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This program has ruined me as a fan
EsophagealFeces
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I'm 31, so I barely remember '91, was in high school the last time UW went to a bowl game that was worth a shit, and have spent virtually all of my adult life watching the team I love lose to the team I hate the most(along with all other semi-decent teams). I'm at the point where I hate watching the games. I get so fucking mad that I lose all control and start spewing phrases that could make PL_SS blush. Old people around me in the stadium turn and look with horror, stunned that the human mind can construct such vile sentences. My friends and family get on my case about it saying I shouldn't get so mad over a game.
The shit I've had to watch the last 14 years has made me so pessimistic it's pathetic. When I watch the Huskies play, my first instinct is to assume that every flag is on them, every review is going against them, and that every time they make a good play, they're going to fuck it up and give it back. I didn't see Gaskin score tonight because I was looking for flags, and I do that on pretty much every big play without even consciously doing it.
When the score was 23-6 tonight, part of me was actually hoping Oregon would break out the plunger and finish them off just so I wouldn't get my hopes up. It's straight battered spouse shit. I keep hoping things will change, that at some point whatever loser coach we have will turn the corner and pretend to earn his multimillion dollar salary, but every time it ends with a swift kick to the dick followed by the realization that as long as a bunch of liberals who don't give a fuck about football run UW, the football team is never going to be good again.
There's no accountability, and it goes all the way up the chain. The president and BOR don't hold the athletic director to a standard of excellence, so there's no pressure on him to hold the coach to one, the coach doesn't hold his assistants accountable, mediocrity becomes acceptable, and all of a sudden your program becomes a breeding ground for losers. Sure, a coach may leave or get fired occasionally, but the culture remains, fueled by the fact that the people in charge don't seem to care.
I better cut this off before it gets any closer to Tequilla long, but I fear I've gotten to that point already. I'm just so fucking tired of this shit. It sucks watching something I care about continually fall short of what I know it can be. I miss Washington, dammit.
The shit I've had to watch the last 14 years has made me so pessimistic it's pathetic. When I watch the Huskies play, my first instinct is to assume that every flag is on them, every review is going against them, and that every time they make a good play, they're going to fuck it up and give it back. I didn't see Gaskin score tonight because I was looking for flags, and I do that on pretty much every big play without even consciously doing it.
When the score was 23-6 tonight, part of me was actually hoping Oregon would break out the plunger and finish them off just so I wouldn't get my hopes up. It's straight battered spouse shit. I keep hoping things will change, that at some point whatever loser coach we have will turn the corner and pretend to earn his multimillion dollar salary, but every time it ends with a swift kick to the dick followed by the realization that as long as a bunch of liberals who don't give a fuck about football run UW, the football team is never going to be good again.
There's no accountability, and it goes all the way up the chain. The president and BOR don't hold the athletic director to a standard of excellence, so there's no pressure on him to hold the coach to one, the coach doesn't hold his assistants accountable, mediocrity becomes acceptable, and all of a sudden your program becomes a breeding ground for losers. Sure, a coach may leave or get fired occasionally, but the culture remains, fueled by the fact that the people in charge don't seem to care.
I better cut this off before it gets any closer to Tequilla long, but I fear I've gotten to that point already. I'm just so fucking tired of this shit. It sucks watching something I care about continually fall short of what I know it can be. I miss Washington, dammit.
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I was a senior in college in 1991. I lived through the prime of this program during the prime of my life. I remember what it was like to be a fan of, and friends with, the baddest motherfuckers in college football.
What's worse ... having had the experience and then losing it in soul crushing fashion, or never having had the experience at all?
. I miss Washington, dammit.
This sums it up for me as well. I've trained myself that we are two steps forward three steps back.
Case in point: freeman fumbles, clearly down, pac-12 ref's do their job which is to fuck it up as usual (but this time it's for us), blow the whistle to start and yet we don't have a phrase, sign, ANYTHING that says you snap the ball IMMEDIATELY and have Jake take a knee to get the play off. Sure enough Helfrich throws the flag or calls to and call reversed.
Or on the opening fucking kick-off Addison muffs the ball three times and we still can't find a way to get it.
My heart wants to believe so badly, but my brain has seen this for so many years it has conditioned me to know that the happiness and joy will somehow someway be killed.
@dhdawg how in the world did that happen? Everyone else you know is a 12, I'd imagine.
3-3 used to be considered really bad, like a major failure. I remember they started 2-3 when I was in fifth grade, and they had lost @ an AZ team that had beaten Oklahomo, Colorado (they were a top ten team then for you youngsters), and SC who owned the Pac 10. That wasn't acceptable though. It was fucking bullshit. I got so mad that I almost started rooting for other teams.
Now it's almost expected. And fuck all the senior citizens with perspective who remember when the team was 2-8 or some shit in 1968 because Jim Owens was a racist. Give me a break. Do you want to be a top 15-20 program or not? Stop excusing bullshit and mediocrity.
That's the alarming part, is that we can't seem to unfuck ourselves, even after multiple coaching changes. I'm so sick of watching the Huskies find ways to lose.