Leaving aside all the fallacious reasoning in @theathletic.com article, this doesn’t sound like that great of a won/lost record. @thomaswheatley.bsky.social @kristaldixon.bsky.social @crystalhill.bsky.social

What happens when I get distracted: In half a century, U.S. high school #soccer grew 680% and is now the fourth most popular sport in the country, per @nfhs_org.

If ope.ed.gov/athletics goes down, reach out to me for Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data from 2002-3 to 2023-4. These are athlete participation and expenditure records for U.S. colleges and universities; they aren't ideal for financial analysis) but can be useful.

Excited to present research at #iacs2025 from work done last term with Wyatt Meyer of Clarke Central HS!

How often do the ppl running college sports realize how ridiculous this is?

Rather gobsmacked by this passage I ran across today...

Vastly amused that the @yahoosports newsletter folks didn’t bother to read their own map when trying to analyze football recruiting hotbeds.

The latest episode of the 3 x 1, my Substack about gender, sports and education! open.substack.com/pub/welchsug...