Jade Ellis

I take this really seriously, except for the times I don't.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@bomani_jones Fair to say Bodie desperately needed to believe in the game, and season 4 was nothing but folks telling him he’s got the game wrong?

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@Carnahan007 @CoachTrim8 @BleacherReport He put his name and “volunteer coach” with the school in his bio. But yeah, I doxxed him when I called him out for having no actual relationship with the school.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@Carnahan007 @CoachTrim8 @BleacherReport We on here talkin to folks we will never we meet about something that doesn’t affect us. We all weird.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

Good thread

[💫🅰️♈️🆔 @ADavidHaleJoint]

I spent this week attending INFLCR's NIL Summit in Atlanta. A number of big companies (and also for some reason Space Force) were there, along with a few hundred college athletes to discuss the first year of NIL. Here's a bit of what I learned... A possibly too long 🧵

[💫🅰️♈️🆔 @ADavidHaleJoint]

A subtle but critical aspect of the resource gap is it disproportionately impacts less affluent athletes. Most folks I talked to had a relative managing their NIL. If dad's in marketing or your sister's a lawyer, great. If you're the 1st in your fam to go to college... good luck.

[💫🅰️♈️🆔 @ADavidHaleJoint]

Some schools have genuinely invested in a great NIL staff, but many others have simply moved a guy who was previously cutting up practice video into an NIL role or, worse, added NIL to the job descriptions of already overworked compliance or sports info folks.

[💫🅰️♈️🆔 @ADavidHaleJoint]

The majority of deals athletes I spoke with had came via cold calls to companies and old-fashioned hustle. Meanwhile, some athletes are so ill prepared, they don't even have checking accounts in which to deposit their NIL payments. They're often relying on teammates for help.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@DancingDinks drain, cost, waste

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@nkalamb Just FYI that’s a camp for high school kids.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

Takes some bravery to be out here riling up the season 2 haters.

[bomani @bomani_jones]

"we used to make stuff in this country" is one of the most underrated and important lines from "the wire." https://t.co/gOzE14kVMc

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

Mike been a family friend since long before my parents met. He was always willing to catch up during shoot around if I was in the same city as the Spartans. Good man, great coach. All the good things to say.

[Michigan State Men's Basketball @MSU_Basketball]

"Inspiring. Authentic. Real. Coach. Mentor. Counselor. Teacher. Leader. OG."

After 22 years on staff and a coaching career spanning more than four decades, Coach Garland has announced he is retiring this summer 💚🏀

[bomani @bomani_jones]

times square. @gametheoryhbo.

march 13 on @hbo and @hbomax.

[Duke @canuckduke]

The fact that @rodimusprime went from calling in at 9:40 am on #TheMorningJones to being a writer on #GameTheory, while establishing a podcast network independently in between? salute bro.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@_SimplyDa That’s big on you for trying to hold the family together.

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@MJH_316 You also have a lot more legacy kids. Not necessarily kids for track parents, but kids from professional athletics parents. We’re seeing folks who kinda get how these sport worlds work, put their kids in positions to succeed in them.

Kinda like Hollywood

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@MJH_316 Not like those sports no, but take mondo duplantis. His family built a PV runway in their back yard for him as a kid.

The folks who have the disposable income for their kids these days can afford to make those pushes. These same folks didn’t have that income 30 years ago

[Jade Ellis @CoachEllisJumps]

@MJH_316 Yeah, there’s also this weird thing where a bunch of folks are making the decision to pursue (and are being guided to) these things at a much younger age.

That’s kind of a product of athletics becoming more of a career path and less of an extracurricular