Cougar Collective, 2025 and Pac-?

[Loyal Coug1]

Link below to a new Brand X article on the Cougar Collective. Color me absolutely unimpressed. I donated $100 to the BB matching campaign last Fall(?), which resulted in absolutely nothing as almost the whole team split. Now they are trying to get to their $400,000 FB matching campaign goal? Wow. Shit - Mateer and Parker alone will command more NIL money than that. Hoping that doesn't happen, with Mateer's deal with Northern Quest (which I assume is outside the Collective's efforts, purview and numbers?) Let me remind you of the $35 MILLION that the Sacramento community raised in NIL $ in a day. Shit they could just buy our entire team and have cash left over. A bunch.

And the Collective partnering with the pathetic bunch in WSU Athletics (marketing and fundraising)? Oh boy. Abbott and Costello? Dumb and Dumber?

Cougar Collective eyes potential 2025 marriage with WSU Athletics

Meanwhile, Ol' Crimson Lager covers the landscape and new coffee brews

247sports.com

Now, on to 2025. Last Thursday, we were teased with "We're putting together a schedule and there should be more news coming out here in a week or two on the next five opponents."

Ok, it's only been 5 days. Not a week, not 2 weeks. But still.

Pac-X realignment. Gotten those media deal analyses done yet? MW conference has announced that Hawaii will join as a full member, so they have their 8 teams. Pac - Just go get Sac State now and let them get on with their stadium plans and recruitment (did I mention their $35M in NIL?) and harnessing their #20 TV market and clear community support. And easy travel. Our pipe/wet dream of luring really not that great Memphis and whatever other AAC team is just stupid. We f-ed it up. Get over it. Maybe talk to them later.

Oh, and OSU sucks. UNLV will kick their ass this weekend. What a Pac partner they are.

So there. Time for bed.

 

[UberCougars]

Yup , best to sleep it off.

 

[PeteTheChop]

Link below to a new Brand X article on the Cougar Collective. Color me absolutely unimpressed. I donated $100 to the BB matching campaign last Fall(?), which resulted in absolutely nothing as almost the whole team split. Now they are trying to get to their $400,000 FB matching campaign goal? Wow. Shit - Mateer and Parker alone will command more NIL money than that. Hoping that doesn't happen, with Mateer's deal with Northern Quest (which I assume is outside the Collective's efforts, purview and numbers?) Let me remind you of the $35 MILLION that the Sacramento community raised in NIL $ in a day. Shit they could just buy our entire team and have cash left over. A bunch.

And the Collective partnering with the pathetic bunch in WSU Athletics (marketing and fundraising)? Oh boy. Abbott and Costello? Dumb and Dumber?

Finish the regular season at 11-1, win a big bowl game and the Cougar Collective might have to borrow an 18-wheeler to haul those money-stuffed envelopes to the bank.

As Biggs likes to remind us, "Just Win Baby"

 

[ttowncoug]

I give to the Collective, but they need to step it up. Compared to other schools - see OSU - we need to get out the traditional Cougar comfort zone.

 

[chugspig]

Sac St. didn’t raise 35m in one day. Those are all promises and it’s spread over multiple years. It’s a bunch of IOUs that may or may not come to fruition.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Sac St. didn’t raise 35m in one day. Those are all promises and it’s spread over multiple years. It’s a bunch of IOUs that may or may not come to fruition.

Ok, that makes sense. May not come to fruition if the Pac doesn't invite them? Ok, that makes sense. Now how does that compare to the probably south of $1M (maybe $2M if we are being generous) that the Cougar Collective has raised since inception?

 

[95coug]

Link below to a new Brand X article on the Cougar Collective. Color me absolutely unimpressed. I donated $100 to the BB matching campaign last Fall(?), which resulted in absolutely nothing as almost the whole team split. Now they are trying to get to their $400,000 FB matching campaign goal? Wow. Shit - Mateer and Parker alone will command more NIL money than that. Hoping that doesn't happen, with Mateer's deal with Northern Quest (which I assume is outside the Collective's efforts, purview and numbers?) Let me remind you of the $35 MILLION that the Sacramento community raised in NIL $ in a day. Shit they could just buy our entire team and have cash left over. A bunch.

And the Collective partnering with the pathetic bunch in WSU Athletics (marketing and fundraising)? Oh boy. Abbott and Costello? Dumb and Dumber?

Cougar Collective eyes potential 2025 marriage with WSU Athletics

Meanwhile, Ol' Crimson Lager covers the landscape and new coffee brews

247sports.com

Now, on to 2025. Last Thursday, we were teased with "We're putting together a schedule and there should be more news coming out here in a week or two on the next five opponents."

Ok, it's only been 5 days. Not a week, not 2 weeks. But still.

Pac-X realignment. Gotten those media deal analyses done yet? MW conference has announced that Hawaii will join as a full member, so they have their 8 teams. Pac - Just go get Sac State now and let them get on with their stadium plans and recruitment (did I mention their $35M in NIL?) and harnessing their #20 TV market and clear community support. And easy travel. Our pipe/wet dream of luring really not that great Memphis and whatever other AAC team is just stupid. We f-ed it up. Get over it. Maybe talk to them later.

Oh, and OSU sucks. UNLV will kick their ass this weekend. What a Pac partner they are.

So there. Time for bed.

And, the part I found most informative and frustrating....Ol' Crimson Lager is available pretty much everywhere except Tri-Cities.

 

[Coug90]

Sac St. didn’t raise 35m in one day. Those are all promises and it’s spread over multiple years. It’s a bunch of IOUs that may or may not come to fruition.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

And, the part I found most informative and frustrating....Ol' Crimson Lager is available pretty much everywhere except Tri-Cities.

I have not seen it in YakiVegas either. Although to be fair, I haven't been touring all the local grocery stores and scouring the shelves for it. My laser-like focus is on those beautiful blue mountains and silver cans. Like the one in my hand right now. Ahhh....