Don't get me wrong, good riddance to that awful game, but man, UW's new AD comes off as an arrogant prick. Love it how the president had to step in and cut him off. 😄

In case you wanted to read UW's legal arguments.

I believe the conference's actions to exclude. without objection or complaint, and USC and UCLA failure to dispute, sinks the first two arguments despite any vargaries in the language. Every conference member clearly understood what would happen if you provided notice of intent -- exclusion.

Regarding the third argument, I don't know the first thing about sovereign immunity principles, but it is a, "have our cake and eat it to" argument, which generally doesn't go down well in court. The argument is you can't sue us because we are immune, and you can't proceed because we are indispensable parties to the suit. Lawsuits happen between those with competing sovereign immunity all the time. If entities claiming sovereign immunity, like a state or governmental body, could stop the legal dispute resolution process by simply refusing to participate, the legal system would be a complete mess at the governmental dispute level, it is not.

The briefing is about halfway down.

WTH? Apparently the entire Board missed this. Starting the next 4 games - at least. And I didn't realize that of Cleveland 3 wins, Minshew started one and won the other 2 in relief.

Before discovery was set to take place seems to be an insightful timeline. Hope they wrap it up quick.

We have seen before and it sound very similar to what we have experienced.

This week we recap the painful loss at UCLA, Chip Kelly in full support for P5 Washington State, and the #19 COUGS host Arizona for Homecoming on Saturday.
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Since people are posting game comments in a few threads...

10-9 Cougs. Gushiken bailed us out with a Pick 6. LFG Cougs.

DOWN GOES THE BUBBLE

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…Cam looks like he did last year. If his reads aren’t there, the happy feet start and he makes bad decisions.

Only fell to #19. I'll take it. UCLA in at #22. 3 PAC traitors in the top 10, unfortunately we play 2 of them. 7 teams ranked in total. That is just nuts. What a way to go out.

Remaining schedule and predictions:
Arizona - maybe
Oregon - loss
ASU - maybe
Stanford - win
Cal - win
Colorado - maybe
uw - loss

So 6-6 at worst, 9-3 at best. Not so horrible in a stacked league. We'll know a lot more after Arizona. And I wonder about their QB situation. That Falili (or whatever) is damn good. I assume deLaura will be back, and I think I'd rather take my chances with him. Especially at home. 4pm kickoff (fans will be juiced), weather shouldn't be too bad.

Looking at our future conference mates, Wyoming and Air Force are #27 and #28. Not sure how Fresno could go from being #24 to #38 after a close loss to Wyoming.

Mik's fantasy conference mates? Tulane #35, Memphis #39. Just sayin'.

Did any of you predict us to be 4-1 at this point?
Just curious.

ABC, 12:30pm Autzen.

Miracles do happen.

I have seen flashes of brilliance and awesome. However, yesterday felt like 1994.

Overall, we must be flat out bad again on the Oline. TE concept seems to be of very little use/value.

I think the play calling has been around a B-. I mean... at times... it looks like we can flow. Actually be pretty wicked. But with what I saw yesterday withthe number "bad streaks" in other games. I'm not really that confident. We have had other teams where we could just go and move the ball. Why is it that we get into so many "3-and-outs" and lots of 3rd and long?

I'm more than a little confused on why we are where we are offensively.

Thoughts?

Mild cats lost two very close games against top 10 teams—the Fuskie‘s last week and against the condoms this week in three overtimes. This game is not the gimme that I thought it would be at the beginning of the season. AZ d is improving. Plus Fifita actually seems better than Delaura.

It couldnt be any worse

Stanford takes the first set in heartbreak fashion

31-29

Allright - this should be more fun. I was gonna say congress person, but couldn't leave out Kristi Noem.

This is a tough one. I gotta go with Noem, but there are quite a few contenders.
-Lauren Boebert
-Nancy Mace
Having a brain fart - I am missing a couple of obvious ones.........

Couple of ringers:
-Ashley Hinson
-Beth Van Duyne

I know people are annoyed, pissed, even angry and that’s all perfectly valid. We should have won the game, we know it, I’m sure the players and coach know it.

There is a lot of football left, and hopefully the silver lining to this game is the players and coaches should damn well understand that being complacent or taking any lazy steps is not going to ever get the result we want, and that there is a lot of work to do and improve on. Which can be a good thing. If we are going to lose a game do it now and get focused before there are big games on the schedule.

We have a lot to clean up on o-line, reads, all kinds of stuff.

Turnovers kill. Drop passes, missed opportunities. Fix those we win.
UCLA is good.

(Channeling my inner Dick Kim)

We pretty much are asking to lose against any half decent teams

Is it ok to piss and moan now?

Or do we have to shut up and drink the crimson kool-aid?

they Jimmy Laked us. They stood up their d line in an effort and successful effort to block the vision of Ward in a pre-snap read. Arbuckle had his worse day as an OC. It happens.

Our oline is a typical Clay McGuire coached oline. The TE's nor the oline blocked anyone all day long.. for that matter neither did the WR. The last play may have been a time Mateer and Ward are in the backfield and ran it from that with a couple of options.

And I probably would have played Mateer a series in the second or third quarter. See if he could have lit a fire.

And the weather was a factor. On UCLA's first sweep TD Stone, Jackson, Hicks and Gushiken left the field. Lataimua struggled and he and Moku were on the field for both reverses.

And two key fumble in first half in the red zone, by two players who don't see the field much, Johnson and Hamilton could have changed the game a bit by being up 9-0