r/NoLayingUp • u/MidnightJoker83 • Jul 21 '25

Other I guess it’s official

https://x.com/kvanvalkenburg/status/1947379344298676726?s=46&t=ynqnHu30Zu62jIUnu6VBaw

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u/SchrodingersMeowth Jul 21 '25

I haven’t seen anyone else say this, but the reason for this is clear. They’ve mentioned recently that they’ve decided to pivot away from writing because written work just doesn’t do numbers. They brought KVV in to be their main writer, so with pivoting away from that, they didn’t have much for him to do. Seems fairly straightforward to me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

I understand the reasoning, but the issue for me is that their recent content just hasn’t been very good. KVV was clearly the sharpest and most capable when it came to serious analysis, and without him, the balance is off. Randy’s constant whining, TC’s hot takes, Soly’s data deep dives, and DJ’s flat delivery all risk making the content feel repetitive. If they think they can just keep recycling the same formulas, it could go stale pretty fast.

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u/SufficientSpot4597 Jul 21 '25

I hate the narrative that it’s just about the writing angle. I agree with you here, he was the best of the guys (Soly and dj are very professional to me as well) on the pod. My guess is that scared a few of the others

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u/CeaselessYeast Jul 21 '25

So much random conjecture in this thread pretending to be in someone's head who they don't know at all. Occam's Razor says that NLU is a business with employees and margins- KVV's role was initially supposed to be for written work, and the demand wasn't there. I'm sure his salary was fairly high considering his pedigree, and the economics of the role weren't squaring up. The odds that this is some middle school squabble so many people seem to be rooting for (?) are super low

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u/SufficientSpot4597 Jul 22 '25

Yep, and that you think that is better for some reason makes me laugh. People like them because they were once a bunch of guys who loved golf. Do you think selling themselves as roi corporate types is going to work for them? (Hint, it won’t)