It just blows my mind that people who get paid (I assume) decent money to do this stuff can just completely blow the simplest things. If for some reason you cover college sports and haven’t heard of the program that produced Roethlisberger, Szczerbiak, Harper, Boyle, etc., five seconds of research wouldn’t told you It’s Miami University.
You lose all credibility when you waste the coach’s time explaining the most basic thing to you.
Credit to Noreen for not calling the guy a moron and telling him the 1930s called and want their hat back.
Or pronounce names correctly. It’s always on the front page of your game notes, and you can always ask staff for the other team if you’re still unclear. Like Rastislav Pavlikovsky.
Love it, except shot percentage is like BABIP in baseball: It tends to be more luck-based and even out over the course of a season. A team shooting percentage of 15.0 is unsustainable.
I was playing golf with a friend who is lights out good. I kicked his butt (he gave me too many strokes) and I was hooting and hollering and/or whooping it up and he said “act like you’ve been here before.” And I said “But I haven’t and I won’t!” Then he called me a poor winner. Then I called him poor. Then we played double or nothing. Then I lost money. The end.
