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Chris Polk shit

Oregon scored the most points that UW allowed all season. It was an incredibly impressive D.

Canuck is deep in the doog weeds at this point.

He’s going to be a 2nd round pick at worst. He’s going to get money. Maybe he’s one of those guys that just really loves college, but he walked with the seniors today, so it’s pretty reasonable to assume he’s gone.

UW needs to find the money to do all of the above or enjoy 8-4 forever

UW will pay for him to come back

hopefully an inch, 20 lbs of muscle, a new scheme and a new attitude, 20 iq

honestly, if the line takes another step forward which it should, just hand the ball off and be a run first team. that scheme along with the defense would be good.

but this is Fisch. can't get out of his own way.

over under on sidelines infractions is 0.5 per game.

The roster is still uneven

I would like further explanation

@dtd

College football at the B10 and SEC level is increasingly moving in the direction of the NFL-lite and the resources that these conferences have even compared to the Big12 and ACC are vast.

Being a HC in a Power 2 conference is not only about handling the head job, the players, and the assistants … but it's all about the overall organization that includes the program's GM, back office staff, and the ability to connect with local area businesses (particularly important in a market like Seattle) and NIL.

So when I talk about "this level" … that's what I'm talking about. When you're at a G6 program, the magnitude and scale that those programs are being run on is a shell of the power conferences. If you aren't familiar with that infrastructure, you're likely going to be playing big-time catchup.

Taking Eck as an example, he hasn't held a full-time major power conference coaching job at any level dating back to 1999-2001 when he was a graduate assistant at Wisconsin and 2002-2003 as a grad assistant at Colorado. Even deeper than that, most of his experience is at lower levels than the G6 at the FCS level. Doesn't mean that Eck isn't a good coach (lots of proof that he is) but there's a lot of risk that there could be a significant learning curve … it's a massive jump from New Mexico to a place like Washington.

Everybody likes to say "find the next Cignetti" … not saying it isn't possible but it's not the rag to riches story that people probably think. His family is all tied into coaching and Cignetti was on the early staffs of Saban in the late 2000s before doing the small school HC route tree.

The Chip example is honestly a unique one and not super relevant at this point (although you could maybe argue a bit by citing the Joey McGuire tenure at Texas Tech … the differences in recruiting between Chip's era and today are vastly different and of course you have the Oregon machine that few can honestly approach in terms of recruiting muscle