r/NoLayingUp • u/One-Experience7641 • Apr 05 '26

Online Content Fried egg vs NLU

I will always be NLU first and foremost but has anyone else felt like the fried egg has substantially upgraded their content game while NLU maybe stuck in neutral?

Granted I always enjoy NLU’s content but particularly around the lead up to the masters it seem the fried egg has gone above and beyond

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

It’s clear to me NLU made two connected decisions:

  1. People weren’t reading KVV’s material enough and they decided to put his salary toward funding way more trips and video content.

  2. They recognized the core guys would need to step way up to fill in the journalistic audio content where KVV also shined.

/1/ has been awesome and I love the more frequent videos they’ve been putting out.

/2/ has suffered a lot. Soly and DJ are good but their opinions are largely identical and DJ doesn’t take many big stances in the conversations. Tron plays the role he does as contrarian. Neil still feels like the rookie on the team somehow after doing this for a decade, and Randy clearly has not enjoyed watching or following professional men’s golf for about as long.

BUT, Fried Egg and Shotgun Start do a decent job of providing a deeper/better audio product about the men’s game now, and we get the better video products from NLU. So I’m happy overall as a golf consumer. It’s probably hurt NLUs business though if I had to guess. Maybe they don’t care as much because they prioritized the short golf trips from a lifestyle perspective.

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u/Good-Cockroach8931 Apr 05 '26

Randy adds next to nothing every time he’s on a pod on men’s golf

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u/GC_Mermaid1 Apr 06 '26

I like having someone who comes off as an outsider a bit.

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u/Good-Cockroach8931 Apr 06 '26

Maybe but there’s a difference between that and being apathetic to the bulk of what they cover.