Because we’ve done it this way for 100 years. If we stay P5 it’s a non starter unless it’s a home/home. They are the ones that bolted, they don’t get to dictate.
They claim they want the apple cup to continue, that means home and home only. If not it isnt the apple cup any longer
I understand the passion and your point. However, a soldout Apple Cup in the Seahawks stadium will pay us more than a soldout game in Pullman, and put more money into the athletic budget. I would only consider it if ALL Apple Cups are played there, no more Husky Stadium if they don't come to Pullman.
Here's the deal. The vast majority of the people who have moved to Seattle in the last decade are tech employees, thanks to Google, Facebook, Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft and T-Mobile. Not to mention the thousands of other tech startups and companies. Boeing hardly makes a dent anymore, but you do have Blue Origin and SpaceX here too.
Yeah UW will. And they will also say they should get 60% of the gate or some bullshit just like they did when this was proposed many years ago and thankfully we held firm and told them to piss off. Hopefully our present leadership will have the same fortitude although I’m doubtful right now.
Tesla's and Prius's. Every time I see one I just want to ram them. But don't want to hurt my precious Subaru. Guess I need to drive my Silverado more often.
For Eastern Wa kids that want to get away for college it’s close enough to drive home for a long weekend but definitely outside the reach of their parents. Boise is a great city. Lots less zombie drug addicts wandering around than most west coast cities, lots of young people and a lot of new buildings on campus. I think they do have some pretty solid under grad degrees in programs like Construction Management but agree, academically it resembles EWU. Like 95 said, pretty easy to get in- fair amount of kids that can’t get into uw go there instead of WSU. It’s a lot harder to get the WUE there than Uof Idaho which is a better school in almost all regards mostly bc they aren’t hurting for students at all.
Once you take the emotion out of it, rotation between Pullman uw and Lumen would work for me if you split the tickets at Lumen 50-50. Don’t know if uw woukd agree with that but it could work. Whoever we end up with a media deal with is going to push really hard for that game, the ratings speak for themselves.
despite the academic reputation everyone I’ve met from BSU is pretty smart. I’m gonna say this and it may not be popular…college is what you make of it, when it comes to undergrad there’s no difference between UW or Cal than there is WSU. I’m fact I’d argue if you are motivated WSU is better in some ways, smaller classes and easier to collaborate with teachers and TAs. I’d think the same probably applies WSU : BSU for undergrad. Grad school is a whole other beast.
They might initially. But if we end up as a G5 or equivalent with a $5M deal, UW is going to stomp us continuously. You think that’s gonna continue to be interesting and draw viewers? I’ve been to like 13 of the last 15 ACs. So you know I’m a sucker for pain…and I won’t go or watch it. If we can stay P5 all bets are off and I’m for it if we can keep it fair.
Most schools - state schools, that is - focus more on out of state students than they used to. Those students pay more. International students are even better, because they pay cash.
My position will continue to be we should not play in Seattle, and certainly not regularly.
It's not that the networks care about where the game is, but in 3-5 years when we're going through the alignment shuffle again, having an annual sold-out game in Seattle and the network ratings to go along with it carries a lot of weight. What other programs in the AAC/MWC hybrid have such a game? Boise has no natural rival. Neither do SDSU or Fresno. WSU needs to "out media" the other teams in our league and be able to say (prove) that our program represents the Seattle market.
We have no more bullets in our clip. No more Aces in our hand. If someone offers us an annual game in front of 50-60K fans in the major metropolitan city we claim to represent, we're going to take it.
Agree on the 50/50 split, but NET is going to be significant. Once we sign into the new league, we’ll never play a P5 school in Pullman again. We won’t walk away from Apple Cup willingly.
we didnt walk away, they did, if they demand all games in seattle the apple cup is over, even if we play them there the spirit of the apple cup is gone.
For those of you who don’t believe our educational system is in desperate trouble I present to you exhibit a) a paranoid Google U Scholar who distrusts formal scientific education and professional expertise. Ladies and germs welcome to the age of the dumbing of America.
