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Attention all Tyee's and donors

bananasnblondes
bananasnblondes Member Posts: 15,508
edited February 2014 in Hardcore Husky Board
Important Message:

Kim Grinolds, the mouthpiece of Husky football, is encouraging all Tyee's, donors, and season ticket holders to e-mail AD Scott Woodward and demand that he force newly-hired head football coach Chris Petersen to open practices to the public and allow more access to the fans (and media). It is a well-known and proven fact that the Seahawks record level of fan support this season was not due to wins on the field but was based almost entirely to Coach Carroll opening up pre-season practices and UW needs to follow suit. Coach Sarkisian set up a fine model for this but unfortunately had to close practices in his final year due to stadium construction. Please, for the sake of UW football, e-mail the AD and let your voice be heard. You are encouraged to make reference to the amount of money you donate to the program in your e-mail.
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  • CaptainPJ
    CaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986
    Please tell me this is the second "whoosh" (albeit, nowhere near the rictor rating) of the day.

    You have got to be fucking kidding me.

    The G-O-Biz sale is on the horizon. Anyone need a nacho platter, or "Bark for Sark" mouse pad?
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Tyee membership = 23 years
    Practices attended = 0

    No one cares.

    I guess I could go down and chant coach James or something.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    I thought I spoke for everybody. Or not.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    It's time for the program to say Later Guys to the Multiple Dicks.

    It's not funny anymore.
  • DeepSeaZ
    DeepSeaZ Member Posts: 3,901
  • CokeGreaterThanPepsi
    CokeGreaterThanPepsi Member Posts: 7,646
    I went to some practices in the day (when sark first got hired). It was fun, but I don't really give a fuck. Win games, who gives a fuck if I get to go to practices or not as long as we win fucking football games. FUCK.

    Oh, I am also tyee for 10 years now.
  • fivehundredmileDAWG
    fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212
    Winning games with sound play>>>>> > watching Jimmy Dougherty chest bump Sark at practice
  • Global
    Global Member Posts: 333
    I am second.generation Tyee and usually have gone to 2-4 practices each spring and each fall. I usually learn more about the team then, and enjoy seeing the games afterwards

    But I know in this internet age that some people do the same and then say too much online. So though it is fun for me, I am not going to cry like a baby, especially for the media.
  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031
    if I don't get my fix of who lead Husky Jacks for practices I'm going to fucking go apeshit on someone!!!!!!!!
  • Global
    Global Member Posts: 333

    Kim would talk shit on Don James if he was coach. Most coaches have closed practices. Saban and Urban Meyer aren't fucking worried about making fans feel welcome. Oregon has the best marketing of anyone in college football and Chip didn't open practices. Water is wet, Kim is wrong again.

    He's so worried about UW making the fans feel welcome. The games weren't all sold out because nobody wants to see an average UW team play Cal at 8 pm. If UW was a perennial top 10-15 team, every game except maybe a dreckfest against Georgia State would be sold out. Maybe it's just this board, but it seems most people are more excited about UW football now than they were the past few years. Opening practices so 150 fans can watch isn't going to do a fucking thing. Those 150 will all be sitting in the stands on game day.

    I agree 100%. Kim is stupid. Most Tyees are not so stupid.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    Who is going to take time off of work to go to practices at 8:15 in the morning when the weather sucks?
  • Global
    Global Member Posts: 333
    Tequila - I plead guilty. I have been doing it for years, since my work allows me flexibility to get my work done when ready. But I certainly prefer afternoon practices....
  • Steve_Bowman
    Steve_Bowman Member Posts: 442
    I first started to realize Shark was a POS from practices.

    The special teams drill was pathetic. Special team play was a disaster most of his tenure. I also waked around the sidelines and sized up the players. At 6'2" 190, and older than god, I felt like I could take a lot of these guys on.....a terrible sign. Strength and conditioning sucked as well.

    Who cares about the practices, but some things can be gauged.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,613 Standard Supporter
    Practice is only a big deal for a minuscule number if fans and the media...and I'm being generous by including Doogman in that category. I really never GAF while living in Suckattle almost three decades. Hell, I remember trying to see the Seahawks practice at HS in the mid 90s, but not UW.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Global said:

    Kim would talk shit on Don James if he was coach. Most coaches have closed practices. Saban and Urban Meyer aren't fucking worried about making fans feel welcome. Oregon has the best marketing of anyone in college football and Chip didn't open practices. Water is wet, Kim is wrong again.

    He's so worried about UW making the fans feel welcome. The games weren't all sold out because nobody wants to see an average UW team play Cal at 8 pm. If UW was a perennial top 10-15 team, every game except maybe a dreckfest against Georgia State would be sold out. Maybe it's just this board, but it seems most people are more excited about UW football now than they were the past few years. Opening practices so 150 fans can watch isn't going to do a fucking thing. Those 150 will all be sitting in the stands on game day.

    I agree 100%. Kim is stupid. Most Tyees are not so stupid.
    Totally fucking disagree.

    They paid to support the past 12 years of Fucking Dreckfest football, after all.
  • Global
    Global Member Posts: 333
    Yes, I agree for the fan, getting to see the players and how the coaches allegedly coach is a real bonus. Anyone watching Cozzetto coach, and obviously hearing his high volume screaming, would know he was no good, for example. Same with Sark. No organization or discipline compared to earlier coaches.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    The people who go to practices are the ones with the REAL miserable and pathetic lives.

    Simple fact, case closed, end of discussion.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    I went to a few spring practices under Ty...when I was like 15. Its even more lame in hindsight.
  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,113

    I first started to realize Shark was a POS from practices.

    The special teams drill was pathetic. Special team play was a disaster most of his tenure. I also waked around the sidelines and sized up the players. At 6'2" 190, and older than god, I felt like I could take a lot of these guys on.....a terrible sign. Strength and conditioning sucked as well.

    Who cares about the practices, but some things can be gauged.

    I like to give our double-chinned former coach a complimentary nickname and pretend it's derogatory. It's what I like to do.
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    I think the Dawgman crew deserves full access.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
    Anyone here who is a Tyee better get off their ass and write to the AD expressing their concern/disgust over Grinolds and his not so subtle efforts to sew seeds of discontent . A focused letter writing campaign aimed at getting their access completely removed and would be exactly what they deserve for letting Kim become the face of the business.

    It still blows me away that he never once let up in his defense of Sark and his bruhs, but turned on the new coach within the first day or two of him being hired. Crazy shit.
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    I'm a Tyee. I'll be writing Woodward in support of Kim and Dawgman.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,869 Founders Club

    I'm a Tyee. I'll be writing Woodward in support of Kim and Dawgman.


    Derek?

  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325

    I'm a Tyee. I'll be writing Woodward in support of Kim and Dawgman.


    Derek?

    I have his blessing.

    My return was met with much rejoicing.

    HTH.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,613 Standard Supporter
    This is a whoosh...right?
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    I'm a Tyee. I'll be writing Woodward in support of Kim and Dawgman.

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