Quote from: Hards Alumni on Today at 10:28:39 AMWhere he was walkin'?

So...he didn't land on his feet? Are his feet 10' off of Beale?

Quote from: MUDPT on Today at 12:30:54 PMWut

Basically, the entire conference outside of UConn, St. John's, and Villanova is mediocre, and there's very little separation in the quality of the 4th-place and 11th-place teams.

Quote from: The Sultan on Today at 07:12:35 AMI really wish the Packers would have made a run at John Schneider for their president.  I think the time was right for an outsider.

Why would Schneider want to leave the Seahawks? Why would the Seahawks let him leave?

Quote from: muwarrior69 on Today at 12:08:10 PM...but the overall record of the bottom 7 teams with 2 exceptions are below .500 ball and the 2 exceptions are just one or 2 games above .500. That has nothing to do with St.John's or UCONN dominating the league. They all just played poorly this year.

Wut

Quote from: DFW HOYA on February 26, 2026, 11:57:30 AMIt's a function of two teams excelling at the top of the conference (a combined 31-4 in BE play) and because everything has to equal out, the record at the bottom reflects it. The non-confernce marks were's stellar but when two of those four losses above for SJ and UConn were to each other, the wins are coming from teams down below.

Case in point: the 2012-13 season--a national champion in Louisville, top 20 teams at Marquette, Georgetown, Syracuse and Pitt. Here were the bottom four teams on those standings:

Rutgers 5-13
Seton Hall 3-15
South Florida 3-15
DePaul 2-16

...but the overall record of the bottom 7 teams with 2 exceptions are below .500 ball and the 2 exceptions are just one or 2 games above .500. That has nothing to do with St.John's or UCONN dominating the league. They all just played poorly this year.

Quote from: rocky_warrior on Today at 11:46:54 AMOk.  Believe what you want.  I shouldn't mock.

But I would recommend you take your $ and run.  Put the proceeds in an asset (even the "market") that actually has value.

Yeah, you say that all the time.  I get it.  I'm literally financially fine.

People have declared bitcoin dead hundreds of times, and yet one is still worth like 65k. 

Quote from: JWags85 on Today at 11:12:04 AMNot trying to go to battle for David Ellison, but what has he done in the 7 months since taking over that would say scripted quality would take a nosedive?  I don't think the CBS News move translates to "everything else will be terrible".  Skydance Media wasn't in the business of prestige films, but they certainly weren't a joke.

Ellison's first move after the merger was to announce plans to reduce 2,000 jobs companywide - about 10% of the workforce. That on top of a 3.5% workforce reduction a few months earlier.
Paramount entertainment's most valuable asset was Taylor Sheridan, who last fall announced he's leaving the company. And made it clear on his way out that it wasn't because of his personal compensation, but because of creative friction with Skydance and the company's insistence on him slashing production costs.

My suspicion is if they're going to try to impose production cost reductions on their most valuable assets, they won't hesitate to do it on their newly acquired properties as well. And whether there's an economic argument to be made for the layoffs last fall, it's hard to argue that cutting a tenth of your workforce won't affect quality.

My other thought is that Paramount is clearly overpaying for WBD and the only way for them to recover from that is through cost-savings measures. Will they find some bloat and redundancies that can be eliminated without it affecting quality? Sure, probably lots. But probably not enough to make this deal financially viable.
Either way, this has the potential to be another AOL-Time Warner.

Ok.  Believe what you want.  I shouldn't mock.

But I would recommend you take your $ and run.  Put the proceeds in an asset (even the "market") that actually has value.

Quote from: rocky_warrior on Today at 11:29:24 AMHonestly, I've read no articles.  And if you think it's dropping because of manipulation!?!  lol

It doesn't move anything like the vibes on the economy - it used to move way better than them, now it's moving way worse..  All the value of crypto has already been "mined". 

It's dropping because it is a leading indicator of global instability.  Large funds who snapped up Bitcoin (I do not dabble in the alt coins) on the way up are margin seeking on the way down.  Additionally, people are selling due to the belief that Bitcoin is a volatile asset (it is).  Which makes sense, since the stock market is absolutely propped up completely on vibes at this point.  Every underlying indicator is screaming SELL, so they're dropping their volatile assets first. 

I don't know what to tell you if you're not even willing to google anything about Jane Street.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/jane-street-accused-of-insider-trading-that-helped-collapse-terraform-659e6993?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfZ12g54UKADdAsHWjEfUEU8qJm1BHhBdwOO-mEaYF0mTm5Q6HETWeP&gaa_ts=69a1d85d&gaa_sig=9dtYpDc-BOlfw25C-3n1N37pU5gYRUCZmBb4_JB3fgAc3DWHgee7ZT01LQvsR5ql68bWxYdKaKCSd-u2DnfBcw%3D%3D

https://x.com/galgitron/status/2026640282213642450

Again, my price buy in is far south of the current price, which seems to have stabilized for now.  I have full faith that 'number go up' will happen again.  It isn't my get rich scheme or anything.

Quote from: Hards Alumni on Today at 11:25:24 AMI'm sure you've read the articles about manipulation? 

Honestly, I've read no articles.  And if you think it's dropping because of manipulation!?!  lol

Quote from: Hards Alumni on Today at 11:25:24 AMthe price does move a little to close to the general vibe of the US economy. 

It doesn't move anything like the vibes on the economy - it used to move way better than them, now it's moving way worse..  All the value of crypto has already been "mined".