"Mercy is a foreign language here, suffering the only dialect." I've never felt a sentence more.

NIL is a regressive tax on average fans.

I don’t know if this is original or adapted, but it really is a perfect description of life as a Coug these days.

“I don’t plan on being here forever. What I plan on doing is winning as much as humanly possible such that when I do leave, everyone walks away thrilled with my time here.”

We’re at a point where I’d have a lot of respect for a coach that said “this is a stepping stone job for me and my goal is we do well enough the next 2-3 years so I can go to a better job”. That honesty is way better than this

I’ll say this for Kiffin: he never once sat in front of a mic at ole Miss and said he loved Oxford, he was here for life, this was his dream job, etc etc. The guys that win the press conference are often far more dishonest than the ones who end up being villains.

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

Both shitty, but at least Dickert was around for a few seasons I mean he may have left sooner though given the chance. Feels like Rogers was just full of shit from the beginning. Especially with the crap coming out about how he always wanted the ISU job which is weird af but whatever.

Toss up, to me. Both horrendous for their own reasons.

The honest truth is that the toughest talking football coaches are actually scared little cowards who — deep down — are afraid they aren’t actually that good. They grab the first decent opportunity out of fear because what if another chance doesn’t come?? Cowards.

Fuck you, Jimmy. Classless clown.

not directly related but not unrelated: in my 23 years at WSU morale has never been worse (this goes for faculty, students, and staff)

Two days ago. What a colossal fucking asshole.

This is the only reason to keep going: that there might someday be a premier level to the sport and everyone else comes back to us. Who knows how long THAT takes.

Would the last person in Pullman please turn out the lights?

Hard to stay positive when the football world keeps shitting down our throats

It would be better for us to emulate Western and give up sports.

I hope Betsy has the guts to turn down the bowl and send Rogers’ entire staff packing immediately.

This is exactly the right take.

Don’t even care who we hire because if he’s awesome we’ll just be on our fourth coach in four years.

There’s no there there. It’s a completely hopeless exercise.

I hope Jimmy gets the worst case of hemorrhoids known to mankind and that he can’t ever truly get rid of them.

Here is what makes me the most mad about Jimmy: Him taking the job and then leaving now puts us in a far worse place than if he had never taken the job in the first place. He is now a net negative because we lost a whole fucking year to get ready for 2026. That’s why he can fuck all the way off.

You know, Geoff is on to something here.

Fuck off Jimmy Rogers. Loser.

Our last two coaches ran from us as fast as they could. Fuck them both, and also we should probably listen to them. We are so truly fucked at ever being relevant again. Athletics will only ever be a money pit for the university going forward.

what an absolute fucker, abandoning Wazzu after a year.

Fuck this. He knew what he was signing up for or he’s an idiot.

I have less than no interest in getting invested in anything WSU sports related anytime soon.

Fuck Jimmy Rogers. Fuck Washington for dissolving the Pac-12. Fuck all the tv conglomerates who fucked up our beautiful sport. But most of all Fuck me. Because I’m the mark.

4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors. You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️ A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.

This whole thread is sickening.

if they rule in favor of Trump, then the regime in DC will have all the power it will ever need to arrest, detain, and deport anyone it does not like as no one will be able to prove their citizenship anymore.

Still too generous to FIFA, one of the most evil and corrupt international organizations on the planet.

Option 1 plays out like this: “well actually it was only ever meant for former slaves and has been applied wrongly for 160 years so go ahead and make up new rules for citizenship”

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

The guy is literally ordering extrajudicial murders in international waters that are war crimes

2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years." 2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..." 2026: So I guess the joke is on me.

Anyone here with political aspirations, please take note. We live in an era, policy-wise where there is such a dearth of humanity that if you simply allow basic fundamental baby-brained levels of human decency to guide your policy it’s like 99% certain you’ll be goddamn Superman to the average voter

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Cougar Gold and/or Apple Cup Crisp ice cream

Absolutely. Good writing and clear thinking amplify one another. Unfortunately, the same is true of bad writing and muddled thinking.

Apropos of nothing, other than what I'm listening to this morning: Dark Matter is a great fucking Pearl Jam album. It's full of bangers. Setting Sun might be the banger of the bangers. Maybe a perfect Pearl Jam song.

Every old dumb idea in education that we end because it is dumb is eventually repackaged again as somehow not dumb

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

Way too many people enjoying use of the word penultimate tonight, imo

I wish there was a precedent for what happens when a demagogue picks out a vulnerable minority group and labels them as subhuman. I wonder what the next step is and whether any innocent people get hurt. And I wonder whether the demagogue's followers go on trial when the whole thing is over.

Fuck you if you support him.

Jake Forest lol

ESPN just showed their cards with that PR segment to explain why Kiffin leaving Ole Miss (11-1, could win a national title THIS YEAR) for LSU “gives him a better chance to win a national title.” Only Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan & Notre Dame are at the feast. You are on the menu.