Montlake Futures Interview - KJR/Softy

[haie]

I transcribed it the other day…

WE WANT MORE OF YOUR MONEY

This is the first thing that I just don't even want to have to explain.
"So what's this 100$ charge I'm seeing every month to 'Montlake Futures'? Is that some new husky site subscription or something? Some kind of husky Fab Fit Fun box?"
"No, it's so we can pay this 18 year old edge rusher's dad so that 2027 will be special"

 

[HFNY]

The way I see it the value proposition that Montlake Futures (and honestly the AD as well) is making to raise funds is to pull at heart strings and kind of guilt trip people into donating

The AD is run by retards. Hope this helps. It's only been obvious
We have our very own guilt monger here Husky new york or whatever
People don't invest in shitshows. I wonder how many phone calls were made to keep DeBoer

@HFNY true?

At any rate, as several of posters said before, it doesn't seem as though UW is as poor as the dawgman crowd would have you believe. Maybe we? just don't know how to spend it well.

Ha. If UW sees a comparable 6,500 people donate $25 a month, that's about $2 million a year. If UW wants to spend $20 million on the roster to keep up with the billionaire backed teams, that is 10% of it from non-mega boosters and non-Tyees.
So yeah, it would be nice if Race clipped more coupons and gave $25 a month to Montlake Futures.

 

[haie]

One thing that is also irritating is why the fuck isn't the Montlake Gold NIL lager at every fucking QFC in the state? At least Western Washington? I'm not stopping at U-Village to load up on shitty beer, they need to make that more available.

 

[HFNY]

The issue with NIL and what they want the average fan to do is when pussies like "Coker" say stuff on X like "It's really frustrating for the AD when fans tell them to just go to the boosters."
For real? A ton of the non-booster fans have spent tens of thousands of dollar on the program the last couple of years.
They aren't even offering anything for the money, just 'Please hook your credit card up to our website for auto-payment'.
Beer, coffee etc is a good start, but they need to start getting creative.
Does anyone think the UW AD is run efficiently or that or that they've done everything they can to prepare for the revenue sharing? Have they cut any sports or departments or spending? Probably not. So asking fans to bail them out just comes across like your typical university begging for money shit that every alum has grown tired of.

Agree with you. The idea of a true collective built by average fans is a nice idea but ultimately a pipe dream. A few issues. This town is a ridiculously expensive city to live in and there are many people here who are making a couple hundy and hanging on by the skin of their asses to their little $1.3 M 95 year old house that needs shit done to it and paying Seattle's 20 mile long list of taxes. If they have season tickets and are buying $9 beers and $7 hotdogs and $95 Adidas sweatshirts, that's about all you're going to get out of them. So then it's guys like me, and some of us are working on the second home or a bigger boat and helping kids live in Boston and paying for Pomona and winery weddings and other stupid shit and we? are only going to give so much to a machine that should be running itself. And then you have the tech bros. Some of them went to UW, but many did not. This town is full of people from somewhere else, and they just DGAF. And among all Tech Bros, you have a healthy population of scarf-tards (not being funny; that's a real thing) and guys who @YellowSnow and his band of goons beat up behind Kane Hall or had sand kicked in their faces in high school by football players and thus are hostile towards sports. Don't even bother soliciting that crowd.
So, yeah, go after more big boosters, ask more of them and lick their toes clean; and run the department better. All of this evolution should result in fewer non-revenue sports across the board at many schools.

It's depressing to me to consider how much money is required to field a competitive college football product in 2025 vs, say, 1993.
What was DJ making in 1993 - like $400K? According to my beloved BLS.org CPI calculator (hi @pawz ) that's like $888K in 2025. So less than $1 million for a HOF coach and $50,000 loans for Billy Joe. Now we're paying $7 million to get a coach "on the cheap" and $15 million a year to talent acquisition. It's a sad state of affairs if you ask me and poor allocation of our nation's collective wealth. And all because some rich fucking alumnus wants to talk shit to some other rich fucking alumnus.
People forget row boat was the canary in the coal mine here. Back in my day, there were no schollies for men's crew and almost all the top athletes were US nationals. Along comes Rick Cronk, the Dreyer's Ice Cream Barron, who asks Cal corch Steve @Gladstone what he needs to quit losing to hated Washington. Steve says give me an endowment to fund 16 full rides so I can recruit elite HS rowers from Canada, Australia, Germany, UK, etc. Next thing you know, CAL reels off 4 Natties in a row and the sport was never the same. Axe @whlinder what those dark times were like until UW followed suit.
Rick Cronk (2014) - California Athletics Hall of Fame - California Golden Bears Athletics

TV money helped lead to this too.

 

[HFNY]

One thing that is also irritating is why the fuck isn't the Montlake Gold NIL lager at every fucking QFC in the state? At least Western Washington? I'm not stopping at U-Village to load up on shitty beer, they need to make that more available.

Safeway too, for us pours.

 

[haie]

One thing that is also irritating is why the fuck isn't the Montlake Gold NIL lager at every fucking QFC in the state? At least Western Washington? I'm not stopping at U-Village to load up on shitty beer, they need to make that more available.

Safeway too, for us pours.

Or preferably one of the 50 WSU owned bottle shops around me. I'd buy some Ole Crimson lager as well if they wouldn't be cunts about it.
I just thought it was only sold outside the stadium at QFC right now. It might already be in Safeway or I may have heard that wrong on one of the podcasts.

 

[YellowSnow]

Moore's Law changed the game on tv ad revenue for sports @HFNY.
If you wanna sell beer and pick up trucks, you gotta get your product placed next to live sports. No one watches network TV anymore except for sports.

 

[YellowSnow]

One thing that is also irritating is why the fuck isn't the Montlake Gold NIL lager at every fucking QFC in the state? At least Western Washington? I'm not stopping at U-Village to load up on shitty beer, they need to make that more available.

Safeway too, for us pours.

Or preferably one of the 50 WSU owned bottle shops around me. I'd buy some Ole Crimson lager as well if they wouldn't be cunts about it.
I just thought it was only sold outside the stadium at QFC right now. It might already be in Safeway or I may have heard that wrong on one of the podcasts.

I haven't seen any Ducktard Lager here in Wakanda yet. But I did have some Ducktard IPA at McKight arena in the fall.

 

[Joey]

Begging and guilting common fans for money just show how busted the sport is getting. My family already buys 10 season tickets, merch, concessions, gas to and from the stadium, parking, cable and YouTubeTV fees to watch away games. It's enough. It also just shows a real and enforced salary cap and a player union type of thing needs to be installed. The players won't want the union because now they have a great setup where JAGGY players are getting a bunch of money because of artificial scarcity so it would kind of have to be forced on them.
The rivals driving up costs thing is real too. For example, had we just stayed in a Pac-12, we would have probably been able to get away with spending less except that we'd constantly be fucked with having to compete with Oregon overpaying. Michigan is probably in the same boat with Ohio STate.

It's not like @Joey is driving a brand new fucking bus down to Husky Stadium.

It’s just never enough, bro

 

[Joey]

I don’t even want to do the maff on how much our family spends on UW football as it is. The main cash cow is WoolleyDoog SR but WoolleyDoog and I contribute via parking, food and beverage etc. Not to mention one of my best friends that goes on our bus 2-3 times a year that buys 6 tickets. Also another business partner of senior’s that buys like 4 tickets. It’s just never enough. NEVER. ENOUGH.

 

[Joey]

Also the price of diesel in the last administration’s eco…. Alright save it for the TUG

 

[haie]

I don’t even want to do the maff on how much our family spends on UW football as it is. The main cash cow is WoolleyDoog SR but WoolleyDoog and I contribute via parking, food and beverage etc. Not to mention one of my best friends that goes on our bus 2-3 times a year that buys 6 tickets. Also another business partner of senior’s that buys like 4 tickets. It’s just never enough. NEVER. ENOUGH.

Unless you're just hellbent on not buying anything in the stadium, you can't walk out of there without spending over a 100$.
Combine the fact that the U-District in general has become shit for pre-game places: Ram is gone, Bigtime is fucking impossible unless you get there 3 hours before kickoff, Same with Shultzy's, Dutchess/Ravenna brewing are super inconvenient. Other couple dive bars on the ave are way too packed with visiting fans, etc.
You're forced into the Zone paying 16$ per NIL beer. And that is by design.
If you go into the merch store which I do every time because I'm drunk, you're walking out with like 200$ spent on a few t-shirts and a hat.
In my experience UW is dead last of the 4 northwest schools when it comes to this.

 

[dannarc]

Joey’s?

 

[creepycoug]

Joey’s?

I was eating there the other night with my wife. They definitely hire from a very narrow range of girls, with the token exception in there because the lawyers told them to. My wife was like, "enjoying the scenery?" The whole time I'm there the line from Mo Greene kept popping into my head, but instead of Fredo it was Sark:
"He was banging cocktail waitresses two at time!"

 

[YellowSnow]

Joey’s?

I was eating there the other night with my wife. They definitely hire from a very narrow range of girls, with the token exception in there because the lawyers told them to. My wife was like, "enjoying the scenery?" The whole time I'm there the line from Mo Greene kept popping into my head, but instead of Fredo it was Sark:
"He was banging cocktail waitresses two at time!"

You do not come to U Village and talk to a man like @Joey like that!!

 

[WoolleyDoog]

I don’t even want to do the maff on how much our family spends on UW football as it is. The main cash cow is WoolleyDoog SR but WoolleyDoog and I contribute via parking, food and beverage etc. Not to mention one of my best friends that goes on our bus 2-3 times a year that buys 6 tickets. Also another business partner of senior’s that buys like 4 tickets. It’s just never enough. NEVER. ENOUGH.

Unless you're just hellbent on not buying anything in the stadium, you can't walk out of there without spending over a 100$.
Combine the fact that the U-District in general has become shit for pre-game places: Ram is gone, Bigtime is fucking impossible unless you get there 3 hours before kickoff, Same with Shultzy's, Dutchess/Ravenna brewing are super inconvenient. Other couple dive bars on the ave are way too packed with visiting fans, etc.
You're forced into the Zone paying 16$ per NIL beer. And that is by design.
If you go into the merch store which I do every time because I'm drunk, you're walking out with like 200$ spent on a few t-shirts and a hat.
In my experience UW is dead last of the 4 northwest schools when it comes to this.

yeah but does it feel better when some recruit or portal guy is on the hook and they go to somewhere like Missouri or TCU and the line is there’s just no way we can compete financially?

 

[Tequilla]

I don’t even want to do the maff on how much our family spends on UW football as it is. The main cash cow is WoolleyDoog SR but WoolleyDoog and I contribute via parking, food and beverage etc. Not to mention one of my best friends that goes on our bus 2-3 times a year that buys 6 tickets. Also another business partner of senior’s that buys like 4 tickets. It’s just never enough. NEVER. ENOUGH.

Unless you're just hellbent on not buying anything in the stadium, you can't walk out of there without spending over a 100$.
Combine the fact that the U-District in general has become shit for pre-game places: Ram is gone, Bigtime is fucking impossible unless you get there 3 hours before kickoff, Same with Shultzy's, Dutchess/Ravenna brewing are super inconvenient. Other couple dive bars on the ave are way too packed with visiting fans, etc.
You're forced into the Zone paying 16$ per NIL beer. And that is by design.
If you go into the merch store which I do every time because I'm drunk, you're walking out with like 200$ spent on a few t-shirts and a hat.
In my experience UW is dead last of the 4 northwest schools when it comes to this.

yeah but does it feel better when some recruit or portal guy is on the hook and they go to somewhere like Missouri or TCU and the line is there’s just no way we can compete financially?

Hurtful

 

[haie]

I don’t even want to do the maff on how much our family spends on UW football as it is. The main cash cow is WoolleyDoog SR but WoolleyDoog and I contribute via parking, food and beverage etc. Not to mention one of my best friends that goes on our bus 2-3 times a year that buys 6 tickets. Also another business partner of senior’s that buys like 4 tickets. It’s just never enough. NEVER. ENOUGH.

Unless you're just hellbent on not buying anything in the stadium, you can't walk out of there without spending over a 100$.
Combine the fact that the U-District in general has become shit for pre-game places: Ram is gone, Bigtime is fucking impossible unless you get there 3 hours before kickoff, Same with Shultzy's, Dutchess/Ravenna brewing are super inconvenient. Other couple dive bars on the ave are way too packed with visiting fans, etc.
You're forced into the Zone paying 16$ per NIL beer. And that is by design.
If you go into the merch store which I do every time because I'm drunk, you're walking out with like 200$ spent on a few t-shirts and a hat.
In my experience UW is dead last of the 4 northwest schools when it comes to this.

yeah but does it feel better when some recruit or portal guy is on the hook and they go to somewhere like Missouri or TCU and the line is there’s just no way we can compete financially?

Yeah exactly. Where the fuck is the money going?
I can live without purple light shows and whatever else.

 

[digits]

Wait I thought Pat Chun's best attribute was that he's an amazing fundraiser?
The same thing was said about Sundress Jen

How many times has Chun been public facing since taking the job? It doesn't seem like it's been often

Lazy hire, hopefully he'll be gone soon. Most recent thing I read about him was he congratulated Dickert on his new job on X. Couple that with him saying "Go Cougs!" on X AFTER being hired at UW, and he can go ahead and fuck off.

 

[YellowSnow]

I don’t even want to do the maff on how much our family spends on UW football as it is. The main cash cow is WoolleyDoog SR but WoolleyDoog and I contribute via parking, food and beverage etc. Not to mention one of my best friends that goes on our bus 2-3 times a year that buys 6 tickets. Also another business partner of senior’s that buys like 4 tickets. It’s just never enough. NEVER. ENOUGH.

You got that right.