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While some fret and fidget obout the diamonds and rust of changing head football coaches, I'll be focused on what if any changes UW's athletic director will be making in his criteria for OOC scheduling. While Chris Petersen and his bosses at BSU struggled to find bigtime FBS opponents to play for enhancing their BCS ranking in the polls or on the computers, they to my knowledge never once wasted their time and resources on FCS Division-1AA donut holes even though there were always plenty available from the nearby Big Sky neighborhood. Hell, they even dropped scheduling the state of Idaho's version of WSU sodbuster football, the U of I's vandalosers.
For the most part, Petersen as Bronco head coach had plenty of cupcakes to gorge on in the Mountain West/WAC conferences to drag his program down, often inducing Broncomania with min-season melancholy seizures and for self-serving reasons, he was adverse to adding OOC donut-holes such as Eastern Washington, Portland State, or even instate ex-rival Idaho State. As a Tyee season ticket buyer now paying an average of $136 per seat per game regardless of the quality of opponent, I'm going to be more than a little interested in whether or not Petersen will have enough influence and ambition to challenge his new UW football program to take-on a donut-hole free and lesser cupcake loaded OOC schedule.
There are rumblings about how the new FBS playoff selection process may or will take a dim view of the current practice of NT contenders padding their season records with OOC scheduling of FCS weaklings and scrimmage bait. Coach Petersen will have to de-gut himself if he is to follow pool boy down the yellow brick road to OOC softness known to all real west coast football fanatics as the Oregon Way. UW's new coach has never been afraid of playing the big boys of elite college football when they could be sucked into playing little ol' Boise State, and he now has the venue and resources at UW to attract a more prestigious class of victim.
AD Woodward has this past week received much praise for getting-it enough to hire the best new Husky head football coach available. Taken together with the significant renovation and improvement of Husky Stadium, I suppose this praise for pool boy may be warranted. However, I'm looking for more substance now in the way of not only the expected improvement in the football team and how they perform under a real coach, but just as importantly, I'l looking for better and more challenging OOC scheduling like we always expected each season way back when Husky Football was as good or better than any. UW can't get there again unless the Huskies play like they deserve it and that IMO can't happen until the program gets back to giving us the thrills we pay for. Am I mercenary? You fucking-A, I am!
For the most part, Petersen as Bronco head coach had plenty of cupcakes to gorge on in the Mountain West/WAC conferences to drag his program down, often inducing Broncomania with min-season melancholy seizures and for self-serving reasons, he was adverse to adding OOC donut-holes such as Eastern Washington, Portland State, or even instate ex-rival Idaho State. As a Tyee season ticket buyer now paying an average of $136 per seat per game regardless of the quality of opponent, I'm going to be more than a little interested in whether or not Petersen will have enough influence and ambition to challenge his new UW football program to take-on a donut-hole free and lesser cupcake loaded OOC schedule.
There are rumblings about how the new FBS playoff selection process may or will take a dim view of the current practice of NT contenders padding their season records with OOC scheduling of FCS weaklings and scrimmage bait. Coach Petersen will have to de-gut himself if he is to follow pool boy down the yellow brick road to OOC softness known to all real west coast football fanatics as the Oregon Way. UW's new coach has never been afraid of playing the big boys of elite college football when they could be sucked into playing little ol' Boise State, and he now has the venue and resources at UW to attract a more prestigious class of victim.
AD Woodward has this past week received much praise for getting-it enough to hire the best new Husky head football coach available. Taken together with the significant renovation and improvement of Husky Stadium, I suppose this praise for pool boy may be warranted. However, I'm looking for more substance now in the way of not only the expected improvement in the football team and how they perform under a real coach, but just as importantly, I'l looking for better and more challenging OOC scheduling like we always expected each season way back when Husky Football was as good or better than any. UW can't get there again unless the Huskies play like they deserve it and that IMO can't happen until the program gets back to giving us the thrills we pay for. Am I mercenary? You fucking-A, I am!
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