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what is the main culprit behind the Doog phenomenon?
If you had to choose one (yes, i know... all of the above, abundance) which is the biggest factor?
what is the main culprit behind the Doog phenomenon? 33 votes
Pussification and Marinerization of Seattle and WA
Ty Willingham and the complete lowering of UW expectations going on over 10 years now due to losses
Emmert, Pool Boy and Upper Campus -- UW is above caring about football wins and losses
Doogman.com, SeattleTimes and the like. No one with the stones to call out UW/Sark for mediocrity.
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People were really shellshocked by 2004 and 2008. I don't think many saw the zero and one win seasons coming. I definitely went Doog in '09 when they won five. The difference was in 2010 I wasn't okay with starting three and six, and I wasn't okay with the defense giving up 40 points a game or whatever it was in 2011 (plus the fact we barely beat Eastern).
Case closed.
If football revenue goes down and starts to threaten Title lX sports then you willsee a change to winning football.
As long as football can pay the bills for everything else the AD and upper campus folks are happy.
The love-hate relationship with athletics and academics at the UW continues.
Why we can't have excellence in both is beyond me.
Current TV money + suite revenue + large donors make individual season ticket sales irrelevant.
That ain't chump change.
The problem is that they will sell at least 400,000 of those tickets no matter what because pussification.
Mark Emmert's tenure (2004-2008) is what lowered expectations all around….from fans, media & UW.
Hope this helps.
Lambo was fired because Babs wanted more Olympic Sports funding and needed a splashy hire to do so.
I don't live in Seattle anymore, however, nobody seems to care the Mariners suck, no seemed to care when the Seahawks sucked ... and the NBA team actually was taken away.
Seattle has major bandwagon fans ... they go when people are winning ... could care less when they lose.
LSU survived Emmert, but Seattle can't ... why? Because Emmert is as political as they come and knows his audience.
There is some Marinerization of husky football…other than that you guys are off base.
I get that Softy can't just come out and be like us on the air. However, you can tell even if he didn't have his show he'd still be a full blown Doog.
Look at how he acts when Oregon loses or when UW defeats a shit opponent.