BREAKING NEWS: Florida Danny Signs Deal With Football Outsiders
by David Fucillo on Jun 23, 2011 11:01 AM PDT
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PrintIn a true homage to croneyism, Niners Nation stats writer and unapologetic shill for Football Outsiders, Danny Tuccito (Florida Danny), has been hired by FO as a new assistant editor to editor-in-chief Aaron Schatz. Niners Nation initially planned to hold Danny hostage with a franchise tag and demand two first round picks and a case of Pacifico, but we decided to play nice and let him walk to pursue his dream. We're suckers like that. If FO is nice they'll at least send us a six pack of Natural Light as thanks for developing this tremendous talent.
But in all seriousness, we extend the heartiest of congratulations to Danny as he pursues a pretty cool position with Football Outsiders. Among other things, his responsibilities will include developing new stats, handling a fantasy sit-start article Bill Barnwell used to do for ESPN, and FO Premium's 24-hour fantasy football answering service.
He'll have one last "regular" column tomorrow regarding draft busts (looking at things from a statistical perspective). After that he may drop in with a post on occasion, but he'll be focusing his efforts at Football Outsiders. As I too am an unapologetic shill for a lot of FO's work, we'll be linking to him whenever possible.
While Danny will still be around NN here and there, we can't thank him enough for the insane efforts he put into his posts. While his columns occasionally required a PhD to understand, he helped us all learn a lot more about some of the intricacies of football. For those that don't know how he came to NN, I was poking around the comments of a Matt Maiocco game thread when he was still at the Press Democrat. Danny posted a Mike Nolan drinking game. I emailed him to see if I could post it at NN, and the rest as they say is history.
We wish him the best of luck over at Football Outsiders.
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Rock on Danny boy, and I’m certain you’re about as tired of that as I am about Brady Bunch. That being said, hopefully this means when you do get to do a post here, your new position with FO can make anything you post that much more on-point and in-depth.
I need my stats fix, and I don’t want to have to go to another dealer. Er uh … blogger ..
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So many stats he provided us here
The guy knew his numbers. Congrats!
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Congrats
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Congratulations, and best of luck!
They run a heck of a site over there, and as a silent reader of your stuff, I’m sure you’ll do quite well.
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by NYSteelersFan4 on Jun 23, 2011 11:38 AM PDT reply actions
Thats awesome
Congrats dude, you’ve certainly earned it.
Harbaugh will find a QB and he will succeed.
Good Luck Danny
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This is bull. Who did we get in return?
Nobody? Just another example of McBooFoo screwing things up again.
by jveezy on Jun 23, 2011 12:22 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Congratulations and well deserved
Always enjoyed Danny’s stuff, and it was a major reason to drop by here.
by One.Cool.Customer on Jun 23, 2011 12:31 PM PDT reply actions
I'm burning my florida Danny jersey
Wait for the break news to happen. Riots around the country as NN members riot about their statistician leaving for FO.
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
Danny how could you do this.
I’m crying in my dorm room right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpixdTlYlKU
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
I feel like Cleveland right now
At least there was a warning for them. Sigh but congrats on moving towards bigger and better things. Don’t forget about me.
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
Congratulations
Always loved your posts, awesome information.
GL with the new spot :)
Congrats!!!
And thanks for all of your posts….even if I could only understand maybe half of each before my brain exploded :)
Florida Danny: The Decision
You’ve had everybody else biting their nails. So I guess it’s time for them to stop chewing. The answer to the question everybody wants to know: Danny, what’s your decision?
In this fall, this is very tough, in this fall I’m going to take my talents as a statistician and join Football Outsiders.
Football Outsiders? That was the conclusion you woke up with this morning?
That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning.
How do you explain this to the people on NinersNation?
I mean, it’s heartfelt for me. You know, it’s hard to explain, but at the same time my heart, in the years I gave to that blog, to the world of statistics, it was everything.
I mean, those 20,000 plus bloggers that came away dumbfounded every time I posted, and they seen me grow from a rookie statistician to…this. And I never wanted to leave NinersNation. And my heart will always be around that area. But I also felt like this is the greatest challenge for me is to move on.
Riots ensue over the NinersNation boards, we’ve already had incidents of jersey burning (points to manraj).
Sarcasm aside, congratulations Danny. I’ve really enjoyed the passion and complexity with which you delve into football statistics. Just need to put this one out to have a good parting laugh.
Best of luck to you in your future, Danny.
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by FearTheTree on Jun 23, 2011 12:54 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
I'm about to burn cars
Go up all Vancouver in this biatch. (site decorum is off because I’m rioting)
P.S. where are the cop (mods) cars?
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
awesome...
i’ve actually been using the “taking my talents to football outsiders” on everyone i know lately. haven’t even officially started at FO yet, and i’ve already jumped the shark.
by (Florida) Danny Tuccitto on Jun 23, 2011 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Traded him cause you guys saw my potential right??? =)
You guys are lucky..i’m going to get you guys a couple of trips to the superbowl and maybe some rings here and there but mostly MVPS every year if ya know what i mean.. ;P
"Winning means being unafraid to lose." – Fran Tarkenton
Good luck Danny!
Thanks for all your insanely complicated hard work for NN. You’ll do great over at FO.
Hope you’ll still grace us with your presence every now and again.
Check out my site!!
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Congratulations Danny!
I hope you’ll stop by often. I’m going to miss your awesome columns and epic reply fails.
::Begins crying softly, again::
::Realizes that there is but three hours and 25 minutes until new episodes of Futurama begin airing and thus stops crying::
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meh
its ok jbrown you got a shoulder to cry on
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
Yeah, usually my left shoulder.
Gets pretty uncomfortable though. Pillows help.
"Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion." The "X" makes it sound cool." - Bender Bending Rodriguez
Eleanor Rigby - "Greatest Song" or "The Greatest Song"?
Kaepernick is some kind of Montana/Young/Roosevelt hybrid, and will absolutely ruin the NFL experience for the other 31 teams and their few fans.
Join my riot
I’m tearing this blog down. Also do you know if footballoutsiders have a twitter I need to tell them that they broke my heart and one of my favorite writers.
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
I may be up for a riot at some point.
Have to eat first. Google coughed up this link for Football Outsiders: http://twitter.com/#!/fboutsiders
"Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion." The "X" makes it sound cool." - Bender Bending Rodriguez
Eleanor Rigby - "Greatest Song" or "The Greatest Song"?
Kaepernick is some kind of Montana/Young/Roosevelt hybrid, and will absolutely ruin the NFL experience for the other 31 teams and their few fans.
kk I need to tell them they broke my heart
"Hi my name is Cliff Harris and I am here to lock [site decorum] down" - Cliff Harris introduction at his Freshman Orientation
Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
just wanna say...
thanks to everyone for the congrats and well wishes. don’t worry though, this isn’t goodbye. i’ll have a stats post up on NN tomorrow….seriously. oh, and nothing in my FO contract says i can’t contribute to NN from time to time. if anything, having less time for NN stuff means my words-per-post statistic will come down dramatically.
by the way, i was expecting a lot more comments in the vicinity of, “i always knew he was a shill for FO. score one for cronyism.”
oh, and, in true turncoat fashion, i’ve taken my talents to twitter: @FO_DTuccitto
by (Florida) Danny Tuccitto on Jun 23, 2011 7:06 PM PDT reply actions
Congrats Danny!
Looking forward to working with you.
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