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There's some good ... there's some bad.
Good to see that he understands that the ASU game is the biggest game of the year (now that he's failed to end the Decade of Dominance) ...
There's no doubt that the PAC has a number of good teams ... but it's critical this year that he shows that he doesn't have his annual 3 game October swoon in him ...
Forget the score Saturday, I saw more good things than bad things ... and that's not a moral victory. Oregon's good ... better than we are right now. They adjusted to the things that we took away and minimized where we had advantages. That's what good teams do.
Time to go beat Arizona State ... a 9 and even 10 win season are still within reach.
Good to see that he understands that the ASU game is the biggest game of the year (now that he's failed to end the Decade of Dominance) ...
There's no doubt that the PAC has a number of good teams ... but it's critical this year that he shows that he doesn't have his annual 3 game October swoon in him ...
Forget the score Saturday, I saw more good things than bad things ... and that's not a moral victory. Oregon's good ... better than we are right now. They adjusted to the things that we took away and minimized where we had advantages. That's what good teams do.
Time to go beat Arizona State ... a 9 and even 10 win season are still within reach.
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The simple point is that we did a lot of good things on the field. We slowed down their base running game. We did a good job of taking away a lot of their initial passing plays. We ran the ball for almost 200 yards. What we didn't do a good job of doing was containing Mariota in the pocket and allowed him to kill us with his legs ... and then his legs turning into compromising the defense w/ the pass. We did a terrible job on our own end of executing in the passing game and getting the ball to Kasen and ASJ.
There's nothing that I saw Saturday that changed my opinion of this team. It's a good team - but not an elite team. Oregon's an elite team (and that sucks to say). But we have a good enough team to beat Arizona State on the road. We have a good enough team to beat UCLA on the road. We have a good enough team to beat Oregon State on the road. I'd like to think that we can get at least 2 of those 3.
Before the season, 9 wins w/ a .500 road record in conference was a very attainable goal ... a goal that I think almost everybody would have suggested was signs of continued progression. That's a goal that is still within reach.
"Expect to win. Anywhere, anytime, anyone" is Sarkspeak for accept mediocrity. He has nothing else to sell.
Sark is a public relations mouthpiece masquerading as a head football coach at a major public university that once had an elite program.
I'm pissed. All the UW administration officials and ADs responsible for this ongoing debacle should be indicted under racketeering laws and mis-management of state funds.
TD, FG, TD, TD, mercy knee. That was UW's defensive "performance" against Oregon in the second half.
10-2 is still a damn good year.
LSU could very easily wind up 9-3 this year. At least one of Texas A&M or LSU will be 10-2. Georgia already has 2 losses.
10-2 isn't the end of the world for this program.
If you were a preseason #2 like Oregon and finished the year 10-2, I'd agree that that's not a great year.
But if you weren't ranked before the season and the "experts" in Vegas had an o/u win total for you at 7.5 wins and you manage to get to 10 wins, then I'd say that you had a pretty good year.
By the way, UW isn't winning out. Not even close.
Sark is still Sark and UW is playing three quality opponents on the road. It will be a miracle if UW wins two of those three games.
Saturday is a must win game - no doubt about it.
I don't see anyway that this team does a 7-6 season this year ... I find it hard to believe that they come in anywhere under 8 in the regular season given what is left ...
If Sark was to go 0-4 in conference road games, then I'd agree with comments questioning whether or not he's the answer.
Hope this helps.
We pissed the Stanford game away ... that pisses me off.
The question is how do we rebound against ASU? Do we come out and play a strong game that earns us a very good road win in a place that we haven't won in forever? Or do we make sloppy mistakes that earn us another moral victory of being a really good team that can't just get over the hump for whatever reason?
There's not a great way to defend that if you don't have the players to be able to pull it off ... and let's be honest here, we all can pretty much agree that the DE position isn't a strength for this team.