I am guessing by now that many of you know the Cougars received a commitment yesterday
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That is VERY cool! Welcome! I look forward to Ty blowing the opposing players up, in a couple years!
Definitely cool. I've heard a million times -- and have disagreed each time -- that recruits and players pay no attention to what's said on these message boards, especially behind the pay wall. I doubt many players or recruits (or their parents) join these sites as paying members, but I know that if I had narrowed things down to a manageable number of schools, I'd definitely run through their free boards, at minimum, to get a sense for their fans and the issues (positive / negative) with the program.
I must say that with the disaster the free boards have been around here for a while, that's a frightening prospect.
I think it's great. He has a lot of energy. He's an incredibly fast player. We need players like him. He'll make an impact quickly just with the attitude he plays with.
As to players reading posts on here that's perfectly fine. A player controls his destiny much more so than what we as fans see. All they will see when they read on here are people that support the program, coach, and team, and of course a few idiots that don't support either but pretend to.
WSU is an incredible opportunity for players to see the field early and work their way onto a program that is growing.
I'm sure he saw your emotional implosion last week where you advocated shutting down the football program claiming there was no hope in the Cougars ever winning again... LOL
With all the completely negative points you've made in the past, those he can look back on, I don't know that you realize your house is made of glass, Fishie.
Hopefully only by his use of the boards, and not his play on the field, amirite?
I still think we shouldn't play games in Martin until the fans decide they want to stay the whole game. They don't deserve a home team until they make it a home field advantage. Not a home field disadvantage.
All I can say… So glad you are about the only one that thinks that…
Honestly that's what it would take for them to wake up. Front page of ESPN. Cougs schedule all road games in 2016 because fans think it's okay to leave at half time. That would be the headline and I guarantee everyone in the country would make the students the laughing stock of the college football world and they deserve that label. They deserve that level of ridicule.
I go every year. I own season tickets and donate them when I can't. I donate money. These students can't even fulfill half of their obligation, and I have no problem saying it to their face.
The press has said it publicly
The QB for the team has said it publicly
Other fans have said it publicly.
The problem isn't me. The problem is them. And everybody is talking about it.
If the press says it's true.
If the starting QB says it's true.
If other fans say it is true.
Then it is f*cking true. And if they don't want that label then they can stay the whole game.
Tron, your proposal may be a little excessive but the goal is admirable. You seem to have simmered down a bit. I was afraid that you would be in a padded cell wearing a straightjacket by this time. I have no idea what the solution is. Block the exits with barricades and rabid dogs? Somehow make them watch the second half whether they like it or not? I suspect that we may just have to accept the fact that the younger crowd is not as interested in sports as we are. This is not the first emergence of posts or even threads calling on Moos and staff to do something about it. Probably won't be the last either.
You aren't going to tomorrows game. This is the second game in a row you've railed on those doing exactly what you do.
Here's a pretty easy fix:
1. Assuming sports passes are, or can be, made with barcodes or other unique IDs, you scan them on exit.
2. If you stay at a game until the end, you're entered into a drawing to win free stuff at the end of the season. To encourage people to stay at more games, you get an increasing number of entries for attending consecutive games and staying until the end (i.e., if you attended 6 out of 6 until the end, you'd get 21 entries ... you'd get 6 entries for the 6th game). This doesn't cause anyone to say "screw it - now I won't get anything" if they miss a game, but encourages kids to keep going to multiple games. You get no entry if you leave before the end of the game or your card isn't scanned on exit.
Maybe it's free stuff for your whole frat, sorority, dorm floor, apartment building, etc. to introduce the element of peer pressure and to make it more of a situation where everyone goes and stays together.
Sure, there would be some costs associated with doing this, but I don't think it would be that much compared to the benefit of a full student section that's there all game, and they already give away free stuff in the Crimzone and at some other games just for being there at the game (not necessarily until the end).
Just like most alums I don't live in Pullman anymore. The problem isn't the people that live outside. The problem is the students that are right there. The 22000 on campus that just by themselves make up a majority of the stadium. A majority that thinks it is okay to leave at half time. And it's an obvious problem to the press, other people at the game, and players themselves have mentioned it. So go around and tell luke falk that he's wrong for mentioning staying past half time. Go tell jacob thorpe he's wrong for mentioning it.
I'm an advocate to make it exactly what it is and label them as loudly as possible.
WSU students are the type of people that will bail on you at work at lunch time.
They are the type of people that don't have pride in their culture and environment.
They are the type of people that will give you only half support.
WSU class of 2015. They should print that shirt and pass it around to the students, and if they don't like that stereotype then maybe they ought to act like people that don't fit it. They are half ass half timers and they should be labeled as such and treated as such until they decide that isn't who they are or what they want to be.
so... it's true... you'd rather lecture than lead.
I'm not sure you're 'helping' nearly as much as you think you are.
I'm not sure you're 'helping' nearly as much as you think you are.
It's better than the schizophrenic tennis match in your head. You're not a Coug. Go away.
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