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top 10 every 5 years or so?
puppylove_sugarsteel
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that's what those puddy asses over fagman think. And a national title chance every 10 years. What the fuck has happened to our fan base? Oregon LEGITIMATELY challenges for a national title every year, and they reside in Eugene. When did our fan base swap spots with UCLA?
Our problem isnt Ty Willy, Turd Turner or 0-12. Its our complacent, passive and pussified fanbase. I'd like to have one chance to bitch slap all those ass lickers over there. No reason to think we can't compete every year. Stanford, USC and Oregon believe. Since when has UW ever played second fiddle to Stanford or Oregons' fan base. Aside from the obvious down years
Our problem isnt Ty Willy, Turd Turner or 0-12. Its our complacent, passive and pussified fanbase. I'd like to have one chance to bitch slap all those ass lickers over there. No reason to think we can't compete every year. Stanford, USC and Oregon believe. Since when has UW ever played second fiddle to Stanford or Oregons' fan base. Aside from the obvious down years
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Neither the folks at dawgman nor anywhere on the Internet are truly representative of Husky Football's fanbase,..... or at least most of that fanbase which still buys tickets and donates money to attend games live, nearly always with the expectation or anticipation that our kids will win somehow. Go to the games, feel the vibe, immerse yourself in football for 60 minutes of mayhem and afterwards, savor the victory or forget the loss as soon as possible on the commute home or sharing time with family and friends and the beverage of choice with some finger-food at a postgame tailgate, restaurant, tavern or pub.
It's not about a winning season or rankings or the level of bowl game invite until the regular season is over. It's about winning The Damn Game, one game at a time, and always having that chance to win....... at least until that chance is taken away by the final gun. Until our Huskies start beating the Oregons and other scum in the Pac-11 as well as Top Ten OOC opponents, we can only hope and take it one game at a time. Everything else is........ well, it's trophies and orange slices for one and all.
A lot of the younger crowd are nerds who don't have a clue about how cutthroat and competitive big time college football is. Not to mention, Husky Football has sucked for the past 12 years. The kids entering UW this year probably have no memories of UW being any good.
The blue hairs have gotten old. Some of them are wine and caviar douchebags, and some of them have no more energy to give after watching shitty football for so long.
Despite all of this, Husky fans support their program pretty well. The attendance has been pretty solid for such a marginal product being put on the field, but there is not much passion and excitement coming from the fans.
The games are not what they once were. When I was growing up, the games were electric. Now, it is more about seeing old friends and tailgating then the actual football being played.
Not to defend Fagman, but how often were we top 10 (i.e. that was our final ranking)? Maybe in '81? I know we were in '90, '91, and 2000. Historically it's been the Condoms, then us and UCLA in the west. I expect to do how well we did in the late 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s. RB contenders, NT contenders every 3 or 4 yrs. and always winning. Oregon will fade away.
If I'm a Doog that must DIAF for saying this, so be it.
If Udub were winning at the same clip and in the same manner as Stanford, rabid Husky fans would start to show up again (most of whom are not students) and talk of expanding the stadium would ultimately be in the air, but that will only happen when the AD and upper campus align in a way that demands excellence on the field. In my opinion, and this goes against the company line in here, I think there is reason to believe that this might be the case. There is support at the highest levels, hence the optimism, but this season will be telling. If seven win Steve and Woody both survive another seven or eight win season, then I'm dead wrong and it may be all over but the eulogy. The HC gig at Udub is again one of the best on the West Coast. At this point, there is no legitimate excuse for not being able to attract a top coach, it really boils down to expectations and competence at this point, and on that, the latter is admittedly a real question mark. We'll see what happens, but I'd like to point out that older Husky fans should remember what it was like in the late 60's through much of the 70's. Sonny Sixkiller provided some relief over that period, but prior to Moon breaking out, those were generally bad times for the Huskies. A proper coaching change was the difference, and exactly what is needed today.
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