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.
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How many P4 programs have 1 for 1 home and homes with G6 programs every year?
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It's not hard.
Home in Seattle every year. Better than playing Montana state for ticket and ad revenue. Coug can either take it or lose what will still be a desperately needed money game. No, scheduling Portland state isn't a good alternative, NOFC.
As easy an out as any OOC C game with way more relevance and interest. Plus a further chance to scout for NLI transfers for depth.
Coug is truly little brother now, replete as our? minor league franchise team.
Some of you need to act like men and stop being scared of a greased up coug. If we? can't beat them by at least 21 TSIO anyways. This shit is preseason now.
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I was in the camp of nuke the series, be done with Coug forever.
…until I went to the game last Saturday. I witnessed a throwback to a regional football game where families and alumni on both sides got together and enjoyed a day of tailgating and football. Almost all Coogs I talked to rescinded themselves to knowing they were getting plungered.
Salty….there was a lot of angry, salty fans that hate all things Husky. Walking around in purple was interesting and entertaining.The gayme was sold out, student section packed and chanting F’ the Huskies on and off, we walked by large bands of Coug frat bros and got a ration of shit.
Good atmosphere, and now that I’ve seen it from the other side, I absolutely believe this series should continue. It’s good for Washington, good for local/regional football fans, the Coogs need to get their shit together and put a good product out.
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Ope careful you almost forgot about bringing value to the shareholders. That's what we're all in this for remember
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Definitely not getting that against Chattanooga state.
People need to stop thinking this is an A or B ooc game against an A or B level opponent.
It's a warm up game against a patsy team but at least one which has traditional and regional relevance.
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As usual, when we left for B10, UW Brass rolled over to "public Pressure" from the how dare you leave WSU behind if you don't continue the Apple Cup we will protest blah blah blah crew, and so we agreed to this farce of playing there every other year sharing a rounding error of a gate big picture.
UW should take some of the supposedly 123m we've taken in for Montlake Futures and buy tf our way out of this asinine series which it's now at.
As someone else said, what other P4 school has a yearly home and home with a G5 and assuming with NIL, transfers, recruiting hold true to form, these games are going to look like more and more the final score Saturday, and eventually you won't sell the Apple Cup out in Seattle or Pullman.
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Great post. Sums it up perfectly.
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I see both sides here. I think the "play them every year in Seattle" idea is the right solution. It sadly probably means the game has to die for a few years before Coog gets desperate enough to agree to it.
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The culture of the Apple Cup was great and the kind of fabric we're cutting out of our society in the name of milking every fucking cent we can out of everything. It won't be replaced and the in-person interactions between Cougs and Husky fans which helped define the region won't be replaced. The difference between the two schools also played on the differences of the state and had some fun to it. The Washington-Oregon rivalry is zero fun and forced by money in about three different ways.
