Do you think this just happens by accident?
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We had some good history no doubt. It's just quite on the level of, say, 2012- 2024 Ohio State History.
If you look at the peak Don James run of, say, 1980- 92 we've got 3 x Top 5 finishes. Ohio State has 10 x top 5 finishes from 2012- 2024.
We were clearly the best program in the Pac 10 and able to play with anyone in the country in the Top 5 type season, but there were some mediocre seasons too and @RaceBannon had his finger on the button with DJ.
I think the difference through is the history being the agent of inertia as @creepycoug so eloquently put it. There's something in the DNA of The Ohio State University Institution and Fan Base that's missing in UW/Seattle. They can sustain success through coaching change and/or sanctions in a way that few programs can.
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YVBE
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Don't know what this means?
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yes, the state of WA has gone to shit. Too many PC ass hats running around looking for the next sign to pick up and be upset about. TITTT, I know, sorry.
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your very best ever.
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Ever or effort. Same diff. Thanks souwf!
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oh, I guess effort makes more sense but I’m sticking with ever.
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Don’t forget this fag being jealous of Coach James popularity, he set this whole thing in motion.
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Huh?
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Good point and articulates a perception I have whenever I get on the boards after a UW loss. You, Race, Knowledge, Snow and many others are pretty cold at assessing what is and isn't the case. Superfans who emote over these things - and there are a few in this thread - often go right to anointing the team as GOAT and it reeks of coping. That's the "it's right around the corner" crowd.
I have always found the Miami fanbase to be pretty stupid and for years myopically stuck in the past with a vocabulary of one word: swag. But even they seem to have gotten more realistic about who they really are in the last 5 to 10 years. Maybe I'm wrong but the 15th ass kicking at the hands of Clemson coupled with annual losses to Georgia Tech and/or UVa have done their work and at some point they seem to have become realistic. Gotta admit you have a problem before you can fix it.
UW has had some good things happen to it in the last decade - Petersen, Cornerback U and Penix and the 3-headed posse among them. More good things can still happen. To become Buck, though, requires a jump from where they are and what they have been since the early 90s. One year here and there they can be that but to become the annual monster Buck is requires a lot of shit to line up. Not sure I have the formula but I go back to what I think is an Iron Law: you need a little luck in the coaching hire.
