Who’s going?! I’ll be there w 3 buddies. Hoping the atmosphere gets our guys juiced and we do something special (although Zags are just eh this year). Will be a fun game though with Beasley packed.

30 minutes, 2 points, two rebounds. Time to sit

Just call the game.

ESPN+ 7:00 pm

As threatened by the Mighty Loyal One. Current events/issues. I expect few if any replies so don't fret over my tender feelings.... . So:

Gaetz announces that he won't return to Congress. (Good IMHO, if only so that I don't have to see his creepy eyebrows anymore). Probably get some other job in the new administration?

Other Cabinet picks - there will likely be some real theater coming up. Hegseth (link below). So according to the police report at the time, he says the sex was consensual (even though he paid a settlement to her) and admitted that he ejaculated on her stomach. Wouldn't that be an abortion crime in Texas? Just the shit that I would like to read about myself 7 years later.


Linda McMahon (soon to be abolished Dept of Education) - lied about having an education degree? Meh so what. WWE wrestlers vs current students or 51% of Americans? IQ tie......

Tulsi Gabbard - I don't care what others think, she's hot. I really like her "Rogue from X-men" gray streak in her hair. She'll probably be fine.

Pam Bondi, new AG pick - she's also pretty damn good looking for a 59-year-old woman. After Gaetz, she should be confirmed no problem.

Kristi Noem, Homeland Security - again, she is smoking hot for a soon-to-be 53-year-old IMHO. Are we sensing a Cabinet trend here? I read somewhere that her first agenda item will be to deport all tribal members from the country. Starting with South Dakota tribes. Not sure where she will send them. Since they originally migrated from Siberia I guess that's a logical destination (If you don't get the joke, read up on where she is banned from all tribal land in her home state). Oh and dogs? Yeah they will get deported. But killed with shotguns first. Then airdropped over Haiti as relief food supplies.

So riddle me this - if Trump's Cabinet nominees are held up, does that mean the Biden Cabinet stays in place until that time? So could they huddle with JD Vance and invoke the 25th amendment? A couch in every living room! Yes I know, everyone already has a couch.

All that said, I look for a real clusterf*** come January and after. I boldly predict that many of the Trump/Project 2025 agenda items will face pushback from the Republicans after the potential impacts start affecting their constituencies. Further, the promised retributions may have little traction. Who will be left to retribute against other than stripping Dan Newhouse from all committees and moving his office to a latrine?

Ukraine? They will be dead to us. Europe had better already be ramping up missile, ammo, etc. production.

China and North Korea? I don't have a pun or prediction for them. Now we are talking some serious shit. I'm more than a little nervous on this. Although I am kind of cool with tariffs on China. We don't need their plastic shit. Although don't our solar panel components mostly come from there? Well that industry will die anyway under Trump. Don't buy their shit, and don't export any more food after they retaliate. Starve 'em to death. And since our #1 export to China of any kind is soybeans (fun fact, the crop originated in E. Asia), hah hah all you Blue state farmers who grow them! Uhh, wait........let me check that......

Getting out hustled a nd badly beaten on the boards

Glowing article on Wells.

Come on Cougs! Let up on the turnovers and take some shots inside on occasion!!

Cougs making this a game.

Hope you get the trick in the Title. We need more stories like this one about a great little guy.

OK, Cougs are fully staffed. Thoughts on our new staff position "Mental Performance Director"? Another Jackrabbit BTW.


As for coaches:



A dozen Jackrabbits and a handful of other FCS coaches. All in all, precisely zero FBS experience other than a couple of short Grad Assistantships. And is it just me or did WSU expand the coaching staff by 2-3 (not counting Grad Assistants)?

I guess the good news is that I can now stop picking on this assortment until, say, November? Or at least until after our three P4 matchups. I'm sure my highly thought-of analyses and commentary on this topic will be missed.

As an aside, advance condolences to our Asst AD for Inclusion and Belonging for soon being part of the upcoming DEI purge.

I’m only watching for the commercials

https://x.com/kristiormand1/status/1887911927554392366?s=46

Here is a nice article regarding Coug baseball.

I sat down to read the Local Voice (Oxford) this morning and came across this article about the economic impact of Ole Miss football has on the local economy. I sprayed coffee around the room. Ole Miss has many similarities to WSU, from its small town nature, its extreme isolation and surrounding poverty. Yet, they are on a different plant in terms of economics. Ole Miss football brought in $325 million dollars to the local economy in 2024. Imagine the Cougs doing that? A third of a BILLION. We'd be in Big 12 right now. The Cougs can't even dream of doing this. First and foremost, there's nowhere to spend that type of money. And we all know the best place to spend game weekend money is across the border. There is a lack of everything. Hence, the beat the traffic post game dash. However...

WSU, Schulz and the fans, bear our share of responsibility, but that responsibility also largely is on the the shoulders of the biggest freeloader out there, the city of Pullman. Downtown Pullman is in a sad state, Far worse than when I was in school in the 80s, and it wasn't good then. You don't have a (now defunct) plasma center as an anchor tenant. It screams poverty and desperation. I suspect my youngest chose CPP to study engineering this year over WSU (despite being initially very gung ho) because there was/is no "college town" in the traditional sense, and you are 80 miles from Spokane.

The city needs to get its act together, starting with the "better" than Moscow action plan (which it should always have been). It is time for a fundamental mindset shift. If the status quo is continued, imagine the what downtown Pullman will be like with WSU as a decade long member of the G5!

If, finally, there is the now or never action plan by the community, we know our duty is to support the shit out of it, just like Rebel fans do. But the city need to know something has to change to prevent the impending athletics/city of Pullman death spiral.

...win championships.

An area Leach gets very high marks in;
1) Recruiting at least 5 in each class.
2) General development and coaching.

Seahawks need to get rid of Schneider who is on the record of saying basically the guard positions is plug and play. (Don't need to invest).

Rubio landed, had a cup of coffee and left with another win before lunch. (For those of you still locked in an intellectual struggle with downloading the X app and can’t read this, let me know. I’m here to help!)

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Wow. Didn't know that!

I got to see the first impacts of Trump's threatened tariffs that are supposed to happen today. I had a construction project bid yesterday and the cost per lineal foot of 8 PVC pipe jumped 33% and will increase the cost for future residents of the subdivision by about $20 per month. I was told that the price bump was in anticipation of higher pipe prices when the project goes to construction in a month. #winning

Roger's is out recruiting a semi blue blood in Nebraska that offered South Dakota High School 3 star, 6-6 236 pound, 400 yards receiving HS freshman recruit, that chose Rogers, WSU, over Nebraska that offered.

It's a high end 3 star, 3.5 star recruit.

That recruit can play TE, O Line, D End, Middle linebacker.

But oh no sky is falling, WSU doomed, WSU, Rogers, can't, won't be able to recruit, lol, NOT.

With recruiting like this, and outrecruiting, beating out semi blue bloods like Nebraska, WSU will gradually, eventually semi dominate the G5 ranks, lower to semi mid ended P4 programs, especially if this type of high level recruiting continues to happen at least semi consistently.

We will see what happens, but this is definitely a awesomely good start.

All I can say is a win is a win. Nice comeback but we're not good right now.

Good outing. Took them to OT before losing 73-69.

Hate to interrupt the discussions on the Panama Canal, tariffs, and the like, but here's the new pres:

Hate to start yet another political thread, but I got home and ran into both of the articles linked below. I'll summarize for the Attention Deficit patrons here. This is F-ing hilarious. And frightening.

So, a Federal Judge barred our pal Elon from accessing the US Treasury payment system. Now, read the article quote below.

"The US government tried damage control by telling the court that only two D.O.G.E insiders had access to Treasury data: Tom Krause, CEO of Cloud Software Group, and 25-year-old coding prodigy Marko Elez. But that clearly didn’t sway Judge Kollar-Kotelly."

OK, nice try. But, it turns out that that this Marko Elez is an unapologetic racist and resigned today after being outed. Couple of his social media posts:
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,”
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September, a Wall Street Journal review of archived posts found. “Normalize Indian hate,”

And this guy had clearance and access to personal information on what - 100 million Americans? Of course Elon is South African, so we already know how he feels about dark people.

And you wonder why some have TDS........