Bill Geiser

Flashback 20 yrs ago when I launched my 1st tech watch (an activity monitor for swimmers) at the IronMan World Triathlon Championship.

You do get the feeling we’re at an inflection point. Socialism of the kind preached by the progressive left and Mamdani — the stuff the current governor and past governor acquiesced to unfortunately — eventually succumbs to its own madness. It’s simple math because the numbers don’t add up. Combine that with the fact that it’s easier than ever before to work outside the city and more than ever before this socialist city needs an affluent tax base, and you get a powder keg ready to explode. Consider: @jpmorgan has a ritzy new office building in midtown. It also has more employees in Texas than NYC. It can close its HQ and take a tax write off and still be insanely profitable. Same with @Citadel and @apolloglobal. Btw I’m a working class kid; my dad was a construction worker and a bartender, but he knew that without people w money he wouldn’t be employed. So screw the rich all you want, Mr Mamdani, and they will screw you harder when you chase them out and discover that poor people don’t pay the bills

@Ron2103310 @NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion You still living in your mom’s basement?

O'Neil said LIV reaches 800,000,000 households. That's a lot of social Media. Way more than TV viewership. Way more than the TV viewership of the Superbowl, Kentucky Derby, Daytona 500, Indy 500, Wimbledon, The World cup, the World Series, and the Masters combined. So where is LIV now? You're a retard.

🚨👀⛳️ #BREAKING — Bryson DeChambeau says he is prepared to pursue his YouTube channel’s growth and compete in tournaments “that want me” if LIV Golf folds, adding that he has had conversations with the PGA Tour. “I think, from my perspective, I'd love to grow my YouTube channel three times, maybe even more.” “I'd love to do a bunch of dubbing in different languages, giving the world more reason to watch YouTube. And then I'd love to play tournaments that want me.” He admitted that the potential penalties he would face from the PGA Tour would be “quite unfortunate in my opinion, considering what I could do for them.” “I was completely shocked (on PlF pullout), I didn't expect it to happen. A couple months before that, it's like, 'We're here until 2032. We've got financing until 2032, and so I told everybody, and that's what I was told.” “And then, you know, I haven't had any communication. And unfortunately, things are moving on in a different direction. Obviously, they wanted to move.” "There's a few different models (on LIV future). Look, the PGA Tour isn't doing great either. Let's be honest about the situation. They've got the media.” “They've got everybody on the side that helps pump it up. But they're reducing field sizes, cutting employees, and restructuring their business too.” @BrysonLegion (Via: @espn)

Depends on when you measure. Sure, 2025 is up over 2024. But 2024 was a disaster. A better measure is looking at the result over a longer period, say 2023-2025. Net from 2023–2025: Growth was modestly flat or slightly down. The 2025 rebound largely recovered the 2024 losses but often fell short of (or only matched) 2023 levels on a like-for-like basis for many events. Analyses noted that 2025’s strong year-over-year percentages were somewhat “misleading” because they compared against an unusually weak 2024 base. awfulannouncing.com In summary, traditional televised golf showed volatility rather than steady decline or growth across this period. The 2024 slump highlighted vulnerabilities, while 2025 demonstrated resilience tied to compelling on-course action—yet longer-term pressures (cord-cutting, competition from digital/social media, post-Tiger era) kept overall numbers from showing clear upward momentum from the 2023 starting point. This backdrop aligns with discussions of players like Bryson DeChambeau needing to build direct-to-fan audiences beyond traditional TV.

@billg @NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion Tv viewership is up… weird.

Disruption rarely looks “serious” to the old guard at first. It just works better for the next generation. DeChambeau’s world—building a massive YouTube audience, selective events, cross-league navigation, multilingual content—feels like the “reinvent the phone” moment for golf. Old Tom Morris (or modern traditionalists) might scratch their heads at it, just like execs did at a phone without buttons. But fans and younger audiences are voting with their attention and dollars. The sport (and industry) that adapts fastest usually wins the long game.

Imagine explaining this to old Tom Morris

@BudElliott3 Agreed. The promise of a sports payoff is disappearing. I wrote about it here -> linkedin.com/pulse/she-trai…

The fight between college sports private equity and use for private equity is going to be fascinating. If as the North Carolina A.D. recently said all these sports that lose a ton of money for the university become club sports, non-scholarship, does the interest in some of the really competitive travel youth sports for sports that no longer offer college scholarships start to mirror the lack of reward at the end of the rainbow?

@GolfGuy4321 @NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion Dork. Take the L like a man.

@billg @NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion Riiiiiight …

Absolutely. And this principle extens far beyond filmmaking. Entrepreneurship is a prime example as it is fundamentally storytelling: You’re crafting a compelling narrative about a problem, a solution, a future state, and why you are the right person to deliver it. AI supercharges all of this.

Charlie Curran has spent 20 years making movies. He thinks AI is the best thing to happen to filmmaking because ‘the people who are the best at storytelling should be the ones with the best tools.’ thefp.com/p/the-filmmake…

NCAA Olympic sports are now squarely in the crosshairs of disruption. Historic success like Pitt swimming is being pushed aside while the new economics reward only the big revenue engines. Like all disruptions (think iPhone disrupting the mobile industry) being in the crosshairs feels relentless. Swimming needs a lean Task Force—coaches, athletes, alumni & admins who truly care—to build a survival blueprint: donor models, conference protections, Olympic pipeline funding & smarter revenue advocacy. Take the lead!

Pitt NCAA All-Americans "We sat in a meeting with Allen Greene and left with no real answers." swimswam.com/pitt-ncaa-all-…

David, spot on about the pattern—but NIL + revenue sharing is a mega-trend swallowing Olympic sports whole. Football/basketball consume new dollars; everyone else gets squeezed regardless of the AD. Swimming needs a focused Task Force—a small group of coaches, athletes, alumni, and admins; people who truly care about the sport—to build a real survival blueprint: donor models, conference protections, Olympic pipeline funding, and smarter revenue share advocacy. Does something like this already exist with real momentum? Who's leading? #SaveCollegeSwimming

@swimswamnews Follow the pattern… Allen cut Swimming at Buffalo, then gutted @AuburnU when he was AD there (for a short time), now Pitt… concerns should be sent to the chancellor on her poor hire in the AD role.

Pitt NCAA All-Americans “We sat in a meeting with Allen Greene and left with no real answers.” swimswam.com/pitt-ncaa-all-…

Disruption hits every sector eventually—businesses facing market shifts, industries upended by tech, or now NCAA Olympic sports squeezed by new economics (NIL programs prioritizing football / basketball, forcing program cuts). Swimming is feeling it hard. The key: there's a process for navigating disruption that looks something like this—assess the landscape (allies/enemies), build coalitions, innovate revenue models, advocate policy fixes, and execute. But the longer you wait, the tougher and costlier it will get for stakeholders (ie athletes, pipelines to Team USA, etc).

Chase Kreitler has resigned after the best season in Pitt history. From his announcement: "I was recently informed that the department intends to move in a different strategic direction after the 2026–2027 season." I'd say that's a bad sign for the future of Pitt swimming.

@Braden_Keith I partially agree. It signals the end of times for scholarship-based collegiate swimming. What’s needed is a new business/revenue model for the sport. It’s going to take some time before this new model emerges, but one will emerge. Until then, buckle your chin strap…

This is a sign of the end times for swimming. Program with big competitive momentum gets its budget slashed, head coach resigns.

@MissinRoyko 💯in agreement.

If a candidate running for Mayor of Chicago would launch an aggressive facts driven no holds barred campaign like Spencer Pratt is doing to rid LA of their version of Brandon Johnson, he or she might actually have a chance to win and bring sanity back to Chicago government

.@Collision is bullish on two types of people: high-agency individuals and double majors. "There are two categories of people I would be super bullish on right now and I think will do incredibly well over the next 10-20 years. First, high-agency people. The people at Stripe who have been talking to customers and know exactly what we should do. It's the people who have that pep in their step and want to go make Stripe better. They are so much more empowered thanks to AI." "The second is double majors. I think if you understand software and understand finance, or if you understand software and understand marketing, you now can go massively improve the entire marketing funnel for your company. Now, one person can do what would have taken 20 people dredging through all these systems." "Charlie Munger talked about the importance of being multidisciplinary and multidisciplinary thinking. He thinks getting a functional understanding of many disciplines is not that hard. You can just go read the books now or you can talk to your AI about it. I think multidisciplinary thinkers are going to do incredibly well."

@General_Forceps @Alan_Couzens The number of strides taken in a given amount of time or distance.

@billg @Alan_Couzens What is stride rate?

Athletes should become *very* attentive to both pace and heart rate, because higher pace at a given heart rate is 90% of the game. More plainly... Do not accept runs with a shitty E.F.: * Run early * Use cooling strategies * Treadmill if you have to Always remember the aim... To rack up as many full, juicy, heartbeats as you can.

@foxandfriends Mandani needs to add "How to Win Friends and Influence People" to his reading list.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ He's his own worst enemy.....

THE BRITISH ARE COMING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes it clear he won't be giving King Charles the 'Royal Treatment' in NYC. When asked about what he'd say to the King if he stops to chat during his visit, Mamdani says he'd ask him to return the "Koohinor Diamond." The diamond is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, part of the British Crown Jewels, and a subject of historical ownership disputes.

@RapidResponse47 @PeteHegseth @SecWar @RepGaramendi Bravo. Support the troops.

.@SecWar SLAMS @RepGaramendi: I watched you call this a "quagmire" on CNN this morning. My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan. Years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing. The way you stain the troops when you tell them this TWO MONTHS in, Congressman, you should know better. Shame on you, calling this a quagmire two months in. 🔥

@mirandadevine @CocaCola

@mirandadevine No clue about who is holding the phone. What I do know is this is a branding slam dunk for @CocaCola. I can see it now - the rebirth of the classic "Things go better with Coke" campaign.....

Incredible photo. Who is that holding the phone?