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Have your expectations for the season changed?
whatshouldicareabout
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Do you still remember your preseason expectations?
Were you expecting a 9-win season? A 10-win season? Maybe even 11? What about winning the Pac-12 Conference? An elite bowl game? Do you still expect UW to reach those goals after what you've seen thus far? Have these games revised your expectations for the season? What about the play of the other Pac-12 teams?
For me, I predicted 10 wins (Boobs, read this as 6) with losses to Stanford, Oregon and UCLA (with the requirement that we're competitive in each and no plungers). I figured the team would take a step-back in offensive personnel but take a step up in coaching, and for the most part, that's been true. I was a little concerned at first when Petersen said he was going to have to teach the fundamentals to the players all Spring and continue into the Fall, but I figured we'd be ready to compete with the Pac-12 teams once the preseason ended. We were never really impressive during the preseason, but I figured it was working out the kinks and whatnot. I thought we had a chance to beat Stanford after USC squeaked by them 13-10, so I was predicting a win this last weekend. That obviously didn't happen, and the game was incredibly frustrating... but it fits my preseason expectations so far. It's what I expected after we hired Petersen 9 months ago.
I am still expecting a 10-win season by the end of the year with a 6-3 conference record, being competitive in every game and a decent bowl game. The Stanford game was extremely disappointing, but it fits with how I predicted the season to unfold.
Anyone else feel the same way?
Were you expecting a 9-win season? A 10-win season? Maybe even 11? What about winning the Pac-12 Conference? An elite bowl game? Do you still expect UW to reach those goals after what you've seen thus far? Have these games revised your expectations for the season? What about the play of the other Pac-12 teams?
For me, I predicted 10 wins (Boobs, read this as 6) with losses to Stanford, Oregon and UCLA (with the requirement that we're competitive in each and no plungers). I figured the team would take a step-back in offensive personnel but take a step up in coaching, and for the most part, that's been true. I was a little concerned at first when Petersen said he was going to have to teach the fundamentals to the players all Spring and continue into the Fall, but I figured we'd be ready to compete with the Pac-12 teams once the preseason ended. We were never really impressive during the preseason, but I figured it was working out the kinks and whatnot. I thought we had a chance to beat Stanford after USC squeaked by them 13-10, so I was predicting a win this last weekend. That obviously didn't happen, and the game was incredibly frustrating... but it fits my preseason expectations so far. It's what I expected after we hired Petersen 9 months ago.
I am still expecting a 10-win season by the end of the year with a 6-3 conference record, being competitive in every game and a decent bowl game. The Stanford game was extremely disappointing, but it fits with how I predicted the season to unfold.
Anyone else feel the same way?
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The season is over
But WGAF?
I thought the OL and running game would be better. I thought Kasen Williams would be productive. Most everything else is as I expected.
I thought we would beat Stanford and UCLA at home.
Remaining two losses come to Arizona and Oregon.
Anything less than 6-3 is a fucking joke with this roster
I had higher expectations for this season than appear to be probable at this point. I'm okay with that and want Petersen to "blow it up" if he believes getting the program to the level he and we desire will happen sooner than if the progress appeared more incremental, as a 6-3 conference record might indicate. Kind of tough for guys like Cooper and Kasen Williams, who seem would be OKGs if they had more eligibility remaining.
This is still a roster with a bunch of decent, experienced lineman, 4 star receivers, decent-to-good RB's, and a 4 star QB at the helm.
It's not "stacked", but it should be good enough to go 6-3 in conference. That's only a 1 win improvement from Sark's 5-4 m.o.
I am sick of people blaming sark for the talent that is on the team. THere is enough talent to win 6 conference games. The main thing that Sark did that was bad with respect to talent is the lack of depth at safety this year and the O-Line Next year. Sark is a mediocre coach and I am glad he was snatched by USC, but so far this season is not off to a good start. We have just looked like shit so far. Miley didn't look that bad last year so hopefully Petersen can figure that out.
Way, way WAY overrated team. It's the auburndog syndrome-'shaq and shelton and kikasomeass with our skill guys........'.
Rather doogish to insist that the obviously flawed 2014 team is going to somehow pull it together and start dominating.
I seriously doubt very much that you guys will beat the beavs...........at home.
But, listening to talk radio and reading doog posts, I now wonder if Washington will win another game 'at this level'