Morgan Reed

President @ACTonline & @HealthIsMobile | Alaskan living in DC | Original Small Tech Evangelist | Wood Working & Soccer Enthusiast | A Real-Life Captain Morgan ⛵

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@DavidFellerath @jbarro sigh. We have won 4 world cups and the most recent olympics. Other nations are working hard to catch up, but US talent depth is unsurpassed. If you mean men’s soccer, sure. But for our women to be that good compared to our men suggests it’s not as simple as “it’s all pay2play”

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@toddakavincent @kvlmason that’s not entirely correct. If a foul (holding) begins outside the box but continues into the box, a PK is given.
https://t.co/PVKmpsbTxS

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@drake_sucks @grahamruthven This doesn’t fix anything b/c the issue isn’t that refs don’t see what you see; it’s how we interpret it. We see the shirt pulls and the grabbing, but if we call it, then people yell “it’s a contact sport”. Refs aren’t blind, it’s about how we are taught to manage the game.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@grahamruthven Problem isn’t VAR, problem is the way we interpret the LotG. We say “contact sport” does that cover shirt pulls? It’s a Law 12 foul, but if called people say “game’s gone”. Half the slide tackles probably violate a strict read of Laws, but we love them. it’s PGMOL issue not VAR.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@pgklee @CFC__Women Thank you. When training for reffing, a shocking number of fellow students and instructors will say stupid shite like “women don’t mean it” and “men are more dangerous”. yet talk to players: they are just as ruthless and frankly sneakier + they like cold, calculated revenge.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@Ripamaru @IHateSoccerPod you know most college football programs lose money, right?!? Football programs, especially the non-P4 teams, take money from tuition and student fees. By your logic, any football program that isn’t break-even should be closed down.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@wolffy71 @IHateSoccerPod yep, let’s hope for more opportunities! But I’m not crapping on the college system for women because the men’s programs aren’t stacking up. College path means pro-bound girls had years of incredible competition that’s hard to replicate, and opportunities for women outside of pro.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@IHateSoccerPod @wolffy71 Jason, go to over and watch women’s football at anything below very top teams. Their best players are fantastic, but it’s paper thin. Moreover pay is poor, facilities and support uneven. College is a pathway they don’t have. Talk to girls there they do envy US opportunities.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@DJL06824 @IHateSoccerPod No, American football killed all the non-revenue sports. NCAA D1 is 105 (!) football full rides, and 105 roster limit. yet only 10% are profitable. Title IX doesn’t dictate number of scholarships or which sports. it just says “if you take tax money, it must be spent equally.”

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@wolffy71 @IHateSoccerPod asinine take. US women’s soccer is incredibly successful and is the envy of the world. We have depth and talent. The “rest of the world” wishes it had our women’s programs.

[Graham Dufault @GDufault]

Let me fix the headline for you …

Small Business Developers Support POPA

POPA puts parents in control of their kids’ sensitive personal data instead of forcing them to give it up to Meta.

Here’s our statement: https://t.co/H0gy6heMuQ

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@KentatCEI We see this all the time for our EU members. the denser the compliance web, the worse it is for the small companies everyone claims to support and the competition regulators claim they need.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@BenBrodyDC 100%! Never asked about it. It literally is this meme:

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@milan_milanovic 100% this. I am all in on AI, but we still need people to understand structure and programming logic. We need people to have the math and data sophistication to ask the right questions. AI supports a great dev team, not replaces it.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@ajguckian @TS_Secrets Rec is good, but drop the whole “scam” bit. I don’t rant about taking your kids to Disney or bass fishing is a “scam”. Spending on your kids isn’t about ROI. It’s about spending time doing something hard/rewarding. We chose sports over Disney, and I don’t like bass fishing.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@faraz_r_khan @pitdesi I saw it coming :) not b/c I am special, but b/c our members wouldn't stop talking about it. Apple didn't beat BB by accident - it did so by bundling services that helped to lower overhead, gave us a global market without shareware headaches, and consumers trusted it (and us).

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@twiggler1 @iDoLikeSpam @SirDyche442 @MenInBlazers Law 12 gives us 3 categories: careless, reckless, excessive force. Literally says “If an offence involves contact, it is penalised by a direct free kick.” A very charitable take would be “careless”- still a PK.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@KarskiLee @RhysWilliamsTV Wage bill puts them at 11th. Net transfer spend is meaningless given that the spend is mid-table and they appear to be well within FFP/PSR rules. Not a perfect analogy, but if a driver wins F2, they don’t use an F2 car if they get an F1 contract.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@Joey72735798 @EnglishAl21 @RhysWilliamsTV your cherry picking is disingenuous at best. Norwich just sold their surplus-to-requirements striker for £20 million, and they haven’t been in the PL since 2022. The spend is meaningless when all it did was bring them mid-table on value.

[Morgan Reed @morganwreed]

@stevemagness Crazy idea, what if, say, all the schools on the west coast plus like two schools from AZ/UT have one conference? All in same timezone, and I’ll bet if you did it right you’d have, like 10 or 12 teams? Lowers travel costs, easier on students. Call it … Pacific Athletic Conf?