NitWit

Randy Potter: Father, Husband. Covering Penn State Athletics. And an overall College Football NitWit.

[NitWit @NitPsu]

Old school PIAA football. Hollidaysburg vs Erie Central in the 1993 AAAA Western Finals. I am #63. #LinebackerMentality

[NitWit @NitPsu]

Welcome to the @pac12 @MemphisFB

[Paul Blood @fakepaulblood]

@willmbetts The American Conference has had their annual media payout reduced again after SMU left to $70 mil/yr. Split 14 ways (-$2.5 for the Shockers) it’s $4.8 each

[Lycan7hropyHD @Lycan7hropyHD]

During the Protect College Sports testimony today Cantwell confirms the @pac12 is getting between $10-12 million per year off their media deal.

So all of you haters like @Bill_CFB_Guy @TBM_JY @jasonkredline can watch it and then afterwards quit talking about the @pac12.

[NitWit @NitPsu]

🤔 @PennStateFball = Blueblood

[State Media @StateMediaPSU]

Penn State is one of the top Bowl Game winners of all time by College Football Zone, will they add another to the list⁉️⁉️

📸 via @CollegeFBonX

[NitWit @NitPsu]

Again who or what is going to fund expansion for the @bigten and the @SEC ? Subscription services?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

ESPN has sold off nearly half of the college football playoff games in this upcoming year. Budget issues? Also, playing the title game on January 25th is absolutely insane. Way too late.

[NitWit @NitPsu]

Why doesn’t @PennStateFball schedule a big time, New York City game every year to kick off the season against a P4 opponent? Great national exposure. NYC would love it. And we would make more money off the game! 🤷‍♂️ We need to get back to being a NorthEast program again.

[Basic Blues Nation @basicblues]

9️⃣6️⃣ days until Penn State football!

Curtis Enis runs for 241 yards and 3 touchdowns as Penn State opened the 1996 season with a dominant 24-7 victory over No. 7 USC in the Meadowlands!

#WeAre #PennState #CollegeFootball #Top25 #NCAA

[Will Wood 4⭐️ 27’ QB @willwood11_]

Excited to be back home next weekend 🦁
@CoachMC_PSU @CoachJWaters @T_Mouser @XBHS_Football @M2_QBacademy

[NitWit @NitPsu]

I believe option 1 is going to happen sooner than later. The @bigten and @SEC will not expand because the TV revenues will not be large enough to pay for the expansion. Except for Notre Dame, no other school moves the needle.

[Big Ten information and news @Genetics56]

So, what happens to the left over schools in the Big 12 and ACC thst don't make ot yo the Big Ten and SEC? 2 options:

1: merge and do the same thing as the Big Ten and SEC are doing. But acknowledged a very distant 2nd tier status.

2: merge with the G6

[Intrinsic @intrinsicvalyou]

𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓
Former NFL All-Pro Eric Weddle after Michigan spring ball:
“Mark My Words…Don’t be surprised if the backups are playing early. I don’t think Bryce Underwood can throw or play quarterback.”
(via @Zero2SixtyPod)
😳😳😳

[NitWit @NitPsu]

👇Bingo. The only way it would work

[Immaculate @ImmaculateView]

@EdLawDude What if the athletes never become employees of the University and instead become employees of their conference?

[NitWit @NitPsu]

🤔

[Jason Chaffetz @jasoninthehouse]

Still looking for someone to explain how the University of Utah sold equity in an entity owned by the people of Utah? Taxpayers own it, now someone else owns it? Please explain.

https://t.co/lxDXoqcZ3z

[NitWit @NitPsu]

How did someone this f_cking dumb become a billionaire CEO in America?

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Steve Ballmer has a 30-second test that separates good operators from great ones:

The former Microsoft CEO uses a simple game in interviews. He's thinking of a number between 1 and 100, and you have to guess it.

"I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. You can guess. After each guess, I'll tell you whether high or low."

Then he lays out the economics. Your first guess pays five dollars, then four, three, two, one, zero. And after that the cash flow reverses and you start paying him: a buck, then two, then three. Every additional move destroys value.

"And the question is, do you want to play or not?"

When the interviewer jumps straight in to play, Ballmer stops him: "I'm not trying to get you to do it on camera. It's actually quite a hard problem."

They run it anyway. The interviewer guesses 50 (too low), 75 (too high), and zeroes in on the number in seven guesses. The outcome?

"You owe me a buck."

The point was never the guessing. It was the decision before the guessing. Ballmer's read on the interviewer:

"I learned that... you need to step back... and really ask whether you should expect to win or lose money on this thing."

Run the numbers and the deal is bad:

"There are far more numbers on which you lose than numbers on which you win even with your strategy. And number two, I can pick numbers specifically that are hard for you to get."

That's the whole lesson in a sentence. The losing outcomes outnumber the winning ones, and the counterparty controls the setup. No amount of in-the-moment cleverness fixes a negative-expected-value bet. The right move is to decline it.

Ballmer still remembers the one candidate who saw it instantly. An interview at Purdue:

"He said, 'Well, here's the answer.' Wrote it down and said, 'This is the expected value of the game.'"

He didn't play. He priced it.

[Cuse Sports Talk @CuseSportsTalk_]

"To get anywhere near competitive, we've gotta create a cap financially. Period."

@WesDurham on the most important thing to fix with the state of college football and basketball right now.

[NitWit @NitPsu]

Yep 👍

[Terrapin News Network @mo_terps]

James Franklin is still the little whiny bitch he’s always been. What are you scared of Jimmy? VT backed out of the series! @coachjfranklin @CoachLocks

[NitWit @NitPsu]

Man we didn’t know that. 🤷‍♂️

[Brandon Marcello @bmarcello]

It's increasingly clear to me that Georgia coach Kirby Smart is THE VOICE leading the way in the SEC coaches' meeting rooms.

He's not only the most successful and longest tenured coach, but he's very passionate on the issues plaguing/affecting college sports.

[NitWit @NitPsu]

My biggest concern is the sports cars you give your players and the safety of the citizens of Georgia 🤷‍♂️

[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

Georgia's Kirby Smart: "My biggest concern for our sport, is we’re going to ruin all the other sports."

[WPIAL Insider @WPIAL_Insider]

Congratulations to @CoachTerryPSU on being inducted into the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame

👏👏👏👏👏👏

Well deserved 🫡

[NitWit @NitPsu]

The moment when you just graduate college and you realize you are in the real world now.

[College Football Zone @CollegeFBonX]

Northwestern’s Ryan Field will officially opens on October 2nd against Penn State. It will hold 35,000 fans and cost approximately $870 million to complete.

[Josh @TheZagaholic]

Said an official at one of those departing schools: “After all is said and done, the MW owes us a check.”