Since apparently none of you had any fun or did crazy shit in your entire lives. Too bad for you. And I will, out of respect for Julie, stay out of the women stories. Even though I'm kind of drunk and have many.

In 1988, our cougs beat who - Minnesota among others? So I'm at the bar - the new - shit - Rico's? up in N Campus heights. After the flight home from that game, Mike Utley shows up and is drinking out of a pitcher of beer. Guess when you weigh about 290 that suffices as your schooner.

Met him quite a few years later after he got paralyzed, down at that restaurant near the old Denny's. Great guy. Wife was - oops no comment Julie.

Met Jim Walden up in Harrison on Lake CDA. Met Chad Eaton at the grocery store. Forget what he was buying, but I think I bought him some beer.

Ex #2 got friendly with some mom's, etc for the FB teams. Maybe Hilinski's mom? She had some Coug FB players out to my former country house shooting my former guns. Bitch.

Allright. Enough for tonight. If ANYONE has any fun Coug stories feel free to contribute.

So many flocking to Facebook to talk about "their" team and "their" greatness.

You know how many of the "husky fans" never even took a single class there?

If it weren't for me trying to control all of this bottled up anger and disgust... I would call them all out publicly.

You know you never went college let alone fuw right?

You know your parents let you have fuw clothing because it was clearance at Kmart right?

Dude is in position and looking RIGHT AT the receiver’s feet, which are 3-4” in bounds and calls him out. Wtf?!

...as a whole look more athletic than any team Smith has had?

Isaac Jones taking it to the rim for a major flush against a defender yesterday was just nasty.

I've seen some other plays that impressed me. Seems like we have guys who can create their own shots more than years past.

I guess we will have to see vs high quality Pac 12 competition how they do though.

CML was announced as the new Cougar Football head coach.

Just thought that would be fun to share.

The expected bad news is that both Smith-Wade and Hicks are reportedly declaring for the NFL draft.

The good news is that Mateer, LB Buddah Al-Uqdah, DT David Gusta, and OL Christian Holborn appear to be staying.

from what is reporting: please keep adding to the list.

Javon Robinson DB
DT Sheffield WR
Don Tatum DB
Luca Rodarte LS walk on
Tristan Souza DT walk on
Jaylen Jenkins RB
Ty Garay-Harris DT

Cougars linebackers coach from 2013 through 2019.

Wasn't he looked upon favorably as a terrific recruiter?

Wonder if CJD might look his way if some staff changes are made.

Nevada owes Wilson a $1M buyout, so maybe his next job would come at a slight discount

I don't know the logistics of any of this...but I would think some forward thinking people could see market demand for the hole all of this bullshit creates.

So what about creating a new league and tell the top 10-15 schools to go F themselves.

Then recreate regional conferences that make sense and a streamlined service devoid off all the fat at a reasonable price?

A lot of these schools are going to get booted from the conferences anyway in 5 years or so

Now back to more important stuff like funny stories.

the portal. It wouldn’t surprise me if we lost 50 plus kids .

Gawd. Ukraine and Russia still sluicing people. Same with Israel and Hamas. Both of which I am good with BTW. (Ukraine and Israel). Thank Gawd I was born way after WW2 and was too young to really understand Vietnam.

Meanwhile we pay FB coaches $10M to coach - FB. And the billionaires still buy islands and giant yachts.

Starting to think Communism (in it's pure form, not the Russian corrupt model), might not be such a bad model.

In his first 2.5 seasons as a head coach… anywhere.

Mike Price didn’t have 15 wins till year 4.

Mike Leach didn’t have 15 wins @WSU til year 4

Both those guys had a conference to play in, didn’t have a Portal or NIL to contend with.

Based on early RESULTS, Dickert has done better at WSU than either.

Why the Dickert hate? It doesn’t seem logical to me.

All 3 entering the portal

I like him better and better everyday

The Pac 12 was average to bad. I said so in a thread a while back and was chastised. I know good football when I see it and bad football when I see it. When 9 teams finish 1-8 to 5-4 in league play…. very middle class to lower class.

WSU had way too many games against teams that had awful years last year to only win 2. Outcoached all year by a staff that has no business in Power 5 football.

Then to listen to Dickfore say that Ward is a “high level NFL guy” in the presser last night… wtf is that? Either he is just fluffing his player to make him look better than he is (Meion Sanders) OR he has no fcking clue what he is looking at. WSU has had high level NFL guys at QB. Even had some guys that were just NFL guys. Not fcking one of them is the circus act that Ward is behind center. All of them would have led WSU to victory last night.

If your HC can’t recognize talent at the QB position, you have the wrong guy.

Time for Dickfore to go. 2-7 against this soft ass league? No way. And now he is gonna lead WSU into an uncertain future? Wow.

… would be a headline that sparks a few feelings around here, I imagine.

Just in case of interest: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39005847/fbs-rosters-grow-205-transfer-players-2023.

There are some stats given about which rosters had the most, how many QB transfers, and other stuff.

Deion's quote from the article -- given originally on 60 Minutes -- is a gem:

"You take a team that's won one game, and you fired a whole coaching staff. So who did the coaching staff recruit? The kids," Sanders said during a "60 Minutes" interview in September. "So, the kids are just as much to blame as the coaching staff. I came to the conclusion that a multitude of them couldn't help us get to where we wanted to go."

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Unbelievable! There is no way this is sustainable. As my wife said: "they aren't only ruining college sports, they are going to ruin a bunch of kids"

The number of people thinking Ward is worth $1,000,000 and being the best QB to pickup is crazy.

I will stop giving money to the Cougar Collective if we try to match.

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