Saturday should have been the last Apple Cup
The Huskies went over to Pullman to play in front of 32000 people, a sellout btw, and split the revenue with the Coog. Yay. So now next year they come home and play in front of 70000 and have to split it again. But at least they have to go back there in 2027 and do it all over again. JC Dannen was a fucktard for doing this. Keep the damn trophy and don’t return it. Tell them to fuck off and get off our lawn. You already kicked them out of your house, tell them to LEAVE already
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My argument has always been to rotate WSU, OSU, and Cal.
Which illustrates the real problem: WSU truly needs this game when it comes to Pullman.
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I was unaware of the home and home split revenue, 50/50 cut every game. Not surprised but that needs to end or the series ends. TYFYS
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We get 💯 of the ticket sales next year.
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Yes and still not worth it
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When you bring in 2024 I mean they're never ending it.
It was like two mini-playoff atmospheres at each pro stadium that day.
All the surrounding businesses and everything both fanbases spend too much money still.
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When Dannen was asked about the Apple Cup at his introductory press conference he was about to bury it and say something smart about needing every home game they could get to be financially as healthy as could be and then Cauce slid over, grabbed his mic and said there were ongoing negotiations with WSU and that their desire was to continue the series. Dannen looked annoyed because he knew it was a bad idea but Cauce was running the deal. If the new president has balls and a spine he and Chun end this bullshit. Don’t let feelings interrupt good business.
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New President, new attitude!
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get off my lawn
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Apple Cup will always be a sell out at Husky Stadium. Ticket sales will out revenue every other OOC game and pretty much a guaranteed win at this point.
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A perpetual home and home against a zombie program from a lower tier conference doesnt make much sense to me. It's just not big time.
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Give em the 2 for 1 deal typical for G5 teams. Will always get more attention than playing a random mountain west team
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civil war and apple cup should both be spring game scrimmages. Will give that game more juice/sell out the spring games. But both these rivalries are meaningless now.
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I believe the Cauce wouldn't kill it stuff. Keeping it was important to the blue hairs like my dad and government types I'm sure. I wouldn't be surprised if even they run out of gas on it the time it's supposed to renew. I could see UW greedily hanging on because they know it's a guaranteed big crowd every other year.
I assume everyone would be too scared of injuries to do any kind of game in spring. Maybe an alumni game.
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the fact UW’s starting linebacker got hurt is enough to cancel this series forever. All risk no reward. Swap this game for an SEC opponent . They were playing dirty AF
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would rather play Cal and Furd
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I disagree with anyone trying to end it. CFB is all greed, and we will survive the supposed financial hit.
Cuog are our little brother and the game should be played every year. It’s a good non conference game. It’s a lot more fun than playing a random patsy.It’s fun for the casual fan and for split families. Keep the game.
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No love for the drunken scantily clad daddy issue coeds on a warm September day on the Palouse?
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might as well play Tacoma Community College and PLU too. Thanks to resources, WSU will severely be lacking and the game isn’t fair at all. Again all risk no reward. Let’s start keeping point totals for both games Oregon / Oregon State and see how bad it gets. I’d rather play an SEC team
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Both the SEC and ACC have gone to 9 conference games + 1 P4 OOC game.
Which means we will have to as well, and WSU isn't P4. We're not doing 6 home games.
So either WSU plays in Seattle every year or we kill it.
The bizarre part is Boeing is still a sponsor. Boeing is retarded but we have a 75b revenue company sponsoring the game. Not sure how valuable the sponsorship is to us.
