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A team's connectedness is more important than talent or coaching

You can't be in the Sweet 16, or it's rare if you're in the Sweet 16, if you think it's only based on talent or if it's only based on coaching. There have to be a lot of other intangibles... it's the connectedness of your staff and the example that your staff sets for your team.

Subjective philosophy on coaching success.

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Mar 27, 2019
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Cliff Kingsbury is too pretty to win a Super Bowl

Cliff Kingsbury, that guy's too fucking smooth... you can't win a Super Bowl looking that pretty.

Kingsbury never won a Super Bowl with the Cardinals and was eventually fired, though the take is largely subjective regarding his 'prettiness'.
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Mar 27, 2019
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Big CatBig Cat

Antonio Brown already wants off the Raiders

Antonio Brown is still subtweeting people. He's still going after people... my theory's right. Like, he doesn't want to be a Raider... He's like one step away from being like, I love the Raiders so much and this is the best move of my entire life. I'm so happy and here's a podcast telling you how happy I am.

This proved shockingly prescient as Antonio Brown never played a regular season game for the Raiders and forced his release before Week 1 after a series of bizarre incidents.
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Mar 27, 2019
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HankHank

The Detroit Tigers will win the AL Central

The Tigers are in the Central, right? Oh, wow. Tigers... Is Vegas always right? [Vegas win total 68]

The 2019 Tigers finished with a record of 47-114, the worst in MLB.

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College athletics will see more structural changes in the next five years than in any previous ten-year span

Over the next five years, there will be more changes in college athletics than any previous ten-year period. And it's because of the ability to not be able to adjust.

The subsequent years saw massive conference realignment, the expansion of the CFP, and legal rulings effectively ending the NCAA's amateurism model.
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I refuse to recruit players whose primary dream is just to make the NBA because it is too limited

I do not want to recruit you if when I ask, 'What is your biggest dream?' if you tell me your biggest dream is to make the NBA, I do not want you to come play for us. That is so limited. That is so shallow... if that's what you're telling me your dream is, I don't want you to come play with us because we go about this every day like this is your dream.

This is a subjective coaching philosophy and cannot be objectively proven true or false.
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Kansas is going to win the national championship because of their superior defensive talent

The way Kansas played in the second half yesterday, their talent is worthy of being in the Final Four. Their coach is a Hall of Famer, but what they were doing defensively just absolutely negated an incredible run by Miami. So I would probably be against the grain, but I think... Kansas is going to be right there.

Kansas went on to win the 2022 National Championship, defeating Villanova and North Carolina.

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