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Which (post 1960) Husky Football downturn was hardest on you mentally?

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  • minion_doog
    minion_doog Member Posts: 2,024
    2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2001978#Comment_2001978

    I remember that James response was to quit.

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  • PostGameOrangeSlices
    PostGameOrangeSlices Member Posts: 27,688

    For fucks sake

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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,786 Founders Club
    2019- 21 Pete quits and Jimmy runs the damn ball

    The Jimmy and Montana abomination has a special place in my memory. I had lived in LA for 13 years and ended with some bad personal stuff there and had moved back to Washington and had an amazing few month run and ecstatic going to games in Husky Stadium was going to be part of my life again then boom, Montana, and the rest. It was also a different time than the 2000s where it felt and probably was more hopeless to get back once you fall off.

    The Neu/Gilby/Ty shit I was mostly in college and had drinking and partying to distract me and it felt back then that programs cycled more than they do now.

    As bad as Jedd has been it felt like we could have been UCLA right now at one point and we're not, and that's somewhat encouraging.

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  • rodmansrage
    rodmansrage Member Posts: 6,430
    2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim

    ty years were the worst, i went to games actively trying to get kicked out, never happened though.

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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,782 Founders Club
    2019- 21 Pete quits and Jimmy runs the damn ball

    The Jimmy Lake 2021 campaign caused me to put all my UW except for a t-shirt in a box in the attic with the intention of taking it to Seattle to drop off at a Goodwill the next tim I went. I was angry.

    I was living outside Washington state from 91 to 07 and I didn’t have a lot of info on what was happening with the program until probably 2003. The Lambo years always felt like we? were close but couldn’t get over the hump. I bought into the lack of depth argument because of sanctions. Even when they fired Rick, I thought he had run his course but also thought it was dumb to hire Gilby as anything other than an interim guy. I was still optimistic because Gilby was bringing back the 5 tough questions.

    By tim Tyrone was hired, I thought maybe he’d be able to get the program back to 7-5 records and get it to a point of respectability again for a new coach to take the reigns. Turns out, the 7-5 coach was the guy who followed Tyrone. That still wasn’t the depths of my despair. I think the OG HHB board was funny enough to get me through it all and I also knew UW had some very inept leadership with Emmett and Turner. I thought replacing those 2 cocksuckers might make a difference.

    Sark was Sark. I gave up my season tickets after the year at the Clink and the only thing after that was a 4 game pack during Pete’s first year.

    2016 was fun and boded well for the future but then you could see Pete not doing enough to get us? over the hump. I truly hoped Jimmy would be that guy and the giant size 14 kick in the nuts.

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,851 Founders Club
    2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2002115#Comment_2002115

    thanks Tequilla!

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,851 Founders Club
    2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim

    August 1993 was completely devastating for me. But December 2007 was equally devastating, and it led me for the first time to root against Washington in a football game. (Cal)

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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,388
    2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim

    I saw one home loss when I went to UW for the 1999, 2000 and 2001 seasons: the 1999 ASU loss of course. I hadn't arrived to campus when we blew the home game to Air Force.

    I saw us beat an insanely talented Miami team, beat Michigan, Colorado before they totally sucked, get a couple of top-10 conference wins and finish 2nd, 1st and 2nd in the conference, with shots at the Rose every year. I knew enough Huskieieieie history to know that we didn't always win the conference but that we were usually right there.

    To see us fall completely apart and be one of the worst programs in CFB was mind blowing, and of course for it to not be a 5 alarm fire within the admin, fan base and media fucking blew my mind. Fuck those people who allowed it to happen.

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  • dannarc
    dannarc Member Posts: 2,750
    2003- 15 Gilby/Ty/Sark/Pete needs moar Tim

    Ty and Sark killed a little bit of my soul. Sark having the guys do the ‘Lawn Mower’ on the sideline was when I almost quit.
    The last two losses have hurt, especially the way it happened, however, last season was great, and I truly believe the future is bright in the B1G

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