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As for UW, Petersen is running spring drills hardcore. We've gone out there a couple of times and it's not the relaxed laughing atmosphere with rap music playing and shit. Coaches are drilling guys and working them like mules. It's far more professional environment than I saw with Sark, yet not the library discipline environment that I remember practice being like under Ty.
Nothing new but still nice seeing this being said. I think Petersen will bring discipline but unlike Ty his players will actually like him. Every player spoke highly of Petersen when he departed Boise for UW while you didn't hear any speak highly of Sark for an example when he left for USC.
I know, win 10 games or GTFO and perhaps I'm dooging it up for Petersen. I actually think the talent is there they just didn't have an adult steering them in the right direction. All these little things will pay off long run and even short term as well.
Nothing new but still nice seeing this being said. I think Petersen will bring discipline but unlike Ty his players will actually like him. Every player spoke highly of Petersen when he departed Boise for UW while you didn't hear any speak highly of Sark for an example when he left for USC.
I know, win 10 games or GTFO and perhaps I'm dooging it up for Petersen. I actually think the talent is there they just didn't have an adult steering them in the right direction. All these little things will pay off long run and even short term as well.
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Now win 10 in the regular season or GTFO !!!!1!!!11!!!
Petersen is a proven championship coach and his style and tactics are different and light years ahead of Sark, who in his 5th year had a top 20 metrics team (before BYU win) that would have been top 10 easily with Petersen. Combine Petersen's track record and aura of national recognition with UW's advantages and tradition and theres no logical reason to think he won't have UW back in the top 10 regularly and competing on the national scale. Whether he goes 12-2 or 10-4 this season doesn't really change that.
Even jamming some Springsteen on Tues
Dawgman back in the late 1990's and early 2000's was very much like that. There was several people punching their fists on the key board after the Miami loss in 2001 and they allowed it. That was the mindset back then that blowout losses like that were fucking unacceptable as they should be.
So I think even in wins you'll see posters more critical of individuals as we are looking big picture. Like if UW defeats Hawaii for an example 34-24(same score as Illinois) there will be some major angst in here while last year nobody cared because we knew the season was over the minute Sark was allowed to have a year five.
The thing with Petersen is it all happened so fast.
I remember at the Duchess, myself, Cornell (rip lol), Road Dawg and Chris Vashon were talking the day after the apple cup about how we could be fucked for several years.....maybe Sark gets to 10-4 next year and someone hires him away...Sark was good enough not to get fired but not hired away. Suddenly USC hires him and we get Petersen. We all knew we could be a top 10 program again but it seemed so far away at that point. It just happened so quickly and unexpectedly.
"Three years ago you would have killed for a win and now you are complaining? Damn you are negative!".
While like you said back then being disappointed in wins was normal because the expectations were so much higher. I remember leaving Husky Stadium in 1995 after barely beating Army and walking out feeling like we had lost.
90% of the posters agreed with Dell and were mad I was being negative and gave me the typical bullshit about the game being 4 quarters. When our offense started rolling in the 2nd half, posters were saying, "I told you so" like I ever thought we would lose.
Fast forward a week later UW trailed WSU 10-7, gave them life. Had a big 3rd quarter, got too cocky and too complicate once again only to lose.
I can understand Pete Carroll's USC teams going complicate because they were that fucking good but who the fuck were we to do that shit? Of course instead of hammering them on it Sark going into the following year is talking about how we were really a 9-4 team hypothetically. It's a good thing we didn't really go 9-4 or we'd have big heads.
The fans had no expectations at all but I can't blame them since the head coach obviously had no expectations either.
On the other hand, we have an actual head coach for the first time in 12 years, so we're still learning how to handle it.