What's Your Toxic Doog Opinion?

[Tequilla]

My doog ifs have all been stated. That UCLA loss still stings. Ed Cunningham has brought it up multiple tims. Notre Dame who was ranked #1 lost earlier in the day to Tennessee. #2 ranked UW just had to win, at home, against one of the lesser UCLA teams of that time.

It was a bad weather day and then you add on the Lewis injury and it just amplified things … it was a day that the D needed to be at its best and frankly they weren't.
I think most people don't really remember how hot/cold Brunell was as a QB at UW … he got a lot better once he got to the NFL and learned for a few years in Green Bay before heading to Jacksonville.

 

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The B1G always had the LA schools and Washington in their cross-hairs, from Day 1, they just knew it would be worth it to wear down UW over a couple year period so that they wouldn't be paying full price for all new Pac members.
And Oregon was the "yeah it's probably going to be them" candidate to go with UW but they wanted to make sure ND was still a No.

lmao

When Oregon starts approaching any school that's even half of what UW is doing in terms of research revenue, we can talk.
Michigan and Washington practically stand alone in this conference in that regard. Anybody that doesn't think that matters, a lot, to those schools, not including the athletic history with them that Oregon doesn't have but UW does, wasn't paying attention.

I acknowledge that UW has phenomenal research revenue. Do you really think athletic conferences give 2 shits about that in this modern era? I don't. They may want schools that fit a certain mold: big, R1 universities. But beyond that, I don't think they care.
Stanford and Cal are the elite of the elite in terms of research revenue and the B1G had zero interest.
Just be a large, R1 university and you're in as long as your football team brings big TV ratings.
The answer is sports revenue. What was the question?

 

[haie]

The B1G always had the LA schools and Washington in their cross-hairs, from Day 1, they just knew it would be worth it to wear down UW over a couple year period so that they wouldn't be paying full price for all new Pac members.
And Oregon was the "yeah it's probably going to be them" candidate to go with UW but they wanted to make sure ND was still a No.

lmao

When Oregon starts approaching any school that's even half of what UW is doing in terms of research revenue, we can talk.
Michigan and Washington practically stand alone in this conference in that regard. Anybody that doesn't think that matters, a lot, to those schools, not including the athletic history with them that Oregon doesn't have but UW does, wasn't paying attention.

I acknowledge that UW has phenomenal research revenue. Do you really think athletic conferences give 2 shits about that in this modern era? I don't. They may want schools that fit a certain mold: big, R1 universities. But beyond that, I don't think they care.
Stanford and Cal are the elite of the elite in terms of research revenue and the B1G had zero interest.
Just be a large, R1 university and you're in as long as your football team brings big TV ratings.
The answer is sports revenue. What was the question?

Do you really think that AD is the only thing factored in here?
lol the answer is not strictly sports revenue. If it was, Oregon would be taken to task on what their numbers look like when they have down years or when the spigot gets turned off. But they haven't been. "Are you UW's Chief rival" was their one box to check.
I understand that the alarms that go off in Anne Arbor when a research factory like UW gets mentioned for realignment do not make a sound on campuses like Oregon and Ohio State.

 

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@haie
I obviously don't because I clearly stated that schools needed to be R1, large universities. But that's it.
Oregon is an AAU, R1 university. Why the hell would the B1G care about research revenue beyond these classifications?
Does the B1G get money from UW's research expenditures? How much of UW's research grant IDC rate includes B1G "taxes"?
I'll answer for you. Zero.
Ps fuck you vanilla

 

[haie]

Schools don't need to just be R1. That's something that schools like Oregon and Oregon State assert. Not Michigan.
Yeah who said that the B1G athletic conference needs to get direct cash for a 1B research school like Michigan, who fucking RUNS them more than Ohio State even, to be like, "Hey, when it comes to raking in hundreds of millions with practical stem research, we now have an incoming peer if we take Washington "
You quooks are around 2 years behind on this topic.

 

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Schools don't need to just be R1. That's something that schools like Oregon and Oregon State assert. Not Michigan.
Yeah who said that the B1G athletic conference needs to get direct cash for a 1B research school like Michigan, who fucking RUNS them more than Ohio State even, to be like, "Hey, when it comes to raking in hundreds of millions with practical stem research, we now have an incoming peer if we take Washington "
You quooks are around 2 years behind on this topic.

Ok, die on this hill if you must.
I think we can agree UW isn't in the B1G because of its mascot.

 

[haie]

Schools don't need to just be R1. That's something that schools like Oregon and Oregon State assert. Not Michigan.
Yeah who said that the B1G athletic conference needs to get direct cash for a 1B research school like Michigan, who fucking RUNS them more than Ohio State even, to be like, "Hey, when it comes to raking in hundreds of millions with practical stem research, we now have an incoming peer if we take Washington "
You quooks are around 2 years behind on this topic.

Ok, die on this hill if you must.
I think we can agree UW isn't in the B1G because of its mascot.

It's not even a hill and no one's dying over this.