This whole "breakout star" narrative that has been pushed by MLS and the national media has been wildly inaccurate. I am a Luna fan, those that follow me know that, but to say he has been anything other than "fine" or "okay" is pushing a narrative that isn't there.
Some executives believe Billy Donovan could be intrigued by the idea of coaching the University of Kentucky, if he takes a year off.
Kentucky pursued Donovan before hiring Mark Pope, who enters next season on the hot seat.
Donovan began his coaching career at Kentucky in 1989.
People thought I was crazy when I said Tennessee will not make the NCAA Tournament. Today’s game is another example why they won’t. They are a disconnected group with zero identity. And they completely choked today AT HOME.
For those asking about arm length and pass rushers, we have a couple instances where a player became a good pass rusher and had really low arm length (sub 31), however each of those instances comes prior to 2004 and has not been independently verified.
It's kind of the wild west out there for data prior to 2005, and wasn't really until well into the 2010s where our confidence level became pretty dang high.
So it is right to be skeptical of prior historical values that don't sound right. In some cases, like with Terrell Suggs, we would later confirm the values were incorrect. Not that we had a better value, but that the ones we had were not correct. This is a normal part of database management for any large model. Sometimes it's typos, sometimes it's a processing error (most of the time it's a processing error).
So ask questions, confirm sources, nobody is going to take offense.
I ran a query just now to look for a player who had at least one 10.0 sack season and had an arm length of less than 31" and had three results. Just in the last few minutes I was able to confirm one as an incorrect value, which I corrected. Both of the other two are prior to 2005, one in 2004 and one in 1999. I would rate my confidence in those values as very low, but as they're in that time frame it's not as easy to confirm for sure so it'll take me a bit, and for both of those my initial search would likely point to them also being incorrect (and most likely added with the same processing error at the same time that goofed up Suggs).
The Colts have no intentions of letting Alec Pierce hit free agency, per @TomPelissero.
If necessary, Indianapolis will franchise tag Pierce if they can’t reach a new deal.
Pierce was projected as one of the best available free agent wide receivers.