Fred Kolb

@TampaDan I want his take on what has been happening on my post if he’s going to invoke it to advance his political agenda. Either he agrees that I stole a spot at UF despite everything he knows about me and is willing to acknowledge it or he doesn’t, in which case I’ll concede your point.

@TampaDan What Dan failed to mention is that we know each other. We were in the same fraternity and he‘s well aware that I’m not some rando who stole a spot at UF. But of course he wants to score political points, so why acknowledge that? Much easier to throw me under the bus instead.

When I was at UF, they gave millions of dollars to DEI groups and refused to give my conservative club a single cent. I had to sue to get my First Amendment rights restored. DEI is racist crap used to force progressivism down our throats.

@JohnCanner12635 Almost too painful to bear tbh

@FredtheGerman You’ll always know deep down you cheated your way into UF🤷

I’m so tired of my alma mater sucking at football, failing to hire competent leadership, and parroting inflammatory MAGA propaganda. 15 years ago I got into UF on an appeal by describing the challenges I overcame as an immigrant. Today they’d throw my letter right into the trash.

@BamaGator1963 The honest answer is, no idea. Colleges don’t usually reveal the exact criteria they use for accepting students and “merit” is made up of so many factors including grades, standardized testing, extracurriculars & volunteering that it’s hard to quantify what ultimately got me in.

@FredtheGerman My question to you is did you deserve your spot based on grades and achievements or simply because you were an immigrant? Merit means most qualified get the spots. 1000s of colleges in the country. You don’t get into one, you try another.

Bad news for everyone in the comments. If you want to take my spot away, you're too late. I got my degree years ago already. Good news for you is the next generation of immigrants applying to college won't be as fortunate. You won. UF has become exactly what you want it to.

@paperstreetsoup You do realize that that’s how college essays work right?

@FredtheGerman I’m not an immigrant. Does that mean the challenges I had to overcome don’t matter?

@Noyb2021 No doubt. But they’ll still be bad at football

@FredtheGerman Awww. I’m sure they’ll survive your vitriol.

@Tad507 You can tell me whatever you’d like. It’s still a free country 🤷‍♂️

@FredtheGerman Is it racist to tell you to go back to Germany?

@SteveKirkland09 You should probably sue anyway. Seems to work wonders for people these days.

@FredtheGerman You took a spot from a more qualified candidate. Your immigration status is not a prerequisite for admission. If I was denied entry I would be suing the state. College is a privilege entry is based on merit

@AriWasserman Also, if you opt out of your conference title game because you‘re too afraid to compete, sure, feel free to, but that means if another bubble team goes instead and wins, they get to take your spot in the playoff because you sat at home idle and missed a chance to prove yourself.

1. I’ve been amused by people saying “can’t reward teams who didn’t even reach the conference title game,” like these conferences aren’t too big and everyone played everyone and settled it on the field. Five years ago, making a conference title game meant more because there wasn’t a four-way tie at the end in every league. Half the teams that get into the conference title games get in on some bullshit tiebreaker to begin with. The conferences are too big and it makes the sport dysfunctional. 2. The architecture? There are teams on the West Coast in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Someone with a broken hand drew college football’s current blueprint. It's entire existence as a sport doesn't make sense. 3. Stop acting like this is the first time a team would fall out of the CFP after losing in a conference title game. It happened semi-regularly for the first 10 years of the playoff system. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

This is why I was always skeptical about the “good guy, bad coach” narrative. A good guy would have recognized his obvious limitations and learned from his mistakes. Instead, his arrogance took the whole ship down with him. No sympathy whatsoever. He had his chance & blew it.

Not quite what I meant when I said I wanted someone to get the boot after the Miami game.

@alex_kirshner @Slate Fair analysis, but I do think people tend to overstate Florida’s status in college athletics. This is the first major sign of life in either flagship sport for us in a decade, and with the new & harsh reality of what it takes to win titles, we had clearly fallen behind until now.

At what point, if it happens often enough, do you get to call it strategy instead of dumb luck? Aged 20 years over the past 20 days, but it’s awesome to get to celebrate something big for the first time since I started at Florida in 2011. Hell of a tournament. Go Gators! 🐊🏀🎉

@joshjurnovoy I was a little confused why you would have talked about an 80s movie in your podcast about new releases but I honestly didn’t question it lol Mississippi Burning is great though. One of my favorite Gene Hackman performances

@FredtheGerman lol just realized I misread your Tweet and incorrectly thought of Mississippi Grind...though it is funny that my one ever podcast I did with Mississippi in the title had a version of "Burn" in the title of the other movie discussed

Amazon Prime's algorithm seems a bit off

Speaking of whom, anyone else miss the days when the biggest awards controversy of the cycle were some awkwardly phrased song lyrics about how awesome the nominees are?

CARTOON OF THE DAY

I’m a little confused. I thought the tariffs were going to bring a golden age of economic prosperity, pay for IVF, eliminate the debt, and ensure countries stopped ripping us off! Why would we trade away that bounty for a few mounties on the northern border?