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The backbone of this area is on hard work and a humility of how each of us are a cog in the success of a team, etc.
As you mentioned, HOF caliber Seahawk players like Marshawn or Bobby Wagner have been tied to Beacon Plumbing
Cal Raleigh had a 1 of 1 season in the history of MLB and his...
Here's why I disagree ... was trying to be brief for you :cool:
If you go back and watch that game the UW OL was getting pushed around the balance of the game by the Michigan front and even when they ran I wouldn't say that there were meaningful holes being created which is also telling because...
You aren't competing with millionaires
You need people with net worth's in the $100M+ range to have the kind of "fuck you" money to contribute to sports as a passion project to even be meaningful ...
And of course the elephant in the room to that is that the people with that kind of money need...
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Arch Manning has a couple of national advertising spots that enable him to make significant NIL dollars ... but he's also a unique situation because of his family name/legacy and the ability to leverage family members in those spots.
For national campaigns you've got to have high-end...
I don't think UW is doing a good job of putting compelling business cases in front of the businesses to sign off on them
I'm not on the inside to be able to say where the disconnect is although I've opined both here and on X/Spaces
There are advantages to UW to be able to leverage local...
The problem with the commercials with Costco is that for that external NIL component to be paid through Costco requires Costco to feel like that money is a positive ROI to them to shell out the money
I think it's pretty clear that that's a big disconnect between UW and any Fortune 500 type of...
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The issue with you as always is a lack of nuance and understanding ...
I don't think anybody would try to say that the situation that DeBoer took over at UW (4-8 with the Jimmy Lake meltdown) was better than the one that he took over at Alabama (St Nick's roster and coming off a CFP Semi...
To this point DeBoer's been a big loser in the portal with a lot of key losses plus key NFL departures
It's setting up for potential disaster year for DeBoer and hard decisions being discussed
You had to be an idiot to not see the 2016 UW season coming
The litmus test for that team was the early PAC game at Arizona given the disasters that we always had down there and its timing as a massive trap game ...
As soon as we found a way to win that game it was always going to be a...
10 years ago success in college football was largely dictated on some combination of 1) geography, 2) history, and 3) ability to look the other way and spend money under the table
Today, the free flowing of funds has largely reduced the impact of geography and stabilized "approved" spending ...
For UW (or anybody in this era) to be good going forward you need the following:
1. You need upper campus to be invested in the marketing/branding that athletics can have for the University as a whole and have alignment on how upper campus can leverage athletics
2. You need an Athletic...
Jedd's counting on the balance of the replacements and upgrades coming in with young talent either coming in and playing as freshmen or those on the roster (that stayed) taking leaps forward
Given that the best programs are stockpiling both talent and age ... you're already looking at some...