Patrick McGee
@wpmcgee
Sports, politics, geography, etc. I went to Southern Miss. Proud zoomer. It's pronounced Hattie-spurg.
Nick Kurtz is what people thought Andrew Vaughn and Spencer Torkelson could have been (college mashers with limited defensive ability but able to generate value at the next level with elite offensive production).
Ep. 150 is live - brought to you by @BigGoldNation Draft recap, realignment stuff, and more we've missed since last episode. open.spotify.com/episode/5rDY21…
Learning about times when the wrong national anthem has been played at sporting events. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w…
Ray Mabus is the only true striver in the modern era to be elected to major statewide office in Mississippi. Every other governor/senator was/is a provincial that stumbled into office on the basis of "well hell somebody's gotta do it."
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"Whoever voted us 5th, you must have had too much bourbon on Bourbon Street. We should be last (in the SBC coaches poll). We were 1-11 last year." Charles Huff says the approach isn't from a staff that just won a title, but rather from shouldering 1-11 as their own weight.
This is what would happen if you put Elon Musk in charge of rebranding a D1 athletics conference.
Name change: American Conference is new name of American Athletic Conference. No more AAC. Just the American. And here’s “Soar,” the American’s “brand ambassador” mascot
This is every team with at least 1 opening for 2026. Highlighted teams would seemingly be the best options --- they're open on 9/19 (the date of the Tech game) and they haven't scheduled an FCS opponent or have multiple openings. SEC teams waiting on 8/9 decision presumably.
Start date matters for USM because they're scheduled to play in Hattiesburg in 2026. Filling that on short notice could mean a 2nd buy game away or a 2nd FCS team. MWC/PAC team could also be an option. x.com/ChrisVannini/s…
Jonathan Hogart going undrafted is beyond confusing. 1.146 OPS with 22 HRs for an Omaha team and has some defensive value playing CF.
With the selection of Middleton and Cook, USM has now had 7 top 120 picks in the last 8 drafts. In the first 31 years of the single June draft era (1987-2017), there were just 5.
Update.
This is a spreadsheet of compiled draft boards. Sites marked in yellow have a final board. Still anticipating a final board from Prospects Live and Prospects1500. Will come back and update this on Sunday afternoon right before the draft with that + any other sites that publish.
Learning about Point Roberts, WA. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Rob…
This is a spreadsheet of compiled draft boards. Sites marked in yellow have a final board. Still anticipating a final board from Prospects Live and Prospects1500. Will come back and update this on Sunday afternoon right before the draft with that + any other sites that publish.
I took a peek at the ticket prices for match #72 of the World Cup (6/27/26 Saturday in Atlanta) and it's $1000+ to get in. Surely that will come down...
I like Ohio as a team to schedule a football series with just because them and like Carbondale are some of the few crunchy college towns left in America but I wouldn't want them in the league.
Months after NIU’s departure from the MAC, a new report suggests the Ohio Bobcats have reached out to the Sun Belt Conference to engage in “preliminary” talks about joining the league: sbnation.com/e/24228775