Tyler Williams

513✈️401🚅617 ✈️305🌊|Brown University '18| Beta Omega Chi| Retired D-I Athlete🏀| #RipPat #RipPapa

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

This dangerous and naive viewpoint of athletes in the Ivy League comes from an unfounded place of resentment and jealousy. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt with the racial undertones of these statements. To compare fraud to being recruited for a talent is ridiculous.

[Britt McHenry @BrittMcHenry]

Everyone complaining about kids not getting spots at Ivy League’s because of the SAT scam, have you ever taken a moment to look at the SATs and grades of most Ivy athletes? Newsflash, loopholes to get into those schools have been around for years.

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

Now what if I said futbol wasn’t the only problem in America 😅😅😅

[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.

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

This is such a disingenuous revisionist doctoring of what transpired over the last 2 seasons lol

[Pensare Basketball @PensareBBall]

Jaylen Brown was not traded. Jaylen Brown was salary-dumped. The Celtics canvassed the league asking for anyone who might be interested. They were rebuffed. Repeatedly.

They could not manage to get a Tre Murphy swap with fillers. They couldn't manage to get a Jrue Holiday + picks package.

In the end, the Sixers offer was underwhelming, but it was the best one they had.

And the Celtics learned what many front offices have known for a while. Top 25-30 players who get paid top 10 money become bottom 100 assets, even in their prime.

The Celtics paid Jaylen Brown for the same reason the Clippers paid Paul George. They wanted to max out the contention window for their star by re-signing their supporting caste.

It's a trap many teams fall into when trying to max contention windows. Klay got the bag post ACL injury because the Warriors wanted to help Steph. Myles got paid so the Bucks could help Giannis.

Hell, right now the Raptors are about to pay Kawhi Leonard 170+ million over 3 years to help open up Scottie Barnes' window.

But the reality is grim. 29ppg isn't enough anymore. Not without the impact, efficiency, defense and making your teammates better.

Brown wasn't a great defender this year. He's an aggressive but less than superstar level scorer... And at nearly 60 million a year, with the analytical impact and player profile of an borderline All Star, the Celtics bet that Paul George + picks was worth getting off of one additional year of Jaylen Brown.

It's not a popular decision. But it's reality. Front offices don't value him. Just like they didn't value Ja, BI and Trae Young.

Learn the lesson. If you max out these types of players, you're going to be holding them well past expiration.

Via The Hoop Collective Podcast

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

Good riddance man 🤣

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

The Lakers now have no tradeable first-round picks over the next seven years and have committed $475 million to Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves, and Walker Kessler, per @BrettSiegelNBA

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

What an insane game

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

What an insane game

[Nik @nikster007]

Lmao. He IS Mobland.
The main enforcer. The guy who owns every scene n episode
Pointless without him

[cosmic cowgirl 🪩🤠 @blockhim2026]

Socialism is so sick I love when tax dollars go to schools instead of wars

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

His brand of politics is going to be the one that saves this country. He’s raising the bar and showing just how pathetic and ineffectual most politicians in this country actually are. Voters are starting to see that they deserve better. Amazing.

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

I wish the Bengals took a chance on McCoy those are franchise influencing swings on a side of the ball you’ve often missed on anyway

[MSIZI 🇿🇦 @msiziworld]

She's so talented 👌🏼👌🏼🔥

[barney @barneyxbt]

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly

the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations.

the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with.

they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy

you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything.

that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs

and now the refund goes to THEM?

the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference

the american people funded the tariffs.

the corporations profited off the tariffs.

and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place
and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back.

not a single person has even suggested it

guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either

this country does not work for you.

it works for them. it’s a joke

and they’re not even pretending anymore

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

This 65 game season is the worst thing to happen to the NBA in a while this is mad annoying

[Henry VIII @SussexHenryVIII]

People under 30 might not remember that we could go weeks without hearing from or thinking about the President of the United States.

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

Don’t fit the age demographic but this movie was ELITE

[Q @Innerviewq]

If you were born between 87-92 , male, this movie was harder than karate kid

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I genuinely didn't notice a lot of these parallels, fantastic visual storytelling here

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

Well sign me up

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new trailer for the ‘PEAKY BLINDERS’ movie has been released.

Releasing March 20 on Netflix.

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

For WHAT

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

“I'm giving strong consideration to being on that debate stage for 2027 and running for the Democratic nomination.”

- Stephen A. Smith

(h/t @costareports )

[Tyler Williams @Tywilliams15]

Lame, especially because this does not prevent in any way, players, agents, and coaches from having these conversations privately if the concern is about attracting talent.

And if the concern is the fans perception then idk maybe GET BETTER GRADES

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Sources: The NFL informed all 32 teams today in a memo that it prevailed in its grievance vs. the NFLPA and its “team report cards.” An arbitrator determined that the NFLPA’s conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards.

[blue @bluewmist]

I can’t stress this enough. GET OUT OF YOUR HOMETOWN. Even if it’s not forever. Move. Travel. See the world. There is more to life than the same 10 people and the same 2 bars.

[#ForeverShenae @MouseJones]

Emmitt Till woulda been 85. Ruby Bridges is 71. Don’t let them black & white pictures fool you.