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Alex Akita is a UW Bball authority
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How much fluff is in that?
I don't know who this Akita is but he sounds like a douche who takes himself way too seriously
1) the importance of the Dawg Pack
2) sucking off Alex Akita
However, (and I just checked the old schedule) I vividly remember the Stanford game, Arizona game and Oregon game which were later in the season. The Stanford game the dawg pack was full and some fans were sitting like 5 rows behind Stanfords bench and just yelling and taunting Stanford's guys and they were getting flustered and had a really bad game. We almost upset Arizona later in the year (who was #2 at the time) and by that point it was pretty obvious that UW BBall was going to take off. From that point forward the student section was full every game. Granted, a year and two years later you had to get there really fucking early but the place was just as loud at the end of the 02-03 season then the following seasons.
This "it took a while to get going" is fucking bullshit. It happened suddenly and sometime in the middle of the 02-03 season. It was a young team with a bunch of local guys that showed flashes and was exciting to watch. That's why there was student interest before they went on that big winning streak a year later.
The motherfucker gets a little bit of FREE PUB! with his fucktarded website, gets invited on KJR a couple times and all of a sudden wants to be a part of the (as Kim would put it) "Who's Who" in the retarded Seattle sports media scene.
The worst thing about Akita is his awkward-as-fuck gay man crush on Ryan Divish. One only has to go to Akita's website or the Twatters and observe how creepy it is.
Divish seems to be kinda, sorta okay with it. Like a young man in college getting toothy blowjobs from a decent looking girl down the dorm hallway...Divish probably thinks, "Okay this is kinda painful but at least I'm getting consistent hummers."
Problem is that I'd be taking a massive pay cut to do that.
I'll wait until DawgNews, PurpleDawgFan, AuburnDawg and Taft weigh in before I make a decision though.
This was tequila long article for " if the team is good the dawg pack shows up." The whole premise of this article is the return of the dawgpack as if gano or Akita somehow were the gasoline. Um, it's called winning and putting interesting players and gameplan to watch on the floor. Gano hasn't been able to rile up fans to attend this year till game 15??? Great poont
I gotta say, really enjoyed the part where Alex tosses in skipping class after the zona game and the very next section mentioning being responsible and going to class. Nice work gents.
If they want to know why people aren't showing up to UW hoops games, it's because the price of the tickets are way too high.
As for "hosting" recruits, well ...
And Akita is a fucking idiot ... he acts like he is a somebody when he really doesn't have a fucking clue.
I'm just happy the pack is showing up. And I don't just think it's winning that turned it around so fast. I was contacted several times on FB and LinkedIn by old pack members telling me that admission would be free for old members.
Also, he's right about the type of students at UW now compared to just 10 years ago when we were there. The fobby international kids don't give two shits about basketball. Local h.s. kids who plaed or were into sports and had GPAs in the 3.6-3.8 range don't get into UW anymore.
The only part of the story that rang true to me at all was about how getting a game at the IMA (particularly on a Friday) in the past was a 45+ minute wait and the quality of play was strong. Today, there's hardly ever a wait the 1-2x per year that I show up to play and it's hardly worth the time or money to go down there.
IMO, the UW needs to get back to making sure that they are bringing in the best/brightest of the local students into the UW. As the Seattle market continues to grow going forward, part of the buy-in from the local companies will also be tied into how their kids are able to get into the UW.