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[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

🚨I couldn't be more excited to announce the close of an oversubscribed investment round!

The JohnWallStreet cap table now includes a multitude of strategic investors, including long-time reader David Blitzer.

The rest of the group and vision are here.

https://t.co/jMBi42CTpk

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Build the statue

[Arizona Football @ArizonaFBall]

The best to ever do it 🫡

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Winning over local fans one shot at a time. 🐻⬇️🌵

[Justin Spears @JustinESports]

Brent Brennan, on buying around 300 shots of Tequila (worth $2,000) for Arizona fans at Dirtbag's: "I think it's important that if you want people to show up for you, you have to show up for them. ... It was an expensive five minutes, but it was a good five minutes."

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The College-in-3 trend is accelerating. Early movers experimenting with a 3 year bachelor’s degree were less selective schools like Merrimack or Weber State. Then states like OH, OK, and KS told their flagship universities to pilot the 90 credit degree. Now even NYU is doing it.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

@Sara_Slane Hey sent you text. Good timing!

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

@ChrisVannini 19. Nice!

[The Sports Advisors @JWSAdvisors]

Rights owners seeking to reduce dependence on media rights revenue would be wise to invest in infrastructure that allows for a single fan profile across every touchpoint.

Having it enables the organization to develop a more complete understanding of who their fans are, how they engage and ultimately spend.

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“One login. Every fan, every door. Tickets, [team] app, [within a] mixed-use [district, at] concession [stands etc].

If you can have one profile that works not only in your walls but those that are associated with you, that's going to [be] the easiest way for everyone to be able to access the data, drive incremental spend, and create an ecosystem effect,” @shrip1220 tells @HowieLongShort.

[Big Business on Campus @BigBusinessOC]

Big Business on Campus is back this Thursday! @maschreiber & @HowieLongShort will be joined by @Cuse Director of Athletics @BtotheBlair.

A fantastic episode as the three discuss:

- Treating Fundraising as a Math Equation (it takes a bit of spending to grow income)
- Central New York’s Renaissance Creating a Premium Growth Opportunity
- Youth Sports Being a Revenue Stream, NIL Vehicle and Fan Pipeline

Sign up at https://t.co/Y7TGyORvEj to get the episode & a breakdown in your inbox first thing on Thursday morning!

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Just gets it. 🐻⬇️🌵

[Justin Spears @JustinESports]

Arizona head coach Brent Brennan bought 1,000 tickets for local nonprofits and charities and youth football organizations to attend the Iowa State game.

After the game, Brennan walked into Dirtbag's and bought around 300 shots (a $2,000 tab) for Arizona fans and then walked out.

Amazing stuff. Man of the people.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

@DamonDawg No, not in 2024. This happened right after Jedd got hired over Brent.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Glad you're owning up. But ball knowers knew.

JohnWallStreet told Jedd on first call in 30 years he wanted Brent.

Jedd won. Brent is winning. We were both right.

[Kevin Thomas @KevoPosts]

Brent Brennan deserves our sincerest apologies.

I was LOUD WRONG about him and his potential as Arizona head coach. What a coach he has turned out to be.

Guy has stabilized Arizona football in a real way.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

@AMountainAppar1 @MetLifeStadium I am aware. Tailgate was great. Fun day at stadium despite outcome. Helps knowing we have elite college program.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Can't even fully open my eyes it's so sunny at @MetLifeStadium ✈️

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

@TravisAdvisory Going for Air Force game to spend time with Theo.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

How is Greg Buttle still on Jets postgame? He's horrific. Has been for years.

There isn't another former player capable of analyzing a game?

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Glad you're owning up. But ball knowers knew.

JohnWallStreet told Jedd on first call in 30 years he wanted Brent.

Jedd won. Brent is winning. We were both right.

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Look at these fuckin' legends. ✈️

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Appreciate Tony making the time for Mads and I in the Flyhouse Greenroom.

Always fun to see legends coming back. ✈️

[JohnWallStreet @HowieLongShort]

Vinny vidi vici ✈️

[Schrödinger’s Wildcat @WildcatAgenda]

I agree, Mr. Reeves, the Arizona Wildcats are a good football team

[Tom Theodorakis @TT_Army_AD]

All eyes on West Point! 🇺🇸

The world’s preeminent leader development institution will be on full display on the national stage.

✅ FOX Big Noon Kickoff – Nov. 7

✅ Air Force vs. Army on CBS – Nov. 7

✅ FOX NFL Sunday – Nov. 8

Three national broadcasts. Two days. One extraordinary institution.

Only at #WestPoint 🇺🇸

[lesfifita @lesfifita]

Every week, we get so many of these comments from people while we’re in or around Tucson. And it’s always the same answer: there’s no question Arizona deserves our boys. They saw greatness in them when nobody else did.

I mean, Coach Gonzales came to one spring practice when Dash was at Santa Margarita and wanted to offer him. He offered him in Week 3 of his junior year. Then he had to defend it constantly and still didn’t care. Coach Bringuel called him every damn night until the day he showed up on campus.

At Dash’s official visit, we talked NIL money. I had told Dash he wasn’t getting any because he was staying with Noah and had no expenses. I had told Ben T. to use it on our receivers. But in the meeting, Ben told Dash he was getting the NIL package that he and the staff knew Dash was going to deserve.

That makes Arizona more than deserving to me. Our family will forever be indebted to Arizona for the love and commitment they show our boys.

Just proving people right and watching as God continues to write this story. 🥤➡️🐻⬇️