biggy, if you stop posting we can’t laugh at you. Food for thought.
Have you tried running your posts thru ChatGPT before posting? Can’t hurt.
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Have you tried running your posts thru ChatGPT before posting? Can’t hurt.
He loves the attention. He’s basically Lizzo with extensive knowledge of JV high school football strategy.
If you don’t post drivel, nobody will respond to you and your feelings won’t get hurt.
Why resort to the crude name calling. Just present your point and move on. You have some good points to make, but lose validity with all the name calling. Geez!
Why not click ignore and move on? Why would some of these shitbags stalk a poster, for a decade, constantly posting in their threads? Constantly CHOOSING to be involved in what they have to write when clearly they don’t agree.
If you see such little value in what some posters have to write, click ignore and move on. Don’t spend a decade being a shitbag and constsntly inserting yourself into their threads.
You know this is a message board, right? It's not your diary.
I sorta remember a certain someone threatening to beat people up not long ago. So that’s more acceptable behavior than an unwanted response to a post? Interesting take.
Yes. For example, how many times have you seen my name drug into a thread Ive never posted in? Or a thread by a poster I have on ignore? That poster should be banned.
Or here’s one… what if the ignore button worked two ways? It removes their posts from your feed and your posts from their feed. They no longer get to follow you around like a stalker.
Join the club (name drug into threads). But I think that you are really liked and your opinions widely respected, so the fawning masses can't help but try to include you in all things Coug. Revel in all the love you receive here on WW.
I go back to Biggs initial question: How does it get better? I will try to give a thoughtful reply...wish me luck.
The NewPAC is positioned as the best of the G5 (I guess it is now G6?). Wazzu has one of the highest media profiles in the G6. We actually have a brand. We need state support, similar to others coming from the MWC. So I'm going to assume we get something...if not direct support, then some behind the curtain cost relief. There are almost unlimited ways for that to happen, both transparent and invisible, and everything in between. Wazzu has more allies than you may realize, and the fact that we were clearly scr*wed by UW does not hurt our level of righteousness. So I'm ignoring that issue at present, though of course it is important.
Our NIL efforts have actually been more successful than I expected, especially considering our somewhat late start and lack of tax deduction coherency. I'm aware of family arguments over money donated, yet from what I can see we are exceeding at least my expectations. It is clear that we have some sort of committed fan base. I suspect it is bigger than most of the other NewPAC schools. If not, we are at the very least not at a disadvantage there.
The above (a recognizable brand; media recognition; better NIL than expected; and some visible and invisible government support), paired with a head coach who clearly understands the portal environment, put us in a reasonable position vis a vis the other NewPAC folks. I think we will compete well within our league. Sure, there are areas where we need improvement. Our HC is still learning. I suspect this round of OC/DC will be better than the last pair. Our time clock management will be better. The list of coaching improvement areas is long, and it is reasonable to expect at least some improvement in all of those areas. But long story short, we will do well in our new league. It will be weird; we've never been a big fish in the PAC pond, but now suddenly with the NewPAC being a smaller pond, we are a proportionately larger fish.
Also, do not underestimate the value of a "player's coach" in this environment. Those relationships help not only to manage the departures due to NIL, but also leverage our ability to attract transfers to fill the holes. And CJD is not just a player's coach; he also gets a lot of effort from his staff. Those guys recruit hard, and I expect that the replacement staff will do the same.
How does that translate to 2025? Or 2026? That remains to be seen. But our overall cupboard is not bare. We have assets. We are in a good position compared to those with whom we are competing.
Will it be better than this year? I don't know. But will it be a decent season? I expect so.
OK, guys, shoot at me.
The NewPAC is positioned as the best of the G5 (I guess it is now G6?). Wazzu has one of the highest media profiles in the G6. We actually have a brand. We need state support, similar to others coming from the MWC. So I'm going to assume we get something...if not direct support, then some behind the curtain cost relief. There are almost unlimited ways for that to happen, both transparent and invisible, and everything in between. Wazzu has more allies than you may realize, and the fact that we were clearly scr*wed by UW does not hurt our level of righteousness. So I'm ignoring that issue at present, though of course it is important.
Our NIL efforts have actually been more successful than I expected, especially considering our somewhat late start and lack of tax deduction coherency. I'm aware of family arguments over money donated, yet from what I can see we are exceeding at least my expectations. It is clear that we have some sort of committed fan base. I suspect it is bigger than most of the other NewPAC schools. If not, we are at the very least not at a disadvantage there.
The above (a recognizable brand; media recognition; better NIL than expected; and some visible and invisible government support), paired with a head coach who clearly understands the portal environment, put us in a reasonable position vis a vis the other NewPAC folks. I think we will compete well within our league. Sure, there are areas where we need improvement. Our HC is still learning. I suspect this round of OC/DC will be better than the last pair. Our time clock management will be better. The list of coaching improvement areas is long, and it is reasonable to expect at least some improvement in all of those areas. But long story short, we will do well in our new league. It will be weird; we've never been a big fish in the PAC pond, but now suddenly with the NewPAC being a smaller pond, we are a proportionately larger fish.
Also, do not underestimate the value of a "player's coach" in this environment. Those relationships help not only to manage the departures due to NIL, but also leverage our ability to attract transfers to fill the holes. And CJD is not just a player's coach; he also gets a lot of effort from his staff. Those guys recruit hard, and I expect that the replacement staff will do the same.
How does that translate to 2025? Or 2026? That remains to be seen. But our overall cupboard is not bare. We have assets. We are in a good position compared to those with whom we are competing.
Will it be better than this year? I don't know. But will it be a decent season? I expect so.
OK, guys, shoot at me.
The thing that could blow this is the lawsuits/settlements that are still out there. If it ends up that former athletes have to be paid retroactively, forget it. The liability will exceed the entire athletics budget, and we’ll become a campus that just has a good intramural program.
Eventually conferences will be gone and the link between academics will be severed and replaces with essentially "ownership" with money-making sports under private equity ownership deals. Taihtsat
WSU will be in the same boat as all the G6's and some of the P4's. Not like 60-70 schools are going to dump athletics. Not sure what the solution is though.
Yup that’s the next shoe to drop, someone buying a program like a sports franchise. I heard Bama footballs value is like $700M
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