I have never seen so little Husky football talk in mid-August
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Busy corching 11-12 year old shitheads
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Dumbest softest fucking fans ever care about that shit.
Who's a player that everybody here blows? Dillon Johnson?
Spare me.
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College football has turned into what the NFLPA could only dream of getting which is 100% pure, free agent movement without any obligation to contracts, no cap on salaries, etc.
But nothing has really changed and college football is the same sport it was 20+ years ago, and anyone who thinks it has changed for the worse is soft and clueless.
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The NFL was at its greatest with no cap and Eddie DeBartolo and Jerry Jones spending each other into oblivion
I don't care as much for the socialist NFL
Keep college football capitalist!
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Just straight up blaming the portal in 2025 if you bought in for 2022-23 as a UW fan is kind of hypocritical. No portal. Fine. No Penix and Dylan Morris is DeBoer's QB those seasons. Good news! DeBoer is probably still here and has a record a lot like Sark's when he was here.
We've had a worst of all time run after a great of all time run of shit that specifically mostly has to do with the modern landscape of college football, but if we get rolling again, especially as soon as 2025, we should be bought in.
I think some of the stuff like the portal and NIL may calm down a bit outside of QBs too.
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Winning cures everything. Find portal guys who don't suck and people will bitch less about the portal, but don't expect people to be pumped up for the offseason when 1/3 of the roster turns over every year.
ATBS, I'll like the new guys and try to remember their names if they beat tOSU and are rich, cool, and 4 - 0.
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I believe and agree with Judd's philosophy that we will mostly build through high school recruiting. If we're really building for 2026 we'll need some ringer portal types at WR and DL though.
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Yes, that's correct.
And I don't care what soft and clueless fans want to go spend their time and money on.
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@haie Unfortunately, UW needs their money to compete so you better find a way to get them onboard.
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That's on you for not paying attention. Bryant, Davis, Williams and Lane are all Huskies recruited out of HS and are all entering their third year in the program. Where have you been? Audric Harris is in his second year and played as a true freshman, Durftoe is in his third year at UW. Just admit you don't care because there are many players you can watch grow and develop if you look. Fish has said many times he wants less and less portal additions every year. He wants what you and I both want. Recruit them, develop them, pay them, keep them. The program is rebuilding through recruiting but they had to take 50+ players the last two years because you can't play a team of strictly first and second year guys and compete. If Judd loses a bunch of starters that are "his guys" after this season and next then I'll possibly start to check out but UW aint there yet. You've got to admit the circumstances after the Deboer exit were catastrophic, then pair it with Jimmy's last shitty class and DeBoers first shitty class and you're in a pickle in terms of sheer numbers. It's getting better, open yo eyes Worshington!
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Yeah the "I don't know half the players on the team anymore!" stuff.
Maybe read something for 5 minutes a day or listen to a 20 minute podcast?
I get that a lot of these guys are from Arizona high schools lately, but Petersen's staff recruited that state a bunch too, so who cares.
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The penny pinchers here haven't been spending since before the Petersen tenure anyways and the stimulae in front of me all last season says that that's a small minority of older fans. Sorry.
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Penix was the best pure passer I've seen in my lifetim. Passes I've never seen completed. Ropes. Dimes. All the cliches.
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The script this year is that Washington loses a heartbreaker to Buck, this site gives up on the season similar to 2022 after ASU, and then they win some close games including Oregon and then everybody's back just in time for Jedd to lose a NY6 bowl or playoff game.
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That would not be the worst season
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I'll often watch, because it's football, if it's on tv and for free.
But I no longer bother to follow what's happening before the games start.
They've improved college football so much that I don't really care that much anymore.
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Better seats for me!!
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I really don’t know how many Tim’s I have to tell you bunch of C’ suckers that we? Are not losing to THE OSU! They don’t have a QB that can silence the NS upper deck.
It’s the let down after that will be our proving grounds
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A lot of the players have been here that are key, Demond, Boston, etc.
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Coming so close to the natty, and then getting kicked in the nuts with DeBoer leaving, definitely took the wind out of this place
It'll bounce back. If Vanilla doesn't fuck things up.
If you had asked the long time poasters here if they really thought UW would play in a title game again in our life time, the unanimous answer would be "no".
To be 14-0 with that opportunity, to have it end the way it did…sucked
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What are you wanting to talk about @DerekJohnson
There's a lot of reason to be optimistic on the season but there's also some unknowns to pump the brakes with
Personally, I think it's very possible to be a CFP contender this year and I'd love to be 9-2 for the Oregon game with so much on the line
CBS Sports Network in their Big10 preview had the win %'s of our toughest games as:
Oregon - 35%
Ohio St - 39%
at Michigan - 42%
at Wisconsin - 69%
Illinois - 75%
Knock off Ohio St early (and there's a very good case for an upset being more than possible) and things go full DOOG quickly
I'm all for staying under the radar at this point … best to get Ohio St not thinking too much of their trip West
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After getting to summit of the Mountaintop and losing in Houston, my apathy for husky football is the same as many are saying in this thread.
For last 40 years I knew the roster front to back, would read and listen to anything UW football related, followed recruiting and couldn't wait for the season to start.
Obviously winning will be the cure all, but no way does it help the sport to have open free agency where your roster is going to flip at least 25% every year and many guys will be here and gone in 3 months.
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We will always have a core of guys that developed in the system and will be paid accordingly then there will be the guys that have underperformed and didn’t pan out that Fisch will have to send to Idaho, then there will be a few tweener guysm that go after bigger bags because they feel slighted. The NFL shit Fisch is pedaling is a good model for keeping a core nucleus together to win games and improve draft stock because NFL is indeed > NIL.
NIL and all this branding shit will not be the demise of the game as some of us have told y’all. Things will equalize and you better buckle up for a playoff run soon. It’s all entertainment, I still think college ball is more of a team sport than pro, I’ll still watch both but with different expectations -
Ironically the thread born of pointing out that football talk is scarce has developed some of the best football talk this month.
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This thread has happened every single August every single season since the COVID year.
Before that it was similar but whining about how poorly run the Pac 12 is.
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You love free things, shocking.
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$29 Pharisee ways inn
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Still hungover from 2023. Last year was shit. Expected shit, but still shit.
Higher expectations are in place but need to actually see something before really getting into it. Blowouts, like we're supposed to do, against CSU and WSU will start it up going into tOSU.
The vanilla board disaster makes it hard too
