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This belongs in the official board is better after a loss thread.

Fish said preseason that UW spent roughly 6 million on their current roster. I think there was more in the kitty to spend but they only had the one portal and it wasn’t the good one so why overspend when you’re not ona hot seat? Coker recently said on X that with the new revenue sharing at 17m that UW should be between 22 and 32 million for the roster next year. That puts the Montlake Futures contribution between 5-15m. I think I read somewhere, probably X, that Yogi Roth put UWs NIL number at somewhere around 15m for 2025. If the “around 15” number is correct they should be able to plug a lot of holes coming up. I’ve got my fingers crossed that UW won’t be a Big Sky all star team this year. At least shoot for a MW all star team. Lol

of course, the kinds of D3 schools I care about really don't need my money. one of mine went to a small college whose endowment per student is a multiple of UW's. when you're educating 2,500 kids and the entering class is about 600, a couple billion $ goes a long way.

tow of mine were too. Afro the old schools, which used to be men’s colleges, sports teams have their own endowments to go along with athletic support. In my kid’s sport, the men’s side had their own endowment but the women still fundraise. It’ll be like that for a while though some of us are talking about starting one for the women.

Sure, but I was thinking about team specific or athletic department donations. And yes, some of those schools are not wanting for cash for anything. But some are.

One of my girls was a D-3 athlete. I suspect there was a fairly large discrepancy between endowments among the conference members.

If I was living basically just around the corner from Lewis & Clark, for example, as my sister-in-law does, I could easily see myself going to games and perhaps becoming a donor.

it was pretty obvious in sept that Jedd is all about Jedd and his plan is incremental progress so he has to throw year one to show how much better he’s made the team in year 2-3.

It’s fucking mid tier shit, sark 2.0

I love football and I was a sometimes donor in years gone by. But I can honestly say I’d rather donate to a D-3 school these days so they can charter a better ride to their games, or replace their old uniforms, than enrich a 20 year old kid by making Washington the highest bidder for his services. My ego just isn’t that wrapped up in buying my alma mater a team and professional football team owners don’t hit me up for contributions in order to make payroll.

I have heard anything between $8 million and $10 million but haven't seen anything printed anywhere. Maybe this year's meh after such a great 2022-2023 run will motivate more people and bigger checks because a .500 team isn't much fun, especially with OL and DL that aren't good.

yeah, probably. but Washington needed to make it look a little harder for the Ducks and they didn't. there's losing, and there's losing like that.