Adam Kruse

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@C_RoB_5

[Indiana Pacers @Pacers]

Legacy, reimagined.

Diving into the details of our new statement uniforms 📝

[On3 @On3]

NEW: Indiana's Curt Cignetti says the Big Ten is the best conference in College Football👀

"We don’t run a hype machine up here in the Midwest. We believe everything is earned, not given. When we fall short, we say we fell short. We don't cry a river and whine and complain. All right, and that's why we're the best."

https://t.co/7zTz86TCnU

[Kris Drew @KristopherDrew_]

Idk who needs to hear this. ESPNs SOS relies on their FPI rankings.

This was their FPI before the year last season.

(Notice indiana missing even after a 10 win season and the playoffs)

But look…
Auburn
South Carolina
Florida
Arkansas
Missouri

People pretending like preseason ESPNs SOS is an indication of conference depth or talent are just spitting on you and telling you it’s raining

[College Football with Sam @CFBwSam]

You know how much of FPI's preseason stuff is based entirely on ESPN recruiting, right? Last season, Texas, Georgia, and Alabama started the season ranked in the top 3 in FPI. Ohio State was 4th, Oregon 6th or 7th, and Indiana was outside of the Top 25.

By the end of the season, when FPI and other preseason models like FEI are ridiculously accurate, Georgia was 7th, Alabama was 10th, and Texas was 11th in FPI.

Indiana was 1st, Ohio State 2nd, and Oregon 4th.

In FEI, Indiana was No. 1, Oregon No. 2, Ohio State No. 3... the highest-rated SEC team was Georgia at No. 7. Alabama was 12th, and Texas was 19th. The Big Ten overperformed relative to preseason FPI in 2023 and 2024, too, while the SEC underperformed/pushed.

This is just to lay the groundwork for the real point I want to make, as Brooks is criticizing the depth of the Big Ten, which is specific.

Based on the past, Brooks is correct, and I do think the SEC bottom will be better than the Big Ten's bottom yet again. However, there is a chance that this changes this season, when the Big Ten's median is the same as the SEC's. The depth of the conference is determined more by the median than anything else. If you disagree, then the upper half of the conference is a better sample to use than the bottom half.

The difference between playing Mississippi State and Purdue over the past two seasons has almost no impact on the titans of the two leagues, even if Mississippi State has been much better, because a titan should beat a bad team by as much as a terrible team. The SEC has not done this (outside of, yes, Georgia, even when they have been down) because they have not fielded a full titan in the past two seasons. The SEC has been deeper because while their top 3 teams have been worse over the past 3 seasons... the top half of their conference and median team has been noticeably superior.

That matters, period, and was basically the reason why Georgia was dead by the end of 2024, along with bad injury luck.

However, when you look at the trend between the leagues, that's not guaranteed to remain the case in 2026. Washington, Penn State, Michigan, Iowa, and USC were all good enough last year to be top 25 teams, and they all, minus PSU, return a good amount this year (with some making major coaching upgrades).

Washington is a primarily defensive team with a Top-15 QB, and Michigan and USC have great staffs with Top-12 recruiting rosters. The middle of the Big Ten is rapidly catching up. Contrast this with Tennessee, which is in the midst of an identity crisis, and Auburn, which has been in a rut for eons.

You saw the beginning of this last season when Iowa competed with Indiana and Oregon, and Washington did to a lesser degree with Ohio State and Oregon.

The teams in the SEC that have been great or improved over the past two seasons are, the one led by the Saban Acolyte (Smart, who is above 99% of criticism), another Saban disciple in Sark with bottomless pockets, and the teams that have followed the Big Ten's model of trusting scouting in the porta, and/or development over raw recruiting (Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, and Ole Miss).

By the conclusion of 2025, the average of the Big Ten's top 8 teams was superior to the SEC's top 8 in FPI, because teams 4-8 were pretty equal across conferences, while teams 1-3 were decisively better in the Big Ten.

Preseason FPI is unserious for putting South Carolina, which has no coach, ahead of Washington. That right there is why I hate using preseason FPI to make definitive statements about college football. Using the end-of-season FPI would be better for that.

If what happened in that top 8 last season extends into 2026, the Big Ten will be deeper where it matters, and I believe that happens.

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@JBook_37 I mean were any of the teams he scouted for any good?

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@DaBuckeyeBoyz How can we be so sure?

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@JuckOnBucks Are they also replacing the turf in the Woody to match the stadium?

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@DylanEveryday Chris Henry Jr is also signed with Adidas so he can go to OSU and still be tied to Adidas.

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

This is why I want the Thunder to lose. Their style of ball is absolutely unwatchable. SGA is the biggest baby back bitch in the NBA. I can't stand to watch them. Go Spurs!

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Nah man I’ve NEVER seen a back to back MVP with worse PR than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander lmaooo

Jay Williams just introduced a new segment called ‘Life Alert with SGA’ 😭💀

“Help me I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” 🤣

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

It's unbearable to watch. SGA is a bum.

[Herd w/Colin Cowherd @TheHerd]

"It's gotten to a breaking point... Every night the Thunder play, the next morning the number one storyline is either Wembanyama or the FLOPPING Thunder."

@jasonrmcintyre thinks the NBA needs to step in to prevent more foul baiting from SGA & the Thunder

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@C_RoB_5 thoughts?

[Stealth @Stealth40k]

IGN's 30 Best Pokemon of all Time List:

30. Bulbasaur
29. Arceus
28. Metagross
27. Dragonite
26. Hawlucha
25. Ditto
24. Piplup
23. Flygon
22. Eevee
21. Lucario
20. Mimikyu
19. Dialga
18. Absol
17. Snorlax
16. Gyarados
15. Tyranitar
14. Greninja
13. Gardevoir
12. Ho-Oh
11. Psyduck
10. Garchomp
9. Suicune
8. Mew
7. Squirtle
6. Celebi
5. Gengar
4. Rayquaza
3. Mewtwo
2. Pikachu
1. Charizard

Curated by: @lil_kombucha but other editors participated.

https://t.co/sNglh2k1EO

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@DylanEveryday Does anyone have the clip of Desmond?

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@C_RoB_5 @AustinJohnPlays @PhillyBeatzU @What_Da_Hale @Pokemon @aDrive_tK @Shadypenguinn That is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@KristopherDrew_ this is bad news for TTUN NIL right?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your alarm goes off at 6 AM. There's an email from "Oracle Leadership." You've never gotten a message from that sender before. It says your job is gone, today is your last day, and severance details will arrive by DocuSign. By the time you finish reading, your company laptop is already locked.

This happened to up to 30,000 Oracle employees this morning. Oracle reported $17.2 billion in revenue last quarter, its best in 15 years. And it still fired nearly 1 in 5 of its people. The stock went up 6% today.

Oracle owes over $108 billion. The company signed a $156 billion deal to build AI data centers over five years, mostly for OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT). That requires buying roughly 3 million specialized computer chips. Two years ago, Oracle spent $6.9 billion a year on this kind of construction. This year it's $50 billion.

The 30,000 people who got that email are funding the gap. Investment bank TD Cowen estimates the layoffs will free up $8 to $10 billion in cash flow, money going straight into chips and construction. Oracle filed a $2.1 billion restructuring plan with regulators in March, and nearly $1 billion had already been spent before the emails went out.

Lenders are getting nervous. The cost to insure Oracle's debt against default has spiked to levels last seen during the 2009 financial crisis. Barclays downgraded Oracle's debt in November, warning the company is one step from "junk" status, the point where lenders consider you a serious default risk. Some banks have stopped lending to Oracle for these projects altogether.

The gamble gets worse. CNBC reported on March 9 that OpenAI, Oracle's biggest customer for all of this, is already looking at newer, faster chips from Nvidia. Oracle ordered the current generation and spent billions building out a massive Texas facility. OpenAI may not fully expand into it. The chips improve faster than the buildings go up.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder, owns 41% of the company. In September 2025, Oracle's stock hit $346, and Ellison briefly became the richest person alive at $393 billion. Today, the stock sits around $146. His fortune has dropped to roughly $201 billion in six months.

Oracle is spending borrowed money to build data centers that could be outdated before they're finished, for a customer already shopping for newer equipment. 30,000 people woke up to a 6 AM email because that's what it costs to fund a $156 billion bet when your lenders are running out of patience.

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@elonmusk Too bad free users can't use it.

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@SenFettermanPA Cowards can't even show their faces.

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@C_RoB_5 it'll always be Mewtwo for me... Followed by Rayquaza

[MK5 Cards @MK5Cards]

You only got one Master ball. Who you catching?

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@elonmusk @grok So can you only use Grok Imagine for videos if you're a paid subscriber? Anytime I try I get a paywall now.

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@HawkEmDownChris Andrew Luck

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@C_RoB_5 Arbok
Gengar
Raichu
Dragonite
Squirtle
Nidoking

[Adam Kruse @akruser4]

@C_RoB_5

[MK5 Cards @MK5Cards]

Pause the GIF 6 times to draft your Kanto team.

Who did you get?