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Reflecting on a comment made by Roaddawg
DerekJohnson
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He mentioned how he wasn't upset over a loss in a meaningless game against a mediocre Arizona team. First off, I'm not saying he's wrong to feel that way.
But I am old enough to see how the culture around this program has changed so dramatically. There was a time when every single loss, regardless to whom, was searingly painful and took a couple days to recover from. Every game mattered.
After many years of Babs, Gilby, Emmert, Ty, Todd Turner, Sark, Nick Holt, Woodward, etc., we now have fans who view a loss to Arizona as a meaningless throwaway game, much like how we view the Husky basketball team losing a December game to New Mexico.
But I am old enough to see how the culture around this program has changed so dramatically. There was a time when every single loss, regardless to whom, was searingly painful and took a couple days to recover from. Every game mattered.
After many years of Babs, Gilby, Emmert, Ty, Todd Turner, Sark, Nick Holt, Woodward, etc., we now have fans who view a loss to Arizona as a meaningless throwaway game, much like how we view the Husky basketball team losing a December game to New Mexico.
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People seem pretty upset about the game to me. RoadDawg is putting it in perspective because we don't have anything huge to play for. It's not like ASU's loss.
On the contrary to what you say, expectations are at least back to normal now or close. People are not going to be happy until we are competing for championships regularly. Even people on doogman are upset. -
That one hurt quite a bit. Between that and the Seahawk fuck up, and other factors, the weekend and this morning sucked. That was easily the most painful loss of the post Ty era. It's not close IMO. It's value is good in a perverted way in that it means people care and actually carry high expectations.
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Well, my comment above is both spot on but also faulty in light of how many are upset by the manner we lost to Arizona. So how many people were deeply upset by the loss to UCLA? To Oregon? To Stanford? Sure, people weren't happy about those, but it doesn't even come close to how painful the losses used to be.HeretoBeatmyChest said:People seem pretty upset about the game to me. RoadDawg is putting it in perspective because we don't have anything huge to play for. It's not like ASU's loss.
On the contrary to what you say, expectations are at least back to normal now or close. People are not going to be happy until we are competing for championships regularly. Even people on doogman are upset. -
DJ- sounds like you need to stop living in the past.
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I hope we get back to the point where every loss matters and hurts. Losses still bother me, but not as much late in the season after already losing 4 games. I remember being really pissed about losing to Oregon in 2000 and Oregon State and Texas in 2001. The most pissed I got during the Sark years was last year against Stanford.
Just a guess, but I think people were more pissed than usual about this loss because of the fashion in which we lost. I also think it was because we played relatively well and still found a way to lose. I think it was also a accumulation of the whole season to this point. -
I remember that three game losing streak in 97...Oregon, UCLA and WSU thinking life was over....I remember walking down the ramp with my dad after the Oregon loss in utter shock.... watching leaf win in husky stadium and the giant wsu flag being waved in the stadium afterward is seared into my memory banks....even if I end up suffering from alzheimers I won't forget it.
Or in 95 leading USC 21-0 in the fourth and keyshawn catching 3 TDs to end in a tie made me ill.... and the Oregon loss at home losing by 2 the week after....
I literally couldnt believe what I was witnessing those years. Pure misery. -
I'm sorry, I believe it was a leaf flag! I guess I will forget it if I lose my brain
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I was expecting to get steamrolled and we didn't, which is partly why I'm not still upset. However, I want to jump off the Aurora bridge because I expected UW to get steamrolled by Arizona, which speaks to the state of the program, like Kaiser DJ said.
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It's probably a little of all of it rolled together ...
The way we lost ...
The expectations going into the season ...
Tired of losing ...
Tired of watching Oregon be good while we sit back pissing in the wind ...
The losses of the past hurt in a lot of ways because in many of those instances we lost far more than the game ...
This season has been trying ... We've had a lot of steps backwards canceling out many of the steps we've taken forward ...
I'm a firm believer that one of the most difficult skills to learn in sports is how to win. A game like Saturday tells me that we still have a way to go in this program in terms of making winning plays.
In the grand scheme of things, the negatives in losing Saturday are only magnified IF we fail to win either of our last two games.
There's a lot of soul searching that everybody in this program needs to have with themselves this offseason. The difference right now between 2-5 and 5-2 are very small. -
AlzheimerDawg is available. I suggest getting on that now before you forget.jecornel said:I remember that three game losing streak in 97...Oregon, UCLA and WSU thinking life was over....I remember walking down the ramp with my dad after the Oregon loss in utter shock.... watching leaf win in husky stadium and the giant wsu flag being waved in the stadium afterward is seared into my memory banks....even if I end up suffering from alzheimers I won't forget it.
Or in 95 leading USC 21-0 in the fourth and keyshawn catching 3 TDs to end in a tie made me ill.... and the Oregon loss at home losing by 2 the week after....
I literally couldnt believe what I was witnessing those years. Pure misery.
