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How much are the Huskies paying their nonconference opponents this season?

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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    They pay Idaho a million bucks because it's still a net positive thanks to the 50,000 that show up for a scrimmage.

    I understand that, but it could still be $850,000 more in the positive. If 50k show up to Idaho, they were showing up anyway.
    You still have to have an opponent.

    The REAL outrage here is that UW is playing two Big Sky teams.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,776
    edited August 2016
    We have to PAY people to play us because we're so TUFF and everyone else is SCARED!!!!!!!
  • WilburHooksHands
    WilburHooksHands Member Posts: 6,804
    edited August 2016

    They pay Idaho a million bucks because it's still a net positive thanks to the 50,000 that show up for a scrimmage.

    I understand that, but it could still be $850,000 more in the positive. If 50k show up to Idaho, they were showing up anyway.
    You still have to have an opponent.

    The REAL outrage here is that UW is playing two Big Sky teams.
    At least in the Rutgers home and home we? break even.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club

    They pay Idaho a million bucks because it's still a net positive thanks to the 50,000 that show up for a scrimmage.

    I understand that, but it could still be $850,000 more in the positive. If 50k show up to Idaho, they were showing up anyway.
    You still have to have an opponent.

    The REAL outrage here is that UW is playing two Big Sky teams.
    At least in the Rutgers home and home we? break even get plungered.
  • WilburHooksHands
    WilburHooksHands Member Posts: 6,804
    godawgst said:

    God what an awful and embarrassing home non-conf schedule this is. The Illinois and Utah State's of the world can be at least (on paper) somewhat competitive.

    Maybe UW could look for more "lower tiered" power 5 teams and offer home/away/home deal with us, and bump up the pay range to $600k as a enticement.

    I still believe in the old adage "iron sharpens iron" and would rather play a non-conf schedule where we get tested and are then ready for conf-play as opposed to having three scrimmages, then fucking the dog against say a bad Arizona team on the road week 4

    This.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,206 Standard Supporter
    (futile) Note to AD: This team is above the 0-4 win range now. It's okay to schedule teams more challenging than Cream Puff State and Colorado School of Mines. Let's put Oklahomo, Michigan, Miami (who isn't even that good), Ohio State, and Nebraska (see Miami) back on there. Rutgers should never be the big game.
  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646

    (futile) Note to AD: This team is above the 0-4 win range now. It's okay to schedule teams more challenging than Cream Puff State and Colorado School of Mines. Let's put Oklahomo, Michigan, Miami (who isn't even that good), Ohio State, and Nebraska (see Miami) back on there. Rutgers should never be the big game.

    We've scheduled Michigan home and home in the last year.
  • CheersWestDawg
    CheersWestDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,480 Swaye's Wigwam
    UW = John
    Idaho & PSU = Hookers
    UW AD = Pimp

    Life is really just one big game of prostitution.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,206 Standard Supporter

    (futile) Note to AD: This team is above the 0-4 win range now. It's okay to schedule teams more challenging than Cream Puff State and Colorado School of Mines. Let's put Oklahomo, Michigan, Miami (who isn't even that good), Ohio State, and Nebraska (see Miami) back on there. Rutgers should never be the big game.

    We've scheduled Michigan home and home in the last year.
    It's a start. I still see a ton of Hawaiis and Little Sky teams. I get that some of them are good now (relative to 25 years ago, when there weren't faggy 85 scholarship limits), but nobody really gives a fuck about Eastern.