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UW athletic director Troy Dannen was asked about the Apple Cup when he was hired in October.
Transcript
00:00 Troy, Dave Moller with KJR Radio.
00:05 One thing we did not ask you yesterday, the Apple Cup.
00:09 Let's get right to it.
00:10 You want to see the Apple Cup continue?
00:12 Washington State has their opinion on the matter, but do you want to see that game continue
00:16 past this year?
00:18 So I'll start with a little bit of a...
00:20 I've been here 26 hours and I did this on the radio show.
00:22 I was at 120 minutes when we started the radio show.
00:24 I think it was at 136 when we ended the radio show, yes.
00:27 But I've got a lot to learn.
00:30 I will say this, what's happened in college athletics, a lot of the history, rivalries,
00:37 things that are traditions have been destroyed through the evolution of college athletics.
00:42 And we're going to continue to evolve.
00:46 My bias is I don't want to lose the history and the traditions.
00:50 I also know that I have this economic model, particularly as we move to the Big Ten, where
00:57 we're playing with people that frankly have an economic model that is, I don't want to
01:04 say far superior, but far greater than ours.
01:06 We have to be really careful.
01:08 And seven home games is a piece of the economic model going forward that UW has to have.
01:16 Now does that mean it has to...
01:18 I don't know.
01:20 But long term, we have to have seven home games and the revenue generated by seven home
01:23 football games in order to be in a financial position to compete in the league that we're
01:28 moving into.
01:29 I can just add that we are having some conversations and Troy isn't 100% up to speed on them because
01:37 he's been here for 26 hours.
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