Hole prez Sholz is a D-bag…

LOL. I started watching that film way back when on a flight to Japan. This was back when you didn't have your personal entertainment center like these days (but you did have about an extra two inches of space). Nah, I couldn't finish it. With nothing else to do or watch. 

I don't know why we would want to continue any sort of relationship with them at all? Money? Then you're a whore, regardless if you win or lose.

You know what kind of school it is. They've shown their true colors and their true allegiances. 

The Civil War is a treasured event in the state. Lots of people love it and it can be good fun for all. Why should we even negotiate with the terrorists that took that game hostage? It's their movements and bargaining and plotting that endangered the CW. Why do we need to kowtow to them? Why should they come out of this with the best of both worlds? They get the B1G cream-dream and they are not made the bad guys in the press because we will keep the CW alive.

Bulls%#t. There's a price to pay for such treachery. And I think, if handled properly, the public opinion is worth a helluva lot more than a million bucks for a game. 

They can't buy their way back into good graces. The public should be reminded of what they lost when Oregon knifed us in the back.

Just Say No.

And I, too, like your fishy pic. But as you know, success and failure have different meanings for different people. 

(In the fish picture, for example, a scientist would say that it is foolish for the goldfish to go to a separate bowl all on his own. He has literally no chance of creating little gold fishies and he has condemned himself to a life alone. Is that success? For whom?)

But I agree with the sentiment. Sometimes, the old ways have to be put aside as one steps bravely and forcefully into a new and uncertain future. Leave the trappings of the past in the past.

No More Oregon!

Your stated reason for us not playing Oregon is that they will be making more than Oregon State.  Oregon State not playing them for that reason is cowardice.

Now that I have won that point and the goalposts have been moved, I will deal with the new goalposts.

You now assert that we will gain more than $2 million in some esoteric "goodwill" or something from the public at large.

That is nonsense.  If Oregon State does not play Oregon, no one will watch Oregon State.  No one.  We will be irrelevant.  You are advocating for isolationism and not a well-reasoned superior nation isolating itself from an inferior nation, but a backward inferior nation isolating itself from a superior one.  We are Vanuatu, and your revenge plot is to stop exporting coconuts.

Are you believe that greater self-harm causing Oregon some resultant harm makes is a sound strategy.

I disagree.  It is emotional gobbledygook.  It is not a sound strategy.

1980 Olympics. 1984 Olympics.  Secluding yourself from competition only hurts you.  

So, I guess Custer wasn't a coward. I mean, he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.

I'd think that sound strategy could be called cowardice by some. And it would still be wrong.

President Weasel-Faced D-Bag was on OPB's Think Out Loud today (must have been a slow news day...?) to make almost a half-hour's worth of mouth noises. If you listen in at that link starting at 23:45 he goes into his b.s. about it-was-not-about-the-money-it-was-the-mission. 

Feh!

Prior to that it sounded like he was trying to spin the whole conference thing along the lines of how now he and his senior staff can see, say, their Michigan counterparts when they travel for games...something they had no other way to do before. This will improve the academic missions of both schools - because, without sports, phones and email between campuses can't possibly work.

The guy has zero effs to give about the impact on the state of Oregon by their decision. The school really should drop the full name "Oregon" - our state's name - and just be as they Just. Don't. Care.

If you listen, keep a bucket nearby. You may need it.

(Before I click the button to create this, I do feel compelled to apologize for the weasel comparison. It was unkind ...to weasels.)

Without being argumentative... as the powers that be will decide what futures schedules hold. But, what exactly was so great?

The Lakota and Northern Plains tribes won many battles, though this one was the seemingly most famous in our culture. But, most of the land on which the Great Sioux Wars were fought were lands they stole from other tribes. It is common historical knowledge that the  Lakotas were on land without consent from the local Crow tribe. It was land which they had been granted a treaty and it was considered an invasion. The Crow chief Blackfoot had called for U.S. military actions against these intruders not wanting their treaty to be broken because of any actions the Lakota may take. What was so great?

Considered an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho. But it was Custer, his Troops, and the Crow scouts that were deemed heroes. What was so great?

The Natives gained notoriety among their people as it was a victory. But, what was really gained? That battle was seen as the beginning of the end for the Natives, called by many the "Indian's Last Stand" and eventually cost them their land in their beloved Black Hills. Although ceded thru extortion of starvation they lost any possible chance of negotiating. What was so great?

So, we continue to play Oregon to simply hope to gain notoriety if we win and gain what? No way Oregon is giving us a big payout. We can gain more $ and notoriety scheduling much bigger fish. What would be so great?