I have never seen so little Husky football talk in mid-August
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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
