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How /good/ were we this year?

whatshouldicareabout
whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 13,014
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Or rather, what did we really accomplish as a football team? Here is our resume for 2013:

Wins:
BYU (8-5)
Arizona (8-5) (4-5)
Boise St. (8-5)
Oregon St. (7-6) (4-5)
Wazzu (6-7) (4-5)
Illinois (4-8)
Colorado (4-8) (1-8)
Cal (1-11) (0-9)
Idaho St.

4 wins against teams with winning records but none over teams with winning records in the Pac-12. There are some decent wins but nothing impressive. Nothing to really smile about, like beating 12-2 Stanford in 2012 or 10-3 Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl.

Losses:
Stanford (11-3) (7-2)
Oregon (11-2) (7-2)
Arizona St. (10-4) (8-1)
UCLA (10-3) (6-3)

Every team that beat us had a better record, both overall and in conference. Beating any of them would've been an accomplishment for this team. Instead, we're 0-4 in these games and have yet to break into the upper-echelon of the Pac-12.

In order to compete for the conference championships and Rose Bowls that Sark promised in his kickass presser, we need to beat the teams with the winning records in the Pac-12. This was arguably the weakest schedule we played with Sark as a coach and, to no one's surprise, also our best record. But to the fans who are paying attention, we've seen 5-4 too many times. And we're seeing 0-4 in the games that really matter the most (through Sark's 5 years: 6-14 against Pac-12 teams with winning conference records, 18-7 against Pac-12 teams with losing conference records). That's why we played in the Fight Hunger Bowl and finished 6th place out of 12.

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TL;DR ver.: 9-4 record is inflated and nothing special. We really didn't accomplish a whole lot.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,773
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,812 Swaye's Wigwam
    Hate to play this card, but water is wet as advertised.

    We're tallest midgets in the west and one of the tallest in the nation by my estimate. The 2013 Huskies, given a full schedule against 8-5 teams, would have a nice little season.
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    If you have to ask...
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,232
    The PAC was pretty good.

    We were 5-4 against our peers in conference.

    We couldn't beat an upper-end team in conference despite having at least 2 very realistic chances to do so.

    Talent wise, we're better than what our record was.

    Coaching wise, we're pretty much exactly where we should have been.
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    We were 5-4 against our peers in conference.

    We couldn't beat an upper-end team in conference despite having at least 2 very realistic chances to do so.

    Talent wise, we're better than what our record was.

    Coaching wise, we're pretty much exactly where we should have been.

    The Pac-12 was fucking terrible.
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    Bullshit. The Pac-12's only official win over the final Top 25 teams in America required a Sun Devil defender to sit on the fucking football to prevent Wisconsin from winning.

    Take that asterisk win away and the best two wins were against a team that should have fired its coach and a team that forced its coach out after the Alamo Bowl.


    Fucking dreckfest.
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  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    Bullshit. The Pac-12's only official win over the final Top 25 teams in America required a Sun Devil defender to sit on the fucking football to prevent Wisconsin from winning.

    Take that asterisk win away and the best two wins were against a team that should have fired its coach and a team that forced its coach out after the Alamo Bowl.


    Fucking dreckfest.
    why do u hate stanford's win over ND
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    2013 was the most amazing seasons UW has had in a while. It was good enough for Sark to LEAVE!

    Kim was actually right, 2013 was indeed special.
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