I canβt even be mad. Good for Indiana!
07.12.2025 13:21 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@mattbrown.bsky.social
I write Extra Points, a newsletter about off-the-field stories in college sports. I also (badly) make computer games, woodworking projects, and jokes. Chicago.
I canβt even be mad. Good for Indiana!
07.12.2025 13:21 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was a joke about the Mormon trail and also a joke about driving a minivan anywhere with five kids
06.12.2025 17:49 β π 23 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yall are acting surprised but if any program is equipped to survive long, boring and dangerous drives, itβs probably BYU.
06.12.2025 17:42 β π 50 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0I guess no matter what else happens to me in my career, I can say I got a bowl game before Taco Bell
06.12.2025 17:18 β π 61 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Theyβre up there with Mountain Dew and Taco Bell as our most βhow have you never done a bowl gameβ companies
06.12.2025 15:23 β π 193 π 20 π¬ 19 π 1Did you know Liberty was the preseason favorite to win Conference USA, which was instead won by Kennesaw State? In fact Liberty went 4-8. One of the country's biggest disappointments. Also disappointing at football
06.12.2025 03:45 β π 791 π 81 π¬ 26 π 10Feeling pretty good about my prediction that multiple teams with eight figure payrolls are gonna miss the tournament. But uh, I didnβt think one of them might be Kentucky
06.12.2025 01:43 β π 23 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Not yet, sadly. I hope to have it by mid next week, along with a few other new hires.
06.12.2025 00:48 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0here's the sheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
06.12.2025 00:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had been connecting the site to scrape from ESPN's team pages, but now I made a spreadsheet of my missing ones and just adding it manually
06.12.2025 00:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0okay, I have fixes for this and the logo thing pushed live. I need to figure out the best way to add official team colors and logos for about 80 small colleges. Gonna try to do it manually tonight while the kiddos are watching a movie
05.12.2025 23:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0found the problem...looks like a dozen or so DII schools are pulling the wrong tag from ESPN. Give me 20 minutes?
05.12.2025 23:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hahaha man
05.12.2025 22:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0okay who is dethroning me because right now Ohio State fans are dominating Who's That Football Team
(it me, I'm the Ohio State fan)
Brazilian soccer in Boston or Miami is gonna be such a dang home field advantage. Love to see it.
05.12.2025 19:50 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0That also sounds like an eleven year old boyβs google search history
05.12.2025 19:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Okay this is the game I gotta find a way to get to right now
05.12.2025 18:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0whew! gonna tell our team to try and limit our behind the scenes tinkering during working hours haha. sorry about that!
im looking into a better solution for the logos of small schools. struggling with that one a bit.
How about now? I was in the middle of a deployment
05.12.2025 17:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0blogged about Big Cookie
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Many people are now saying the Oregon Ducks are poor. Sad!
05.12.2025 17:24 β π 34 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0MAN is this story sad
(and very American)
www.wsj.com/us-news/foot...
You know, it's funny, A&M is one of the examples I think of where the reality DOESN'T match the meme. I've had development officers there tell me their fundraising (athletic and otherwise) is way more diverse than just oil. Other schools (like Tulsa) are way more tied to that industry, I'm told
05.12.2025 14:53 β π 22 π 0 π¬ 6 π 2That sounds like it would be a very fun shitpost that I should work on instead of making phone calls today tbh
05.12.2025 14:14 β π 38 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0blogged about Big Cookie
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thanks! This fix is live, and I'll have a few other fixes (plus four or five updates) within the hour
05.12.2025 14:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yeah max the meat guy lol
NOW I WANNA EAT ZEBRA TOO
Honestly, I'd think ProPublica would have a better AI use case than almost any other publisher!
05.12.2025 02:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You know what its time for? A bunch of Caseys Pizzas executives to start donating enough cash to detail this coaching hire.
FOILED BY BIG COOKIE, THEN BIG GAS STATION BREAKFAST PIZZA
have you guys played the Daily Challenge in Who's That Football Team yet? This one is pretty tricky, I think. Unless you're @nikolaidenmark.bsky.social or something
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