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Re: What's Your Toxic Doog Opinion?
My doog ifs have all been stated. That UCLA loss still stings. Ed Cunningham has brought it up multiple tims. Notre Dame who was ranked #1 lost earlier in the day to Tennessee. #2 ranked UW just had to win, at home, against one of the lesser UCLA teams of that time.
huskyhooligan
Re: Husky Jacks open thread [2025]
Just imagine what 2 years of development would do for him. Though he could have gotten more NIL here. Choices.
huskyhooligan
Re: Husky Jacks open thread [2025]
Yeah Ohio State is looking so ridiculously overconfident right now that Day might even skip dying his beard this year.
haie
Re: Registered Democrats/Republicans among faculty
My company was working on a new product that required quite a bit of physical research data. It involved ASTM standards and all that crap. We decided GA Tech and Cal Berkely were the most capable in this field of endeavor so we gave them money and started in. I was working with their teams for the better part of 2 years so I got to know these people really well. Virtually 100% of them were far left campus liberals. I was actually a bit shocked by the GA Tech group and how far left they were. I got cal but GA Tech was a surprise. These were the type of scientists that depended on learned data and past published technical research in their efforts to design and execute processes that would create new scientific data and mete out results dependent only on where the resulting data took them. The problem with both teams was that they injected their feelings into the process. By feelings I mean they were socialists who infected results with their political leanings. We wasted $100K and then decided that we would never use the university system again for research and results.
In simpler terms, we were a plastics company that invented the large garbage pails on wheels that the majority of this country uses currently for their recycling and garbage. We needed data on wind stability, weight distribution, safety, etc. Both universities actually charged us for doing a partial study on recycling and waste caused by the actual container we were designing and tried to damage our overall data which is not what we paid for nor ever asked for. It was never in the scope of work. They were essentially trying to do damage to our project and never bothered to ask us about our own massive recycling of damaged plastic containers and how we were pioneers in reclaiming our own broken or damaged plastic products and re-using the product in the production of new plastic products. I ended up withholding 33% of the balance that we owed and wrote a letter to both department heads explaining why. They agreed and we parted ways. They felt they got their point across I guess. Just ignorant liberals.
Bendintheriver
Re: What's Your Toxic Doog Opinion?
What do you think about 92 if the Billy Joe shit happens? I guess even if the Doogs win out it's still another split conversation with Bama, who might be hard to eclipse after blowing out Miami in the Sugar Bowl - though it's crazy at that time, I feel like the respect for the SEC wasn't automatic.
A couple more. My doog has waned over time, but we should have played Oklahoma in the BCS Championship in 2000 and I think we would have won and stole a national title with a super flawed team. At the very least it should have been fucking Miami. It sucks we let them steal a couple scores late because we had them beat convincingly and by more than the final indicated.
2018 if we don't schedule a road game basically against Auburn late we might have run the table and gotten to get beat by Alabama or Clemson in the playoff. Our entire team, particularly the RBs got banged up trying to win that game and then we didn't have a bye week until mid-November. They dont' lose to Oregon or Cal with a relatively healthy Gaskin or Ahmed.
WoolleyDoog
Re: PGA WEEKLY REVIEW AND PREVIEW
We should. After 2021 it seemed like the US would never lose again. Europe had aged out Poulter, Sergio, Westwood and Casey. And seemingly dead Fitzy and Rose. Now we have Spaun and Henley as auto qualifiers on a true bombers course. Shit changed fast as it always does in golf.
Bob_C
Re: Husky Jacks open thread [2025]
Our bus passes increased 25 dollars per game. Not enough season ticket holders on our bus to cover the $175 I guess
Joey
Re: What's Your Toxic Doog Opinion?
It's really hard to say what happens in 1992 if the Billy Joe situation/distraction didn't happen. Arizona had a super high-end defense that had caused problems to almost everybody they played (they missed a FG at the end of the game that would have had them win at Miami) but their offense was anemic. To beat them you had to have your offense put them in a position to be chasing and UW never did that between fumbles and an inconsistent Brunell. The score at 16-3 doesn't really tell the story as the TD came late in the 4th quarter … so the game was very much winnable. It's probably fair to say that had 1) Billy Joe started with no distraction and continuity OR 2) Brunell was just flat out the starter that UW likely would have won the game. But instead, it was the perfect storm of events to beat UW.
Had UW been undefeated would they have lost the Apple Cup in the snow at the Coug? That's also really hard to say. I forgot until I looked it up that UW was up 7-6 at halftime. Does the 3rd quarter collapse happen if UW had something material to play for? Who knows.
My sense is that UW would have lost to Michigan in the Rose Bowl regardless. By that point the team had a chance to reset behind Brunell and clearly had the carrot in front of them to win back to back Rose Bowls. Problem was that they had absolutely zero answer for Tyrone Wheatley … if you actually go back and watch the 1992 Rose Bowl Wheatley was really the only Michigan player that came off as dangerous in the game (not Desmond Howard). Not saying the 1992 team was bad or that they were necessarily running on fumes but they had some issues when you looked under the hood …
Nip took over the backfield duties as the lead RB (obviously he was talented enough to do that) … but stat wise you got very little out of Beno Bryant and Jay Barry who were your top 2 backs in 1991
Joe Kralik was the leading WR with 33 catches for 487 yards … to say that Bailey and McKay were missed would be an understatement
It was a very good team … but it wasn't a great team
Looking back I don't think that that team had the profile of a national championship team … championship contender yes.
Tequilla
Re: What's Your Toxic Doog Opinion?
If Budda gets the INT (and there was a good chance he could have scored) and UW was able to get up 14-0 in the game … then there was a good chance that UW could have been in position to force Alabama to at least use the pass during the game.
From my seats I was directly facing the Alabama sidelines and after the Budda play Saban made a bee line to Kiffin (who I believe was still on staff and hadn't take the Tennessee job until after the game when Sark became the play caller for the title game against Clemson) and chew his ass out. Bama didn't throw in that game because Saban realized right then and there that a turnover or two in the passing game was the path to a UW victory.
Tequilla