Patrick Baumgartner

Husband to wonderful wife | Father of 3 | Data analysis is a job and a hobby | Inventor of trick football plays | Microsoft | Power BI

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@montfortracing Go look at Arizona, Arizona state and Colorado TV ratings (prior to Dion)…

WSU has has a large alumni base in one of the more populated states in the country.

(Washington is ~2x more population than Kansas or Iowa)

Why is it surprising they get a big TV audience?

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@HockettJC @montfortracing @pharmaCoug WSU was consistently 5th in the old Pac-12 in TV ratings. Ironically, between 2010 and 2020 most of Arizona’s most viewed games were vs WSU

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@JohnRichTV Cougs ran “big gulp” (swinging gate snap but essentially regular offense) about 10 times in 2018.

So many cool things you could do….

[Busted Coverage @bustedcoverage]

Down 19-13 in the 3rd to Wyoming, Mike Leach calls the same bizarre formation two consecutive plays, eventually scores 28 unanswered to win 41-19 & afterwards talks about preparing his team with seasonal forest fires 🔥🔥https://t.co/FmSm3D9nli

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@JarheadFrog Missing Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College and Northwestern… go to 16 🤣

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@Noahpinion I like to pretend Starwars features heavily analog technology because 1000s of years prior AI ran amuck - so they avoid overly connected/digital systems (and it’s so obvious AI would instantly own connected digital systems it not even considered)

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@HuskiesJack What exactly did you think was going to happen by being an afterthought in the Big 10?

Ah yes. You really thought Northwestern with Chicago money was going to roll over for UW? Wisconsin and Michigan State as well. lol.

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To think! UW could have been at the top of a Pac-12 minus UCLA and USC and plus Boise St and SDSU.

They’d have been the 2nd highest payroll team most years with a consistent playoff shot.

Now they’re 12th in the big ten playing Olympic sports in New Jersey and Maryland.

What a boner move.

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@CJRealHoops2 @HaterReport @goldmctNFL Shotgun/pistol was super common in the 1940s and earlier… 1940s Alabama vs MSU and lots of shotgun plays

https://t.co/8Gmp4rJd0j

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@kodymcbanks @blashdril @HeffnerNot Yea - reply was probably for the other dude

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Brother. They wouldn’t have reviewed that play and given Western Michigan another play if the situations were reversed. Rules are rules only if they are applied equally. Everyone is upset because it’s obvious that rules are not applied equally when a Big10 team plays a MAC team. It’s gross. You look dumb trying to defend this.

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@BarstoolWazzu Four down territory. Not a terrible call. 1st game of the year. Ton of composure in the 4th quarter. TD Cougs!

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@MelissaKXLY4 That played half the fight song 🤪

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@GregWWoods Was right in front of me… bizarre

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@GregWWoods We were 5 yards down the field before Fish called the timeout

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This would be better and more valuable than either the Big 10 or SEC within the first 5 years.

With NIL, the Intra-Texas blood feuds + Nebraska/ISU/KSU fans who live die football would have more “must see” matchups for me than the overhyped SEC/BIG10 games

For casual viewers this >>> any kind of super conf dystopia

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@UWCoachSprinks & @pat_chun are playing Wile E. Coyote with two taxpayer-owned institutions.

It's insane that one taxpayer-owned institution (UW) keeps torpedoing another's financial health (WSU), and Olympia has stayed silent the entire time.

More insane, UW justifies it because they're chasing a media bubble that's already bursting. UW won't graduate to a full share in the B1G until 2030, when the TV deals renegotiate, and networks are already pulling back.

UW harming WSU to put UW in a worse financial position without a finger lifted in Olympia. Every taxpayer should be furious.

Thank you to @SenatorCantwell and @RepBaumgartner for actually doing something at the federal level.

@GovBobFerguson @RepDavePaul1 @SenatorNobles @Scott43LD @repmarydye, do you actually understand what you're allowing to take place here? It doesn't seem like it.

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What matters is does the school/alumni/fan base passionately care about football.

Wazzu punches waaaay above its weight because the town and alumni care. That drives outcomes.

Similarly - Fresno, BSU, USU really really care. They act like Football is the biggest asset these schools have.

CSU and OSU want to care but each doesn’t collectively act like Football is the schools biggest asset.

SDSU isn’t the biggest deal in their own town so it’s tough.

Texas St (I’d predict) will turn into a juggernaut being in the Pac-12. The will make football the biggest asset and succeed as a result.

In the sun belt there are a ton of schools where they act like football is the biggest asset. They’ll punch above their weight.

Tulane and Memphis are always in a weird kind of “do they really care” spot… if Football is treated as the biggest across local town, alumni and school than those two places are P4 schools.

I don’t think USF will ever really care enough. Maybe with an on campus stadium. Same for UTSA. North Texas has had years to figure this out but hasn’t. Tulsa cares but is too small. East Carolina cares but is in a football over saturated location.

If you wanted to improve the Pac-12 the focus should be on places that live and die football.

Wyoming would actually be a better bet regionally. Maybe even Hawaii. New Mexico and UNLV just don’t care enough about football.

NDSU would have been a good get.

The service academy’s care. Liberty cares (too far away) JMU and App St care (too far away). Most of the other Fun Belt teams care. Not much in the MAC or CUSA.

Montana and Montana State deeply care.

Places that care deeply about football success >>>> market or location.

Honestly it’ll be less P4 vs G5 and “conferences where schools almost all members deeply care about football” vs conferences where “football is a sport the schools sponsor”

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