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  • whlinderwhlinder Member Posts: 5,255

    All this varsity haught talk has me remembering the varsity women's tennis chick I used to date who had massive jugs. Still to this day I have no idea how she managed those things while playing tennis but I sure did like serving on them.

    Take it to the tennis board thread!

    We have one now axtually
  • biak1biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
    TIL about varsity(?) hockey, rugby, and rowing.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,187 Founders Club
    biak1 said:

    TIL about varsity(?) hockey, rugby, and rowing.

    Huh?
  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member Posts: 17,911
    edited January 2023

    Hopefully, as your valued e-fren you can forgive my periodic bullying of you on the topic.

    I just have to be a stickler for the details to protect the brand. I can't be having the lacrosse or cycling team bros out there claiming UW Varsity sport status and making themselves letterman jackets.
    I'm not so easily bullied. It would take @dnc levels to hurt my feelings.

    Also, just fucking with you to some degree. My corch never mentioned rowboat but I figured it would set you off. He did say rugby was it's own weird category.

    Rugby isn't rowboat or baseball but it also isn't ultimate Frisbee club. We(!) Have our own field and not the shared IMA shit like LaCrosse. We(!) Have dedicated medical trainers, make use of the football practice facilities, get the indoor facilities, have travel budgets, etc. Again, the difference being that a large reason it is "revenue neutral" and probably skates Title IX is the self funding and sharing with the women's club. I'm not privy to that level of AD politics, accounting, finnagling, and decision making though just my speculation.

    Women's rugby doesn't get the same favored treatment but it does get to piggyback off of men’s rugby facilities and funding. The girls DID have dues and ran as a club sport. They had to raise money for tournaments and travel etc.

    Then there's all the ncaa vs. Usa rugby vs. Regional club bullshit but I'll spare you that haught talk.

    TLDR I'm pretty sure Rugby is at that point of how a sport evolves into a varsity sport. Cal further along than most. Revenue and Women's status probably two of the main obstacles.
  • BennyBeaverBennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    You know you’re a shit-tier sport when your website contact has a gmail address and a 509 are code.


  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,187 Founders Club

    I'm not so easily bullied. It would take @dnc levels to hurt my feelings.

    Also, just fucking with you to some degree. My corch never mentioned rowboat but I figured it would set you off. He did say rugby was it's own weird category.

    Rugby isn't rowboat or baseball but it also isn't ultimate Frisbee club. We(!) Have our own field and not the shared IMA shit like LaCrosse. We(!) Have dedicated medical trainers, make use of the football practice facilities, get the indoor facilities, have travel budgets, etc. Again, the difference being that a large reason it is "revenue neutral" and probably skates Title IX is the self funding and sharing with the women's club. I'm not privy to that level of AD politics, accounting, finnagling, and decision making though just my speculation.

    Women's rugby doesn't get the same favored treatment but it does get to piggyback off of men’s rugby facilities and funding. The girls DID have dues and ran as a club sport. They had to raise money for tournaments and travel etc.

    Then there's all the ncaa vs. Usa rugby vs. Regional club bullshit but I'll spare you that haught talk.

    TLDR I'm pretty sure Rugby is at that point of how a sport evolves into a varsity sport. Cal further along than most. Revenue and Women's status probably two of the main obstacles.
    Which gets us back to one of my original questions here: Does UW have the budget and desire to convert a club team such as Hockey or Rugby into a Varsity program?

    Color me skeptical. I think Football is going to gobble up its share and the other non revenue sports aren't going to want to compete for resources. Also, I think UW seems like the type of place that doesn't want to take on a non NCAA Varsity sport. Men's Rowboat is a special outlier here because of the 120 year history at UW and 20 Natties.
  • PurpleBazePurpleBaze Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,261 Founders Club

    You know you’re a shit-tier sport when your website contact has a gmail address and a 509 are code.


    FO, G

    How dare you bash the 509?

    @Doog_de_Jour
    @UWKatie
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,187 Founders Club

    You know you’re a shit-tier sport when your website contact has a gmail address and a 509 are code.


    I was trying to be tactful in handling this topic and the Boov just comes in a drops a big dump.


  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member Posts: 17,911

    You know you’re a shit-tier sport when your website contact has a gmail address and a 509 are code.


    All sports aside from football are shit tier by definition.

    Plenty of shit tier there as well like the little sisters of the poor WSU and OSU that can't sustain themselves.
  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member Posts: 17,911

    Which gets us back to one of my original questions here: Does UW have the budget and desire to convert a club team such as Hockey or Rugby into a Varsity program?

    Color me skeptical. I think Football is going to gobble up its share and the other non revenue sports aren't going to want to compete for resources. Also, I think UW seems like the type of place that doesn't want to take on a non NCAA Varsity sport. Men's Rowboat is a special outlier here because of the 120 year history at UW and 20 Natties.
    Without getting too tuggy much of it depends on Title IX , the future of (women's) college sports and revenue in general.

    Some sports, like rowboat and rugby, will be fine Irregardless bc endowment $$$ and rich booster alumni.

    Other sports are probably living on borrowed time bc they are basically just a huge red line item in a budget that will ultimately have to face reality when they kill the golden goose for all the little sisters of the poor.
  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,079 Founders Club

    @UW_Doog_Bot you should have gone to CAL!! You could have gotten a sick Letter Man Jacket.

    Rugby is a Varsity Sport at Cal, the only one in the Pac 12.

    https://calbears.com/sports/mens-rugby?path=mrugby

    Fun fact: the only other D1 schools where Rugby is a Varsity Sport are Navy (shout out @Swaye ) and Army (shout out @CFetters_Nacho_Lover )

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_rugby
    FREE PUB!!!

    All sports aside from football are shit tier by definition.

    Plenty of shit tier there as well like the little sisters of the poor WSU and OSU that can't sustain themselves.
    UW Men’s basketball is a prime example.
  • BennyBeaverBennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

    We(!) Have our own field and not the shared IMA shit like LaCrosse.
    Oops.

  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member Posts: 17,911

    Oops.

    Ouch, things change all the tim.

    Field probably got swallowed for the new DEI housing and cultural center.
  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member Posts: 17,911

    Ouch, things change all the tim.

    Field probably got swallowed for the new DEI housing and cultural center.


    Akshully, it looks like an upgraded sports field. Mixed feelings.
  • BennyBeaverBennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

    Ouch, things change all the tim.

    Field probably got swallowed for the new DEI housing and cultural center.
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  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,187 Founders Club
    edited February 2023

    All sports aside from football are shit tier by definition.

    Plenty of shit tier there as well like the little sisters of the poor WSU and OSU that can't sustain themselves.
    Well, yeah, @UW_Doog_Bot in terms of butts in the seats and eyeballs in the screen it's Football with hoops a very different 2nd place, and then everything else is shit tier.

    That being said, I'd say if you're in an Olympic sport at UW and go on to a National Team during or post college, you're probably more of a bad ass, rare human, than a scholarship JAG in Football.

    @MrsSnow loves to tell me I wasn't a REAL College Athlete because (a) I'm slow and uncoordinated; (b) I didn't do my sport in HS; and (c) I wasn't on a full ride (Men's Crew didn't have schollies till the early 2000s). She's probably right, but still...

    I remind her that they don't write NYT best sellers about her hoops team AND we(?) beat Hitler.
  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member Posts: 17,911

    Well, yeah, @UW_Doog_Bot in terms of butts in the seats and eyeballs in the screen it's Football with hoops a very different 2nd place, and then everything else is shit tier.

    That being said, I'd say if you're in an Olympic sport at UW and go on to a National Team during or post college, you're probably more of a bad ass, rare human, than a scholarship JAG in Football.

    @MrsSnow loves to tell me I wasn't a REAL College Athlete because (a) I'm slow and uncoordinated; (b) I didn't do my sport in HS; and (c) I wasn't on a full ride (Men's Crew didn't have schollies till the early 2000s). She's probably right, but still...

    I remind her that they don't write NYT best sellers about her hoops team AND we(?) beat Hitler.
    I'd much rather be associated with 2008 UW rugby than 2008 UW football.
  • CanadawgCanadawg Member Posts: 5,212



    Akshully, it looks like an upgraded sports field. Mixed feelings.
    That field looks roughly the same size as a hockey arena
  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,509 Standard Supporter
    haie said:

    It's pathetic that ASU has an arena that is so legit the Phoenix coyotes will play there, while UW 3 hours from BC has it as a fucking club sport.

    Fucking unreal.

    The Kraken will correct this long term, but still.

    It's not really legit. It's supposed to be a stop gap. It's called Mullet Arena and it might hold 6,000 at most. Coyotes ownership has sucked for a while.
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