Alex M. Davis

Hard work and enthusiasm will eventually generate the desired results - @EastCarolina @ASU

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

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[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@ecu_brooks @take_the_island That was the tipping point that began a 10+ year trip through CFB hell

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@KyleTuckerCBB This same response comes up every time gov involvement in college sports arises. The government spends plenty of time, effort and money on plenty of menial issues

[David McKenzie @mckenzielaw]

The most honest sentence in this entire piece is that ESPN is "adamantly opposed to expansion beyond 16 teams" because of the "trickle-down effect" on regular-season inventory it controls. Translation: the rights holder that just sublicensed three Duke games to Amazon as a DTC market test is suddenly very protective of linear inventory when expansion might let Fox, Amazon, or Netflix bid on the new games. Funny how the willingness to experiment depends entirely on who keeps the upside.

[ESPN @espn]

WHAT A GAME 😮‍💨

ECU puts up four runs in the 14th to beat Tennessee 🏴‍☠️

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@AndyStaples Same story when it was BCS conferences vs have-nots. Now that the PAC isnt what it was and the ACC and Big12 are have nots, things change a bit.

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@AndyStaples @OUownsTEXAS @KurtBauerle Not at all. The Over the air access is what I'm saying matters. It's not the only thing but it makes a difference. Put any one of those games on ESPN+ and see if they match eyeballs

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@ECUJungle @ECUpir8nation Easy to forget how successful the Pirates have been, but such is the nature of things....We are sure spoiled. GDP!

[College Baseball Reference @CBsBReference]

Wins Since 2020 (Tournament Teams) | #CollegeBaseball #Omaha

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@OUownsTEXAS @KurtBauerle @AndyStaples Im a millennial and I haven't watched more than a handful of ESPN broadcasts that don't include my alma mater. But it's not as easy as you say. ESPN/2 were on basic cable and remain the most readily available today. Network and access make a huge difference

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@KurtBauerle @AndyStaples Absolutely, and it's always been this way. ESPN promoted BCS conferences, then power conferences, and now the SEC. It's not new, the number of folks on the outside looking in has grown

[Stephen Igoe @StephenIgoe]

ECU and Tennessee will play 12 noon ET on Friday on ESPNU.

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

And Cal saddled with debt....all bc of hubris and the thought that they too-good for the Big12.

[Jordan Moore @iJordanMoore]

College athletics is so crazy now.

Cal baseball, a team located on the Pacific coast but somehow in the ACC, flew to Charlotte, North Carolina for a single-elimination conference tournament game against Stanford… a school 90 minutes from their campus.

They traveled 2,715 miles across the country to play a regional rival, lost one game, then had to hop on a 5.5-hour flight back to California 😂

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

@YahooSports Nothing comes from nothing. You may be right that they'll win but they most assuredly will if everyone continues to acquiesce. At least Pollard is showing some spine. At least there is an attempt while there's still one to be made.

[Dan Wolken @DanWolken]

Conversations about an SEC/Big Ten breakaway from the NCAA are more real than they’ve ever been. But given how badly those two leagues have mismanaged self-governance in the NIL era, it’s not a credible threat.

Column for @yahoosports https://t.co/FCWM6uMiUT

[Alex M. Davis @Alex_M_Davis]

Exactly this. The Middle 2 (ACC and Big12) have to quit clinging to and enabling the Power 2. They have to be willing to walk away. Join the rest of the FBS and D1 and walk away. Its the only leverage we have.

[Cyclone Fanatic @cyclonefanatic]

Jamie Pollard expresses his frustration with the Big Ten and SEC for not adhering to the rules of the College Sports Commission. He adds he would be okay with the two conferences splitting from the NCAA.

"The four commissioners spent a lot of money creating the CSC. Then to have two of the conferences not want to adhere to it is perplexing to me, because then, why did we spend the money? If you didn't want rules, then why did you create this entity? That's what's frustrating to me, the same people that say they want rules only want rules if they don't apply to them... I said it three years ago, let em break away. I would turn it around and say we should break away from them. Let them go, but they have to go in all their sports and see how fun it is to play baseball and softball and track when it's just the 20 of you. That's what I think we should do, but I'm one person, and you know that's probably a little more draconian, but that's how I feel about it. Let's quit talking about it, quit threatening, go do it. But if you're going to do it, you don't get to just do it in football and then keep all your other sports with us. No, take them all, see how fun it is."

[Cole Dixon @Coled_04]

Sophomore season wrapped up. Grateful for every inning and every opportunity to compete with @RampantBaseball @claymedlin1208 and @Piratematt3

1.050 ERA
.938 WHIP
45 Ks (21 looking 👀)
4 ER allowed
10 hits allowed
.110 OBA

The work doesn’t stop here… @_thedirtbags All Blacks Summer is around the corner with @trey_daly @JakeMachado32 and @RookieDavis_

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

[East Carolina Men’s Basketball @ecubasketball]

Welcome to the 252! ✍️

@kaseemwatson1 is officially a Pirate!🏴‍☠️🔥

#GoPirates