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NFL today

For a change I caught some of the action. Some great games.

Vikings win 3-0 (?) in the last 2 minutes. Bills (I have a man crush on Josh Allen) came through late and beat KC. Colts got thrashed, even though Minshew's stats weren't that bad. Eagles are making it a game against Dallas as I write this. Sea Chickens got thrashed, but Purdy from SF continues to amaze. Still can't believe he was Mr. Irrelevant.

Some of these QB's - gawd they can fire that ball.

Allright, another attempt to lighten things up

I know, I've posted this before. But I'm looking at my own sweet dog right now and this now 20 year old (really?) Dierks Bentley video still kills me. Watched it a zillion times. Great song. But his dog. Just wagging and smiling the entire video. And yeah (sorry Julie) the smoking hot girl doesn't hurt. But the scenes where his dog is hanging out in the back of his rig are so dangerous and hilarious.

Geezus - another mass shooting, this time UNLV

3 plus dead. On campus. The news report said it was the 80th college shooting this year. After the very recent Austin, TX shooting that killed 6, although that was off campus. I did contact my son who lives down there to confirm that he was alive.

I don't know about the rest here, but I spend way too much time reading the news, and sports. This retirement, and no current woman (working on that), gives me way too much idle time. And no f-ing way am I getting into my camper before spring.

But the news is so horrible. The Gaza Hamas atrocities', poor Ukraine getting their cities wiped out, on and on.

A lot of people I converse with don't even read the news and have no clue what's going on in the county, state, country or world. How the F do you do that? Or not in this case. Oh but let the stupid punk students protest against Israel. stupid little F-s.

Transfer Portal so far

So far...as of 12/8, we have 15 guys in the portal

Peter Eyabi - walk-on DE who's only appeared in one game.
David Johnson - two star DB who has only appeared in one game
Dominic Tatum - three star safety who transferred from Utah State but left the team in September
Rocky Shields - two star 2023 DL who left the program in August
Jaylen Jenkins - three star RB....he will be missed some.
Jacobus Seth - two star 2022 OL who hasn't appeared in a game.
Javan Robinson - three star DB who has been in 14 games
DT Sheffield - three star juco WR transfer who logged catches in two games
Kiwaun Davis - three star DB who hasn't been in any games.
Cam Ward - well, we know about him
Emmett Brown - walk on QB who is undersized and was never going to be a starter at WSU
Josh Kelly - Fresno State WR transfer that we are going to miss
Ahmad McCullough - LB transfer from Maryland. Injuries have limited him to special teams
Tristan Souza - walk on DT who has been a warm body in two games in four years
Luca Rodarte - long snapper with no appearances in two years

It's early days and there could be some surprises, but realistically, if this the list of dudes that we lose, WSU is going to be fine next year. Losing Jenkins hurts but running backs of his caliber are dime a dozen these days. Kelly is the only dude that we are losing that bugs me so far. Robinson robs us at depth at DB but he's a G5 player that wasn't a difference maker for us. A few of the other guys will also hurt our depth until we replace them but we won't miss them overall.

I hope this post ages well......:oops:
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Mateer

Thought I'd hit the hay, but hey I have no job and got sucked back into this loony bin. Ward is gone one way or another (Bye, you kinda sucked anyway, the NFL will laugh at you).

Mateer, Redshirt Freshman, and relatively unproven. So good for us on some longevity. Good arm, big kid, great wheels, what's not to like? Well except for his GQ looks, which I will leave alone.

Big picture: 2024 is a transitionary year...what does 2025 bring?

Looks like we are locking in schedules as the Pac-12 (2) with a focus on what's next. Clearly the on-going fight with UW et. al. has created us to operate under the status quo.....and we have to finalize next season as their is no time to wait until spring to sort this out.

That said, of all the ideas floated around, I love (for obvious reasons) the idea of the ACC, Big-12 and the Pac-2 creating a super conference (or sorts) to compete with the SEC/Big-10. To keep everyone happy, I think you'd' have to have a tiered distribution of media revenue to support certain markets being in the mix. Not a huge delta, but some delta none-the-less.

Plan B appears to be raiding the Mtn West, but the scheduling alliance apparently has penalties so the assumption I have is that isn't the preferred option. I do think SDSU will be in the new conference and maybe UNLV (market, location, potential). Cal and Stanford have to be pushing for most of the band to get back together and next year is going to really suck for them travel related.

The fact that Shulz and Chun have been quiet indicates to me that NDAs have been signed and things are cooking in the background.
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