Can someone re-tell the story for us younger doogs?
I'm not going to get into the whole thing, but will just point out that the shitty end of the Willingham regime and coach search lead directly to many of the oft-posted phrases on this site. Examples would include people pointing out that Mora, a favorite for next coach by many, couldn't possibly become coach because HE HAS A CONTRACT. The chance of Mora becoming coach is also responsible for the Eklund 81% wrong thing, and the aftermath of hiring Sark with whom many were underwhelmed lead to "Free pub!" since he was coaching at USC through their bowl game and UW would be mentioned several tims. I believe that was the last straw that got Damone banned from DM too? (Hmm, was "funny the first 23 times" in there too, or did that pre-date the coach search? I can't remember.)
My own meager contribution would include being among the louder ones ranting about the clear superiority of pie vs cake when making a homemade dessert to take to a certain former UW player on a certain island in hopes that your undying love and support would convince him to abandon the Seahawks and come to save his alma mater. Cheers--
FREE PUB! Was my ultimate banning cause never to be reversed. That was the final straw in a long history of doogman tension. There was a Free Damone campaign that lead to “Damone” showing up as ****** that i think exists to this day.
“23 times” was before that. That was when I was told many times that “a little goes a long ways”
In 2007 iDawg and I started the bowl ineligible let's get rid of Ty podcast after a losing season was assured rather easily
You may have heard of the Millen Stats. He showed how coaches who sucked but not as bad as Ty sucked never even got back to Lambo level after three bad years like Ty had here.
We thought if the DAWGS lost to Hawaii Ty would be fired. The DAWGS lost and for a few days the rumors flew but Ty stayed. Insert NAACP and Sean Alexander vitriol here but the fucking moron Emmert made the call.
At this point Jim Mora did not have a contract or a job having been "let go" by the Falcons. We wanted him to restore the Husky PRIDE and brand and yes visions of Pete Carroll danced through our head. Failed in the NFL but not that bad. Mora got credit for Vick and the Falcons being the first road team to win at Lambeu even though he was DC and Reeves was still head coach. Ty won several Rose Bowls. Shit happens noses get broken and stuff.
At any rate as we suffered through Owen 12 the Hawks made Mora head coach in waiting so he did in fact have a CONTRACT for 09, but not for 08. The Hawks agreed with iDAWG and me that Mora was a good choice. Then fired him after one year. We got Sark. Mora got UCLA. Everyone got fucked except the HAWKS who got Pete.
Mora ran Tiger Mountain and cake was there. I did not attend.
The only take away after all this time is that Ty should have been fired after 07. The rest is speculation
I talked to Kim before the Hawaii game. He told me ty was gone win or lose. I was happy given that uw jumped out to a 21 point lead in the first half. Then lost.
In 2007 iDawg and I started the bowl ineligible let's get rid of Ty podcast after a losing season was assured rather easily
You may have heard of the Millen Stats. He showed how coaches who sucked but not as bad as Ty sucked never even got back to Lambo level after three bad years like Ty had here.
We thought if the DAWGS lost to Hawaii Ty would be fired. The DAWGS lost and for a few days the rumors flew but Ty stayed. Insert NAACP and Sean Alexander vitriol here but the fucking moron Emmert made the call.
At this point Jim Mora did not have a contract or a job having been "let go" by the Falcons. We wanted him to restore the Husky PRIDE and brand and yes visions of Pete Carroll danced through our head. Failed in the NFL but not that bad. Mora got credit for Vick and the Falcons being the first road team to win at Lambeu even though he was DC and Reeves was still head coach. Ty won several Rose Bowls. Shit happens noses get broken and stuff.
At any rate as we suffered through Owen 12 the Hawks made Mora head coach in waiting so he did in fact have a CONTRACT for 09, but not for 08. The Hawks agreed with iDAWG and me that Mora was a good choice. Then fired him after one year. We got Sark. Mora got UCLA. Everyone got fucked except the HAWKS who got Pete.
Mora ran Tiger Mountain and cake was there. I did not attend.
The only take away after all this time is that Ty should have been fired after 07. The rest is speculation
Fuck Sean Alexander. Never saw an RB atrophy and slow down faster than that pissy head case.
@Mooser42 could tell it best, but a group of HH posters got together to go sing happy birthday to Jim Mora at his house around Medina. He obviously never took the job (maybe wasn't offered), so the joke was that they should have brought pie instead of cake. Pretty sure @CokeGreaterThanPepsi was there too.
There was a glorious website (www.hirejimmora.com) that was created as sort of a joke, then Softy and Kim latched on and used me as a pawn to drive subscriptions and listeners. Being young and stupid, I agreed to help their subscription drive with the promise of fame and fortune (lol).
One day before Mora's birthday, I got a PM on DM.c from Softy asking if I could round up some fucktards to meet at the entrance to Mora's neighborhood (there was only one way in or out). I put out the fucktarded call on DM.c and HHB and several fucktards showed up at the gas station just outside his neighborhood. King of the wannabe fucktards Softy showed up with a cake from QFC. After 2 hours in the cold, there was no mora, but some red headed bag of dicks from KOMO radio showed up to interview us. Softy paniced cause he thinks hes famous and hid with his cake and the rest of us left that red headed asshole standing there with his microphone in the dark. After we left, Softy left that stupid QFC cake on Mora's doorstep and then Mora told UW to fuckoff. I got a nice email from Mora thanking me for my service and asking me to support Skidark. Now I am known as the asshole who baked a cake instead of a pie even though Softy brought the cake from QFC and wrote HBD JIM on it with some canned frosting.
Pretty sure 2 of the participants are now married. Match.com at Moras?
I haven't found the entry where Race called Mora to Washington, nor have I found the video poasted somewhere with a bunch of images of Husky Football set to to Aerosmith's Dream On to convince Mora to take the job, but they have to be out there.
Woody passed on Mike Leach and Pat Hill for Sark. Hill was a meh coach but he went way up in my eyes --exactly the TUFF dedicated coach we need--when he told Fleenor he'd crawl naked through glass to get the job.
Good thread idea. What would UW's record have been 2009-2013 if Leach had been hired instead
9-10 wins and buttfucked by Stanford and Chip anyways.
I haven't found the entry where Race called Mora to Washington, nor have I found the video poasted somewhere with a bunch of images of Husky Football set to to Aerosmith's Dream On to convince Mora to take the job, but they have to be out there.
This "We thought if the DAWGS lost to Hawaii Ty would be fired. The DAWGS lost and for a few days the rumors flew but Ty stayed. Insert NAACP and Sean Alexander vitriol here but the fucking moron Emmert made the call."
sent me searching the internet for years to find a Husky FB/Sports site. Being the early days of efficient sites, I wandered the internet for years - found a hell of a lot porno sites so not all that bad (I wonder what happened to that guy with the "talk a girl into a blow job" site)
Finally finding this hell hole where we hardly talk FB and there is a good effing reason for that - WE? SUCK for the most part
@Mooser42 could tell it best, but a group of HH posters got together to go sing happy birthday to Jim Mora at his house around Medina. He obviously never took the job (maybe wasn't offered), so the joke was that they should have brought pie instead of cake. Pretty sure @CokeGreaterThanPepsi was there too.
There was a glorious website (www.hirejimmora.com) that was created as sort of a joke, then Softy and Kim latched on and used me as a pawn to drive subscriptions and listeners. Being young and stupid, I agreed to help their subscription drive with the promise of fame and fortune (lol).
One day before Mora's birthday, I got a PM on DM.c from Softy asking if I could round up some fucktards to meet at the entrance to Mora's neighborhood (there was only one way in or out). I put out the fucktarded call on DM.c and HHB and several fucktards showed up at the gas station just outside his neighborhood. King of the wannabe fucktards Softy showed up with a cake from QFC. After 2 hours in the cold, there was no mora, but some red headed bag of dicks from KOMO radio showed up to interview us. Softy paniced cause he thinks hes famous and hid with his cake and the rest of us left that red headed asshole standing there with his microphone in the dark. After we left, Softy left that stupid QFC cake on Mora's doorstep and then Mora told UW to fuckoff. I got a nice email from Mora thanking me for my service and asking me to support Skidark. Now I am known as the asshole who baked a cake instead of a pie even though Softy brought the cake from QFC and wrote HBD JIM on it with some canned frosting.
Pretty sure 2 of the participants are now married. Match.com at Moras?
As the primary reason for them finding each other and getting married, I’m still hurt I wasn’t invited. Really though I would have left when I found out there was no booze and only pepsi.
In 2007 iDawg and I started the bowl ineligible let's get rid of Ty podcast after a losing season was assured rather easily
You may have heard of the Millen Stats. He showed how coaches who sucked but not as bad as Ty sucked never even got back to Lambo level after three bad years like Ty had here.
We thought if the DAWGS lost to Hawaii Ty would be fired. The DAWGS lost and for a few days the rumors flew but Ty stayed. Insert NAACP and Sean Alexander vitriol here but the fucking moron Emmert made the call.
At this point Jim Mora did not have a contract or a job having been "let go" by the Falcons. We wanted him to restore the Husky PRIDE and brand and yes visions of Pete Carroll danced through our head. Failed in the NFL but not that bad. Mora got credit for Vick and the Falcons being the first road team to win at Lambeu even though he was DC and Reeves was still head coach. Ty won several Rose Bowls. Shit happens noses get broken and stuff.
At any rate as we suffered through Owen 12 the Hawks made Mora head coach in waiting so he did in fact have a CONTRACT for 09, but not for 08. The Hawks agreed with iDAWG and me that Mora was a good choice. Then fired him after one year. We got Sark. Mora got UCLA. Everyone got fucked except the HAWKS who got Pete.
Mora ran Tiger Mountain and cake was there. I did not attend.
The only take away after all this time is that Ty should have been fired after 07. The rest is speculation
I talked to Kim before the Hawaii game. He told me ty was gone win or lose. I was happy given that uw jumped out to a 21 point lead in the first half. Then lost.
Wait, Kim was wrong?! Are you sure we're talking about the same guy? Mr "Chip Kelly is going to be a disaster at Oregon" himself?!? C'mon. He always bats 1.000! You wouldn't want to answer his email for the day.
I remember during that period multiple Doogs thought Emmert and Woody should make Saban say no.
Many believed Pinkel --if offered -- would LEAVE his 10 win SEC Missouri team because that's what loyal Huskies do.
Then there were the Urban Meyer tales. Urban was interested in the UW job but Turner wanted Tyrone. Chuck Heater said so, allegedly. All bullshit.
long before UW began looking for a new coach, Notre Dame, through back channels had approached Meyer--then killing it at Utah-- before axing Ty. At the same time, Florida was readying their offer.
A few Doogs believed Pete Carroll might have interest. He had nothing left to prove at SC; the challenge of rebuilding the once mighty Washington would surely appeal to his competitive nature.
Several brought up Mike Holmgrens name. Any recruit Holmgren showed his Super bowl rings would surely sign with UW
Peterman was a popular pick, as he should have been. Of course he said no when he still had the fire in his belly.
Those screenshots would be worth more than gold, today.
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“23 times” was before that. That was when I was told many times that “a little goes a long ways”
Pretty sure 2 of the participants are now married. Match.com at Moras?
https://huskyhalfbrains.wordpress.com/
I haven't found the entry where Race called Mora to Washington, nor have I found the video poasted somewhere with a bunch of images of Husky Football set to to Aerosmith's Dream On to convince Mora to take the job, but they have to be out there.
This "We thought if the DAWGS lost to Hawaii Ty would be fired. The DAWGS lost and for a few days the rumors flew but Ty stayed. Insert NAACP and Sean Alexander vitriol here but the fucking moron Emmert made the call."
sent me searching the internet for years to find a Husky FB/Sports site. Being the early days of efficient sites, I wandered the internet for years - found a hell of a lot porno sites so not all that bad (I wonder what happened to that guy with the "talk a girl into a blow job" site)
Finally finding this hell hole where we hardly talk FB and there is a good effing reason for that - WE? SUCK for the most part
As the primary reason for them finding each other and getting married, I’m still hurt I wasn’t invited. Really though I would have left when I found out there was no booze and only pepsi.
Many believed Pinkel --if offered -- would LEAVE his 10 win SEC Missouri team because that's what loyal Huskies do.
Then there were the Urban Meyer tales. Urban was interested in the UW job but Turner wanted Tyrone. Chuck Heater said so, allegedly. All bullshit.
long before UW began looking for a new coach, Notre Dame, through back channels had approached Meyer--then killing it at Utah-- before axing Ty. At the same time, Florida was readying their offer.
A few Doogs believed Pete Carroll might have interest. He had nothing left to prove at SC; the challenge of rebuilding the once mighty Washington would surely appeal to his competitive nature.
Several brought up Mike Holmgrens name. Any recruit Holmgren showed his Super bowl rings would surely sign with UW
Peterman was a popular pick, as he should have been. Of course he said no when he still had the fire in his belly.
Those screenshots would be worth more than gold, today.