My goodness. College football is so broken.

I'm listening on the radio to the the best in the biz Steve Grubbs.

Great game. Back and forth.

Is Teder not playing? She is listed as being on the roster as a 5th yr.

ASU (2-7) offense scoring 2023

24
15
0
28
21
24
7
38
3

Stanford (3-6) defense pts allowed 2023

24
56
30
21
42
43
42
42
7

That's all I have to say about that

Would it be possible for the G5 schools (all of them) to ditch the NCAA and create their own governing body? Take D2 with them if it makes sense.

Everyone knows the NCAA is worthless and only exists to line their own pockets and those of outside interests like ESPN and bowl sponsors. If they can do something as radical as effectively exterminate a conference and two D1 programs on a whim, why can't programs do something as radical is create their own entity?

It doesn't have to compete with whatever the NCAA and their power brokers are doing. In fact, it should make every effort to not compete with them for anything - TV time or money, athletes, NIL dollars, athletes... anything.

What's the point? Not getting railroaded by a bunch of entities that have only their self interests motivating them in spite of supposedly being part of a whole who is supposed to look out for the whole.

CJD blames NIL for cougs sucking

Not directly, but the timing sure is suspect. 20 minutes on this, in the middle of the season? That's deflecting.

They will be able to create a conference that has some guardrails in the new era of college football.

1) Head coach salary cap of 4k.
2) 3 year contracts that you can rollover.
3) NIL is through the conference. It is shared and each player gets a 1500 a month for 9 months. Then have a cap for what each team can spend.

These are guides that help make the NFL the most watched and profitable sport in the US.

Did anyone watch the game and want to share what they thought?

Just curious if maybe we should go to the Colorado/Leach model. Pay a bunch of $$$ to a well known perhaps even controversial coach. Increase interest in our program. Make $$$ in the long run by being invited to a better conference and upgrade the program/staff/ recruiting/my personal well being.

Now first of all, we are not going to descend into the Big Sky. But me and the ex were in Montana decades ago, and we went to a Griz game. F-ing fun weekend. Friday night at some downtown bar, Saturday at the game was a major tailgate.

Another fun time was playing BSU down there in what - 1998? I dunno. Went to Humping Hanna's downtown on Friday, or maybe Saturday. Close to closing time, this fairly cute gal asked me to dance. I sort of had to say no, since my then wife was giving her dagger eyes. In hindsight, well.....

So my wife and I flew into Spokane on Friday morning to watch the game and got back home today. She bought a pair of club seats for the game right at the 40 yard line. A few observations from the weekend:

1) National "upgraded" us to a Chrysler Pacifica PHEV at no extra charge. There is nothing dumber than a rental EV. It was a hybrid so it was ok, but the battery was at 4% when we picked it up and never got over 1% since my driving was mostly highway driving. It got decent mileage and drove pretty well but it was a joke from an EV standpoint. Available charging spots are too sparse to be worthwhile.

2) Ate dinner at Black Cypress restaurant on Main Street on Friday night. It was decent but over-priced considering the quality of the food. Their roasted chicken was pretty good but their ribeye was not as good as steaks I've had in Kansas for half the price. Parking in downtown P-town is a PITA. You could do worse if you want a quieter atmosphere but spending $100 for dinner without alcohol is not a bargain.

3) Went to the Zzumania event on Friday night featuring Yung Gravy. WSU deserves to get fined for the crime of charging grown adults $45 a person for a concert that nobody my age cared about. They barely showed the basketball teams off and the event was primarily watching the cheerleaders and dance teams doing their thing for 80% of the time. Almost no returning men's players from last year but there are dudes all over the place. Of course, the ladies basketball team got the biggest cheer. Watching college students chant with a "rapper" that I've never heard of was a unique experience. If you've never heard of Yung Gravy, you aren't missing anything, but it was kind of cultish watching the students getting into it. The highlight of the night for my wife was when she spotted Charlisse Ledger Walker and some of the other gals from the basketball team watching the concert from the concourse. I went over and told them that they were the only reason that we paid to get into the event. They asked if we wanted pictures and they asked a lot more about us than we expected. You can tell that they enjoy interacting with fans.

4) We stayed at an AirBNB in someone's basement a little over a block from campus. Paid too much but the room was pretty well finished and the hosts were more generous than normal. They provided a bottle of WSU branded wine, some sodas and snacks in the room. Of course, for $459 for a night....you hope that they treat you ok. It was a 7 minute walk to Beasley though...so it was good overall.

5) Ate lunch at Cougar Country Drive-In. It is what it is. Over-priced run of the mill burgers but a Pullman tradition.

6) Hung out at Valhalla with a former Coug football player and a few other folks before the game. My wife was astonished by the number of $16 pitchers of beer that were consumed. It was busy but not nearly as busy as i expected. Great way to burn 3 hours before the game.

7) As mentioned to start, we had club seats and let's just say that they were well worth the $250 we paid for the pair of tickets. We didn't get a single drop of rain on us, the club area was heated and we had good neighbors. I guarantee that we will look at those when we go to another game in the future. The food was decently priced for the situation but nobody would claim it was a good deal. My wife is afraid of heights but the club seats we had were at the back of the section against the wall and she held up ok.

8) The game itself was a turd and I'm not going to expend energy discussing it.

9) We paid for general parking and parked near Daggy Hall. We should have parked 400' further down the hill. It took longer to get out of the parking lot and across Spokane Street than it took to get the rest of the way out of town. If we had parked in the spot west of Spokane Street, we would have been out of town at least 15 minutes earlier.

10) We were in traffic for almost the entire trip to Spokane on Saturday night. The Pacifica had pretty decent Adaptive Cruise Control and took care of absorbing the rubber banding of the idiot drivers who bounced from 45 mph to 65 mph all the way past Colfax. By the time we got to Rosalia, it was loosening up some, but still bunches of cars along the way. It never ceases to amaze me to see idiots drive 55 mph until they get to the passing lane and then speed up to 65 mph like some kind of f#ckin' monkey who doesn't want people to pass them. Got to the hotel at 11:20 pm.

11) Stayed at the Springhill Suites right across the street from the airport terminal but we were there for only 5 hours since we had an early morning flight. Nicer than the Ramada that we normally stay at but the bathroom fan would turn on and off at random and we never saw a switch for it. Worth the price if you don't want to deal with driving and dropping off a rental car at 4 am.

12) At our layover in Denver, we used the free United Club passes that my wife gets once per year as a United Miles Plus member. The breakfast was "ok" and complimentary with entry. It's much quieter in there than outside in the terminal. That said, not really worth the money and we would never pay to use it on it's own.

Anyway, had a good time this weekend despite the turkey of a game.

Seems like the offense RARELY uses any mesh concepts over the middle and just resembles a dink and dunk offense.

I think defenses know what we are running and how to stop it.

I felt with Morris, and know do with Arbuckle, that Dickert is giving the offense a specific direction so we limit mistakes and turnovers. If true, in turn, we are limiting creativity and are predictable to stop. Maybe this will come out at some point, but there seems to be a fundamental issue our team has that we arent' fixing.

My prediction:

WSU 83 to 99, Idaho 65 to 75

WSU wins by 8 to 24.

WSU would easily win by more, but because of the 9 NEW, GOOD, GREAT pieces, it will take some time for them to play together, jell, etc.

That said, the individual talent, skills, athleticism, etc, of the players should lead to WSU eventually putting it together enough to pull away and win by 8 to 24.

It probably won't look pretty, flashy at first, and might look ugly at times. But there will be spectacular, fantastic, awesome flashes, plays, that will show off WSU and their players potential, at times, and more as they put it together and pull away for 8 to 24 point win.

Idaho just doesn't won't have the athletes to beat WSU.

Will be interesting to see who starts, plays, etc.

I project, predict the starting line up will be:

1. PG: 6-0 Yesufu

2. SG: 6-6.5 Kymany or 6-6 Jabe

3. 6-7.5 Wells or 6-6.5 Kymany or 6-6 Jabe

4. Jaki

5. Jones.

Jabe will either start at 2,3 spots or be 1st off the bench as INSTANT CLUTCH 3 POINT OFFENSE

Cluff will back up Jones at the 5, center spot, and Chinyelu will back up Jaki at the 4, PF spot

Rice will back up Yesufu at the 2,PG spot, unless Rice starts at the 2 spot. If Rice starts at 2 spot, Darling or Watts(Probably Darling), backs up Yesufu at PG.

I don't know who will be the back up at the 3 spot, because of the semi log jam at 3 spot, as Wells, Kymany, Jabe, Jaki can all play the 3 spot.

Cal Poly-SLO couldn't overcome a 45-9 halftime deficit and lost to Eastern at Roos-Wulff Field in Cheney.

The Mustangs dropped to 1-5 in the Big Sky during CPW's first season. Fair or not, it sounds like he's got another rebuilding job on his hands.

One interesting side note: Cal Poly recorded three (3!) safeties in the game. So it appears Coach Wulff has that part of his team in good shape.

LINK: Self-inflicted errors doom Cal Poly football in 48-13 loss to Eastern Washington

This is ridiculous and I’ve sorry but I’m throwing in the towel.

Shut football down. Go all in on buying basketball players for both programs. It's the only chance wsu has to be relevant in the future. Football is a complete waste of resources for a school headed where we're headed

If the speculation is true, and WSU receives a large chunk of money from the remaining P12 revenues in the $100-$200M range, WSU needs to think long and hard about where and how they're going to allocate it.

To me, no matter where the dust settles with regards to the new conference. A rebuilt P12, a MWC merger, whatever, WSU leadership has to invest a large chunk of that cash into the football program. We need to do what Bill Moos did at the end of the dreary Paul Wulff era and float some serious cash at a coach who is up to the challenge of rebuilding our football program.

I don't have anything against coach Dickert. He took over a successful P12 program in the middle of a storm of change. Leach leaving, COVID, Rolo, NIL, conference realignment. It's a lot for any coach to deal with let alone a young, first time head coach. With all of that said, I think the job may be too big for him to turn around. The MWC programs we're going to be joining up with along with Oregon State aren't pushovers, and we're likely going into the new league with a glorified expansion roster of mostly all new kids.

Take a big chunk of that settlement money and go out and pay for a proven head coach. The highest paid G5 coach makes $2.8M/year (Tulane) with the top-5 coaches making $2.1 - $2.8M/year. WSU needs to go big and INVEST in the football program right out of the gate. We can't cheap out. I don't care if it costs $4-5M/year, you find the best coach in the new conference who can get into every West coast living room.

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Was just following long online and saw this. Has there ever been Coug on Coug action before?

Perhaps I should clarify so as not to awaken the penis. Has their ever been Coug on Coug action in the NFL before?

No crying for Cam just us fans after seeing this season has fallen apart. I’ll give it to Williams who wants to win. I’m crying and throwing stuff with frustration.

Remember Nanny Loyal's rules - a few posts then move on.

That said - we are so F-ed. He is worse than the last 3.

I think Cam would be benched.

Who would have thought that after a 4-0 start.? Changes need to be made, but due to all the uncertainty in the future, they’ll use that as an excuse to do nothing.