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What is the end goal for number of teams? I thought we'd all be good once each league ended up at 32. The math an symmetry makes too much sense.

Except neither of them had any collegiate (or anywhere?) head coaching experience prior to being hired. Pope has been a head coach for 10 years. Not saying he'll be successful, but it's not really comparable to Howard/Ewing (Or Mullin or Mike Woodson or Penny Hardaway or....). He'd be more comparable to Matt Painter. Anthony Grant, Hubert Davis, and Jon Scheyer are examples of this working but unlike Ewing/Howard they had collegiate coaching experience before landing their current roles, though Scheyer/Davis were only assistants.

The TBS thing was part of the deal when Turner got involved to make sure every game was shown. It rotates every year now I believe. It was on there in 2022 as well, and was supposed to be in 2020. The timing is egregious. I get that it was in a more western time zone than usual, but sporting events are getting increasingly later and later. I'm still going to stay and up and watch the whole thing because to me it's the best sporting event by a wide margin, but I'll still be adjusting my sleep schedule for the next week or two. Even though I watch less and less football each year, I enjoy that the Super Bowl is consistently an early evening start each year.

Cool.

In all fairness, most fans of any team are insufferable I hate that "what they'll do in the NBA" is ever part of the discussion when discussing the legacy/ability of college basketball players. I know the next logical step, but we're allowed to just enjoy things for what they are.

But I thought coaching was just....halftime adjustments? (or other trite phrases I can yell at the TV to let everyone know I know sports)

I guess I was only thinking about teams where this isn't true (after a lot of good road jerseys were posted). The Reds, Giants, Cubs, Yankees all have great home whites, but the roads grays are so boring. Maybe it's the switch from a logo on the upper left to a wordmark. Even the Reds script Red uniforms are worse than the ones they replaced.

I'm not sure what I think of the New Yankees gray uniforms. As someone who values parallel looks between homes and roads when possible I guess it's good that both and home and away uniforms have no cuff stirpes. More of an overall question: not considering the new template, are there any teams whose road grays are better, or at least on par with the home whites? I can't think of a single team where the road gray isn't just a worse uniform design than the home uniform

So happy that Purdue made it. Now everyone can shut the hell up about Matt Painter (people said the same things about Jay Wright and Tony Bennett).

None of the of three teams are using the current wordmarks on those jerseys, but they all do also other home uniforms that they don't seem to wear as often

Kinda glad Illinois didn't make the Final Four given the Terrence Shannon situation. I have no idea the real story, but until it gets resolved it would just feel weird to me. Also does anyone else find it weird that 3 of the top seeds (Arizona, Purdue, UConn) have been wearing predominantly throwback home uniforms this year? It'll be weird to look back on footage of this tournament and see those teams wearing uniforms from 20+ years ago (way more in Purdue's but I don't know when those are from)

They went to the Sweet 16 last year and the Final Four in both 2019 and 2015. They were also a top ten team in 2020 when the tournament was cancelled. Something separate: I hate when people use the tournament to gauge how good conferences are as whole. The SEC is not a weaker conference than the ACC because of how tournament results play out. Literally anything can happen in the tournament. Dan Hurley saying the Big East deserved more teams because the Big East is 6-0 is so dumb. They'd have a worse record if they let the worse teams in. It's a dumb as using the bowl season to say whatever conference is better than the rest.

I had no idea the Blackhawks were using this, but I most meant professional football (I know USC use/used this)

I've never seen these before, but I wish someone would the use this font with these 1s

APPARENTLY the last names on MLB jerseys have always been the exact perfect right amount of size and I'm one of a handful of people who didn't see that. (I'm joking!)

People weren't complaining about because it wasn't part of a larger problem and there wasn't momentum in people having to say something about to keep up. I'm not sure I really noticed it either until now. Given the choice between these and last year's, I'd 100% choose last year's name size. But it made me realize that those weren't all that great either. I don't need to see the leftfielder's name from an airplane. I know we've been shown these two options, and this is likely the only two we have, but sometimes a third option of something in-between is best (I promise this is not a metaphor for anything else). If we had something smaller for our entire lives then they switched to the large names, we'd be losing our damn minds, too. We like it because it's what we're used to and there's no fault in that.

Oh the new letters are definitely look worse (still can't wrap my head around why the Verlander letters look so big still). But I don't think they need to be as big as they used to be. I know we all fear change but holy they looked awful last year too.

I know there's a lot wrong with the new jerseys and we're all enjoying the pile on, but is it possible that last names were way too damn big to begin with?

I'd be willing to bet a hundred dollars they finish at least 2nd. They literally just finished 11-6. it's not like they went 2-15.

This is what every fan says about an announcer when the opponent has good players. Guarantee Bills fans will say Romo's too excited about Patrick Mahomes because football fans are too soft to hear positive things about a player wearing a different shirt.

This whole time I thought they were literally taking the Pop Tart costume that the mascot had been wearing all day and were eating it, which obviously makes no sense, but it doesn't mean I'm not disappointed by it.

100% serious question: Does there exist a fan of an NFL team that likes their team's playcalling? I don't think I've ever heard it be complemented in my entire life. If everyone's "bad" at it, is anyone bad at it?

Ugh. I was genuinely pumped yesterday when the Toronto news first came out. This was the most boring option all along.

While understandable, I think any coach that tries to promote their team after their championship game should have to say which teams they think should not be in the playoff.

As someone who can only listen to their team on the radio, I also found myself listening to Benetti and Steve Stone because they were a great pair and fun to listen to. I'd say Benetti might be my favorite broadcaster across any sport (along with Kevin Brown and Adam Amin). I feel like Detroit needs a whole new both based on reviews from last season so we'll see who he's paired up with.