Mark Basola, CFA

@AgKnocks ND is better than anyone in the field, probably including Miami

CFP Committee is REALLY bad at seeding teams or just hates A&M Debated putting Notre Dame in over a National Championship participant Sent a nuke to Kyle Field and served cupcakes to Ole Miss and Oregon Congrats to Miami for a helluva run

This has quietly been a banger of a last 48 hours for those monitoring the situation.

@BillPlaschke ND has won 7 of the last 8. But yes, tell me how ND is scared. Hack.

Column: Notre Dame’s leaders are cowards for backing out of USC football rivalry latimes.com/sports/usc/sto…

These are the teams playing the best football right now - in order.

@AriWasserman It’s like you never heard about the ‘93 fighting Irish

What the College Football Playoff Committee is doing to Miami is the biggest injustice in the system's history Column: on3.com/news/miami-is-…

@CoachD178 Dude forgets to mention that Pitt scored its first offensive touchdown v ND as time expired after Duzzi called a TO. Miami scored a TD to end the VaTech game after calling a TO. Sad, desperate stuff.

Oh, and if you want to know what beating a team "way worse" than another team does, look no further than this past weekend. Miami beat Syracuse 38-10 in a game where they were only up 14-0 at halftime. Notre Dame beat Syracuse 70-7 in a game where they were up 49-0 at halftime. These were back-to-back games for Syracuse, by the way.

@btrembly @Joey_Galloway Lot of cope going on here

When people are paid to pay attention and they don’t, that’s when you know they have an agenda. If @Joey_Galloway actually did his job vs what we are being told: - We were told ND has been blowing everyone out of the water since week two - What actually has happened: Purdue, one of the worst teams in CFB, scored 30 on ND, more than Purdue hasn’t scored against any other P4 team. Notre Dame struggled mightily against CFB bottom dweller Boston College, leading my 2 with 13 seconds in the 3rd quarter and winning by just 15. - We were told Notre Dame has been cruising and Miami has been struggling. - What’s actually true: Notre Dame beat Pitt 37-15. We were told it was a resounding victory. Miami beat VaTech 34-17. We were told it was a close game. Miami then had to beat VaTech by more than 17 to “catch up and close the gap” with a ND team that had just won by almost the same score. - We were told Notre Dame has been beating every team by more than other teams - What is actually true: Miami beat NC State much worse than ND did. Oregon beat USC much worse than ND did. Yes, Notre Dame blew out Syracuse’s lacrosse team with multiple pick sixes thrown by a 5th string QB like it was an intramural game, but the blowout narrative is perception, not reality, perpetrated by lazy at best, agenda harboring media members at worst. Arkansas was indeed blown out by Notre Dame, then fired their coach, and completely turned their season around. Just like we saw with UCLA. Any Arkansas mentions are conveniently leaving out that fact. - We were told Notre Dame is finishing strong while Miami is headed in the “wrong direction” and”needs to close the gap.” - What’s actually true: Miami has a + 87 point advantage over the last three games, and has finally opened up the offense after trying ball control, TOP and otherwise winning ugly early on. After barely handling USC and Boston College, Notre Dame has also been on a tear the last three weeks. Bottom line is everyone on X making arguments like “blowouts” “momentum” and all the other mental gymnastics you hear to trying to justify ND being ranked over Miami ignore the lot inconvenient truth of all: these teams spotted the ball, and Miami won. And when you don’t have facts, you go with stories. “Best team” is an arbitrary way of putting in your favorite team based on “they deserve” it instead of actual results. You can expect that from fans on X. We should expect better from professionals. Lest they have a deep-rooted agenda.

@jessica_smetana They deserve each other

*Brian Kelly to Penn State intensifies*

@markcecchini Any best practices when on boarding? Can feel like herding cats if you’re bringing accounts for a client from multiple places.

“Hey ChatGPT show me a picture of what’s going on in markets right now.”

Since abolishing the income tax is on the table, let's also talk about how payroll taxes are the absolute worst, in the ninth circle of hell of onerous taxes.

@creatorpascal He became more effete-featured.

This is Bryan Johnson: • Spends $2.5M/year on longevity • Has the organs of an 18-year-old • Literally reversing aging in real-time I reverse engineered his $2.5M "Blueprint Protocol" for under $200/month. Here's the Poor Man's guide to live forever:

@PeterMallouk At a current market cap of 84B, the 6B drop is just going to be just a "bad day" for MSTR as the share price continues to outperform over the long run

It’s a headline from the past but likely one from the future too.

@coookwithchris Recipes pls

7,359,540 people have viewed my recipes (in the last 30 days). Many have asked what my quickest, easiest, and most delicious recipes are. So I put 10 of them into one PDF for you to access. → Like this → Comment “recipes” and I’ll DM you the PDF. *Must follow for DM*

@stackhodler I wish I were there…still useful for what I do locally.

Deleting your LinkedIn is a status symbol

@ts_hodl “ please buy my centralized affinity scam.”

XRP is 100% scam. It has zero adoption. Zero. And it never will. Because it's a scam.

@andyflattery Ahem

Our society is lacking in true elites

@WojDaGawd Cost of ground beef is up around 50% since 2019. It’s a problem. But it’s not the Dems fault. Nor the republicans. Blame the Fed playing with the money supply.

Went to dinner with my wife. The table next to ours had a bunch of 20 somethings messing with Moonshot app and memecoins. Just my gut, but the memecoin boom is just getting started.

Happy Fed Meeting Day! 25 or 50bps doesn’t matter in the larger scheme of the economy. Enjoy the pageantry.