As a Lafayette alum, there is no way to measure how exciting it is to be on the Fullcast

Beautiful wheel play by the Dodgers.

This is Chuck Amaro erasure and I will not stand for it

I just watched Holly’s Baby I’m Burnin’ to observe the holy day, maybe that’s all that needs to be watched right now?

The one-of-one baseball podcast “Up and In” had a multi-episode arc around a beer’s ability to “hold a chill” based on various factors. They brought in a thermo-physicist who happened to be a listener at one point. Long way of saying - I see you, I get it.

I’d listen to an argument that they’re the fourth best program this century. There is zero playing around to how they recruit (and how they use financial aid) and the product they put on the mat

4. Is the Ivy’s playoff timing right or terrible? The sport has so shifted away from the east, largely because of the power programs that have all moved up (App, Georgia Southern, Marshall, Delaware, JMU, etc.) - is it worse to lose regional playoff opponents or better to fill that power vacuum?

3. Are you familiar with Cornell wrestling? They are living out @rodger.bsky.social’s dream in a sport only @ugarles.bsky.social and I care about. But their composite recruiting over the last 15 years looks like LSU football maybe? They’re bringing in 3 top 25 and 8 top 100 kids this year.

2. I will forever die on the hill that the Harvard team with Ryan Fitzpatrick could have won the FCS National title, but not because of Fitz, but running back Clifton Dawson, who transferred down from Northwestern and was an absolute menace. The league self banning from the playoffs was dumb

1. No athletic scholarships and Ivies is a red herring. The real count is “equivalencies”, or the dollar value of aid the school is giving out in terms of how many scholarships that is. In practice, they can and do go way over NCAA scholarship limits with the resources they have available.

The greatest sports game in the history of the medium

The piece of art that moves me the most is Stage Four, Touché Amore, but favorite doesn’t really fit

The Monitor, TitusAndronicus
Separation Sunday, TheHold Steady
TheWoods, Sleater-Kinney
CelebrationRock, Japandroids
On theImpossiblePast, Menzingers
Ugly, ScreamingFemales
HomeLikeNoPlace isThere, Hotelier
Springtime andBlind, Fiddlehead
AutomaticMidnight, HotSnakes
PaulBunyansSlingshot, LiquidMike

Grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania. Larry Holmes is an aggressively normal city resident. Him telling me The Jerk is a funny movie in a Suncoast Video at the mall is my favorite time we’ve crossed paths.

Hat I would throw into the Consistently Excellent Rock Band over the last 20 years ring: The Hold Steady.

Consistently excellent run of records: Touché Amore (Dead Horse, Parting the Sea, Is Survived By, Stage 4, Lament, Spiral). Sub 20 years though.

The Maurice Clarett tape against Washington State (who won the Pac 10) will make you see God. Was banged up for so much of the year, so not the body of work, but that peak, oh boy.

If you’ve ever watched somebody repeatedly hit something with a two-by-four, you get the idea.

Longest carry of the season - 26 yards. May have been bigger than his offensive guards.

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social @jasonkirk.fyi Episode reminded me of my favorite RB season. Joe McCourt (Lafayette- FCS) in 2004 ran for 1,200 yards, set school TD record, 5 YPC, Patriot League OPOY, AFCA All American, Lafayette’s first ever FCS playoffs

He can’t coach the playoff game. If Mike Vrabel isn’t the Ohio State coach in 2025, you can fire Ross Bjork too for total institutional failure

Every so often deep knowledge of Pennsylvania high school football pays off

Anzalone was on that Wyomissing team that didn’t get Taylor Swift for the national anthem!

Kerry Collins also played at Wilson West Lawn, he and Henne gives them a nice QB lineage. My first varsity baseball game, Chad Henne hit a ball 4,837 feet off of our starter.

Henne is from West Lawn? Town over, different schools.

The last time Wyomissing was in the state football final, there was a big rumor that Swift was going to sing the national anthem before the game. It was just enough before her imperial period that it was unlikely but not impossible.

All Them Witches
Bob Mould
Cloud Nothings
Deafheaven
Eddie Vedder
Fucked Up
Green Day
(The) Hotelier
Iron Chic
Japandroids
Kurt Vile
Liz Phair
(The) Menzingers
Nine Inch Nails
(The) Osees
Pearl Jam
Quasi
Rage Against the Machine
Screaming Females
Titus Andronicus
Ultra Q
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Wu-Tang Clan
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