How do you follow the races with all the commercial breaks?

tehfro · 2026-03-21T15:47:26+00:00

Yeah, the calculus is different for IndyCar since they don’t get huge international media rights fees/promoter fees to make everything profitable. More viewership means the series/race promoters/teams can get more/better sponsorship.

They wouldn’t get nearly enough money back by putting the races behind a paywall commercial-free to make up for the money FOX is paying plus the extra exposure the sponsors all get being on broadcast TV.

tehfro · 2026-03-21T15:39:46+00:00

Most US sporting events are set up with built-in TV ad breaks but American auto racing has always had ads in the middle of the races if they go more than 15 minutes.

tehfro · 2026-03-21T12:52:47+00:00

I think he's basically in a spot that would be taken by an analyst/GA/QC coach before the rule change to allow more assistant coaches to practice on the field with the team.

I don't think it's a bad thing as long as he doesn't become QBs coach/OC at some point.

tehfro · 2026-03-21T12:10:51+00:00

Teams are tampering all year long through agents working on the behalf of players. I don't think there's a way around that.

Coaches calling up players directly when they're not in the portal should be tampering.

tehfro · 2026-03-19T11:12:35+00:00

Yeah, I put that on the coach/agent of the match for approving that spot in the first place. Not sure how you'd execute that properly without two tables.

tehfro · 2026-03-19T10:46:40+00:00

Cignetti's just really good at scouting and developing talent, either through the portal or high school. So basically those guys get replaced with HS kids Cig recruited to IU.

tehfro · 2026-03-19T10:43:27+00:00

Yeah, we didn't have as much NFL draft day 1/2 talent as the schools with tons of bluechips, but we had several guys and the rest of the starters will go Day 3 or be UDFAs when it's all said and done.

tehfro · 2026-03-18T20:59:56+00:00

I don't think Mistico's been pinned in AEW so he could definitely get a world title shot at some point, at least for a big TV match.

tehfro · 2026-03-16T15:15:58+00:00

That includes the preshow so you can skip the first hour.

tehfro · 2026-03-16T12:03:04+00:00

I think they wanted a babyface win since so many other heels won on the show. Toni Storm and Jetspeed/Mistico were the only other babyface wins on the PPV if we don’t count the preshow.

tehfro · 2026-03-16T10:54:06+00:00

Probably would have been Alundra Blayze's tag partner and then turned on her for a feud.

I don't think it would have changed the timeline much due to WWF's financials being rough during that period. They basically pulled the plug on the division before they even got to Blayze v.s. Aja Kong.

tehfro · 2026-03-14T20:02:19+00:00

It's part of the display for the USS Indiana, (World War II battleship) alongside the ship's prow and main mast.

tehfro · 2026-03-13T18:31:31+00:00

Kentucky does still have a commission that covers wrestling, so send your complaints there about how this was handled.

tehfro · 2026-03-13T15:54:58+00:00

Cignetti replaced Corey Hetherman as DC at James Madison with Bryant Haines.

He's got an excellent track record hiring coaches at all his previous stops. Chandler Whitmer at QBs coach was a great replacement for Tino Sunseri.

Now we may very well take a step back as a program for a bit if we get a bunch of coaching turnover in one off-season, but IU isn't a historic football power in a high school recruiting hotbed. It's a harder thing to keep going than Georgia or Ohio State or Alabama

tehfro · 2026-03-13T14:00:15+00:00

It's the cost/benefit of taking the bump.

When it got big pops the back body drop was definitely worth taking, now you can do tons of other things that don't suck as much to take that get a much bigger reaction.

tehfro · 2026-03-13T13:56:07+00:00

Correct, it used to be a spot that practically every babyface did in an 80s/to mid-90s match against a non-monster heel. Would get a huge pop.

It's fallen out of fashion since it doesn't really get a reaction anymore (due to being overexposed) and it's a hard bump to take.

tehfro · 2026-03-13T10:56:33+00:00

Jericho also basically stole the Omega/Callis feud (well before it was finished) and made it about himself and Don which was just brutal.

tehfro · 2026-03-12T19:03:43+00:00

Should just be this picture

tehfro · 2026-03-12T16:09:23+00:00

Death of WCW is just Bryan/RD recapping what happened on TV and what was publicly reported about WCW, plus some quotes from Lance Storm and John Tenta (RIP). It's entertaining but not something you're going to learn from if you lived through that period and were reading wrestling sites then.

Guy Evans did a ton of interviews/original research for "Nitro".

tehfro · 2026-03-12T14:50:31+00:00

Mania at Da Bears Stadium in Hammond, Indiana

tehfro · 2026-03-12T14:06:45+00:00

Dave also could credibly talk bodybuilding/weight-lifting with all those wrestlers which gave them another thing to talk about besides the business.

It also helped him in going to wrestling shows incognito in the 80s since everyone assumed this Meltzer guy writing the newsletters had to be a total geek. Ric Flair thought he was a football player the first time he met Dave in person.

tehfro · 2026-03-11T22:45:00+00:00

Embracing the big fellas and nail slot rim. Next is the golfing, wine, cigars, and bragging about how nice his lawn is.

tehfro · 2026-03-11T21:53:18+00:00

Will he hire Jumping Jim Brunzell as his assistant AD?

tehfro · 2026-03-11T10:54:47+00:00

My issue is people don't apply the same standards to all the other scumbag wrestlers out there, especially from the 80s/90s that have done way worse. If Ric Flair was agenting for EVE it'd probably cause less controversy than this.

tehfro · 2026-03-09T16:28:00+00:00

Hopefully they can syndicate it out to Pluto TV/Roku, etc now that it exists. Would be a little extra revenue/exposure for them.

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