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DugtheDoog
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If it already has, fuck off.
If you would have told me 2 years ago that Cory Littleton was going to get an invite to the combine, I would have laughed in your face and called you the doogliest doog that ever dooged.
I already kind of hated him under Sark and it seemed inevitable that I was going to despise him with a passion by his junior year and pull a Dennis with my TV every time I saw him on TV his senior year. So for the sake of my televisions (and my sanity) I was hoping that Sark would find some more shiny new toys to play with for a couple years until I could start to hate them and continue the circle of a doog's life.
But then Peterman happened. It was the damndest thing. Players getting better? I had started to cherish a kid's freshman season because I knew it would be his best. This whole concept was extremely confusing to me. Players aren't supposed to develop and improve over time. They're supposed to get worse during the time Ivan gets a hold of 'em until they graduate or Sark drops them for a shiny new toy only to flourish in another system. But regardless of the path they took to get there, my hatred of them would usually be at a boiling point when they eventually departed. And now this shit? Cory Littleton at the combine? Travis Feeney actually improving after a promising freshman season and initially sticking to the script his sophomore year? Tani Tupou actually having a pulse? Siofissaa Toefungus starting on the OL and not wanting to vomit after every play? John Motherfucking Timu starting in the NFL by the end of his rookie season? Seriously. What the fuck is this shit? All I know is it's scaring me. Something must be wrong.
If you would have told me 2 years ago that Cory Littleton was going to get an invite to the combine, I would have laughed in your face and called you the doogliest doog that ever dooged.
I already kind of hated him under Sark and it seemed inevitable that I was going to despise him with a passion by his junior year and pull a Dennis with my TV every time I saw him on TV his senior year. So for the sake of my televisions (and my sanity) I was hoping that Sark would find some more shiny new toys to play with for a couple years until I could start to hate them and continue the circle of a doog's life.
But then Peterman happened. It was the damndest thing. Players getting better? I had started to cherish a kid's freshman season because I knew it would be his best. This whole concept was extremely confusing to me. Players aren't supposed to develop and improve over time. They're supposed to get worse during the time Ivan gets a hold of 'em until they graduate or Sark drops them for a shiny new toy only to flourish in another system. But regardless of the path they took to get there, my hatred of them would usually be at a boiling point when they eventually departed. And now this shit? Cory Littleton at the combine? Travis Feeney actually improving after a promising freshman season and initially sticking to the script his sophomore year? Tani Tupou actually having a pulse? Siofissaa Toefungus starting on the OL and not wanting to vomit after every play? John Motherfucking Timu starting in the NFL by the end of his rookie season? Seriously. What the fuck is this shit? All I know is it's scaring me. Something must be wrong.
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Younger fans have no idea what a good football program with real, competent adults running the show looks like.
Petersen and his staff (most of it anyway), fit that profile.
Timu was the same player under Petersen he was under Sark. A middling LB. Coaches always seemed to really like him though. It was definitely a surprise he made a roster, but I don't really care because he was never very good at UW under Sark or Petersen. Victor was a huge upgrade.
I'm not sure how good Tufunga is/was. I do know that there was nobody else that could play behind him. Brostek has always been terrible, Crane sucked and was injured. The other interior lineman were almost all freshmen.
Tupou, Shelton, Andrew Hudson and a few others made amazing improvements under the new staff. Nobody on offense really has though and we are still average. The development has been a little better, but I don't think it's been amazing by any means.
I expect that to come next season, but if it doesn't, I'll be disgruntled as fuck.
What gives me an even bigger boner, though, has been seeing the performance of guys like Gaines, Sydney Jones, Gaskin, and Baker. The highly recruited guys have performed at or above where we thought they would and some of the lower ranked recruits have performed far better than anyone could have guessed. Azeem is another guy who has emerged as an absolute monster. Even though he was a Sark guy, he was lightly recruited and looks like a 5 star guy out there.
In sum, i'm dooging, the future is bright and 201? will be special...unless it won't be
My hope and guess is maybe we really see it this year and next with the OL. A lot of OL guys will be going from their first to second season or second to third season. Should be ripe for some noticeable improvement.
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Either that, or some lack mental capacity to separate two different arguments/stances. For example, giving examples of players that I see have gotten better under Petermen's tutelage and contrasting that with players under Sark is an observation that many of us have made. But that's one fucking argument. I never made reference to Petermen as an in-game manager, as having a decided schematic advantage a la charlie weis, or simply having that "IT" factor in coaching.
I made a comment that I would have never expected Littleton to get an invite to the combine a couple years ago and gave examples of other players I felt have improved. And apparently some mis-read that as an endorsement that Petermen is going to the Rose Bowl next year.
It's like coming home from 3rd grade and telling your mom you won the spelling bee and she says "well you didn't get straight As". Well no shit...and final grades aren't given out for 10 more months. I just said that I won the fucking spelling bee after mis-spelling "development" the last 2 years. Has nothing to do with straight As and only a simpleton would think that's what you're implying.
Some of you need to go out and get some perspective and realize that Bleenor's best friend in the entire world passed away and he was the "king of Las Vegas". He got the Pac12 tournament to Las Vegas, got Williams-Goss to go to UW and transfer to Gonzaga, got the Huskies in the Vegas Bowl so Bleenor and Aaaaaaaandy could sit in the luxury suites, got Bobby Hauck the gig at UNLV and is really good friends with Ed O'bannon.