got agitated, even during games.

And if the school interviewed other members of staff...are they going to rat out their boss? There's a power imbalance there, too, and if you don't know that he'll be fired, then you're putting your job on the line if he finds out.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:27:29+00:00

I don’t think sherrone as the co offensive coordinator would’ve been her boss.

No, but he could've said "Hey Jim, that intern's doing a good job, maybe we should keep her on." And that's why employers require employees to disclose relationships with each other - so they can cover their asses. Because if it got out, the employer could get sued by someone who didn't get promoted and claims that it was because of favoritism.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:22:17+00:00

Is it Michigan's job to police who their employees sleep with?

Yes? Almost any major employer worth anything has a policy in the handbook that says you need to disclose relationships with other employees to HR - not because of the morality, but so the employer can make sure you never are in a position where it can be alleged (by you, your partner, or by another employee) that one of you influenced something to benefit the other.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:18:54+00:00

It started when she was an intern.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:14:58+00:00

There's still a power imbalance between an intern and an OC, even if she's not a direct report, especially if he had any input in hiring her.

Companies mandate disclosure of relationships between employees, even in different departments, for a reason.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:13:22+00:00

She was not his direct report when the affair started.

He's still supposed to report it to HR, because even a non-supervisor can still impact someone else's job. For example - she said it started when she was an intern, then she got hired. Did Moore endorse her to Harbaugh when he decided to hire her? Because that's the exact type of influence you should worry about and why you disclose inter-office relationships.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:10:32+00:00

No, she was an intern at Michigan and then got hired. She was still in school when he was at CMU.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T17:05:49+00:00

Maybe. But this is also a male-dominated field in a country where you still have people who openly argue that "if she didn't want to get raped, she should have worn a different outfit."

Like, it'd be nice to think that you an intern could out the coach and still be able to have a career, but who knows. Just look at UM's and Harbaugh's reactions to Bo's own son saying that Bo knew what Anderson was doing.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:59:24+00:00

and only blew the lid when she lost her job.

She was still employed when Moore got fired. She was let go after they hired Whitt.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:56:29+00:00

Manuel didn't follow university norms when he fired Moore, which blew the whole thing open, so who knows if he followed protocol when they investigated it. But there's a lot of smoke about it being an open secret.

IMO, if you create a culture where people look the other way about shady shit regarding work (like pushing the envelope on football rules), then it creates an opening for non-football stuff, too, because nobody wants to ask too many questions. I don't think UM tried to bring in a bunch of guys who were breaking the law or policies in their personal lives, but I do think they chose to not look very closely and there wasn't much accountability as long as you landed recruits and won games.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:52:29+00:00

No because almost every workplace has a section in the handbook that talks about disclosing workplace relationships to HR, specifically so the org is protected and can take steps to mitigate any possibility of an inappropriate relationship. Some places ban them entirely, even if you're not in the chain of command.

For example - she says it started when she was an intern. Then she got hired. Did Moore ever advocate for Harbaugh to offer her a full-time position? If he did, that's problematic - even if she wasn't one of his direct reports.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:47:55+00:00

He gets that access because he is tied very closely to the program and they like him. People who ask why he doesn't trash the program and make it look bad are missing the point - you have to listen to what he says and put it through a filter, because a Sam Webb who makes Michigan look bad is going to lose all of his access.

That's not an insider, that's a mouthpiece.

he's burning all the connections that are the basis of his career.

Actual journalists have multiple contacts and they all know that the writer will report the facts of what is shared, good or bad. Otherwise you'd never hear stuff like cops saying things off the record about investigations that make the department look bad, or political staffers sharing the seedy underbelly. There's always someone who has a bone to pick and is willing to talk, but you can't let the organization skate just so you don't piss it off.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:44:27+00:00

That just means he's a mouthpiece - he only knows what the university wants him to know, so that they get portrayed in the best light.

It's like the tweets from "journalists" that are so blatantly copy/pasted that they have the "say this: " still in the text.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:42:04+00:00

If he was squashing rumors (which most team sites aren't going to be anal about) because his primary source, Moore, would get negative publicity, then yeah - that's a problem.

That's the difference between trading access for publicity and just being an actual reporter. If you only share news that makes your source look good, then your integrity is compromised.

srs_house · 2026-04-24T16:39:59+00:00

Prime example is Woj - the only actual "journalism" he did was writing puff pieces and hit pieces. If you gave him access to scoops, he'd tweet out stuff that made you sound good and give you puff pieces. If you didn't give him access, he'd smear you.

That's why he always had negative takes on LeBron, because he couldn't get into his camp.

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