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Chuck in the Morning 9/3 H1: The future of the Apple Cup, Mariners Morning After and ICYMI Rick Neuheisel. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, great morning to you. Welcome in to this Friday
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  Speaker 1: edition of Chuck in the Morning. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. Happy Friday to you
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  Speaker 1: all as we get things started here. I was 15
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  Speaker 1: seconds late because somebody decided to turn off all the
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  Speaker 1: computers in here. And I didn't know how to turn
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  Speaker 1: them back on. So Ashley saved the day. I got
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  Speaker 1: the computers on, but I just now got logged in.
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  Speaker 1: That's why there was the delay. Why do I tell
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  Speaker 1: people this? No one would have even known.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no one would have noticed.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no one would have noticed.
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  Speaker 1: But I do. I do. I feel like I'm obligated.
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  Speaker 1: Great morning to you all. It's good to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us as we get ready for a full weekend
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  Speaker 1: of college football. It is already underway. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know by now that the Apple Cup will be
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  Speaker 1: played on Sunday. More on that in a moment. We
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  Speaker 1: will also tell you what's on tap coming up here
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit, which will map up this entire
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  Speaker 1: Friday show and get you ready for The weekend, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is the fall here? I mean, it was pretty nice
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  Speaker 1: last night. It was pretty nice, that little breeze coming through.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I sat outside with a blanket and a glass
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  Speaker 3: of wine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 3: And the Mariners game on.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I ruined that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 5: Then it got a little chilly, so I put on
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  Speaker 5: the heat lamp and hung out there until about 8
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  Speaker 5: or 8.30.
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  Speaker 1: I like the sound of that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was great.
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  Speaker 1: Got a little chilly and turned on the heat lamp.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: It was great. Had the leftover soup.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: You know how to do it these days.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. I'm crushing it in life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're living the life I want to live.
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  Speaker 3: People need to pay attention. I know.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking notes, for goodness sake. I take this home
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  Speaker 1: every day. And I say, see? See how she's living? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: see what she's doing? What are we doing wrong here?
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  Speaker 6: A lot.
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  Speaker 1: I just have a window open. Lots wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Lots wrong.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I'm at in my stage of fall preparation.
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  Speaker 3: You need to actually go outside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. I did go for a walk. It
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  Speaker 1: was like perfect, perfect weather conditions last night for a walk.
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  Speaker 1: So it was great.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, did that as well.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome in to the show. And yes, we do
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  Speaker 1: have a lot to discuss today, including the Mariners truly
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  Speaker 1: laying an egg again last night. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: we even try. We'll get to that in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lead a Friday show with that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the Apple Cup to get
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  Speaker 1: us started. And it's not like I'm bearing great news.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not some beacon of optimism here for you to
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  Speaker 1: start our show. Yeah, I might delay the Mariners' conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But as we discuss the Apple Cup on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: we've talked to all sorts of people this week, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to more people before the show comes to
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  Speaker 1: a close tomorrow, I mean, it's very clear that it
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  Speaker 1: just isn't the same game that it used to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's very clear that many people are disenfranchised, disenchanted with
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  Speaker 1: where it's at at this point. And yet, it still
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  Speaker 1: is going to be more interesting than not when the
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  Speaker 1: two teams meet on Sunday at 1 o'clock. And frankly...
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  Speaker 1: and this to me is the point to make here
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday, getting ready for Sunday. Um, I think
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  Speaker 1: you're going to run out of these. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there are many left. I think that as angry as
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  Speaker 1: you are with the process and maybe that you do
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  Speaker 1: want to see it go away. If you're a Coug
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  Speaker 1: fan or if you're a Husky fan and your approach
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  Speaker 1: to it is, um, I don't need this game anymore.
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  Speaker 1: We're now in a Big Ten conference. We can't schedule
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  Speaker 1: a really mighty opponent right now because we have a
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  Speaker 1: rivalry game that gets in the way. If that's sort
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  Speaker 1: of your approach, then maybe there is a different way
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  Speaker 1: to do the schedule going forward. Let's face it, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to There's a 23 and a half point spread
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas in this game on Sunday. Two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: the Cougs beat the Huskies.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're three years into NIL. Three years into NIL, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that's starting to take hold. I think I heard Dick
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  Speaker 1: and softy go over the size differential between the two teams.
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  Speaker 1: They like went player for player on the, on the
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  Speaker 1: lines yesterday, just to illustrate how much different it's gotten
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  Speaker 1: in the span of three years. And that gap's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to get larger. Um, and so I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that a kook van wants the rivalry to exist in
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  Speaker 1: that fashion. I think that a Husky fan has already
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  Speaker 1: moved on to the new college football world without the Cougs.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that from a financial standpoint, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be very difficult for both of these programs to
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  Speaker 1: even justify this game. From the Huskies' perspective, they have
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  Speaker 1: to host at least seven home games a year. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you play in a such a large conference and
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  Speaker 1: you're playing nine conference games a year, that's an odd number.
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  Speaker 1: So some years you're going to host four conference games
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  Speaker 1: and some years you're going to host five. Now, somebody
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  Speaker 1: might say, well, perfect. Then on the years you host four,
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  Speaker 1: then you host the Cougs. And then when you are on,
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have the, the five, uh, Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have the four, when you have the five,
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  Speaker 1: then you... Or whatever, you know what I mean. Then
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  Speaker 1: you go on the road. You just alternate it based
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  Speaker 1: off of.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't have to be the same every year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. When you have the different amount of home
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  Speaker 1: games in conference play. But then the Huskies' perspective on
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  Speaker 1: that is, well, that will prohibit us from ever really
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  Speaker 1: scheduling a big home-and-home opponent. Because the only way you're
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  Speaker 1: ever going to play, say, a Tennessee... You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to just get them to come to your place every year.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want that as a resume builder, if
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  Speaker 1: that's where we're at right now with the college playoff,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know how large that's going to get, then
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  Speaker 1: playing that home-and-home with them could potentially take away from
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  Speaker 1: your abilities to host those seven games. And I think
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  Speaker 1: every team still wants that cupcake game, and I still
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  Speaker 1: think everybody– wants a little bit of scheduling flexibility, Um,
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  Speaker 1: and with nine conference games that hinders you. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think if the Huskies continue with it, their thought
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  Speaker 1: is we never leave Seattle to play this game. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're the Cougs, your thought is no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We need that game to come to Pullman every other year.
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  Speaker 1: Cause that's a great moneymaker for us, uh, in our community,
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  Speaker 1: as well as for our program. And we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to spend a rivalry playing on your turf, uh, every
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  Speaker 1: single year. And I get that argument. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a really fair argument. But the rubber might have to
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  Speaker 1: hit the road on this. And with the discrepancy in
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  Speaker 1: the talent and the even rarer opportunity for Cougs to
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  Speaker 1: actually win the game, and I don't think any Coug
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  Speaker 1: fan wants to see this turn into a bloodbath every
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  Speaker 1: single year with every 20 years we might pull an upset.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that that's a world that Cougs want
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  Speaker 1: to sign up for. And I think that the Huskies
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  Speaker 1: have already jumped on board the new college football era.
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  Speaker 1: And if you aren't making the money that you need
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  Speaker 1: to make, you cannot compete with the Ohio States, Michigans,
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  Speaker 1: and others in the world. And so that's going to
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  Speaker 1: take precedent over 118 years of tradition just to keep
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  Speaker 1: a rivalry alive that the opponent is not happy about
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  Speaker 1: to begin with. So, Long story short, there are just
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  Speaker 1: so many factors working against this game remaining. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you're going to have many more. So maybe you
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  Speaker 1: do push aside all the things that make you upset
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  Speaker 1: about it, especially Cougs fans, and you just soak up
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  Speaker 1: the last couple. And the next one's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday. And who knows how many there are going
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  Speaker 1: to be beyond that. And there's a chance. There's a chance.
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  Speaker 1: You're alive. Huskies haven't seen a Kirby Moore coach team before.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the element of surprise working for you from
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  Speaker 1: that standpoint. And the discrepancy, as I said, between the
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  Speaker 1: talent is probably only going to get greater over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd say as hard as it might be to do,
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  Speaker 1: you might want to save her. because I honestly don't
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  Speaker 1: think that this game is going to be played much
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  Speaker 1: longer into the future.
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  Speaker 5: I liked what Coach Neuheisel said the other day when
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  Speaker 5: he was talking about that when, was it the ACC
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  Speaker 5: or somebody has another TV contract up, then there would
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  Speaker 5: be some maybe more realignment and things might go back
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  Speaker 5: closer to how they were versus having West Coast teams
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  Speaker 5: and conferences that are on the East Coast and that
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  Speaker 5: could bring it back. I will say with this Big
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  Speaker 5: Ten having to play the nine games, you look at
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  Speaker 5: the Husky schedule and all those easy games that they
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  Speaker 5: play in September, easy, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because you could lose any of them. They're all at home.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the one thing I don't like. Your September
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  Speaker 5: schedule is like every single weekend is a Husky game
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  Speaker 5: at home. Then you only get two in October and
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  Speaker 5: one in November. And I'd wish that it was just
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  Speaker 5: a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit more balanced. And I don't know. I wonder, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Could you just not schedule Utah State? You know, if
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  Speaker 5: you wanted to schedule a big home-and-home, could you not
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  Speaker 5: schedule the Utah State? Because you have Wazoo, Eastern Washington,
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  Speaker 5: and Utah State.
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  Speaker 1: Again, though, but if you have now two of those
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  Speaker 1: where you have to do home-and-home, like if you have
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  Speaker 1: the Cougs and then you add another home-and-home, there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason why the Utah State always comes to you, because
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  Speaker 1: they just want the payday.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: They want the experience. So that's non-negotiable. When they take
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  Speaker 1: on the Utah States and Sacramento States and others of
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  Speaker 1: the world, it will be at Washington. We're not coming
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  Speaker 1: to Pocatello, Idaho.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So if you have two of those on your schedule,
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  Speaker 1: because you're not going to get Tennessee just to come here.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to say like, Well, you got to come
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  Speaker 1: here too. And that's, that's where it gets hard because
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  Speaker 1: now we've got a balance two, two, and we got
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  Speaker 1: three non-conference opponents and two of them are going to
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  Speaker 1: be home and home series. And, and, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think any buddy in the rivalry. Well, I know that
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  Speaker 1: the Coug side does not want this to be the
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  Speaker 1: cupcake game, the homecoming game. I mean, I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: and I understand that. I don't think a Washington state
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  Speaker 1: fan wants to suffer the indignity of Of Washington treating
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  Speaker 1: the Washington State game, the Apple Cup, like, well, there's
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  Speaker 1: our guaranteed win going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they shouldn't treat it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's just it. It's probably going to turn into that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's where NIL and modern college football, that's
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  Speaker 1: where it hurts you. Because in the past, a Coug
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  Speaker 1: could get a Ryan Leaf and he develops into one
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  Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in college football and gives you
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  Speaker 1: every bit of a great chance of beating the Huskies.
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  Speaker 1: Now you develop a Ryan Leaf, he's gone to Texas
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  Speaker 1: the next year because he gets more NIL money. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any genie being put back in
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  Speaker 1: the bottle. I mean, yes, I know two years ago
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  Speaker 1: that the Cougs pulled off the upset. But that was
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  Speaker 1: also the very first year of NIL. They still had
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  Speaker 1: John Mateer on campus. That was the closest that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talent-wise for a long time going forward,
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  Speaker 1: unless the rules change, unless the conferences realign again.
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  Speaker 3: Which would be great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't see that world happening. And if
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  Speaker 1: it does happen, I think a lot of other things
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  Speaker 1: about college football will have broken by that point. And
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  Speaker 1: it might not look anything like you remember... when you
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  Speaker 1: really did relish the glory days of the Apple Cup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, it's just going to be difficult, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's going to be out for their own best interest. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they already are, yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to change. The Huskies' best interest is we need
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  Speaker 1: to make money in our non-conference games and maybe have
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  Speaker 1: an opponent that helps our resume to help us get
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs. And that's probably not going to be
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  Speaker 1: Wazoo in future years. Mm-hmm. And for the Cougs, their
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  Speaker 1: thing is, hey, if this is our new world and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to try to make the best of it
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  Speaker 1: and we have new rivalries, I don't need the annual
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  Speaker 1: reminder that our rival went to the big conference, we
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: were left behind, and now our reminder of our history
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  Speaker 1: is a 45-point blowout every year that their fans treat
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  Speaker 1: as their cupcake game, their homecoming game. Those factor in
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  Speaker 1: as well, and I understand it completely. And so I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean to spread doom and gloom. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is more of, I don't know how many more of
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  Speaker 1: these you're going to have, and maybe you should watch
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  Speaker 1: the last couple. And who knows, maybe there will be
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  Speaker 1: a major upset. And this is not just the way
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  Speaker 1: of the world today in college football, but when I
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: grew up, and I grew up in the Midwest, And
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: I realized that they call Michigan, Ohio state, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: rivalry in sports. And it probably was growing up, but
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, the two best programs in
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  Speaker 1: college football were Oklahoma and Nebraska. And the thought of
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  Speaker 1: those two not playing every year, cause they were in
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  Speaker 1: the same conference. The big eight back then was, oh yeah, right.
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  Speaker 1: Like they would ever not play one another. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: when Nebraska had a chance to move to the big 10,
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  Speaker 1: Rivalry was dead. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State no longer play every
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  Speaker 1: year because they're in different brackets now.
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  Speaker 6: It's sad.
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  Speaker 3: It's really sad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. I mean, and Oklahoma State's still in
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  Speaker 1: one of the big conferences, but they're not in one
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  Speaker 1: of the elite two conferences anymore. And the discrepancy was
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  Speaker 1: too much for Mike Gundy and Cowboys fans to take.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to play you if we're not operating
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: close to the same rules and resources and opportunities. If
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: you're going to have even more advantages over us, I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: don't want to live in that world. And so they
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: severed the game and they moved on from it. And
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that that's exactly what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen here as well. Unless some major changes that we
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  Speaker 1: don't foresee coming brings us back to the world of yesteryear.
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  Speaker 3: I did love it in yesteryear. I wouldn't mind.
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  Speaker 1: You did love yesteryear? I did.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Great time to be alive.
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  Speaker 1: You graduated in yesteryear?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I did.
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  Speaker 3: And college football was great at that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yesteryear, those were the glory days.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and you had all those great friends of yours
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and you hung out all the time at the Taco
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  Speaker 1: Bell after the games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd meet at the days of yore.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What a time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Remember when you were necking with that boy
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: from yesteryear?
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: No, because no one made out with me in high school.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: It was some of the... Great romances that you ever have.
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  Speaker 1: He taught you how to love is what he did.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: You should be appreciative.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You learn something from everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know. Yeah, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: a culmination of several conversations that we have had about
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  Speaker 1: this rivalry and this particular game over the course of
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the last three years. And now that the game's being
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: played on a Sunday afternoon to start the season, I mean,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I guess there's a chance that, hey, there's a new
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: home for the Apple Cup. This is a good idea.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: We're going to have the entire national stage to ourselves.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: There's not another game interfering with this one. That's never
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: happened before. One o'clock on a Sunday before the NFL
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: gets started, but then again, I don't think the other
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: factors are going to hide from us going forward. And
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: so I don't know how many more there are going
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to be. And it's easy for me to say because
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't grow up here and I didn't grow up
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: with the rivalry and I can't really relate to what
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it's like to be a Coug fan. And frankly, I'm
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: wearing a Washington Huskies sweatshirt and working for the flagship,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: but I can't even really relate to what it's like
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to be a Huskies fan with this rivalry either. I can't.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Not really. I can't. Um, and yet just from an
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: observer's standpoint, somebody that, you know, kind of study sports
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: for a living, that's, that's how I read the tea leaves.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: And so I don't know, we'll see. Um, but there
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: might be precious few of these remaining and maybe we
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: should savor them. Maybe we should get together coogs and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: dogs on Sunday, have a beer together, you know, in
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the parking lot and, uh, enjoy the football game. And
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: maybe Husky fans won't rub it in if they win
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: by 30. And maybe Cougs fans understand that, hey, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: don't have many more times to tell my Husky fan
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that he's a jerk. Or my Husky friend that he's
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: a jerk.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: They could do that forever.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So maybe that's how we treat it here the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: next couple of years. But yeah, times, they aren't a changing.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: They have changed.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
• 19:00
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• 19:19
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• 19:23
  Speaker 1: side today with X's and O's at 9. I think
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk Seahawks football as well, though, with Hugh,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: so we'll see. I mean, we'll at least ask him
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: about the Apple Cup. I know that much. It's college
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: football week number one. There were games last night. Nice job,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Antoine Raymond Rutgers. Way to get me off to a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: great start in my Big Ten Fantasy League. That was horrible.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: And then no one took K.J. Duff, and he was great.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Probably should have done that. May rectify that
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in the future. Colorado won over Georgia Tech 14-13. Coach
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Prime gets an opening day win. against a pretty good team,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: pretty good program in Georgia Tech. Tonight, you've got football games.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You've got No. 7 Miami at Stanford. You've got Fresno
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: State at USC. Tomorrow, the big game is Clemson-LSU. Tune
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in because there's a chance Dabo Sweeney and Lane Kiffin
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: will fist fight at midfield, so that'd be awesome. Sunday,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you've got Notre Dame against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field. How
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: about that? And that's at 4 o'clock. That's after the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Apple Cup. And then that game will go head-to-head, pretty much,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: with a Nashville-hosted game between Louisville, the 24th-ranked team in
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the country, and Ole Miss, ranked No. 9. So Labor
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Day weekend is always week No. 1 of the college
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: football season. They spread it out for the entire weekend.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: So enjoy a full slate of college football for the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: first time in 2026. We are five days from the Seahawks' opener.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell's going to join us today at 7.05 to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: discuss all the latest, including an update on Nick Emanwari's injury.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: He's got five more days to get the healthiest he
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: possibly can and maybe play against the Patriots Wednesday night.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: The Koslas deal went through. It was finalized officially yesterday,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and so they are now owners of the Seattle Seahawks.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Nothing more will get in the way. We are also
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: on Labor Day weekend. It's fantasy football weekend. There are
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: going to be drafts going on everywhere, so we'll pay
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: attention to that a little bit later on in the show.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Sounders back in action with Dayon, their new star. They'll
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: take on Red Bull New York at 5.30 tomorrow evening. And,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of course, we have a baseball team that returned home
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and struck out 18 times against a minor.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: League pitching staff last night.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: They lost 7-4 to the A's and also dropped a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: game in the standings. And so six games back, 21
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: games to go. Mariner's Morning After comes your way next.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Tough one last night.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: So.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, we now have both Wahlbergs represented in our Mariners
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: morning after.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: It seemed appropriate. I liked the listener's suggestion yesterday.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good one.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: It's a good one.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, anything tough related after a loss, I think we
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: could play. Yes.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's versatile.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Well, great morning to you. It's Chuck and Ashley. Of course,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you got to laugh or you'll cry. The Mariners playing
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the A's last night. We spent a lot of time
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: talking about how to survive the gauntlet that was their
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: toughest stretch of competition over any given month this season.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: There were highs and lows in surviving that gauntlet, but
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: they did come out the other side with a pulse.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And you thought, well, 22 games to play against the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: worst competition anyone's going to face the rest of the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: way record-wise. A lot of teams that are at the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: bottom of the standings, and usually teams at the bottom
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of the standings in September, have already started looking forward
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to next year or have injured players that they're not
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: going to risk at the end of the season. And
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the A's, they epitomize that. Already a bad team. 31
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: games under 532 going into last night with nearly every
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: star player that they have. Kurtz, Langeleers, Wilson. That's long.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: All unavailable to them and have been for quite some time.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And so you were pretty much facing a bad team's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: triple-A team last night. Now, Ryan Healy warned us, these
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: teams can be dangerous. because these guys are fighting for
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: jobs next season. They're trying to impress their manager. They
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: might play harder than a normal team for those reasons.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: They certainly aren't going to hand it over to you.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And last night, you would have thought we faced Nolan
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Ryan for nine innings, taking on the A's starting pitchers. Now,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it started well. Kate Anderson sure gave up a home
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: run in the first inning to make it 1-0 A's,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: but in the bottom of the first inning, I mean,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: after scoring at least eight runs in all three games
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: at Boston, our team came out hitting the baseball. A walk,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: a double from Julio, a single for Cal, a single
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: for Cole Young, a Montez single scores Cal. It was 3-1,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and did you not have the thought, Ashley, like, oh
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe that we're so on fire.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that we're going to score another eight runs. Maybe
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: we won't stop there.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you thought for sure that that's the type of
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: night that it was going to be against the A's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and Jack Perkins and a slew of minor league relievers
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that were in store to face the Mariners. But in
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the first, I choose to play this
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: highlight for a reason because already three runs in, already
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: up 3-1, everybody feeling good about things, bases were loaded,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: two outs, and you still had a chance to tack
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: on more runs, and yet the rest of the game
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: was potentially embodied by this.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Backs pack, two outs, ball and two strikes to Rodden.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Raley and Canzone this year, their first career Grand Slam. Rodden,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: it would be his first career home run. Does he go? Yes,
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: he does, and now! A play at the plate, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: Young is tagged out.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was interesting. You don't see that one too often.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: He went to.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Tag him, too. So, that's how it ends. A nine-batter
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: first inning.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: The Mariners, three runs, and the latest driven home by
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: this guy, Lance Montaz, in his T-Mobile Park debut. Mariners TV,
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: that was Aaron Goldsmith on the call, and you heard
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: our friend Ryan Healy in there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: There he was.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: He got a little bit in on the highlight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt like I couldn't leave him out now.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I think it's in his contract that he has to–
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: if he's on the game, I've got to at least
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: have one word from him.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I would have loved if you bleeped it out, but
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: only if he was listening. If I knew he was
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: listening and you just bleeped out.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: His– Just cut that part out or just like– turned
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: it into Charlie Brown's teacher.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: Right, right.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That would have been funny.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: That would have been hilarious.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, only you and I would have laughed.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: But that's all that matters.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Why I do this is for my own entertainment.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Well, Brock Rodden struck out swinging, and so that was
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the end of the inning. And I'm certainly not laying
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: anything on Brock Rodden's shoulders, but I say that that
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: sort of represents the night because the team only scored
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: one more run the rest of the way. They struck
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: out 18 times.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: 18 strikeouts.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I wonder, is that a season high?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: 18 strikeouts. Season high in this, we're so glad to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: be home. We're facing this weaker competition. Can we put
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: together a run? And it starts by striking out 18
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: times against AAA pitching. 14 runners left on base last night.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, what a crap way. To start this crucial
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: stretch where you have to be playing great baseball. Four
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: for 16 with runners in scoring position. That means 16
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: at-bats with runners in scoring position, and yet we scored
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: one run in the last eight innings and struck out
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: 18 times.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is why we talked about yesterday.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: We have no idea how to predict what this team
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: will do because they should have come out and dominated.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: And you would think the A's had all the stars.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Especially their pitching.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Especially the pitching. Yeah. Here's Dan Wilson afterwards. You know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: tough one to start. Oh my gosh.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: You know, I thought early on, you know, we came out, uh,
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: put a lot of runners on base, um, you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: getting hits and, and driving them in. Uh, we continued
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: to get traffic, um, just weren't able, you know, to, to,
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: to bring them home. And, and, uh, you know, as
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: we got into the game deeper and deeper, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: it ended up costing us and, um, you know, a
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: lot of runners on, um, but just, you know, not,
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: not a lot of, um, times that we were able
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: to get him in to kind of add on to
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: that lead and give us more cushion.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I thought Cade, he competed out there today.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: It looked like he had a little trouble getting a
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: good feel for his breaking ball, whether it was a slider.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: I thought the changeup was pretty good, but the slider
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: was kind of up in the zone a little bit
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: and just couldn't find a good landing spot for it
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: and got behind a little bit.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: But You know, still competed, gave us the five innings there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: And, you know, just as we got into their bullpen,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: you know, continued to get stymied there and, you know, just.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Weren't able to. He needs to be zapped every time
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: he says it. Like a little, yeah, a little buzzer. Oh,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to say that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I think this is worth talking about with Kate Anderson. Because, again,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he's not been bad. He wasn't bad last night. But
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: he's not what he was yesterday. In Arkansas, and I
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: mean that literally, it's one of the underappreciated things. A
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: guy that pitches with feel and location and perfect change
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of speeds and can throw the ball wherever he wants
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and can deliver any of his pitches in any count
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: because he has confidence in them, this is something that
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you can't predict. They use different baseballs. in the minor
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: leagues and the major leagues. And sure, they're structured the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: same and they have seams and everything else. They're not
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: using like a glow-in-the-dark orange softball at AA Arkansas. But
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: since he's come to the majors, his RPMs on his
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: spin rate have dropped like 200 per pitch.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Incredible. Like, incredible. Yeah. And the amount of break that
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: he's getting on his pitches has not been the same.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And he's having a difficult time as a field pitcher
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: getting a feel for baseballs he's never thrown before. Shiny,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: major league baseballs. The type that people fight over to
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: get in the stands. And you don't think about that
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: when a guy gets called up. that maybe he's going
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to have a little bit of difficulty with the grip,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and he's not going to be able to execute the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: way he's comfortable executing. And he'll get the hang of it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: He'll get the feel for it, I'm sure. And he'll
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: eventually get to the point where he can throw any
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of his pitches wherever he wants. But he kind of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: relies on that. So what happens when you don't have
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: that feel is suddenly you're operating behind in the count.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And that's what happened to him in the fifth inning.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: He put some runners on the base paths. He's facing Butler.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And he does not want to walk him because he
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: hates walking guys. And in the past, when in trouble,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: he has a good enough fastball that he can challenge
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a hitter and probably get away with it at AA Arkansas.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: If I don't have my best stuff, I'm just going
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to challenge you. And because of my arm angle, it's
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: going to get on you faster than you think. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to blow you away. Not at the major
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: league level. That was Lawrence Butler. Lawrence Butler's got three,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: four years of major league experience in his back pocket.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And Ryan, or I think it was Ryan Roland Smith
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that pointed out, I mean, he just threw a fastball
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: right over the middle of the plate, and Butler lines
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: it back up the middle of the field for a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: two-run single, and now you're down four to three. Now,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: at that point, I was sure they were coming back.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I thought so.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I thought for sure. I mean, I spent... most of
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the night, like, okay, it's just a matter of time
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: before they put together another rally against these A's relievers. Yep.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: And they just never did. I didn't think that that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: 4-3 deficit, I didn't think that we were going to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: trail the rest of the game, and yet we certainly did.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: And so, explains a lot about why Kate Anderson hasn't
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: been as successful as I think he could have been.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: He is having a really difficult time getting a grip
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: on these shiny Major League baseballs that are a little
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: different than what he had mastered at the double a level.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Well, and that's, I, I think, you know, as a
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: person that's never played baseball, it seems silly to me
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: to say, why just, why wouldn't you use the same
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: ball at every level?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: You don't have that problem. Is that a dumb question?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Why he wouldn't know? Like why?
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Why people like, why the same way the sport does.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, everything's just shiny and new at the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: major league level. Yeah.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Like, I mean, it's just, it's just slightly different. I mean,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: it's not like dramatically different, but it's slightly different.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And everything, like every ball that hits the dirt gets
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: thrown out. Yeah. You know, where maybe that's not the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: case in minor league baseball. Maybe we. We salvage our
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: white baseballs. Where in major leagues, if there's one scuff,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: we throw it out. We give it to a kid
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in the third row. So it's just slightly different. It's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: not dramatically different, but it's just slightly different. And especially
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: for a field pitcher, just trying to get the grip
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: on how the balls are a little bit different. Major
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: league baseballs are a little bit different. And that little
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: bit of a difference has made him struggle with control
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: and command. which is his entire world.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, another loss, 7-4 the final score, and certainly
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like there's any momentum whatsoever going into
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: tonight's game. You lost another game in the standings. You're
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: six games back now in the American League West with
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: 21 to go. Logan Gilbert will start for us. That's
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a good thing, but the A's aren't throwing some triple-A
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: pitcher tonight. JT Ginn's been pretty good this year. Right-hander
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: going for the A's. First pitch is at 7-10. More
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: on the M's later on in the show, but coming
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: up next, Rick Neuheisel was with us for the first
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: time officially this college football season on Tuesday. We always
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: replay a little bit of Coach Neuheisel later on in
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  Speaker 1: the week, and so we'll do that next on KJR.
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  Speaker 1: All right. College football season is underway in 2026. And
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday, that's right, Sunday on opening game for both teams,
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  Speaker 1: the Apple Cup will be played out at Husky Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: One o'clock kickoff right here at Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about it all week long. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about it with more people as the show goes along
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  Speaker 1: today here on this fabulous Friday. But on Tuesday, we
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  Speaker 1: chatted with Rick Neuheisel, our NFL insider, former UW head coach.
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  Speaker 1: For the first official time this college football season, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear the entire conversation, you can do
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  Speaker 1: so at 933kjr. com. But we tend to. We have a
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  Speaker 1: habit of replaying some of Coach Neuheisel later on in
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  Speaker 1: the week as we actually get closer to the games.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not going to skip a beat here in 2026.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do the same damn stuff. So here
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  Speaker 1: is Coach Neuheisel from Tuesday. And we'll pick up the
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  Speaker 1: conversation when I asked him about the Apple Cup being
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  Speaker 1: played on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it whenever I can get it. College football
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  Speaker 2: has morphed and changed and been put through some meat
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  Speaker 2: grinders and blenders and what have you, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: a smoothie now, right? But the bottom line is if
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  Speaker 2: we can get it on the schedule where Washington and
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  Speaker 2: Washington State play, we should get it on the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is for the poor Cougars– is they've been
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  Speaker 2: beat up in terms of what they can afford to
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  Speaker 2: spend on their roster because they're not getting the same
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  Speaker 2: kind of television revenue and for no wrongdoing on their own.
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  Speaker 2: It's just unfortunate. So the chances for the game to
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  Speaker 2: be really competitive have diminished, but don't tell that to
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  Speaker 2: that team that's going to take the field wearing crimson
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  Speaker 2: and gray.
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  Speaker 1: You might as well tell your Barbara Hedges story for
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  Speaker 1: those that didn't hear.
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  Speaker 2: It Barbara Hedges was in my kitchen getting ready as
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  Speaker 2: we were all preparing for the Apple Cup plunge. And
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  Speaker 2: Neil Dempsey, whose name is on the indoor facility, a
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  Speaker 2: incredibly benevolent booster, sat and looked at me like, are
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  Speaker 2: you crazy? You're jumping in the lake right now? It's
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  Speaker 2: that cold? And I said, we're going, Neil. You want
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  Speaker 2: to go? And he goes, I won't. But I will
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  Speaker 2: write a check for $ 2 million to the athletic department
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  Speaker 2: And he pointed at Barbara. If she goes, if she
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  Speaker 2: goes two million right now. And I looked at Barbara.
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  Speaker 2: I said, come on, let's go. And she said, Rick,
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  Speaker 2: I can't. My hair.
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  Speaker 1: Two million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Two million. I said, we can buy new hair.
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  Speaker 4: And she didn't.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't think that was funny.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the game will last many more years?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the sands and the hourglass are
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  Speaker 1: running out on it?
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  Speaker 2: Here's my prediction. I think for the short term, that
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  Speaker 2: could be obviously your conclusion. I see a new world
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  Speaker 2: in 2031, 2032. maybe even having to wait until 2036
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  Speaker 2: when the ACC television deal is up, where we reshuffle
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  Speaker 2: the deck, and Washington and Washington State will be back
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  Speaker 2: as partners again in whatever the new look of college
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  Speaker 2: football is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That will be a funny day when college football decides
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have two conferences, 20 teams each, 10 teams,
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  Speaker 1: two-team division, two 10-team divisions, and we're going to call
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten West the Pac-10.
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  Speaker 3: What a great idea. Too bad we couldn't come up
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  Speaker 3: with that earlier.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to actually talk about that whole future of
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  Speaker 1: conference alignment coming up a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 1: the show, but Coach Neuheisel in our conversation on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: also talked about how confident he is that Jed Fish
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  Speaker 1: has a breakthrough season in store for us here in 2026.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's in the David Softy mauler boat in
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  Speaker 1: that they might win 10 games this year and they
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  Speaker 1: might burst through that glass ceiling and make it to
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff. I think that he believes that
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  Speaker 1: Jed Fish has the program where he needs it to
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  Speaker 1: be in year number three. And so it's not just
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  Speaker 1: for those that roll their eyes because of Softee's optimism
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  Speaker 1: from yesterday. You've got Rick Neuheisel, and certainly he's got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of love for UW as well. But
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  Speaker 1: that's Rick Neuheisel putting his expertise on the line, saying
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  Speaker 1: that he thinks that Washington's got a really good shot
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  Speaker 1: this year. year of being a playoff team.
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  Speaker 3: And I love hearing it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I hope that's the case. I hope that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would love to have more things.
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  Speaker 5: To cheer for about college football because the stuff that's
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  Speaker 5: changing is making it harder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. For a lot of people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, headlines next. Greg Bell next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.