The Huskies are in the playoff race
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huh?
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But there's no strong evidence yet to suggest JEDD IS THE FUCKING GUY and we MUST back up the Brinks truck NOW!!
At least when DeBoer went 11-2 in 2022 with wins over Oregon and Texas, you could say he probably was the guy.
I don't give a fuck about all the hypothetical roster attrition, it's too risky to bet the house on Jedd at 6-2.
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So we’re going on Dannen’s word now. Cool. I’m more inclined to believe UW’s offer wasn’t anything close to $1 million less (IOW it was likely a lot gappier than that) and DeBoer just said “fuck you guys if you’re not gonna be serious.”
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Agreed. Dannen offered less than he admitted to.
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Dread it, run from it, AIDS arrives all the same
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Stop hanging out at Cal Anderson Park
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I think there's more evidence than what you think but it's fair to say that he shouldn't be paid at the top top end of things.
But should he bump up from say $7M to closer to $9M towards that upper middle tier of the conference particularly in light of the market and extensions of other coaches (notably Rhule) … I think you can argue for that.
From what I've heard I think Jedd is more focused on increasing the budget for his staff and roster than his own number at this point.
So perhaps what is needed is getting more committed NIL money, raises for his staff, a couple of add-on years to the back-end of his deal with nominal raises to his existing deal, and a resetting of his buyout should another CFB school try to take him … perhaps write into the terms different numbers for him leaving for a CFB coaching job vs a NFL HC job.
The abundance of jobs in the market right now is going to drive compensation up if you want a coach with any kind of proven experience.
You may not want to acknowledge the changing market and implications to a roster but it is a real one and worth paying attention to. That turmoil does not seem to me to be a valid risk to undertake over what in the big picture are nominal dollars.
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The game theory math has shifted with the portal. You are far better off firing your coach than getting him poached.
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Closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
Solid strategy
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zero chance
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Oregon sucks and we have no solid wins. Tony The Tiger Bowl here we come.
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I understand and appreciate your points here. But the “abundance of jobs” out there shows how much money is being wasted on shitty to mediocre coaches.
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Beta loser stuff was UW not making a major league attempt to sign DeBoer.
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I noted in a post last year that DeBoer said it was nice to be at a place (Alabama) where winning was taken seriously. I took it as a swipe at UW. Other than that, I've never heard of any other indication.
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You'll never get me to say that the money getting thrown around in college football is a good use of money or makes any kind of business sense
For many of these programs this type of money is a tax write-off and/or a source of dick measuring amongst elitists
I think what you're bringing up (how deep of waters do you want to get in playing the current game) is valid …
But what I'd respond with is that the rules of the game are what they are at this point …
Not playing the game has some obvious problematic issues to it
Playing the game means throwing around some Monopoly money
Getting some form of control over this insanity is needed in general …
But until this day comes you're either in or you're out …
It's probably a rare instance where Race and I would agree in terms of "show me" through your actions with money
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Only those tied into the negotiations know how serious UW was in their attempts to keep KDB and how open KDB was to staying
A lot probably also depends on how much of a heads-up KDB had that Alabama was on the table and at what point that was the case
I've stated on numerous instances that I had it communicated to me that "all will be fine if we can sign Coach to a contract" from someone inside the program entering November of 2023. At the time I took that to mean that we needed to come up with a number that made sense. In hindsight I took that to be more reflective of whether he was even open to staying.
For as much as people here want to skewer Fisch for his job hopping (and it's a fair criticism) … that same criticism is also a fair one to have on KDB.
I don't think anybody knows what exactly the number would have been to keep KDB here … if that was even possible (which those that want to skewer the AD for KDB leaving fail to acknowledge as a possibility).
What I do think makes a lot of sense is to say that anything at comparable money to Alabama was almost certainly have KDB leaving for Alabama.
I also think when having this conversation that it has to be called out that UW is getting a 1/2 share of B10 revenues in the short- to mid-term (anticipated full-share date is the 2030-2031 athletic year) and big picture doesn't have as rich or funded of an athletic department that Alabama has. IF this was going to turn into a bidding war it was a battle that UW was ill equipped to win.
I don't really know what the disdain for not keeping DeBoer and by default hating Fisch for not being DeBoer is getting you and others.
The irony is that there's a very real chance that Fisch will be living in a similar manner to that of DeBoer and there will be a celebration for not caving to keep Fisch all the while we hire a coach that has far more questions than Fisch and the balance of the roster gets gutted (again) and the new coach likely doesn't have the ability to restock the roster in the short-term with anything close to what went out the door.
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UW is a proud and successful college football program on the whole when you look at history
Alabama is the bluest of the blue bloods, is a national brand, and is THE team for an entire state.
If your upset because UW isn't Alabama … I'm not sure what to tell you
You could have unlimited access to money in the short-term and I'm not sure that that's even enough to shift that barrier or perspective
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stability matters or it doesn’t. Who can even tell at this point. Win now.
who has money and who wants to win. Fire fisch or fisch leaves. Until he wins the conference who gives a fuck -
Speaking of beta losers…what a load of diarrhea of the mouth by teq
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Blah Blah Blah by grandpappy dinosaur Race
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Thank you for keeping it brief
