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Washington Football: Huskies only one step away from Super Elite Status

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  • Crimsonite1
    Crimsonite1 Member Posts: 98
  • EwaDawg
    EwaDawg Member Posts: 4,465


    imageWashington Football: Huskies only one step away from Super Elite Status

    While critical questions remain, the top of the college football mountain
    is within reach for the Washington Huskies.

    Read the full story here


    Insert Neil Armstrong.walking.on.the moon.gif here.

  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,098 Founders Club

    Voted down for the use of "Super Elite". I mean WTF. The Huskies have a very good football team, but they are "elite" nowhere, let alone "Super Elite". "Super Elite" teams come along maybe once in a generation or two, they don't lose football games and they aren't truly tested by even the best of their contemporaries. It would even be a stretch to put the '91 Dawgs in that group based on their performance against Cal alone. The participation trophy generation has apparently bled over to prior generations, can we please stop it's progress and halt the hyperbole already.

    The fact is this Husky team just played a team with an elite defense and head coach (but lacking an elite offense), and they lost the game soundly. Penn State just hung 49 on USC. UW managed a mere 13 points against them. The problem with the Huskies right now is a lack of "physicality" (physically and mentally) on the offensive side of the ball, plain and fucking simple, with Brownshorts leading the lack thereof. That side of the ball has to man the fuck up or this team will be no better than Oregon has been, never winning the big one against the kind of physical teams UW used to measure up against. UW needs to be USC north again, and they're not there yet. The defense is close, but the offense is behind by a country fucking mile, a bunch of front running candy asses.

    At this point, I'm on the Petersen bandwagon, only because his three year progress has shown he can build a winning program, and because it appears he has the defense headed in the right direction, but this team is not going to break through until it starts recruiting and developing the kind of nasty assed O-line and big game ready quarterbacks James used to field. It's that "simple". Do that and they may become "elite". Super elite? Christ on a crutch.

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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,942

    To be blunt and transparent (as I almost always am with you guys), this season was fun and I enjoyed it. But I never did regain the passion I had before. I was over the Alabama loss within 3-4 hours after the game. Prior to the Willingham/Sark/Emmert stuff, it would have taken me 5-7 days to recover.

    My lack of passion is reflected in some of my writing here. I know it. One of my goals for 2017 is to regain that feeling or at least find a way to inject more energy into my writing on this site. It can only help Hardcore Husky to have me writing entertaining articles on a regular basis. But when it feels more like an obligation and chore instead of something that gets me excited, that's not an optimal place to be in terms of production.

    I've got high hopes for this site to grow but I/we need to make sure it grows in the right way.

    You need to learn how to be a doog again, Derek. Why no passion though?
  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    One step away not from elite status, but from SUPER elite status. Flagged for being a superiority guy thread.