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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 2h

Marco Rubio is gonna be a real liability on the recruiting trail

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 2h

The Cleveland Browns have a chance here to do the funniest thing

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 3h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 2h

I wish! Sometimes it’s “fuck I should have filed that foia” or “did I remember to mail a check for that foia” or “oh my god I have 903 unread emails kill me”

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 2h

You know what? Lemme file some more after dinner tonight. I got a stupid idea.

Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Yes I already filed the foia btw

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Yes I already filed the foia btw

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 4h

update:

children are currently laughing at me as put on a homefield bomber jacket, saying "that looks way too 90s, even for a dad"

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 8h

EA already lost the FIFA license. It's why the game isn't called FIFA anymore. The NFL just renewed.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 8h

$20 billion dollars, issues by JP Morgan, which will sit on EA's balance sheet, secured by EA's IP and future earnings.

That's a big fucking number, but I'm told that as far as leveraged buyouts go, this is a relatively conservative transaction, especially since EA posts operating profits

darinchristensen.bsky.social @darinchristensen.bsky.social · 9h

How much debt is being used to fund this deal

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 10h

okay I THINK I've done the reporting/calls I need to do here, and am sitting down to write now.

As I'm doing that, do any of you have questions about the EA purchase by private equity, or how that might impact consumers, colleges, or anybody else? Want to make sure i'm getting what you'd want

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11h

what is adjudicating disputes between children if not listening when one of them basically shouts MODS? MODS?!?!?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11h

Previously, I was able to stamp out rampant kid meme-speak by co-opting the memes and making them uncool (i.e. like saying skibidi toilet ohio in public, or having my wife compliment me on my rizz)

but with six seven, these efforts have been unsuccessful. if anything, it has made it worse!

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11h

I LIVED IT

my kids wont stop saying 6 -7

Despite my best efforts, they have fallen to internet brainrot

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 20h

Shoot me a DM if you need any help with the migration. It isn't as scary as it sounds, I promise!

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Professional golf

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

this is how we win

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

LOL no way

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

The odds of that are very, very low (since the footage would belong to Hulu, not UNC), but I guess I could try?

No Purpose Flour @hodgepodge.bsky.social · 1d

With the UNC/Hulu news, @mattbrown.bsky.social is there any way to FOIA our way into getting the footage that already exists?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

coming to future versions of EA Sports College football (and other EA games)

The Athletic!

news.ea.com/press-releas...

EA SPORTS and The Athletic Team up to Engage Next Generation Sports Fans

Multimedia Sports Journalism from The Athletic is Now Featured in the EA SPORTS App Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced a new strategic partnership between EA SPORTS, the global leader ...

news.ea.com

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

if you're gonna put robert johnson at *19*, dont even bother ranking him lol

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

maybe eventually. but im happy to file something on your behalf if there's a specific thing you're looking for?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, trying to make some tools that might allow me to make batch requests faster. i.e. get licensing / beer sales revenue for 15 schools, rather than just one

Kyle Steinberg @ksteinberg29.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a tool you're creating??

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

working on some #stuff

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some recent five star QBs. There are some elite dudes in here, but almost as many busts or "whatevers"

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'm just about ready to offer a different Radical Centrist Take. There's functionally almost no difference between a five star QB and high four star QB in terms of potential for elite performance, but there's a massive one in hype. There shouldn't be!

Elite QB recruiting is a crapshoot!

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 1d

Radical centrist Arch take: He has already flopped relative to his billing. At best he'll turn in 1.5 seasons of good play before leaving college football. He will not meet expectations. But he'll still be pretty good and take Texas to at least one playoff w/ above-average QB numbers

-30-

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah brother
www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

Scoppe: Mount Pleasant man seeks to sack the secrecy behind new college athlete payments

The University of South Carolina says newly legalized revenue-sharing agreements with student athletes are scholastic records protected by federal privacy law.

www.postandcourier.com

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