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Time softens the edges ..

fivehundredmileDAWG
fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212
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Today is the first day I haven’t been super angry or blinded by frustration from the natty and my wet walk back to the car in Houston and then drive through typhoon that night to San Antonio .. then the subsequent kick in the balls of DeBoer leaving and then learning he interviewed in Houston.

The season was amazing .. just short of the ultimate goal … I’m glad I went to Houston with my son who met me via LA. I just wish his other Dad could have been there with us …

Time will soften all the hard edges eventually. Hopefully I’m still alive for the next visit to a natty …

The walk on the beach really helped …
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  • LawDawg1
    LawDawg1 Member Posts: 3,941
    dirtysouwfdawg said:

    Still want to kill someone.

    @46XiJCAB true?
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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,033 Founders Club
    I'm looking forward to doing our full season post walk on the beach circle jerk on the pod. Really feels to me like a surreal fling you have with a really hot chick (or guy, for some of you) that ends in the worst way possible. You're brain, heart, and stomach are in knots, but you eventually need to step back and appreciate it all for what it was.
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  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    LawDawg1 said:

    dirtysouwfdawg said:

    Still want to kill someone.

    @46XiJCAB true?
    Only here because you requested my presence. Want to make that clear.

    Come over to DR and I’ll give you an answer.

    Certain candy asses over here will cry if they don’t like it.

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  • RTD
    RTD Member Posts: 837
    edited January 2024
    I'm grateful that college football's death was a rapid experience for me (it could have dragged on for along time). All-time experience just a few weeks ago in the run-up to the CFP. At least we can still have our? ameteur hour on the boreds.
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  • sinceredawg
    sinceredawg Member Posts: 833
    LawDawg1 said:

    I was damn close to letting college football become the shitshow it has become and came as close to walking away as possible. Gave up season tickets after 20 years, club seats, e-12 parking, and ready to watch games on TV. Then 2023 happened to renew my interest. Was hoping for one incredible goodbye sex year and got damn close to it. Dribbled down my leg.

    I figured 2024 would suck but a few holes might be plugged with the transfer portal. Now 2024 looks like why I was ready to give up on the sport as the last 10 days has shown what the NIL and transfer portal can and will do. It’s a joke. Yes, we can play along But this isn’t what I signed up for as a fan.

    Good post. You're right, my fandom is grandfathered in at this point. When the rosters and coaches turn over every year or two, what are you a fan of?

    I heard Softy trying to cheerlead on this last week - he was searching for the core message and in his stream of conscience ramble, I think he realized he'd trapped himself. "Coaches are gonna change, players are gonna change. What's important is... (and this is where he realized he didn't know what the fuck to say next that would be honest) ... your fellow fans that make Husky nation great." Well fuck. Between the perverts here and the suckups on Dawgman, who is this fan base that makes all these hours and attention worthwhile?

    For me it's not the fanbase at all. I disliked Seattle passivity so much that I moved to Jedd Fisch's coast. But I loved something about the UW that's deep inside. Those memories of us being great year after year and knowing some of the players - are a favorite part of my life. So I guess once you're hooked you're hooked.

    But back to LawDawg's point. Yeah this new sport sucks.
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  • Houhusky
    Houhusky Member Posts: 5,537
    sinceredawg said:

    LawDawg1 said:

    I was damn close to letting college football become the shitshow it has become and came as close to walking away as possible. Gave up season tickets after 20 years, club seats, e-12 parking, and ready to watch games on TV. Then 2023 happened to renew my interest. Was hoping for one incredible goodbye sex year and got damn close to it. Dribbled down my leg.

    I figured 2024 would suck but a few holes might be plugged with the transfer portal. Now 2024 looks like why I was ready to give up on the sport as the last 10 days has shown what the NIL and transfer portal can and will do. It’s a joke. Yes, we can play along But this isn’t what I signed up for as a fan.

    Good post. You're right, my fandom is grandfathered in at this point. When the rosters and coaches turn over every year or two, what are you a fan of?

    I heard Softy trying to cheerlead on this last week - he was searching for the core message and in his stream of conscience ramble, I think he realized he'd trapped himself. "Coaches are gonna change, players are gonna change. What's important is... (and this is where he realized he didn't know what the fuck to say next that would be honest) ... your fellow fans that make Husky nation great." Well fuck. Between the perverts here and the suckups on Dawgman, who is this fan base that makes all these hours and attention worthwhile?

    For me it's not the fanbase at all. I disliked Seattle passivity so much that I moved to Jedd Fisch's coast. But I loved something about the UW that's deep inside. Those memories of us being great year after year and knowing some of the players - are a favorite part of my life. So I guess once you're hooked you're hooked.

    But back to LawDawg's point. Yeah this new sport sucks.
    imagine being old enough to remember when UW was great year after year... must be nice...
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,669 Founders Club
    46XiJCAB said:

    LawDawg1 said:

    dirtysouwfdawg said:

    Still want to kill someone.

    @46XiJCAB true?
    Only here because you requested my presence. Want to make that clear.

    Come over to DR and I’ll give you an answer.

    Certain candy asses over here will cry if they don’t like it.

    "Come over to DR" 🤣

    Like it's a physical place 😆
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  • sinceredawg
    sinceredawg Member Posts: 833
    jecornel said:

    If all of the rumors swirling about Deboer’s behavior leading up to the natty were true then he was completely checked out before the game. You can’t help but wonder what could have been had he been all in.

    Also, no real parting message to the fans after leaving. You have to wonder if the guy truly feels anything.

    Well you have to wonder if he had some hostility for some reason. You hope he'll at least send flowers after he ficks our roster.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,214 Founders Club
    edited January 2024
    RaceBannon said:

    jecornel said:

    If all of the rumors swirling about Deboer’s behavior leading up to the natty were true then he was completely checked out before the game. You can’t help but wonder what could have been had he been all in.

    Also, no real parting message to the fans after leaving. You have to wonder if the guy truly feels anything.


    I am currently watching 7 games on 3 monitors, drinking whiskey, smoking keef and talking shit

    My girlfriend, and her girlfriend, are watching Friends from across the living room and looking at me like I'm a psychopath (if this shoe fits @PostGameOrangeSlices )

    I tell her I'm a bigger cuog fan than she is and to STFU
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  • DawgtillDeath
    DawgtillDeath Member Posts: 155
    fivehundredmileDAWG said:

    Today is the first day I haven’t been super angry or blinded by frustration from the natty and my wet walk back to the car in Houston and then drive through typhoon that night to San Antonio .. then the subsequent kick in the balls of DeBoer leaving and then learning he interviewed in Houston.

    The season was amazing .. just short of the ultimate goal … I’m glad I went to Houston with my son who met me via LA. I just wish his other Dad could have been there with us …

    Time will soften all the hard edges eventually. Hopefully I’m still alive for the next visit to a natty …

    The walk on the beach really helped …

    Wasn't this a Hallmark movie?
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,669 Founders Club
    I'm not going to be jilted lover with DeBoer. He didn't want to live in Seattle/West Coast if he didn't have to.

    Harbaugh had one foot out the door to the NFL and simply beat him.
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  • dirtysouwfdawg
    dirtysouwfdawg Member Posts: 14,082
    jecornel said:

    If all of the rumors swirling about Deboer’s behavior leading up to the natty were true then he was completely checked out before the game. You can’t help but wonder what could have been had he been all in.

    Also, no real parting message to the fans after leaving. You have to wonder if the guy truly feels anything.

    Mercenaries typically don’t feel.
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  • HairyBallsDawg
    HairyBallsDawg Member Posts: 1,075
    jecornel said:

    If all of the rumors swirling about Deboer’s behavior leading up to the natty were true then he was completely checked out before the game.

    I heard the interview rumor. What are the other rumors you refer to?
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  • jecornel
    jecornel Member Posts: 9,737
    Avoiding players and parents reported he didn’t seem himself that week. A lot on his mind I guess.
    HairyBallsDawg said:

    jecornel said:

    If all of the rumors swirling about Deboer’s behavior leading up to the natty were true then he was completely checked out before the game.

    I heard the interview rumor. What are the other rumors you refer to?
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  • jecornel
    jecornel Member Posts: 9,737
    How did get a commitment from Sale? By telling him he was gone in a week? Sale still has his senior of high school to play.
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  • dirtysouwfdawg
    dirtysouwfdawg Member Posts: 14,082
    Engrish, man.

    And who the fuck is Sale?
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  • jecornel
    jecornel Member Posts: 9,737
    Top instate recruit. Linebacker
    dirtysouwfdawg said:

    Engrish, man.

    And who the fuck is Sale?

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  • Quietcowskee
    Quietcowskee Member Posts: 4,206 Standard Supporter
    AEB said:

    I think what’s damaged my fandom and Doogism is the fact so many players portaled so quickly. I get coaches leave and are pricks. My core belief is 90/100 coaches absolutely suck balls and are vastly overpaid at the players expense. But the fact so many underclassmen bolted fucking sucks. That hurts. I get testing NIL and getting improved shares, but Kalepo, Brailsford, Hatchetts, guys who could’ve been leaders, no warning, just gone. You can rationalize each’s reasoning, but no one had any pride. They all bolted.

    Edit: which is so different how Petersen’s last class behaved. The OKG thing was so shitty from a branding perspective. The substance of it was so fucking legit however which underscores why the current group behaved so differently I guess.

    It would’ve been nice to have them be leaders but I don’t blame them for bolting. They stayed two years ago. It worked. Well done gentlemen. Why start over again when you can get put another team over the top and get paid?
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  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,165
    AEB said:

    I think what’s damaged my fandom and Doogism is the fact so many players portaled so quickly. I get coaches leave and are pricks. My core belief is 90/100 coaches absolutely suck balls and are vastly overpaid at the players expense. But the fact so many underclassmen bolted fucking sucks. That hurts. I get testing NIL and getting improved shares, but Kalepo, Brailsford, Hatchetts, guys who could’ve been leaders, no warning, just gone. You can rationalize each’s reasoning, but no one had any pride. They all bolted.

    Edit: which is so different how Petersen’s last class behaved. The OKG thing was so shitty from a branding perspective. The substance of it was so fucking legit however which underscores why the current group behaved so differently I guess.

    OKG was a perfectly fine brand for anyone who didn't subscribe to the SubK theory of restorative justice via football scholarships.
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