This will be a great week to play well.

Second half WSU/SJSU will be the only game in America’s living rooms nation-wide!

WSU 44 - SJSU 27

Ok, nothing groundbreaking today except that the Six-Pac meets this week (tomorrow), apparently to discuss next steps in expansion. Here's my thoughts:

• Ole Miss and 2025 schedule. It has been quiet for WSU on the scheduling front. If Teresa/Anne can cobble something decent together, I will rescind my negative opinion of them. Somewhat. Wake Forest dropped the Ole Miss away game in favor of an away-and-home with Oregon State, which WF said was more lucrative. Not sue how visiting OSU is more lucrative than going to Ole Miss, but hey. So WSU should be talking about going to Oxford as a replacement game. With 3 home games so far, I think WSU will be lucky to land 5 total. If we have to play two FCS teams (already have Idaho) that will suck, but I see it coming
• Memphis and Tulane. I don't want them. Too far away, and don't tell me they are a better catch than UNLV. Plus, I can't stand the thought of Mik rubbing my nose in it for ridiculing his notion of luring them in for months. But all the chatter is about them this week
• UNLV and AF. This is the no-brainer to get to 8 teams. Especially UNLV. There must be something going on behind the scenes here. They are smack dab in the middle of the Six-Pac. How can we possibly not get them on board? But IMHO that means getting another MW team. I don't see any of these Eastern prospects (T/M or the Texas possibilities) coming alone. So get UNLV and if AF won't come, then Wyoming or whoever. One bottom feeder won't kill us. More important to get to 8, take a breath, get the 2025 schedule hammered out and consider other schools at our leisure. But UNLV is a must have, even if it means taking Reno too.

I will admit I have been an instigator of some of these f-ing political threads. Ok, as of now, no more.

Can we just get back to talking about our Cougs, and get away from this crap? I am embarrassed to be a fellow Coug to some of you. You sure as F aren't anything like the guys (and gals) I knew when I was at WSU. Or since.

I will make it my mission to get in contact with Rivals and try to fix this spam shit. Let's just get back to talking about our Cougs.

Has the game tomorrow?

I know I could probably figure it out

I'm hearing that less than 1,500 tickets are left for the game tomorrow night. If true, this is a great sign, especially for a Friday night game. I know it's parents' weekend, but I would be pleasantly stunned if we can sell it out.

Don’t call it the Apple Cup

GFC

Just flying home from a great weekend in the PNW. The overall game experience was great. Pioneer Square was rocking pre-game, and seemed to exceed expectations. I was at the Elysian Brewery across from Lumen Field pre-game and they essentially ran out of beer, with only two taps still running out of probably +40! Lumen is much more comfortable than either campus stadium, and it seemed about 40/60 Cougs/Huskies. The fans were loud during the game but overall pretty chill- almost like we were guests at someone else’s house. There were definitely fewer students there for each side- UW hasn’t returned yet from summer break. The weather was very fall-like and it really felt like the Apple Cup to me. It was also so nice to be mentioned on ESPN, and all the other networks, for playing a big game and winning a big game, and not just as a victim of conference re-alignment or for waiving a flag a mind-numbing number of times.

Going forward the AC is going to be A LOT more important for us, because non-conference scheduling is going to get a lot harder. Every coach said it was nearly impossible to get Power 5 conference teams to travel to Pullman when we were one, and now its going to be next to impossible, once the currently scheduled games are played. Beating Wisconsin, Texas Tech and Washington out-of-conference is going to cement the message not to play WSU at home. If anyone glanced at the Texas Tech message boards after last weekend, the fan hatred was split 3-ways between their coach, their QB and their AD for scheduling such a “horsesh*t game”. Regardless who else joins the Pac12, this is the most important event in WSU sports, by about 100-fold. Continuing this series is a huge gift to WSU, and winning this game was honestly as much fun as any Apple Cup I’ve been to, and I’ve been to a lot.

Schulz said the 2025 schedule should be announced in the next 2-3 weeks. Looks like we already have 4 home games (6 games total) that should draw good crowds. Would be nice if Cal and/or Stanford would do us a solid. Same with a few MWC teams.

Idaho
San Diego State
UW
Oregon State

at North Texas
at Virginia

Why were they not invited (yet)? Or were they, and they said no? The UNLV/UNR "package deal" hypothesis is out there but doesn't seem to be the reason - but maybe it was. Regents are saying they didn't deep-six it, they don't know anything apparently.

So WTF happened? UNLV is an absolute no-brainer and should have been the first or second invite. UNLV fans think we dogged them and don't want them. I don't believe that. This needs to be fixed. I dunno who else we will invite, but UNLV HAS TO BE the next one.

Wreck Tech.

Go COUGS!

Thought maybe we could leave the trainwreck thread behind and start a new one. I'll be glued to the sett tomorrow (Tuesday) as I'm sure much of the nation will. This will be a good one. Trumpe, etc. whining loudly about the ABC moderators. C'mon - it's the answers that matter not who is asking the questions.

Harris has to do what Biden couldn't. Goad Trump into losing it on stage, call out his lies calmly and specifically, and avoid an alphabet soup of statistics and figures. And above all stay calm. Don't be afraid to cackle a bit at his lies.

Trump? Staying coherent and on tpoic would be a key strategy. Not lying might be another. Don't count on either of these.

Oh and I will remain glued to the set for the subsequent Reichart-Ferguson gubernatorial debate. I think Reichart has the best chance to pull off a win since the fist Rossi-Gregoire train robbery election. I'm voting for Reichart BTW.

KREM

Owners (since 2019) are retiring, so the place is available again.

Ingested many calories there during my time in Pullman.

Let me know, I’m buying!