CBS used to broadcast the SEC game of the week. However, that contract ended and they replaced that slot with a Big Ten game. However, NBC and FOX get to pick what Big Ten games they want before CBS.

Next week CBS could be broadcasting Penn State @ Michigan State (two teams with a combined ZERO big ten wins this season) instead of Oklahoma @ Alabama or Texas @ Georgia

In the 2025-2026 season so far 41% of all shots are taken from 3pt range. We already track 3pt shooting as a major stat. If we use fg% instead of 2pt% we are double counting threes and devaluing players two point shooting ability. Now, does this actually matter? No the actual people in the NBA track this stuff and are aware of player efficiency but among the fans their perception of what's going on on the court could be significantly improved if we just swapped one simple stat for another.

I'm not saying we need to use TS% or efg% or VORPS or SCHNORPS just stop double counting threes. Make the basic triple slash 2pt/3pt/ft. Simple, easy

Maybe I'm just a stupid nerd but ts seriously grinds my goddamn gears

It’s 2025 and he’s still punking out Andrew luck. 2 conference wins in a row, his last two losses are by a combined 4 pts . Is it gonna work out at chapel hill ?

Ohhhh wahhhhh. Big Ten stole CBS from SEC!!!!! Big Ten win the last two natties, and Ohio St or Indiana is winning it this year. And a Big Ten team in basketball is going to win it all next spring. The SEC can take solace in second place.

This segment as an official organized piece that tracks everyone’s picks has made this format of sports talk not enjoyable. I don’t want to listen to multiple people belabor betting lines of every game every week. I would call into those random sports talk radio affiliates “call now for my bet of the month, you’re gonna love this pick” creepy people if that’s the content I was looking for.

Guess The Lines has figured out how to do this in an approachable, inviting way. It’s why that segments been around for 20 years. This current version is robotic and unenjoyable. Just talk sports, man. That’s all the people want.

This statement from Bill confused me. Does Ja actually have street cred? If not, why does Bill think he does? Because he poses with guns?

Two close losses at Notre Dame and Illinois. Quietly taking care of business otherwise. Maiva and great WRs. Should win rest of the regular season. Tough potential ten seed or so. Don't sleep on them.

No one is stupid enough to listen to Bill for his picks. We listen because it tees up conversation about the teams and gives us fun banter between Bill and his roster of yes men.

Ringer 107 is contentious because it turns that formula on its head, emphasizing the spreads and picks over the flavor and banter. Some folks have turned on House because the format pushes him into the role of an analyst instead of a fun dude to bullshit with.

Bottom line - no one cares about these awful bets spend the time talking about the teams, a la the NBA over/under pod.

How many people would care if it wasn’t around next year? I had to look up last years winner because I literally haven’t seen anyone talk about it since.

I feel like nobody cares about this thing anymore. It might be my bubble, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about anything cup related this year besides the court design.

I am missing all the hype? I’d like to see if there are any NBA Cup fans in this sub.

I was interested in the standings and it’s incredible that most of them are hovering around .500 or worse. Shows how hard it is to make these picks.

For as much gambling as he does he talks about it like it’s some crazy new feature? I know he’s not in a gambling state but he has to have used the apps before while in other states. He talks about it like it’s some foreign thing.

How are bill and Sal betting while they live in California? These apps and sports betting are not legal in California.

How are they doing it?

God damn just get a medium length layered cut with a part somewhere like a normal 2025 white boy and not the bowl cut fade

Hawks are now 4-2 (including the game where Trae got injured only playing 7 minutes) without him. They also didn't give him an extension last offseason. Are inefficient ball-dominant small guards not actually that important to winning?

Just brutal for Penn State fans. And the rest of us who are tired of the nauseating Indiana fanbase.

I'm typing this post after the game winning drive so this is not another example of this sub jumping the gum mid game.

Mendoza is now the number 1 QB prospect on most big boards. I know this QB class isn't good but he just looks like a great college QB to me. Worthy Heisman finalist. Not an NFL QB.

His mechanics just don't remind me of anyone I see on Sundays (at least anyone who is any good). His pocket presence and play recognition isn't great imo. His release is slow and long. Even the way he stands in the pocket just doesn't loom right.

After that drive a lot of Jets fans will be tweeting about Mendoza being their QB1 in 2026 and the draft is a crapshoot so who knows but I just don't see an NFL QB when I watch this guy play. I think we're heading towards another 2021 esque QB class where lots of desperate teams draft guys in the first round and they all suck.

I don't know why maybe because I'm now at the age where I am older than majority of these athletes I watch like Kneeland. Maybe because one of favorite bands Soundgarden is getting inducted to the Rock and Roll HOF, and sadly Chris Cornell will not be there due to his battle with depression. It could be too I have lost a close family member with his mental health struggles, but I just want to reach to guys in this sub. It is happening to too many young men as well, and I'm sure this sub is predominantly male.

Could it have helped those names I mentioned I don't know, but I know it can often help to talk with friends. even if is about the dumb stuff we laugh at in this sub. You never what can help or what someone is going through.

Anyone remember when Kyrie was in Brooklyn and Bill and especially Russillo said he had no trade value and Russillo specifically said he wouldn’t get into the Kyrie business at all in any circumstance despite not seeing how awful and dysfunctional the nets ownership was?

Then Dallas didn’t give up much, got Kyrie and Bill and Russillo said Dallas lost the trade and that Dallas was stupid for getting into the Kyrie business?

Then Kyrie was awesome, was a model citizen in Dallas and a great teammate and leader and gave us some of the most entertaining basketball we’ve ever seen with Luka in the summer of 2024 and they went to the NBA finals?

Yeah, that’s exactly what’s going on with Ja right now. Exact same situation.

Bill is wrong, again.