Brett Fera
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Brett Fera
@brettfera
reformed {(insert impressive profession/skill/trait})
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Katılım Nisan 2009
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@SethDavisHoops These answers are total Rorschach tests and you know that.
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The question had to be asked, and he answered as best he could.
But to me, I'm always listening for what the person *doesn't* say.
The Field of 68@TheFieldOf68
Tommy Lloyd on the North Carolina opening 👀 "I already have one of the best jobs in the country. One thing we talk about all the time is the ability to have full focus and be present in the moment... I think we have a chance to advance in this tournament. This team deserves my full focus. There is not one thing that's gonna knock me off that path"
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@gibquig @br4lm @BillShaikin (A) fans WILL show up in OC, and did right up until pandemic. (B) However, stadium is obv. old & needs replacing (in OC if not elsewhere). (C) Pandemic=brutal and (D) oh, yeah, they're perpetually bad. Longest MLB postseason drought (11 yrs). ... Being in OC is NOT the problem.
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@gibquig @br4lm @BillShaikin ('03) 5th.
('04) 3rd.
('05) 4th.
('06) 5th.
('07) 5th.
('08) 6th.
('09) 5th.
('10) 5th.
('11) 5th.
('12) 7th.
('13) 7th.
('14) 5th.
('15) 5th.
('16) 7th.
('17) 7th.
('18) 6th.
('19) 5th.
('20) XX.
('21) 16th.
('22) 13th.
('23) 13th.
('24) 13th
('25) 13th.
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NEWS: In Anaheim and Sacramento, a two-front challenge to the Angels’ Los Angeles name latimes.com/sports/angels/…
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@theAdamGreen Agree 100%. His personality has been pretty spot on for Tucson. And to your point in your 2nd sentence, my comment less about UA as an institution & more about him. You're right though -- whether there's something there, there, we may soon find out.
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@brettfera Only Tommy knows if he's happy but I was telling a friend he just doesn't strike me as a good fit, at least personality wise, for a job like UNC. Unless there are issues with the administration or other things that we don't know about, hard to see him leaving Tucson.
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My most luke-warm take of the week: Tommy Lloyd is not a good fit for UNC (or Kansas, or Kentucky), and that's legitimately, no hyperbole, the BEST complement I could give him. He's a different cat (no pun intended) and that's why him being in Tucson just works.
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@gibquig @br4lm @BillShaikin Roughly 1/2 MLB teams have a World Series win this century. Angles are one of those. Also, they’re 13th (consistently actually) in attendance in MLB for years on end. For a team that hasn’t been above .500 in 10 years, that’s NOT a problem. Location isn’t the issue AT ALL.
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@br4lm @BillShaikin Well Orange County hasn't really worked out for success. Inglewood would be middle ground for LA and OC. They need to get into some of that LA money. They should be top 5 in revenue, not sitting out of the top 10.
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Brett Fera retweetledi
For coaches in their 40s and 50s, jobs like North Carolina and Kansas may never be open again. We could have a situation soon where they’re open at the same time. Point being, it’s dangerous to assume what someone will or won’t do when they have a once-in-a-career opportunity.
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@Akbar_Shabazz Seriously. Absolute heater right now. It’s not just winning. He’s a couple of final jeopardy misses of like… MULTIPLE $60K rounds so far. 🤯
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@brettfera For me, I wouldn’t necessarily blame Tommy Lloyd if the team loses this weekend. It’s easy to scapegoat the coach. I think it’s fair be disappointed in the outcome but still recognize that the program is in an excellent spot
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I make people mad (for whatever reason) every time I say this, but a team that makes the sweet 16 finishes no worse than tied for 9th in the nation that year. Yes, more is the goal, but I hope Arizona fans truly realize how good they have it under Lloyd.
Arizona Athletics@AZATHLETICS
you know the drill. @ArizonaMBB
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@wctdmf i hear you, but that's a contradiction ... "more than anyone could've asked of him in his first 5 seasons" & "tied for 9th is a bit underwhelming" are incongruent. That's my point. Folks generally satisfied, I just hope everyone takes a breath if things go south Thurs or Sat.
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@brettfera We love Tommy Lloyd. He’s done more than anyone could’ve asked of him in his first 5 seasons in Tucson. But we haven’t won since ‘97 and this is one of the best Arizona teams ever and one of the best regular season teams all year so finishing tied for 9th is a bit underwhelming
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@JordanAckerMI @DanWolken Sure, but women’s basketball does this with a MUCH larger bracket though. Once it hits “sweet 16” level (same as men’s hockey here), it’s same as this — they move to regional sites.
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@DanWolken There's ways to do this if you want a "neutral" experience, but again...they handle it just fine for Women's basketball (oh, and it's great.)
The reward for being a #1 seed should be home games.
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Blame the coaches. They get scared of being on the road so instead they get lifeless neutral sites in weird places
Jordan Acker@JordanAckerMI
A constant reminder that hockey is the worst run sport and not having home regionals for top seeds make no sense. Play these games at Yost, I compel you! (And at Munn, etc.)
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@PironPikePuke yeah, but the day-to-day tug of war is real. If Arizona loses this week, people will start to wonder. They shouldn't, but they will.
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@brettfera All I hear is Arizona fans glaze him so I think they know
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@jameskelley520 lol I thought that’s what it meant but also wasn’t sure if it meant as a ONE sees… have won in round of 32 ten straight times. Either way, it’s a “third Tuesday in October when the sun rises before 629 am” kind of stat IMO. Random and odd. 😊
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@brettfera When they lost recently it was Sweet 16 or first round, not second
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I don’t understand this stat/claim. What?
ESPN@espn
10-STRAIGHT ROUND OF 32 WINS FOR 1-SEED ARIZONA 📈 The Wildcats are heading to the Sweet 16 to face off against Arkansas!
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Brett Fera retweetledi
What gives me so much joy is knowing the people involved in Pima women’s basketball winning a national championship.
Head coach Todd Holthaus has won over 400 games at Pima and has built a consistent winner, which is tough to do at a JuCo nowadays. A year after going through a health scare, to see him lead Pima to a title is a feel-good story.
Then his right-hand man Jim Rosborough, after being on the sidelines with Lute Olson and Holthaus for over four decades, is in his last season as a full-time coach.
There’s multiple layers to why Pima winning a natty is awesome. One of my favorite sports moments of the year.
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Watching Sean Miller freakouts in March…good ol’ days, nothing like it
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Simple. They think they can do it better.
Joe Schad@schadjoe
Why do players who had combative, adversarial, toxic relationships with media then join the media?
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Or… hear me out… roster construction should have ZERO impact on if or where a team makes the tournament. Not SMU. Not FSU fb (J Travis) in 23. Not Cincinnati mbk (K Martin) in 99-00. That fact these brackets try to reward teams in a predictive manner has always been absurd.
Seth Davis@SethDavisHoops
In this interview on the Selection Show, chair Keith Gill indicated that the committee's belief that BJ Edwards would be available for the NCAA Tournament tipped the balance to make SMU the last team selected. The Mustangs lost four of their last five games while Edwards was injured. SMU told the committee and the public that Edwards would be available for the NCAA Tournament. Now we learn that he will not play tonight vs. Miami (Ohio). I understand that injuries and availability can be an inexact science, so we should not be quick to assign motives. But it is highly unusual for an injury to have this much consequence on selection, only to have the information prove to be incorrect. There needs to be a full accounting as to what happened and why, and how much the information that SMU provided to the committee was a factor in this decision. It goes directly to the integrity of the process. I hope this question will be further addressed and clarified in the coming days. In the meantime, I hope we get a great game!
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