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HuskyFan Podcast: Spring Review
HeretoBeatmyChest
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/huskyfanpodcast/SpringGamePodcast.mp3
Topics discussed...Sark is an idiot, Yogi Roth is a fluffer, Grinolds should lose his credentials, spring game, TE's, K, RB's, QB, Doog of the week, Petersen/Sark differences.
Topics discussed...Sark is an idiot, Yogi Roth is a fluffer, Grinolds should lose his credentials, spring game, TE's, K, RB's, QB, Doog of the week, Petersen/Sark differences.
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- UW Spring Preview: As Petersen said, we have a long way to go. I think we can all agree that this roster has talent, but in order for this team to play at the level/intensity/skill Petersen requires of his teams, they need the light bulb to turn on sooner rather than later because we're not there yet, not even close.
- SC Spring Game: SC fans should be shitting their pants. That team looked awful. I saw O-Lineman falling on their asses for no apparent reason at all, players winded five minutes into practice, lackadaisical play all around, hell, their best QB play came from an early entry true Frosh (Greene). And they're running HUNH... with limited scholarships. Brilliant.
- Yogi Roth: That guy is a cock-smoker ($75K) of the highest degree. Can't stand him, never have.
- QBs: It appeared Williams had better pocket presence, but wasn't able to move the ball much against the #1 defense. Lindquist does have a cannon for an arm and made some throws that impressed me. But at this point, neither looked capable of starting a game.
- Chris Landon for Doog of the week. He is a hack and a big part of the problem (Easy with the Rondeau bashing, HeretoBeatmyChest. That is a slippery slope, Sir).
- Concluding thought: There is no member of the media, not one, that even remotely has the Huskies' best interest at heart. Gone are the days of Blaine Newnham. Example: Ted Miller linked the Chris Landon story on ESPN_FS PAC-12 blog today. Unbelievable.
Fuck it, I guess it's us against the world then.
As it should be.
Why can't these fucks ever hold these assholes to their own statements? Whenever I bitch about Emmert I'm always told you can't blame him because as a school president that isn't his primary job(which I totally disagree with). However Emmert himself said he was going to be hands on with the program so he should be held accountable yet never was.
Sark himself said he was here to compete for Rose Bowls and National Championships yet never did in five years. Yet nobody ever held him to that. The fucker said we'd go undefeated at home only to lose by 35 points 8 days later. How come no reporter after that game asked him "Coach Sark just a week ago you guaranteed you would go undefeated at home and now you lose by 35 points? Do you regret saying that? Do you feel looking back you shouldn't have said that? Does that mean you felt this team has the talent and therefore shouldn't be losing by 35 points at home?"
The Doogs never fucking hold these clowns to their own fucking statements. Not fucking once.
And lay off Bob. He's a legend and can say whatever he wants as far as I'm concerned.
He deserves a lot of slack for not seeing through Tyrone's BS when they hired him.
I do believe that he wanted him fired at 2007. Todd Turner fell on the sword and combined with the threat of the race card, Emmert caved. He should be given shit for caving.
You do have to give him a little credit for insisting to Scott Woodward that he take over the AD job. It's hard to be very critical of the job that he has done.
Whatever we think of Sark now, that hire probably played out as well as it could have at that point. We definitely weren't getting a Chris Petersen at that point. There's no evidence that Woodward was keen on retaining Sark after the 2013 season.
He got Husky Stadium rebuilt.
He has provided resources to the baseball program and revitalized it.
He obviously hired Chris Petersen where many failed to do so.
The biggest negative that you can throw on him at this point is how he's treated Lorenzo Romar and the basketball program. My guess is that if there's another sub par season this year (and that most likely will happen), there will be a push for Lorenzo to "retire" into the AD, Woodward will go find the right coach (I'm calling for Gregg Marshall), and the funding to upgrade the facilities will take place.
You want to take the gloves off Race? You want to get down in a pissing match? Let's do it. Let's roll.
I'm getting completely fed up with your hate, negativity, and throwing people under the bus.
Quite frankly Race, I'm very, VERY happy that I don't know you. I'm quite happy that I don't lead what appears to be such a pathetic life that is faced with looking for the negativity in every situation. You need to go find something to smile at. Last I checked, it's summertime. The weather in Seattle seems to be pretty damn good right now - why don't you go check that out.
You are pretty damn wrong about things. You may think that the amount of time that you keep spewing your views that that you've now heard it enough times that you are right. Doesn't make you right.
You talk about 12-47 like that happened out of the blue sky. I've never seen you once suggest that the process of the downfall of this program began well before Emmert arrived.
You want facts? You want truth? Here's your truth.
Emmert came to the UW prior to the GLORIOUS 1-10 season under Gilby. The year before that (2003) Gilby managed to do enough to get us to 6-6, but that included the debacle at Cal where we gave up 700 yards (or thereabouts). It was an indifferent team that pretty much was at best mediocre. We lost 5 of our last 8, including the blowout to Cal, the blowout to UCLA, and a home loss to NEVADA. Yep, the program was heading in the right direction.
The 2002 season under Slick was another sterling season example that is most remembered for the "Northwest Championship." That was great. But it hid the fact that going into the "Northwest Championship" we were a 4-5 football team that was pretty much a joke at 1-4 in the conference. In both 2002 and 2003, we finished the season with a 4-4 conference record.
These weren't good football teams. The trend was heading downhill.
Emmert comes on board and immediately gets sadled with the Gilby 1-10 debacle.
Prior to Emmert coming on board, Babs jumps ship after a decade of mis-management, including allowing the stadium to begin the erosion process.
Throughout 2003, we're faced with Slick leaving and the subsequent lawsuit(s), Dr. Feelgood, and a whole mess with the softball program and Teresa Wilson.
Now keep in mind the following: ALL THIS HAPPENED BEFORE EMMERT WAS ANYWHERE NEAR BEING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.
Things were not in great shape. I think just about everybody knew that.
A search committee is formed to replace Babs. The BOR, upper campus, and the big donor supporters of the school are sick of the egg showing up on their face. They are sick of the country club that Babs ran and the loose way she ran the department - particularly in light of what went on with Slick. They wanted someone prim, proper, and who they could count on would not sully the University name. ENTER TODD TURNER.
Now, this pretty much gets you up to the point where Emmert was hired. Did he have to sign off on the hiring of Turner? Most likely. But whatever.
At this point, Emmert isn't responsible for the on-field performance of the football program. There is a coach in place. It's not Emmert's job to oversee the football program or any other program in the athletic department. That job belongs to Todd Turner. It's Emmert's job to monitor the job performance of Todd Turner.
So 1-10 happens. Gilby is canned by Turner (rightfully so). Yes, the program went 1-10. But the actions of those charged with overseeing the program were correct. Turner fired the coach for poor performance. If I'm in Emmert's shoes, I can't complain.
Coaching search takes place and Turner has his heart set on Tyrone Willingham. It's Turner's hire. It's not Emmert's hire. Surely Emmert had to sign off on the hire. That's fine. You want to throw some blame on him for not having the foresight to negate the hire. That's fine. But the hire isn't Emmert's responsibility. It's Turner's responsibility. It's Emmert's responsibility to hold Turner accountable for the hire (which he did 3 years later when it was obvious that Tyrone wasn't the answer).
So Tyrone goes 2-9 the first year after a 1-10 year. Not great. Warning signs start going off, particularly with some poor performance to close games. But it's the first year of the regime and really hard to get too critical.
The next year the program goes 5-7 and has 2 significant events. The first significant event is the loss of the QB to injury. I think many could argue that without the loss of Isaiah that year, we go 6-6. The second event that was significant was the "suddenly senior" day and the unexplicable loss to Stanford with the most emotionless football team anybody had ever seen. Again, there's not enough there to fire Tyrone at that point. There are warning signs. There is ground to pretty much tell Tyrone that the following year is an action year where something needs to happen. He's on a short leash at this point in my opinion.
The following year we lose games in ways that are unexplainable. Blow a huge loss to Arizona - a game we should have never lost. The most ridiculous ending to an Apple Cup I've ever seen where a guy was open by 20 yards coming out of a timeout. Blowing a pair of 21 point leads to Hawai'i. It was pretty obvious at this point that things weren't working. Coaching change was in order. Perhaps an AD change was also in order. The coaching change was blocked and complicated. The AD's head fell - and rightfully so due to some other issues that he had and such a terrible hire of a head coach.
Prior to the decision to fire Tyrone after 2007, it's really hard to argue with ANYTHING that Emmert had done with respect to the football program.
I will say that bringing Tyrone back for 2008 was a disasterous mistake. It should have never happened. You want to throw 0-12 on Emmert - I'm all for it. I think if you caught Emmert in a reflective, truthful moment, he would tell you in hindsight that he should have made the move and that it wasn't worth the carnage of 0-12.
Throw Emmert under the bus for 2008. That's his responsibility. 2004-2007? Not so much. By all means, please, please tell me where he has responsibility for 2004 and 2007 other than the fact that he's the University President. Please tell me what specific actions that he did to undermine the program. You aren't going to find them - they aren't there.
Your criticism of Emmert is ridiculous. Your criticism of Woodward is just downright comical.
Where has Woodward screwed this program? He has only been responsible for this program in the summer of 2008 in a full-time role. Are you going to hold him to the fire for being the interim AD for the first half of 2008? How is he responsible for anything from 2004-2007 when he wasn't even involved with the Athletic Department? Talk about conspiracy theories. This may be one of the greatest conspiracy theories I've ever seen.
I don't like losing. I don't like what I've seen the last 5 years. It's made me sick to my stomach many times over. But unlike you, I can at least take a step back and realize that the genesis of this problem began well before Mark Emmert became President of the University of Washington.
If I spent my time being a "mindless Race Bannon minion," then I'd be convinced that the only logical explanation for our failures have been Mark Emmert and Scott Woodward.
Quite frankly, that opinion is one of the most idiotic insanely stupid opinions that I've ever seen in my life.
I don't defend the "wrong targets." There is blame to be thrown Emmert's way. I readily acknowledge that. But it isn't his full blame. Babs deserves blame. Gerberding deserves blame. McCormick deserves some blame. Slick deserves some blame. Gilby deserves some blame. Turner deserves some blame. Tyrone deserves some blame. Of the names I've listed, only 3 of those names have any timeline that extends into any portion of Emmert's tenure. That's less than half of those names.
Quite frankly Race, you are a world class donkey. When I hear people bitch and moan about the people in the State of Washington - you are a crystal example of why people bitch about the State of Washington. When I hear people that bitch about the fans of the University of Washington and what their complaints are, you represent what those complaints are.
In my opinion, you are not good for the University of Washington. You aren't helping the program. You aren't helping the University. You are entirely self-serving and a pompous, egotistical jerk.
You are barking up the wrong tree if you are going after me. I'm not naive enough to shove my head so far up my arse to ignore what I am seeing. I don't think that there is anybody that knows me that would say that I wouldn't call a spade a spade.
All that paying for and attending games longer than I've been alive has done for you is given you a perceived ability to go be a bitter old man. Congrats on that.
Thanks for showing those of us in a younger generation how not to act in 20-30 years when we are in your shoes.