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Coaching is everything.
Gladstone
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Everything!
All of the doog excuses I see on various boards drive me nuts. Excuses are for losers. It’s clear why we haven’t won since 2000. Bad coaches. The end. Did you know Oklahoma went through four coaches in nine years until they found Stoops? Notre Dame went through lowly Davie, Willingham, and Weis until they landed Brian Kelly. Despite all of its inherent advantages in location, tradition, and culture -- USC was awful in the years before Carrol and awful after him. Why has Miami been bad recently? Alabama was bad before Saban and went through three coaches in ten years. The difference between UW and all those programs is that people accepted the fucking doog excuses: he needs more time. Buy into the system. The culture of college football has changed. Be happy we're even in the conversation.
I always respected ND for firing Willingham knowing full well the PC backlash would be enormous. He was the only coach in their history who couldn't recruit and was famous for disappearing on golf courses for hours on end. One story in particular: they had a top recruit waiting in Willingham's office for six fucking hours and their AD had to personally go to the golf course and drag Willignham back to campus.
VTech was a perennial doormat until Beamer arrived. Jim Harbaugh turned a bunch of soft, finesse Stanford kids into the meanest, toughest SOBs in the land. Those Stanford teams were on par with Willingham's UW squads before Harbaugh arrived.
With the exception of Frank Beamer, every current top CFB coach (source: http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-05-09/college-football-coach-rankings-nick-saban-chris-petersen-urban-meyer-les-miles) proved they were tier 1 by their fourth year. I measured tier 1 by BCS bowl and/or national championship and/or conference championship and/or .700% winning.
I hope I am proven wrong, but Sark would be a huge outlier if he managed to turn us into a consistent BCS-contending team.
All of the doog excuses I see on various boards drive me nuts. Excuses are for losers. It’s clear why we haven’t won since 2000. Bad coaches. The end. Did you know Oklahoma went through four coaches in nine years until they found Stoops? Notre Dame went through lowly Davie, Willingham, and Weis until they landed Brian Kelly. Despite all of its inherent advantages in location, tradition, and culture -- USC was awful in the years before Carrol and awful after him. Why has Miami been bad recently? Alabama was bad before Saban and went through three coaches in ten years. The difference between UW and all those programs is that people accepted the fucking doog excuses: he needs more time. Buy into the system. The culture of college football has changed. Be happy we're even in the conversation.
I always respected ND for firing Willingham knowing full well the PC backlash would be enormous. He was the only coach in their history who couldn't recruit and was famous for disappearing on golf courses for hours on end. One story in particular: they had a top recruit waiting in Willingham's office for six fucking hours and their AD had to personally go to the golf course and drag Willignham back to campus.
VTech was a perennial doormat until Beamer arrived. Jim Harbaugh turned a bunch of soft, finesse Stanford kids into the meanest, toughest SOBs in the land. Those Stanford teams were on par with Willingham's UW squads before Harbaugh arrived.
With the exception of Frank Beamer, every current top CFB coach (source: http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-05-09/college-football-coach-rankings-nick-saban-chris-petersen-urban-meyer-les-miles) proved they were tier 1 by their fourth year. I measured tier 1 by BCS bowl and/or national championship and/or conference championship and/or .700% winning.
I hope I am proven wrong, but Sark would be a huge outlier if he managed to turn us into a consistent BCS-contending team.
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You are right coaching is everything. Look at Florida with Spurrier then with Zook then back with Meyer to now.
Granted some schools have more built in advantages than others but UW should never have had the decade we just had.
If UW hired a top notch coach with our resources, talent and advantages we'd be in the RB within 3 years I truly believe that.
Doogs need to wake up and realize its all coaching. Sark is average, Ty was a bum, so was Gilby yet they were in denial the entire time.
If by year five you are still wondering if your coach is the guy then he should have been fired two years earlier.
Did some of you guys learn nothing from the Ty experience?!
Gilby should have been an interim and his last game should have been the Apple Cup.
The Ty era should have never happened and definitely not given a fourth year.
Hiring a guy who was only a coordinator for two years as head coach should have never happened.
He should have never seen a year five probably not seen a year four either.
So many fuck ups this program has made in the past decade and is still making.
Word to your moms
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agreed. Take this fucking shit to the dead horses bored. I'm trying to figure out how to get EA over to chow down on some oyster stew......