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It's a matter of not wanting to be UC Berkeley in every fucking respect. I know there are academics at UW who would be proud of what a middling football program would signal regarding priorities.

But I have to think that the people who write checks, who are not usually academics, are the people who want competitive football.

There's a third crowd … the tech crowd. They write BIG checks but they write them for engineering buildings. If they were to ever write a check for sports, it would be to construct a Quiddich field and practice facility. Or, more seriously, for some Olympic sports facility. To my knowledge, tech isn't in love with college football.

I remember Ballmer was flirting around the program for 5 minutes. Don't know whatever became of that but he's a pro sports guy. People at that level typically only fund what they can control. He also didn't go to school at UW so there's that limitation to his interest.

Gates. Pffft. That guy is too busy burnishing his image in a rescue attempt of the damage his rep took after the Epstein-caused divorce. His fucking ex-wife literally sold him out on that in a public interview. And he has never cared about sports. He aint' comin any time soon.

And Gil before that.

Upper campus has always been envious the the football program can just play itself to the top of the pile.

It takes it's academus little brother syndrome out on the sports programs.

I think Organizational commitment is the number one factor. The only thing I consistently agree with Kimmy about is how much the Ty hire and continued retainment of him turned off a lot of boosters and big fans. I currently coach with a guy who’s grandfather and father gave up after 2008 and had season tickets for 30 years

A conversation where everyone agrees is not much of a conversation

The board is more active than it has been in weeks. Nothing like a loss

Yikes. I forgot the wrong Stoops and RichRod had more success in Tucson for a season or two than I thought. Stoops was a 2OT loss to Oregon away from winning the Pac-10 in 09 and RichRod won the South in 2014. Both were super aided by the conference being crazy down but are semi-comparable seasons to what Fusch did in 2023.

The collective will still be considered the University though by the players and agents. All it’s gonna take is one bad deal where a player doesn’t get paid or gets sued and the agent will steer players elsewhere on the front end.