Which (post 1960) Husky Football downturn was hardest on you mentally?
Which (post 1960) Husky Football downturn was hardest on you mentally? 51 votes
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1993- 98 F.O. Pumpeii, Lambo was shit AF
Plunging immediately into mediocrity after high of highs, on probation for 2 seasons & no bowl games. Beating @creepycoug and then shitting the bed against Oregon. Add to it the purple helmets and Lambo losing the players.
…and, on a personal note, I was still a passionate fan back then, so all that shit was hard to take.
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2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
Those 12 years happened in the prime of my middle age and I will never forgive UW
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2019- 21 Pete quits and Jimmy runs the damn ball
This is where is gets tricky because we had varying lived experiences in these downtowns.
1993- 98 is an obvious choice but I never felt that depressed about football in those years. Husky Stadium was still loud and raucous and the games were always early afternoon. We were barely removed from a Natty and still nationally. Things felt normal and we were just about back baby! I don't think it really sunk in until Nebraska corn holed us in Seattle, that we were very much not back.
Plus, I was focused on row boat and thought the footballers that I worked with in the AD were meatheads.
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2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
2004-2008 was brutal.
The 90s period was disappointing, but we beat Miami, the Ohio State, tied and beat the condoms, and it felt like we were close until '98 when Air Farce beat us (twice in a row).
I've never really had the expectation of being 11-1 and top 5 every year, maybe because when I started actually following Huskys, they were always having 8-3-1, or 6-5 type seasons every year until 1990.
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2019- 21 Pete quits and Jimmy runs the damn ball
I was too young to remember 1985- 88.
2003- 13, I still loved Husky Football but I had sort of accepted the suck, and it was before I got more into college football message boards (I was a Dawgman nobody).
2016- 18 made me care before getting left with the biggest blue balls in sports history.
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2019- 21 Pete quits and Jimmy runs the damn ball
I died a little the day they lost to Montana because I was certain that Jimmy was Teflon and would get another year or two to thoroughly gut the program. I was sure another dark decade was coming and I wasn’t sure I could stand another one. I was hopeless and I had pretty much given up. Never knew how much yard work one could do on Saturdays. St. Ruperake saved everything. EVERYTHING! The start of this Microfiche tenure just seems like the start of Pete. Setting his culture, whatever that’s worth, at the expense of winning with a team ready to win now. Next year they get really young and struggle, year three they either put it all together or Fishdicks can kick rocks. I know, the portal should speed this up! Fisher of men basically said from the start he’s building this through recruiting. That takes tim and development. Sucks but that’s what was bought by UW. LIPO
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2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
Gilby/Tyrone were baffling in so many new ways off the field, and politically with Tye, let alone the play they produced. That stretch killed things permanently for me. Sometims we didn't leave E1 for the stadium which was just off and sickening
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2019- 21 Pete quits and Jimmy runs the damn ball
When DJ (ILTCHDJ) was ousted, I had hope, misguided as it was, with Lambo. When Rick was booted, I had hope, misguided as it was, with Gilby. I had hope with Sark (it could have been anyone) because he wasn’t Ty…
When Pete quit, something changed with me. After stomping a very good Stanford team, I really thought we were back. I did not have hope going forward.
Even with the success of the last two years, something was off about it…can’t sign in-state blue chips, NIL, portal, and moving to B1G. Christ, at one point on Friday I actually dismissed losing to Rutgers because “It’s non-conference” (and wasn’t drunk)…The changes in the game had to happen, I guess, but my passion is waning.
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2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
My freshman year was Tui’s Rose Bowl. Senior year was Gilby, Nevada, and the end of the world. There have been a few fun seasons since but I just can’t quite care that much. In reality 12 men on the field was probably the last time this team caused me to break something.
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2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
Willingham killed me. I thought the uniforms were cool as shit at the time… we looked good losing. Don’t throw tomatoes at me.
