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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 4h

I'd rather eat Lincoln Riley's Brisket than this

onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 5h

okay thats enough internet for tonight

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 6h

lots of nuance in these numbers, but for your blogging/sports talk radio information...

FY24 Total Football Operating Expenses

Penn State: $64,463,970
Indiana: $61,588,425

(Data via FY24 MFRS Reports: Extra Points Library)

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 6h

As a company, we spend thousands of dollars a year on FOIA fees, not counting the money we spend on paying out-of-state burners, as well as my administrative assistant.

My guess (and this is just an educated guess), is that we'll spend around $3,000 this year just on fees.

Space Coyote @spacecoyote.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe TMI, but how much does that cost you? It’s probably not a small number either way, but guessing you at least have figured a way to do the FOIA smartly to reduce the blow?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you! And no, you're right. I am a madman....both in good ways (reaching out to Texas A&M Police to try and get more sandwich info on the mega drunk person) and not so good (because this is me)

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 7h

I do a nationwide coach filing update for every single NCAA sport each January. I try to follow up with new FOIAs for football and MBB after their respective coaching hire seasons, but a few folks slip through the cracks.

I file for other contracts on a rolling basis every single week.

John Fitzbairn @johnfitzbairn.bsky.social · 7h

How often would you FOIA a coaches contract? Is it just a regular thing you do every few years?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 7h

He might have signed an extension since I last FOIA'd for his deal, but this is from the most current PDF that *I have*

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 8h

anyway, I file thousands of open records request a year exactly for times like this

if you need a coach contract, ad contract, adidas contract, operations budget or other shit, there's a very good chance I have it right now

tell your AD/newsroom/department to buy an EPL sub so I can keep filing!

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 8h

Since this is likely to come up, here's the buyout info I have on Matt Rhule, via the Extra Points Library:

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 9h

…let’s go with yes.

seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 10h

Do you work in higher ed? I have for 20 yrs. You can't say this shit on a campus, in a meeting, in casual conversation w colleagues...have to support the team! 🙄Cant critique. Pretend it's aaaalllll going great!

(Maybe bc I'm at a "losing team" school, tbf)

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah nobody ever talks about this stuff

seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 10h

Atp, collegiate athletics is not part of higher ed. It's a minor league team w a learning annex. No one wants to say it out loud.
One dude in last yr's final four had been to 4 final fours w 4 different teams. How's he doing as a "student"? Advancing towards that degree?????? It's silliness.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 12h

Guess I’ll go be responsible and log off to write. Ugh

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 13h

This decision makes me think that the big ten absolutely IS going to accept that private equity deal in like, ten days

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 14h

So my trip to state college this week feels a little more exciting now

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 14h

WHAT?!?!?

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 16h

I think there's probably a good #data #journalism story out there about tracking drunkenness incident reports around major college football games, but I'm not sure of the most efficient way to gather comparable data. FOIA would almost certainly be too slow to be interesting?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 16h

update: I have both filed a request for the incident report and left a message with the communications officers for the TAMU police, who are currently asking around to see if there is additional sandwich information in any reports.

(I asked other questions too, but also sandwich)

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 19h

look I know journalism is a dying industry

but I want sandwich details goddammit

Capt. Silky @nowbacktome.bsky.social · 1d

If you still have Twitter the TAMUpolice account is gold during the games. Case in point dude had a water jug of whiskey and a BAC .337 how was he not dead?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 18h

ok lemme add this to the to-do pile

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 19h

look I know journalism is a dying industry

but I want sandwich details goddammit

Capt. Silky @nowbacktome.bsky.social · 1d

If you still have Twitter the TAMUpolice account is gold during the games. Case in point dude had a water jug of whiskey and a BAC .337 how was he not dead?

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

I'm an idiot but to me, they look a LOT better than anybody else in the Big 12. They'll probably drop a game because CFB is weird that way, but I'd be very, very shocked if they aren't playing in the league championship.

Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 1d

Texas Tech is a relentless series of explosions. They're so damn good.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

This Big Ten schedule is so weird. If either Ohio State or Indiana pick up a dumb loss somewhere, the tiebreakers could get very messy, since there are a LOT of teams that don't play either Ohio State or Indiana this year that could potentially finish with one loss