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Tony Altimore

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Tony Altimore

@TJAltimore

New York City + South Florida

Joined May 2009

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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Apr 3, 2023
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE STATE OF COLLEGE SPORTS FINANCES: (a thread🧵) 1/ There are areas that I think the media misses the boat on the $ state of college sports It starts with revenue: Rapidly growing gaps are getting worse, and unpromoted G5s are going to be in big trouble
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Nov 24, 2023
PAC-12 GOES DARK: When the lights go off in Pasadena tomorrow night, Pac-5/8/10/12 football as we know it will come to an end There will be new futures for all, but let's each raise a glass to 65 years of West Coast adventures as we enjoy these last games 🥂 * * * "I closed
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Feb 26, 2025
Replying to @DanWolken
On a pragmatic level... They're gonna be unpleasantly surprised by what they find in the burry miniscule edges of our genetic fringe. As with most things, Genetics gets a lot more complex than grifting bigots think. We did a study on this, and folks were surprised by (for
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Jan 24, 2024
HIGHLY CONCENTRATED CFB VIEWERSHIP: 📺🏈 2016-23 Total Nielsen-Rated Viewers Check this out, gang: 50% of football viewership comes from just 18 teams In updating TV data to add in this year, I continue to be amazed by how heavily concentrated viewers are among so few brands
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Jan 5, 2024
NCAA BASEBALL GAMES: ⚾️🧢 2023 Avg. Crowd Size They love baseball at a lot of colleges (especially in the @SEC!), so here's the avg. crowd size per team from last season: Who's your biggest surprise on this list? 😉 One interesting takeaway is the directly inverse relationship
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Oct 25, 2023
As a Michigan native + Michigan fan, it pains me to say this... ...but U-M conduct was egregious enough –and shows such a lack of institutional control or ethics– that all UM wins during this cheating era should be forfeited by @bigten (changed to losses, not simply "vacated")
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Aug 13, 2025
WHO ARE THE BLUEBLOODS? Lots of discussion on this lately, with the new rankings... Who do you put on the list? Here's my set for the blueblood list, who prob should be added, who's rocked the modern era, who's close, and who's definitely earned a spot on it, but are a bit
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Aug 5, 2023
BIG TEN STADIUMS 🏟️ All at matching scale, sorted by size Is it 2024 yet?!? I'm excited for these road trips! Here are all 18 @bigten stadiums. It's fun to compare the impact that seats vs. bleachers makes in how big their overall footprints are when set to matching scale here:
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Aug 26, 2025
Replying to @ab00xx
The sky was also outed for identifying as blue yesterday, too...
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
May 25, 2024
This is an unbelievable violent crime. Shilo Sanders had no business being allowed to play for a @pac12 team, has no business being allowed to play in the @Big12Conference and had no business being allowed to transfer in to @CUBoulder. What an absolute disgrace for all three.
Mark Schipper - 5th Down CFB
@5thDownCFB
May 24, 2024
Shilo Sanders beat a HS school security guard so badly that his neck was broken & he became permanently incontinent (details below). Sanders lost the lawsuit filed for that beating in 2016 and was ordered to pay $11.89 million in damages to his victim. Sanders made a
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Apr 2, 2024
CHANGE IN ALL-SPORTS SUCCESS 🎓🏆 Pre-Covid vs. Post-Covid Eras Looking at how schools have fared in overall all-sports success in more recent years compared to pre-Covid years is quite interesting. Here are the 15 biggest gains vs. biggest losses in avg. Directors' Cup points:
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Dec 31, 2023
Who does the best job graduating football players? 🎓🏈 Here's the latest football Grad. Success Rate (GSR) data from the NCAA's FBS teams: (Note: GSR adjusts grad. rates to include any transfers in, as well as not penalize for transfers out who were in good academic standing)
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
May 29, 2023
TOO MUCH ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT DEBT? (...and those without any!) The wise @KnightAthletics folks have been warning us for years about the crippling rise in debt held by major athletic depts, fueled by a wild arms race in facilities. Now, in fairness: There are often
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Tony Altimore
@TJAltimore
Nov 28, 2023
MSU vs. OSU: 🤔🏈 Which is a better job? As a Spartan football kid, it's interesting to see all of this debate between MSU vs. Beavs fans on the two jobs I do like both schools and both teams... but, in honor of both my Dad + Duffy D, here's a quick comparison of the two teams:
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