Matt Tantillo

Spewing sports takes no one asked for and (most likely) bad gambling advice #FlyEaglesFly • #NetsWorld • #GoCocks🐔

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Above all, I just want leagues to be consistent with their punishments and once again, we find the NFL throwing a slap on the wrist and looking the other way when failing to address a massive elephant in the room

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Nah this ain’t it. If he bet on NFL games he would be banned for life, but because he did it when he was young and stupid he gets a pass?

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Sources: Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby plans to enter the NFL Supplemental Draft. Amid the legal wrangling over his NCAA eligibility after admitting he bet on sports, he intends to head to the NFL.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Even if he never bet against his own team, what’s stopping him from being down tons of money (which it appears he was) and throwing a game to clear a debt?

He has compromised the integrity of the game before and frankly, rehab isn’t going to stop him from doing it again.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Not to mention people love attending matinees during the weekend and a higher quantity of earlier games is more friendly for an international audience!

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Really don’t understand why the NBA doesn’t take a page out of the NFL/MLB model for Sundays post-football.

Have games tip off between noon and 5 and make the primetime game the main event.

It worked with ESPN’s SNB and (obviously) NBC’s SNF. Something to consider!

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Some advice for the NBA:

NBC is going all-out for this Basketball Night In America broadcast. Entire A-Team is there on site for Lakers/Knicks. They just had Bob Costas welcome us to the pregame show for the first time since 2002.

There is no good reason SEVEN other NBA games should be on simultaneously as this showcase.

Fans of other teams are obviously going to be attending/watching those instead, and it does not feel like Sunday Night Football when there is so much else going on concurrently. Reporting, conversation, and discourse will be fractured by region.

A full Red Zone Witching Hour would cannibalize the potency of NFL Sunday’s weekly main event, no?

This needs to be a standalone product future seasons, if you want its cultural impact to be felt as intended.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Duke has five losses, but I guarantee if they matched up against JMU on a neutral field, that spread is Duke -2.5 AT LEAST.

Incredible how Power Four conference winners don’t get an auto bid

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Not a Miami guy… but if Duke wins the conference championship and the ACC gets left out of the playoff entirely, it would be a VERY bad look

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

In conclusion, the committee’s decision making is asinine and makes my blood boil

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

This is the way it should be, but it won’t happen.

Any sane person would acknowledge the debate is between Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami.

Miami beat ND H2H, which should punch its ticket and leave the debate to Alabama vs ND.

[Grant Reacts @GrantReacts1]

Kirk Herbstreit said he thinks Miami will be in & that the debate would come down to Alabama versus Notre Dame.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

As long as the committee places a team between ND and Miami, they can play dumb and act like Miami was never in the convo when they always should have been (and I’m not some Miami guy either)

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Even if Mahomes finishes with more rings, Brady never got absolutely embarrassed twice

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This should settle the goat conversation for the next 15-20 years

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Teams are allowed to have bad days, but when you haven’t had a good day against the teams at the top, why bet on the fact that this time will be different?

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

The CFP committee needs to have some difficult conversations about who they let in.

Twelve teams are not “too many” to invite, the ones they did were not worthy.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

You need teams that prove they belong, not teams that haven’t given a reason for them not to belong.

That is the difference between the Alabamas and the Indianas of the world.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Imagine the madness across CFB if FSU wins and Bama gets blown out in the playoff…

FSU would rightfully be VERY angry, and the robbery allegations would only get louder.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Florida State should 100% claim a Championship if they win their bowl to finish 14-0, all they have to do is beat (checks notes) 2X defending National Champions Georgia.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

@brandon__alter Those are 100% the best 4 teams in the nation, but Texas would riot.

Not to mention an undefeated, ACC champ FSU being left out!

Whatever the committee decides is going to create a lottt of haters.

[Matt Tantillo @matt_tantillo]

Washington punched its ticket. Michigan will, barring the biggest upset of the season. Texas will get the tiebreaker over Bama bc of H2H.

If FSU loses or wins ugly, Bama likely slides in… despite Georgia undoubtedly being a top 4 team in the country.

[Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless]

RIGHT NOW the best four teams in the country are Michigan, Washington, Alabama ... and Georgia. The Bulldogs are clearly a little better than Texas and Florida St without its quarterback.