1. Legacy hire

2. Hates losing

3. Decades of coaching experience

4. Won’t waste time recruiting scholarship players

5. Won’t allow NIL

6. Will force Vantage/ Ellensburg and Othello into fierce competition for the new 80,000 seat state of the art stadium

7. Negotiate exclusive world wide rights deal to stream all games on X

8. Profit

9. Prophet

... Dickert lasts at Wake Forest?

I'd say 3 seasons.

It's a tough job.

He will be richer for it, though.

Ok, WSU just pissed me off yet again….

I got an e-mail message (some of you probably did too) showing my CAF rank and begging for money before the end of the year. I guess it caught me in my post-Christmas, Friday off sort of mood, so I did it.

Problem #1 - followed the link, ended up on the donor site and went to look at the available donation options. 404 error - site not found. A donation/solicitation site should NEVER have links that don’t work. But yet, WSU’s always do. If you’ve pulled a donor to your site and they can’t explore options…you lose donors. Guaranteed.

Problem #2 - Ended up finding what I was looking for, where I learned that if you donate to CAF for anything but unrestricted use, your donation doesn’t count for CAF membership (Caveat here, different areas of the site have conflicting info about whether the “unleash excellence” academic support fund counts). So, if you donate to the CAF you’re not a CAF member unless you let them decide how to use the money. It’s also a problem to have conflicting info on a donation site…this will also cost you donors.

Problem #3 - looked past all this stuff. Made the minimum donation to unrestricted CAF to maintain my membership and priority, and put the rest into academic support. Then went to the checkout page and found that they’re tacking on 5% fees to cover Advancement’s handling and expenses. I don’t recall ever seeing that before. WSU has long made it difficult to give them things, but now they’re actually charging me to give them money??? This damn near made me cancel the whole thing.

I used to know a VP in Advancement who told me that WSU’s donor system is the most backward he’d ever seen. You’re supposed to make it really easy to donate, especially cash. And if you work in Advancement, if you’re not bringing in at least 5x what you cost, you’re failing. Apparently he didn’t pass that lesson along.

went from really bad to Biggs needing to suit up to play DT

Hour and 50-minute series finale at 8PM. Much as I have loved the show, it's kind of good riddance. Costner and Sheridan screwed the pooch by killing off John Dutton in absentia. Good luck with your already failed epic, Kevin.

So, the Amazing Kreskin-like Loyal predicts the finale. The Yellowstone is given to the Broken Rock tribe. All the other wrap up details? No idea. I'm sure we will get a heavy dose of 6666 advertising along the way.

Speaking of 6666, if it ever hits the airwaves I predict a big flop, even if they bring in Matthew McConaughy. I have no interest in watching a bunch of cowboys riding around in the dust in N. Texas. And Jimmy as a lead? I never understood how he lasted so long on Yellowstone. He is not exactly a charisma-laden character. No way would those two hot chicks pick him in real life.

And Sheridan? Still don't know whether I like him or hate him. I see he has become a recurring character on Lioness (I just started in on Season 2). I don't know how he has time to do all this TV work as he clearly spends about 3 hours in the gym every day.

As far as a rumored Rip and Beth Yellowstone spinoff? I'm not seeing it. While I have enjoyed her character a lot, I'm over it.

In the good old days, the Cougs had virtually no chance to compete. Prior to 1977, there were no scholarship limits and no revenue sharing. The rich schools like USC just Hoovered up the talent. They had players who never suited up, who were recruited simply to keep the likes of WSU from signing them. There was also the NCAA's version of the "reserve" clause, making transferring virtually none existent. Also we got to play USC away and away. We went 30 years effectively without a home game against them. The UW was little better. We got to host them in Spokane, or not at all. So when you look back at Sweeney and Clark's W-L records keep that in mind.

I'm just glad that for a time the Cougs were given a chance (neutral conference scheduling, shared TV revenue, and an 85 scholarship limit), we stuck it out with the recruiting highs and lows of Mike Price, and we got to the Rose Bowl twice as a result. I just don't see us having a similar chance to compete anytime soon.

In no order...

1) Restore Cougar Club Chapters and empower clubs to build an outreach network in their communities. Make this chapters nationally: EG Florida Cougs, So Cal Cougs, etc.
2) For non-revenue sports, create a pipeline of local athletes. I tend to think if WSU baseball was full of Washington kids, it would create more local interest and buzz.
3) Consideration of west side sporting events. Football is not a fan favorite, why not soccer or baseball as an example? Cougs could play a series at Cheney Stadium. Rainiers would support it. Think May when school is out. I drive by Cheney Stadium on HW16 every day along with like 70K other cars. The visibility would be great.
4) I don't know the cost, but the Spring game in Spokane was a good idea for exposure.

What would the Cougs regular season record have been with these players and these coaches from last nights game if they had an entire season to jell?

OC play calling was significantly better than with Arbuckle. The effort was better overall. O line was decent. Hall was a liability but maybe these coaches could have coached his mistakes out over time? Zev threw 2 ints but that's to be expected in a first start. If he had an entire season? Who knows. Overall, I thought he had better touch than Mateer.
I'm gonna say 10-2. Don't forget we had one of the easiest schedules we've ever had.

SDSU is playing well.

The "Coug Raid" ran by Dickert was basically a read option where Mateer wanted to run. Zero mesh route concepts and it seems pretty easy to defend.

I hope we move to a different version of the Air Raid (closer to Leach's version) with using the QB and RB running plays more when the defense drops 8 into coverage.

Defensively, we just need to focus on fundamentals and simplifying things is my read.

what happened to your wannabe alpha daddy? he so easily gets cucked by an immigrant.

I would rather have Wulff

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So here you have the state of Louisiana directly funding NIL for LSU (and other athletes... yeah).

I'm sure the mutts will figure out a way to work the system like that as well, meanwhile Anne and Kirk will continue to wring their hands and promise to continue to compete at a P5 level while slashing the budget to FCS levels.

One last run!

Portland is up first. Sort of like the way that the WCC does these with one road game and one home game during the period.