Happy Thursday Cougs!!!

If you missed it, a couple of weeks ago Longball ran a great post about pay for student athletes, which has been a pretty hotly debated topic in the sports world recently.  If you didn't catch his post, you can read it here.

I, for one, am vehemently against it.  Some of the scholarships these kids get are already worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Out of state tuition and room and board for WSU is about $35,000 a year, according to WSU's office of financial aid.  So say a kid from California comes to WSU on a full-ride football scholarship, redshirts, and finishes his 5-year career.  He will have accumulated about $175,000 in scholarship money throughout his career.  That's a lot of dough.

I fully understand the other side of the argument, that the NCAA is making boatloads of cash off of these athletes and they deserve a piece of the pie.  I just think that once we cross that point, we take the amateurism out of college sports.  

Once I heard people start to debate this, I never thought it would be a possibility.  For one, you can't just pay football players.  With the guidelines set forth by Title IX, you would have to pay all D-1 athletes.  However, this topic actually seems to be gaining a lot of traction as a real, tangible possibility...

Hello everybody. Cletis here. In case you missed my two other posts, I am a proud graduate of Indiana University.

I am writing today because Sutra is still trying to find the brain cells he lost in California following his graduation. Apparently, Sutra has recently become "Dr. Sutra"--having received his PhD in "Master of the Universe Studies."

So, with Sutra out of commission for this week, I was once again asked to write in his stead. So, if you want to check out what ole Cletis has in store for you this week, then read on.

Happy Tuesday Cougs, and welcome to another spring fish wrap.  After last week, we've now got ten of these things in the can, and just two more left as we look at all 2011 WSU opponents coming out of spring ball.  And today we check out one of our newest Pac-12 brothers, the Utah Utes.  How are things coming along as they get set to join the Pac-12?  Who are these guys anyway?  Let's check 'em out.....

Happy Monday to you Cougar Nation!  I am currently recovering from an epic three day bender in Chelan to celebrate a dear friend's pending nuptials.  Maybe it was the first round of golf that I've played in more than a month, the 15 hours of fishing we logged or my allergies that went AWOL, but my body is not happy with me.  Who am I kidding, the true culprit is the numerous Coors Lights and Tequila Lime Jello Shots we consumed!

I tried to come up with some creative ideas for today's post, but on a scale of 1-10 of my brain's functionality, we're probably sitting somewhere around a 2.  So today I have embedded some great YouTube clips for your viewing pleasure.  Sit back and enjoy, I hope your Monday goes well.

Happy Sunday Cougs! As you know, breaking news in the land of WSU athletics is pretty sparse during the summer months. However, some notable things have taken place in the last couple weeks around Whitman County. Click on the jump for analysis of Ken Bone's newest recruit and the trials and tribulation of Marshall Lobbestael.