Hardcore Husky and the Beginning of the Chris Petersen Era

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Hardcore Husky and the Beginning of the Chris Petersen Era

CheersWestDawg chimes in with thoughts on the Seattle-area coverage of Husky Football.

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whlinder

Couple of points: The 2001 and 2002 Rick teams were obviously softer than the 2000 team. But Cody Pickett was a tough SOB. Playing half of the season with a separated throwing shoulder?

"Those who defended and thought highly of Willingham throughout his tenure were rightfully mocked, ridiculed, and forever marginalized."
I dunno about that. The national media defended Willingham through year 3 and insisted he would turn it around. Michael Wilbon and John Feinstein off the top of my head. When we got the extra proof of Owen12 that Willingham sucked those commentators just said "well, he couldn't get it done" and moved on to their next Hot Take. Fuck them.

DerekJohnson

I do remember when Willingham was halfway through the 0-12 nightmare season, Kelly Stouffer did color commentary with Kevin Calaboro, and Stouffer said what was wrong with letting this man continue the job he was brought to Washington to do?

RoadDawg55

Very good article. I didn't like Sark at USC, and often wondered why their offense wasn't better. but was in wait and see mode with him at UW. I thought he would at least be a great recruiter, work hard, and he seemed like a bright guy who would self critique and improve his weaknesses. In his first year, I still thought those things, despite the Notre Dame and UCLA games.

Over time, it was obvious Sark was a lazy recruiter and his in state efforts are well known by now. His coaching never improved, and some of the fire his teams played with in 2009 had gone away. His teams played nervous any time we played a good opponent on the road and folded at the first sign of adversity. They thumped their chest and whooped it up beating up on Portland State. He and his teams wanted all the accolades without putting in the necessary work.

TierbsHsotBoobs

TL, DR

ApostleofGrief

Good write up. I have always ridiculed fans' attempts to restore the Don James era, which happened both with Gilby and Coach Willingham, fighting off the last bender here with some foaming at the mouth to get that UCLA coach.

ThomasFremont

There's a staff?

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I felt like the fan base was more divided under Sark than even Willingham. I think in large part because those who were against Willingham were less patient in hearing the same bullshit from the Doogs during the Sark era. That is also when Doogman started to made Nazi Germany seem like a fair and balanced country with them running any poster who questioned Sark at all.

I felt Sark's best coaching job was his first two years and his program never improved off that. Although being a QB "expert" and having Lockner regress under him was my first red flag this guy was in over his head. Also to RoadDawg's point I felt like every big USC loss it was typically when their offense would inexplicably throw the ball 45+ times and refuse to run the ball despite having an amazing line and run game under Sark as OC.

It is funny though the Sark fans that I know are now saying "We better hope Petersen is that 92-12 guy and not like Ty Willingham" when with Sark it was overwhelming support. Even them saying there was a "buzz" with Sark not with Petersen despite ticket sales, merchandise saying differently. Then when you bring that up you always get "but 0-12".

CuntWaffle

GRAA

doogsinparadise

Who is CheersWestDawg, does he poast here?

chuck

Who is Dave Handy? Did he used to write those "deep thoughts" bits for SNL?

Seriously I'm curious. What name does he post under?