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Don't fucking tempt me man! You don't think I'll do it but I will.FireTheJanitor said:
Anyone can do that if you’re satisfied with living in a van down by the river with Jack Cuog -
FireTheJanitor said:
I would rather kill myself than brag that I get to hunt, fish and rodeo as my 3 primary objectives in life. And I hunt and fish plus there is nothing wrong with a rodeo. But if that’s all you got: it’s bullet time yesterday
I only score one of six from that list. I fish.
Would have a higher score if he said Husky fans like to go to strip clubs to see his and other Cuog daughters at work.
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The Maltby CafeBob_C said:
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I don't think Coug would accept travelling to Seattle ten years in a row.chuck said:I'd grant a home and home to SW Mizzouri St before I'd give the Cuog one. Why do them a favor right now if you're UW?
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That's laughable, since probably 65% of their alumni are Westsiders.RaceBannon said:
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Precisely. Fuck them thenFire_Marshall_Bill said:
I don't think Coug would accept travelling to Seattle ten years in a row. -
We usually see eye to eye, but I don't think clinging to tradition played more than a tiny part in the power shift in college football away from the west coast. Not only do I disagree that the conference was hell-bent on tradition (other than the tradition of having the shittiest wefs in the country), prime example being adding Utah and Colorado after trying to add Texas and Oklahoma, but I disagree that "tradition" really moves the needle in the power dynamics anyway.Doog_de_Jour said:But UW and other west coast schools kept sacrificing what was best for them on the altar of maintaining tradition for far too long, which enabled the SEC and B1G to jump ahead while the Pac 12 slowly bled out.
From the cheap seats where I sit, I saw two of the local high school programs fail to field a football team in different years. If you told somebody even two decades ago that either Bellingham or Anacortes High School would fail to field a football team in the near future, they'd think you were crazy. The Bellingham cancellation was right around the start of the PAC-12 slide. CTE news, the rise of soccer domestically, and lazy game/internet addicted kids--among other things--have led to a demographics shift in football that has disproportionately impacted the west coast and northeast. And it's not just playing but viewing/going to games. It's a lot easier to get a kid to come play for your school when a.) you can hand him a giant bag of cash donated under the table by an oil tycoon and b.) you walk him onto the sideline to look up at 105,000 screaming fans. As opposed the 55,000 and a lot of empty seats at The Greatest Setting°.
And it's not just demographics that drive that regional fan engagement. It's money, like with everything else. More than anything, the PAC-12 died because it was horribly mismanaged and unlucky with timing. At the time Tennis Boy signed the old TV deal, wasn't it the biggest in the land? Edit: Quick google, and I was right:...Before he signed a historic 12-year, $3 billion TV deal with Fox and ESPN in spring 2011, he failed to add an escape clause. That locked in the Pac-12 until 2024, which left it vulnerable to having its teams poached by Power 5 conferences with bigger subsequent annual media-rights payouts.
Everyone was blowing a load at the time of the deal, not understanding that being first usually means getting fucked. That deal set the floor, ESPN and FOX bought their respective conferences and went to war with each other, and the PAC-12 suddenly became an afterthought, with both FOX and ESPN doing their level best to knock them down to prop up their own products. Money talks and marketing works, the PAC became and inferior product and west coast football fans with better things to do starting doing those better things instead of obsessing over football. Down south, where ESPN made sure college football stayed the local religion, it's still the local religion. See the seven consecutive @SECDAWG posts in response to this for confirmation.
The conference could have abandoned all traditions--hell, Oregon could have played a home game dressed as Cal, even!--and it wouldn't have changed any of the above. The conference was doomed in 2011 when the last media deal was signed. -
A couple years ago there was an article that Malibu High had more guys come out for the surf team than the football team
California was the lifeblood of west coast football. There was enough for everyone. Declining numbers and national teams poaching has culled the herd
The legitimate criticism of west coast 4 and 5 stars compared to the south is real
the west coast closed during covid. Huard is an example of what happened to those classes
The Pac 12 canceled the season only to go WAIT we'll play. Kind of
It all has worked together. UW getting into the B1G saved football here -
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Smiff Wade is skipping his last Season.backthepack said:
Ward is cool and all, but I want Smith-Wade and Jaden Hicks.
Hicks bleeds Crimson.
But we all do. Hicks will be on the market for sure though.
They just need to make it pure pro, where you have to make a trade for players. That would make the silly season very interesting. -
I don’t remember a Bonnell led squad taking out the Cougs.PurpleThrobber said: -
You try hard. I have to give you this.FireTheJanitor said:
Anyone can do that if you’re satisfied with living in a van down by the river with Jack Cuog
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Ty and Bonnel beat them in 2006.Kaepsknee said:
I don’t remember a Bonnell led squad taking out the Cougs. -
Are your feelings still hurt because I had to be the one to explain to you that your “victory” in court last week means nothing? How are you spending your last 3 days with a football program fucko?Kaepsknee said: -
Playing the role of Pups retarded Son is no way to go through life.FireTheJanitor said:
Are your feelings still hurt because I had to be the one to explain to you that your “victory” in court last week means nothing? How are you spending your last 3 days with a football program fucko? -
Oregon has been our rival longer than Wazzou
but not as long as these rivalries - who has won the most on the Platypus Trophy is what I want to know - and why do they not show that trophy on TV? Maybe tomorrow...
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Kaepsknee said:
Playing the role of Pups retarded Son is no way to go through life.
Let it all out little fella. This will all be over for you in 2 days and will start feeling better soon -
Poor guy starts for a winning NFL team. While the other guy continues to shit down his leg.FireTheJanitor said:
Let it all out little fella. This will all be over for you in 2 days and will start feeling better soon
But a schlub like you wouldn’t know the difference, now would ya? -
Being forced to root for a mediocre NFL team because your college football program folded…. Couldn’t be me.Kaepsknee said:
Poor guy starts for a winning NFL team. While the other guy continues to shit down his leg.
But a schlub like you wouldn’t know the difference, now would ya? -
Who said I rooted for the Colts?FireTheJanitor said:
Being forced to root for a mediocre NFL team because your college football program folded…. Couldn’t be me.
I’m just saying that He will stack more cheese and Ass than this board combined. -
This is pretty easily one of the most pathetic, dry dick things I’ve ever read in my life. Go Coltshew!Kaepsknee said:
Who said I rooted for the Colts?
I’m just saying that He will stack more cheese and Ass than this board combined.
