Too early for "I told you so"?

[Loyal Coug1]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

 

[PeteTheChop]

Well done Loyal.

Still holding out hope Schultzie has an ace in the hole he hasn't played yet, but that window may be closing

 

[CougSinceBirth]

A reverse merger ends any fight (although with Schulz and the BoR, it's a spineless "fight") the university would be perceived to have, and would've led to way more immediate and unrecoverable fan apathy.

 

[UberCougars]

 

[UberCougars]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

So basically, if only we would’ve rolled in behind the mountain West conference Jake Dickert would’ve accepted another pay cut and turned down 25 million guaranteed from Wake Forest? Mateer would have turned down 3 million from Oklahoma? The other starters refused their NIL deals?

 

[dgibbons]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

And you still fail to realize the top half of the MWC was not interested in being in the same conference as the bottom half of the MWC. So, the conference you wanted to reverse merge did not have a shelf life.

 

[wazzucougs96]

the pac 12 money goes away with the reverse merger

 

[CougEd]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

You haven't told us how the reverse merger changes anything.

 

[SaveFerris]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

Sac State's "$50MM" NIL is contingent on them entering the Pac 12. Can you connect the dots here? The reality is there were different options but there wasn't one that was perfect. Never is, but dome of the options were likely killers.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

the pac 12 money goes away with the reverse merger

No it doesn't. Where the hell do you get that? The bulk of the "pac-12 money" is coming to us and OSU before 7/1/26. The "only" money at risk is the $30-odd million remaining from the Pac-12 NCAA BB credits which will otherwise go to us as well.

 

[OrangeGravy]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

Who cares?

 

[longtimecoug]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

yes, too early for another hat in hand approach

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Who cares?

Are you an OSU fan?

And this is a message board. If you don't care about a topic (I believe I've seen you post this comment on other occasions), then don't come here, don't read anyone's posts, and if you do read them and don't care, then simply move along.

If you think you know or think or heard something that other posters might "care" about, then start a thread.

 

[OrangeGravy]

Are you an OSU fan?

And this is a message board. If you don't care about a topic (I believe I've seen you post this comment on other occasions), then don't come here, don't read anyone's posts, and if you do read them and don't care, then simply move along.

If you think you know or think or heard something that other posters might "care" about, then start a thread.

Nobody cares about your grand plan that's unproven.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Who cares?

Nobody cares about your grand plan that's unproven.

Apparently you care. If you are so care-less, why are you posting on my thread? Twice?

And how is the Pac-2's current grand plan working out so far? We don't even have a league yet.

Also, since I care, what is such a big deal about having a few bottom feeders in our league>? Every conference has them. WSU WAS one of them. No one says that the bottom feeders have to be on TV in primetime. Look at the Cougs' recent years' TV schedules. Relegated to the Puke-12 network at shitty times as often as not.. Yeah so they dilute everyone else's earnings. That could be adjusted. Look at UNLV's MW handout (if the lawsuits fail). More money to the good team(s). Look at BSU's current media premium (BS, but it exists). More money to the good teams.

Let's look at the lay of the land as we sit here. We have BB and most other sports in the no-name (except for Gonzaga in BB) conference for this year and next. We can win the league - Yay!, but don't get to share in any NCAA BB credits even if we earn them. For this year and next. We have a bizarro schedule in FB next year. OSU twice? Really?

Do I think WSU, starting in 2025, would have been better off in a 14-team, far and away the best G5 league, with the champ fresh off of an FCS berth? And with much more of our Pac-12 cash in our pocket? Yep.

And given where we are now, do I think we should have and still should invite Sac State and their contingent $50M NIL pot, and their new stadium plans and their #20 media market and massive community support and a location smack in the middle of our footprint? Yep.

Oh and let's not forget that we have sold our soul to Gonzaga over BB. They get 1/2 of their future NCAA BB credits, and apparently get to share in our FB media money (whatever pittance that will be) and the league still pays 100% of their tourney expenses? Oh boy.

Yep, WSU is in great shape. The Pac-2 is in great shape. Lalalalaland.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

Apparently you care. If you are so care-less, why are you posting on my thread? Twice?

And how is the Pac-2's current grand plan working out so far? We don't even have a league yet.

Also, since I care, what is such a big deal about having a few bottom feeders in our league>? Every conference has them. WSU WAS one of them. No one says that the bottom feeders have to be on TV in primetime. Look at the Cougs' recent years' TV schedules. Relegated to the Puke-12 network at shitty times as often as not.. Yeah so they dilute everyone else's earnings. That could be adjusted. Look at UNLV's MW handout (if the lawsuits fail). More money to the good team(s). Look at BSU's current media premium (BS, but it exists). More money to the good teams.

Let's look at the lay of the land as we sit here. We have BB and most other sports in the no-name (except for Gonzaga in BB) conference for this year and next. We can win the league - Yay!, but don't get to share in any NCAA BB credits even if we earn them. For this year and next. We have a bizarro schedule in FB next year. OSU twice? Really?

Do I think WSU, starting in 2025, would have been better off in a 14-team, far and away the best G5 league, with the champ fresh off of an FCS berth? And with much more of our Pac-12 cash in our pocket? Yep.

And given where we are now, do I think we should have and still should invite Sac State and their contingent $50M NIL pot, and their new stadium plans and their #20 media market and massive community support and a location smack in the middle of our footprint? Yep.

Oh and let's not forget that we have sold our soul to Gonzaga over BB. They get 1/2 of their future NCAA BB credits, and apparently get to share in our FB media money (whatever pittance that will be) and the league still pays 100% of their tourney expenses? Oh boy.

Yep, WSU is in great shape. The Pac-2 is in great shape. Lalalalaland.

Your contention is that a reverse merger would have prevented the shit show at the end of this season.

At no time have you supported that with facts or opinions that explain HOW your plan prevents the mass exodus.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Your contention is that a reverse merger would have prevented the shit show at the end of this season.

At no time have you supported that with facts or opinions that explain HOW your plan prevents the mass exodus.

No, I never said that. Although I see UNLV just hired a big-name coach for $3.5M. But they didn't meet our metrics. 11-3 and a bowl win over an ACC school.

And F-yes being in a full, stable league, bottom feeders or not, best of the G-5's, would have WSU in a better place than we are now. A better place to weather whatever shit hits us.

 

[Flatlandcoug]

Too bad. Cuz here it comes, and it will keep coming for some time.

The Pac-2 should have immediately pursued the Reverse Merger as intended in the documents signed a year ago. The Alaska Air PacMtn West. I dare anyone to state that we are in a better spot right now and keep a straight face. Hell we should go back and pursue it now, on our knees, hat in hand.

Or, we should have snagged UNLV when we had the chance. They are laughing at us now. And the traitorous MW 5 are having serious buyer's remorse. $5 sez they are all talking among themselves in whispers, perhaps with Gloria listening in on the call.

Teresa Gould should never have been made Commissioner, and/or her 2-year contract should have had Duty #1 being making the reverse merger happen. She could have been kept on as an Associate Commissioner to Gloria or just cut a decent severance package. And her poaching lawsuit is a joke.

Anne McCoy should never have been made more than an interim AD. She has proven me correct.

We should still jump on Sacramento St. as member #8. At least keep travel down. They can ramp their program up in a hurry with their $50M in NIL and the vast community support they have. Some nameless directional Texas school(s) instead? Stupid stupid stupid.

So there. Feel free to kneel at the altar of the God-like Loyal One and pander to my greatness and wisdom. Oh and I've been saying all of this since Day(s) 1. Didn't just pull it out of my ass.

I get that you are mad and we all know that you believed in the reverse merger from the beginning. Regardless of how you feel though, and I mean this in the best possible way....but you are 100% wrong on this issue.

The reality is that everyone outside of the SEC and B1G is squeezing whatever they can from the current situation before the vampires in those two conferences finally break away...and part of that is creating the best situation for yourself in the long run. You aren't wrong that the Reverse Merger would have made things simpler and easier in the short term....but everyone knows that it would have been a short term solution that would be a loss in the long term, which is why it didn't happen.

The MWC is so desperate for teams that they took in UC Davis. UNLV is not laughing at us...they are pissed that they are now hitched to a joke of a conference that will be competing with the Sun Belt and MAC for being the most irrelevant in any given year. If our future Pac-12 partners win their lawsuit against the MWC (along with us), UNLV is going to be in a dire financial situation that has no solution but to eventually bail from the tattered remnants of the MWC. And that bowl game vs an ACC school is going to disappear after 2026.

Maybe Sacramento State is a viable solution....but I don't think any one of our future Pac-12 cohorts are regretting the decision to leave the MWC shitshow.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

No, I never said that. Although I see UNLV just hired a big-name coach for $3.5M. But they didn't meet our metrics. 11-3 and a bowl win over an ACC school.

And F-yes being in a full, stable league, bottom feeders or not, best of the G-5's, would have WSU in a better place than we are now. A better place to weather whatever shit hits us.

Anyone with a first grade reading comprehension can read your original post, delivered in the wake of half the starters and coaches leaving, and come to the conclusion that you were making a case that a reverse merger would have prevented or mitigated the exodus. The context, timing and literal words you wrote all point to that. To say otherwise makes you stupid or a liar, so you tell us which one it is.