Nate Donaldson

#AllForCincy #GoBucks #LetEmKnow

[Nate Donaldson @NateD34]

Cleveland is, and always will be, the reason

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

You spend your entire life hoping to see something this beautiful just once.

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

I love Cincy’s stadium and how it’s just plopped in the middle of campus. It’s my platonic ideal of stadium/campus unity.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Jessica Smetana @jessica_smetana]

What it feels like saying you like this show (I also like this show)

[Jake @funkpopbigsalad]

This is the greatest NBA account on Twitter

[ken @JaiIpose]

Tell her Bron still doin it lol

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

I have found my favorite League Pass content of the season.

The Cleveland Cavaliers DONT BLINK CAM, where Sir C.C. takes a leaf-blower and blasts you in the face.

The contestant who keeps their eyes open the longest wins.

The result:

[Kyle Henry @kyle_LTS]

Streaking into orbit Artemis II begins its 10 day voyage around the moon!

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

High Point coach Flynn Clayman after beating Wisconsin:

"It looks obvious high-majors need to play mid-majors during the season. They said we didn't play nobody. … Nobody would play us, just like they wouldn't play Miami (Ohio). But they have to play us in this tournament."

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

Unironically a very cool map.

[Jacob Titus @jacob__titus]

It's Cleveland.

[Kyle Porter @KylePorterNS]

Immediately goes in the pantheon of sports photos.

[That Guy Rocked @ThatGuyRocked]

Aaron Craft

That guy rocked.

[College Football Nerds @CFBNerds]

What's crazy about Birmingham and Columbus is that, sure they are always listed high on OSU, Bama, Auburn games. But if you look at ratings for random games on the west coast or Clemson vs Florida St, they'll be in the top 3.

[Tom Orr @TomOrr4]

Ole Miss kicker Lucas Carneiro has already hit field goals from 55 and 56 yards tonight, and is 9-for-10 from 50+ the last two seasons combined.

The last time Ohio State made a field goal from 50+ yards was in 2019.

[Joe Wheat @joewheat27]

I have a take:
What talking heads don’t understand is that college sports at its core is not about crowning a national champion. It’s about regional pride, beating your rival, and vibes. Those who disagree would be far happier covering the NBA or NFL.

[Cam Miller 🎥 @cammillerfilms]

Christmas. Fountain Square. Cincinnati. 1920s.

[Spencer Holbrook @SpencerHolbrook]

"they haven't trailed in the fourth quarter so we don't know how good they are" is an insanely hilarious thing to say

[Ohio State Football @OhioStateFB]

THE best helmet in College Football.