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All the usual cringe tard media types hate this move for UW.
Danny O'Neille is probably still screaming at husky fans on Twitter right now. -
In a perfect world USC and UCLA stays and everyone makes 50 million
Sink or swim -
Huh?
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This.JoeEDangerously said:I’m not a Pac12 fan. I’m a fucking Washington fan.
Look, I don't love getting paid less than Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, et al.
But if this the kind of real-politik required to save Washington then so be it.
No Washington or Oregon fan should feel a damn bit of remorse.
Video killed the radio star. Is what it is. -
The definitive post on this topicTheHB said:Just when you think you’ve heard the stupidest take from Fetters, you hear something even stupider.
Don’t ever stop being you, Chris. Dumbfucks like you make assholes like me feel pretty good about ourselves. -
This was the better course of action. USC didn't need to money. Just a good corch and path to the CFP.PostGameOrangeSlices said:In a perfect world USC and UCLA stays and everyone makes 50 million
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I don’t love the shitty schools getting more and ideally they would be told to fuck off, they get what they get.YellowSnow said:
This.JoeEDangerously said:I’m not a Pac12 fan. I’m a fucking Washington fan.
Look, I don't love getting paid less than Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, et al.
But if this the kind of real-politik required to save Washington then so be it.
No Washington or Oregon fan should feel a damn bit of remorse.
Video killed the radio star. Is what it is.
The good news is that it is temporary. By 2029 we get the full share. Revenue obviously matters but isn’t everything. A lot of programs generate a lot of revenue but are still average or shitty. -
UW was in severe danger of not mattering anymore. And UW has been fine at fucking up, for decades, without outside help.
This move ensures they will be in a league that will be near or at top for $ for years. They gave up - perhaps - slightly better chance at basically a G5 playoff bid, for a couple years, for potentially enough $ to keep mattering.
Larry Scott and the idiots who believed in him killed this shit; USCLA just put a date on the tombstone.
Maybe the progrum will still suck, but it'll be fun and "either way it will be interesting"
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What a sanctimonious load of shitbananasnblondes said:cfetters
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Is it great to hear? Is it going to be great to be listed in the history books as a potential player in the demise of a Power-5 conference? Because I can see a scenario where UW and Oregon aren't looked at in glowing terms when all this shakes out. And maybe you couldn't care less about that, and that's fine. But others may care.
IMHO UW and Oregon feel like Schrödinger's teams right now; both alive and dead at the same time
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Only the most jaded Pac-12 fans are celebrating this right now IMHO. Completely eliminating decades and decades of history in a matter of days. And on top of the fact that this was set up to be arguably the best college football season in history for the conference. And more than that, UW has a legit Heisman Trophy candidate and a team worthy of playoff talk.
And it's like none of that is going to matter now. That absolutely sucks for the players and coaches that have worked ridiculously hard to get to this point. I asked Chuck Morrell about how the team tries to eliminate the outside noise when stuff like this is going on and he just said they have to focus on what they can control. That's it. They don't have a choice. But is anyone going to be paying attention now?
I doubt many are going to care about this Pac-12 season in the grand scheme. It's just going to be seen in the history books as the year the conference imploded. Everyone is already thinking about 2024, because this is now old news.
I was a history major in college; this stuff matters to me, and perhaps it matters to me more than most. If it doesn't matter to you, that's cool. I'm not judging your opinion on it.
But if you think this is a happy day for college football, I just simply disagree.
Of course it sucks that all that history fades to nothing. But for Washington to stay aboard this sinking ship would have been the eventual death knell to the program. -
After the conference raped UW in 1993, this is poetic justice in a certain senseRaceBannon said:This season matters
Coaches and players love the move because it's payday baby
No one has more conference history than I do but there have been 5 different versions since I was born
And fuck the Pac 9 anyway
