Category: Rants and HOT TAKES
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The challenge of UI’s FCS journey requires a better athletics focus with the next president
The Idaho State Board of Education has made a number of alumni happy when it announced it will not be renewing President Chuck Staben’s contract after the 2018-2019 school year. The decision also leaves a daunting task for the SBOE and University of Idaho. This next president may be the most important hire we have…
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Guess what? Idaho Vandals football is still really good, will win a bunch of games
Idaho won another football game last week. That’s right, another one. Time to break out the most overused gif/meme in the history of the internet. We disposed of Sacramento State with ease last Thursday night, walking out of the Kibbie Dome with a 28-6 win. All we do is win these days. Idaho is now…
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Jeff Tingey thinks Idaho State is academically as good as U of I, is dumb
Meet Jeff Tingey. Jeff is is athletic director at Idaho State University. He has a little bit of a history with remarks about the University of Idaho. He was hired in March 2008 and two weeks later lost women’s basketball coach Jon Newlee to the University of Idaho. It was an upgrade in every way for…
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Big Sky be damned, I’m still buying season tickets. Why you should too:
I’m counting the days until kickoff. I haven’t been the Moscow in nearly nine months, and that’s just too much time for me to have been away. Vandal football is giving me the perfect excuse to end that hiatus. I’ll be around my Vandal family. I’ll be able to shove Grub Truck and Sweaty Teddys…
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Why Don Verlin’s well-groomed mustache is still in style in Moscow
I don’t remember exactly why Don Verlin was so pissed off in that moment. I just remember his foot stamping the Orleans Arena floor so loudly, it reverberated all too clearly throughout the cavernous building. It was probably just an out of bounds call which didn’t go his way. Whatever. It was only the opening…
Tubs at The Club 