Like what Race alluded to, DEI meant that a fat bald midwestern piece of shit was given one of the cushiest AD jobs in the country. He showed up, was given some purple reign cigars, then Fisch was served up to him on a silver platter by UCLA, and then he made the easiest termination decision in the history of UW basketball.
This is why Twitter is unbearable too. Everything bad that happens you have retards spamming DEI and cougs spamming 'Half Share'. It's fucking exhausting.
The half share stuff is real in the short term. It means we need to zero base budget everything in order to grow the pie as big as possible or get left behind when the next wave of alignment comes up. The athletic department has been built on being in the top 25-30% in terms of revenues relative to its direct competition. It's easy to get lazy and focused on the wrong things in that environment. I fear what AMC will learn from this ordeal is that she needs to make sure the next AD is an even better fit than Dannen to the existing culture, but what she should have taken from this is that the culture needs to shift to match the moment and that business as usual will not work.
I think we are going to fuck this up.
If UW isn't taking any of the loan stuff that the B1G set up for them, then money isn't an issue. Besides some extra basketball facility they don't have any major projects which is what these full share schools are blowing their wads on. And it's been exposed by several coaches that facilities don't matter nearly as much nowadays.
The half-share thing is a butthurt coug narrative. It's hilarious how a half-share is so critical for the cougs, but a 15 mil, zero exposure Apple+ deal would've saved UW from being is this pretend financial crisis.