I don't think UW is going to be particularly good next year. I also don't think Peterman is a bad coach. The problem some are running into while predicting 4 or 5 wins next year is they forgot how fucking hard it is to not win at least half of your games in the Pac 12 with even mediocre talent and head coach.
Since Gilby pooped all over himself and lost 6 games with the top 14 pre season team in the country, we started to think that winning 7 required a good team. It doesn't. Even with the personnel losses from last year, 7 wins should still be a no brainer. Hell, tyrone beat Boise. Just because Sark lost to them in a bowl game while he was hung to the over doesn't mean Pete will.
Mediocre season next year while rebuilding, like this year, 8 wins.
For me it boils down to this - I can't say I think Petersen is the guy and that the season is over and we're still the year after next year's team. If he can't develop and recruit we don't want him anyway. I think the 2015 season is real and it should show us far better than the dreck we saw this year. If not, then the year after next probably won't be special anyway
It will take the Huskies about 25 years to dig themselves out of the cavernous hole they're in. Oregon stands in between them and the fertile recruiting ground of California. Why would a skilled recruit from California want to go the extra 350 or so miles to rainy ass Seattle and become part of a dreckfest when they can compete for the chance to get to the championship every year if they become a duck?
I also don't see it happening next year. The lines are a big question mark, especially on offense. As is QB. We could be really good in year 3, though.
Petersen year 1: 8-6, 6th in P12, L in Cactus Bowl Petersen year 2: ???????????????
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So by looking at the elite coaches that entered a program during the BCS era, it takes a full season and offseason to start to yield success and show signs of greatness. If Petersen is who we hope he is -- then next year will tell us a lot.
Great poast.
I don't see us being great next year, but I do think the doom and gloom is too much. I expect a winning season with a record resembling this year, but better play.
One thing I don't understand about the logic that "we're losing so much" (especially on this bored) is that we all fucking know the players don't matter nearly as much as the coaches. Sure, Shelton is great... sure Shaq was rad, but what did that really get us this year?
We beat the teams we were superior to and lost to the teams we were inferior to. All while playing the shittiest QB I've ever seen start a whole season at UW not named Ronnie Fouch (though, honestly, Fouch was probably better).
I don't see how next year will be any different.
Shelton was Alameda Ta'amu before last year. Shaq was a 'maybe could be awesome' player, Kikaha was inconsistent and Peters was definitely our most consistently dominant player. We kicked him off, got massive production and/or consistency upgrades from the rest of our good players, but it still didn't mean our D was dominant because our back-end were all freshmen and the rest of our players were average.
The coaching matters, a lot. I'm still pretty pro-Pete and I think we will be good next year and then we will start to be REALLY good the year following that.
Need @GrundleStiltzkin to make me a Tyler Rape .gif from the interview where he says, "we the best" in the most awkward way possible. That shit was gold.
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Petersen year 1: 8-6, 6th in P12, L in Cactus Bowl Petersen year 2: ???????????????
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So by looking at the elite coaches that entered a program during the BCS era, it takes a full season and offseason to start to yield success and show signs of greatness. If Petersen is who we hope he is -- then next year will tell us a lot.
Great poast.
I don't see us being great next year, but I do think the doom and gloom is too much. I expect a winning season with a record resembling this year, but better play.
One thing I don't understand about the logic that "we're losing so much" (especially on this bored) is that we all fucking know the players don't matter nearly as much as the coaches. Sure, Shelton is great... sure Shaq was rad, but what did that really get us this year?
We beat the teams we were superior to and lost to the teams we were inferior to. All while playing the shittiest QB I've ever seen start a whole season at UW not named Ronnie Fouch (though, honestly, Fouch was probably better).
I don't see how next year will be any different.
Shelton was Alameda Ta'amu before last year. Shaq was a 'maybe could be awesome' player, Kikaha was inconsistent and Peters was definitely our most consistently dominant player. We kicked him off, got massive production and/or consistency upgrades from the rest of our good players, but it still didn't mean our D was dominant because our back-end were all freshmen and the rest of our players were average.
The coaching matters, a lot. I'm still pretty pro-Pete and I think we will be good next year and then we will start to be REALLY good the year following that.
2016 WILL BE SPECIAL!!!!111!!!!
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Since Gilby pooped all over himself and lost 6 games with the top 14 pre season team in the country, we started to think that winning 7 required a good team. It doesn't. Even with the personnel losses from last year, 7 wins should still be a no brainer. Hell, tyrone beat Boise. Just because Sark lost to them in a bowl game while he was hung to the over doesn't mean Pete will.
Mediocre season next year while rebuilding, like this year, 8 wins.
Also, LOL at @oregonblitzkrieg (RIP) and Team Carta-Hyphen.
Look at my gorgeous poasts in this bitch. They are magnificent.