Jedd Fisch Wants Steve Ballmer Involved With Washington Football
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creepycoug
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That guy is all pro sports. He used to owner control. Does he care enough about Washington to go big enough to get that kind of outsized influence?
That's the several million dollar question.
That's the several million dollar question.
Are donations to the AD a tax write-off?
PurpleJ
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This is pro sports pal, but I see the point you’re making. Anyways, money talks and if he bankrolls he gets a say in the affairs.
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creepycoug
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He may be a Dwag! at heart and I just haven't heard about it. The only thing I thing about Balmer and college is the he went to Harvard and DNGAF about college except he allows his wife to send large sums to Whoregon.
But he may be a Dwag! Someone here must know.
dannarc
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Was TwoNipples taken? Asking for a fren
GreenRiverGatorz
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Ballmer has lived here for over 40 years and has never given a shit about UW football. It's baffling that people think he would randomly start now.
Ballmer Hall, brah.
AOG
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It's because he's famous, and coached football. Fish likes anybody famous that has ever coached (or "managed" I suppose). With these credentials it's a sure thing he'll be a coach.
"Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college,[18] attended Harvard University, where he was a manager for the Harvard Crimson football team "
"Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college,[18] attended Harvard University, where he was a manager for the Harvard Crimson football team "
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Hard to believe at 68 years old Ballmer is all the sudden going to a white whale for the Program but Fisch seems to be a guy who has a charismatic personality so if he can sell Steve on a vision maybe he reaches into his couch cushions and finds 6/7 figures in bills laying there.
FireTheJanitor
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Not sure what’s going on with Ballmer but there is definitely some smoke around him right now. He can buy and sell Phil Knight multiple times over.
He has a somewhat stained name locally as the CEO who presided over the only stagnant era of MSFT stock price. He also teased basketball fans and ended up settling for the Clippers.
Fisch can sell his ass off. I can pretty easily envision a scenario where Fisch convinces him the greatest ROI for his legacy is to kick $20M a year to UW Football for the next 5 years. Point to the energy and excitement around what happened with this season and convince Ballmer the only thing UW has missed is fuck you money to bring in talent. Ballmer has ungodly amounts of money and $20M a year is a rounding error in his net worth. $20M is a shitload of money in CFB. Ballmer would pretty quickly be revered from a not small segment of the people he has always wanted to impress for whatever reason (his small dick and being a nerd): athletes and sports fans.
TurdBomber
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What's his position on Gaza?
Flirting with Seattle's monied elite is a good thing in the new Era of premier league team buying.
It's been a taboo in the past to mix money and football but UW has a shit ton of influence and deep business relationships built in.
If a bunch of hillbilly car dealers can make the SEC dominant for a decade imagine what Seattle money can buy.
It's been a taboo in the past to mix money and football but UW has a shit ton of influence and deep business relationships built in.
If a bunch of hillbilly car dealers can make the SEC dominant for a decade imagine what Seattle money can buy.
PostGameOrangeSlices
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This.
It's legal to buy a team.
So do it.
This is one of the wealthiest areas on planet earth and actually does give a shit about football.
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This is a new UW. It's not inconceivable that money that has been right here all along is actually interested in buying a piece. Maybe they just weren't allowed to before or at least not in the way they wanted.
Maybe it's just a new way of asking on UW's part. Maybe it's all just Fisch schmoozing his ass off. I don't know but things feel so different now. Openly courting big money to the football program is not something I imagined I'd see from UW as recently as last year.
Maybe it's just a new way of asking on UW's part. Maybe it's all just Fisch schmoozing his ass off. I don't know but things feel so different now. Openly courting big money to the football program is not something I imagined I'd see from UW as recently as last year.