Tickets for Apple Cup will start picking up with the season starting. It’ll be near capacity.

Parents weekend on Friday night is a challenge. Might as well move kickoff back to 8:00PM.

COUGinNCW said:

(Sold, not actual- assuming 7-9 wins)
PSU - 23,000
TT - 29,500 (unfortunately not a sellout).
Uw - 61000 (70% uw fans)
SJSU - 24,600 (parents weekend but a Friday night).
Hawaii - 25,500
Utah State - 25,000
Wyoming - 19,000

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Sold vs. attending is always hard to estimate, but I still think you’re optimistic on some of these.

PSU is Labor Day weekend. It won’t break 20K.
Texas tech might not be too much overestimated, but there are still a lot of seats left. It’s looking more like 26-27K right now.
You’re wildly overestimating apple cup. There’s a lot of availability still. Unless they come up with some wildly successful promotions and discounts pretty soon, and/or both teams look better than expected in their first couple games, it’s going to struggle to make 50K. Actually at the moment it looks more like 40K.
SJSU might be close, but only because of parents weekend. Doing that on a Friday night is dumb, it’s going to drive attendance down.
Games after that will be affected quite a bit by performance. I don’t really see any reason to think Hawaii will be that well attended. Maybe it gets a bump from being the last time the weather might be decent.
Utah state won’t draw that well, 25K is high end.
Wyoming is Saturday afternoon after thanksgiving. Students aren’t coming back for that, so the parents aren’t coming. Unless we’re at 8+ wins going into that one, we’re looking at 15K tops.

CougPatrol said:

I believe the Hawaii game is Homecoming. It's also the only home game in October. I'd like to see 30K for that one.

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If we come out of September with 1 loss or less that will likely be the case.

Loyal Coug1 said:

Financial standing? Compared to who?

MSN

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By financial standing, I mean that we aren't likely to fire Dickert after this season with everything else that's swirling around the program. Unless we completely bottom out, of course.

I believe the Hawaii game is Homecoming. It's also the only home game in October. I'd like to see 30K for that one.

KRUSTYtheCOUG said:

Not sure if Lexi is married, but sounds like you might have a shot, loyal! How many balls ya got?

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She's out of my league.

So is Simone Biles - Gawd she is so smoking hot.

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Too funny........

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Not sure if Lexi is married, but sounds like you might have a shot, loyal! How many balls ya got?

Loyal Coug1 said:

Financial standing? Compared to who?

MSN

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The world?

Who the F would they hire for 2.5 million? And realistically they would probably go down from there and live in the coaching salary basement given the uncertain future. All that talk about commitment to football and athletics is complete bullshit and flies in the face of the financial reality.

Herman Munster - AKA OSU AD Scott Barnes - speaks.

CougPatrol said:

In theory, I agree. Given our financial standing, it's not likely to happen barring an absolute implosion.

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Financial standing? Compared to who?

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Of course not. That's not the point. In decades past, we would have to run the table or lose only 1 game against a schedule that included a couple of top-10 and at least 4 top-20 teams.

This year, the 4 toughest teams on our schedule are Texas Tech, UW, Boise State, and Fresno State. Imagine if we were headed into these next couple of seasons with Mike Leach as our coach in year 2-3 of his program. How many games would we lose?

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Are you thinking about Portland State when you say that?

That loss still pisses me off

kougkurt said:

Seattle 11 on FUBO says it’s showing Virginia Union and Kentucky state. help.

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Did a quick search.

Seattle viewers seeking The CW network will have to change the channel from KSTW-TV, Channel 11, to KOMO-TV, Channel 4.2.

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Did the Pac-12 leadership over sell and under deliver when they celebrated with "National Exposure" in their media rights with CW? If you can't watch the game in Seattle on CW then what is it like throughout the US.

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Seattle 11 on FUBO says it’s showing Virginia Union and Kentucky state. help.

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With Hulu I can change my city and zip to get the local channels from that area. For example I live close to Colorado Springs but I want the Denver local channels so I use Denver to get those channels instead of my actual city. Does FUBO give you that option? I'm getting the affiliate CW called CW2 in the Denver area.

Seattle 11 on FUBO says it’s showing Virginia Union and Kentucky state. help.

Flatlandcoug said:

I have high hopes for Mateer but the other 3rd year QB's you listed didn't have 19 career pass attempts going into season 3. Not even remotely close to the same conversation.

I will say that if we don't win 7 games this season, it's time to start looking for Dickert's replacement.

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In theory, I agree. Given our financial standing, it's not likely to happen barring an absolute implosion.

BleedCrimsonandGray said:

Y'all sound like a bunch of Huskies with the hubris that is being thrown about here.

Just look at our record vs MWC. Without doing the research I'd venture that its just above .500, from recent memory.

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Take that back...

BleedCrimsonandGray said:

Y'all sound like a bunch of Huskies with the hubris that is being thrown about here.

Just look at our record vs MWC. Without doing the research I'd venture that its just above .500, from recent memory.

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WSU is 13-8 (62%) vs the MWC in the past 25 years. Since 2017, WSU is 6-1 against the MWC in regular season games and 0-2 in bowl games where we were missing multiple starters. When you add in former WAC teams that are now in the MWC, we are 21-10 against the combined set of teams in the past 25 years. The two losses to WAC teams in that time span were doing our glory days of Paul Wulff.

If we win 66% of our games vs MWC teams this year, beat Portland State and go 1-2 against the P5(ish) teams on our schedule, we will finish 7-5. Above, I said that we should consider firing Dickert if we fail to win seven games. I stand by that statement.

I also said that we could run the table and I guarantee that this year is our last best chance at that happening. As I also said, it won't happen because I don't think we are really good enough to do it, but I'd say that we about a 5% chance of it happening, when it's usually closer to 0.01%.

Y'all sound like a bunch of Huskies with the hubris that is being thrown about here.

Just look at our record vs MWC. Without doing the research I'd venture that its just above .500, from recent memory.

M-I-Coug said:

Agreed. OTA is not compressed. If you have a choice between a cable, satellite or a Rooftop, or Attic Antenna, Over-The-Air hands down produces a better Picture Quality with higher resolution, non-compressed. Very inexpensive setup, assuming you can pull your local stations via UHF Antenna.

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My only issue with OTA is that regardless of the antenna, there's usually some pixelation if my wife or I walk through the wrong part of the house. Which is kind of funny since direct line of sight isn't really an issue in Kansas.

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If I may point out that you don't want to underestimate the OTA broadcasts. But, I get it and I'm lazy to just go with the lineup on my HULU package. However, OTA High Definition broadcasts are some of the best quality picture broadcasts anywhere. No delays or filtering as you get with streaming where the signal has to go to data centers, internet providers, switch boxes, etc... With OTA you will get the best quality picture available anywhere for free with just an antenna.

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Agreed. OTA is not compressed. If you have a choice between a cable, satellite or a Rooftop, or Attic Antenna, Over-The-Air hands down produces a better Picture Quality with higher resolution, non-compressed. Very inexpensive setup, assuming you can pull your local stations via UHF Antenna.