As With Most Things Sark
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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Forget the score Saturday, -
Whether we lose to Oregon by 7, 14, 21, 28, or whatever, it's still a loss. That doesn't change.
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. -
IDGARA about a 9 or 10 win season. I am fucking sick of incremental progress. I am sick of some good, some bad. A 9 or 10 win season would only solidify the new era of middling mediocrity Sark represents.
"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. -
So you are saying that you'd be pissed w/ a 10-2 regular season this year?
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Sark already lost the two biggest games of the season. Third place ribbons are for Doogs, Doog.Tequilla said: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. -
People saying UW stopped Oregon's running attack, even though Oregon's running backs rushed for over 5 YPC and completely steamrolled Washington's miserable and pathetic defense in the second half.Tequilla said:Whether we lose to Oregon by 7, 14, 21, 28, or whatever, it's still a loss. That doesn't change.
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.
TD, FG, TD, TD, mercy knee. That was UW's defensive "performance" against Oregon in the second half.
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Who here is saying that they want a 3rd place ribbon?
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. -
That's assuming Sark wins the next six straight, which includes road games at ASU, UCLA, and OSU. 7-6 looks more probable, however it will land in the middle. Most here will illustrate that as mediocrity, while 95% of Seattle will claim incremental progress, and storm the streets in celebration how UW is almost there and how 2014 will be the year. I'll go halfway with you on this as 9-4 looks to be the most likely scenario.Tequilla said:So you are saying that you'd be pissed w/ a 10-2 regular season this year?
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Doogs gonna Doog.Tequilla said:Who here is saying that they want a 3rd place ribbon?
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.
