Dick Baird opines on the TUFF schedule
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Illinois is a B game. Its a fucking Big10 team. I know they have more talent than WSU (who beat us) 2-10 or not! Scheelhasse has been their 5 years, and is a legit duel threat senior qb compared to Price, who is more of a 1/2 threat qbSoutherndawg said:I too laughed at referring to BSU, Illinois and Idaho State as an ABC schedule. The only saving grace is the road trip to Chicago.
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I think our tradition along with Sark's politician act makes some outside members of the media believe we are better than we actually are.DerekJohnson said:
Those two articles were probably written by people old enough to remember 1991RoadDawg55 said:
I don't think people view us as being as bad are we really are. I've seen two articles on USC that pointed out the fact that USC doesn't have to play UW and Oregon as a benefit to their schedule. Oregon is understandable, UW not so much.DerekJohnson said:
I think people view us as a Utahtracker said:
Kind of makes me wonder what other teams think about playing Washington.TierbsHsotBoobs said:
To be fair, it's a B-C-F schedule. Illinois is a BCS conference team after all.TheKobeStopper said:
Bairds been using this FS talking point for years. Oh having to play a good team your first game is so hard, except that your opponent is in the exact same position. There is no advantage gained by playing Boise in the third game if they also get to play two games before it. It only makes sense if you are incapable of thinking.PurpleJ said:"Although the pre-season has a balance of one really good “A” caliber team (Boise State), one Big Ten “B level” team (Illinois, a 2-10 team last season), and one lower division “C” opponent, (Idaho State), they will be played in that order. Ideally you would want to play in reverse order and progressively improve along with the level of your opponent."
I stopped reading there.
And calling Boise an A game and Illinois a B game. Christ. UW is playing a B-F-F ooc schedule.
Are we a B or C game?
Fuck.
Then again, we did only receive 3 votes in the coaches poll, so the perception can't be too high.
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He drives the bandwagon for the "we can't fire sark we've had too much coaching turnover already." and "we need to stop firing coaches"Passion said:dick "coaches-should-never-get-fired" baird? The guy has absolutely Z-E-R-O credibility. An ex-coach? Sure, but he has ruined his good name with the constant excuses and pandering over the past decade plus. I want to urinate in his bourbon.
Not to mention he actually had the audacity to scrap with me on air. What gall.
He needs to realize this argument has 0 credibility. Over the last 10 years we've fired Rick, Gilby, and TY. So in his opinion, firing coaches caused our downfall, not the quality of coaches. Last year he was advocating for us to leep Holt. my god imagine our record if he was still on our staff last year.
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Fucking dreckfest from the B1G is a C. That conference is Ohio State and a whole lot of dwarves.puppylove_sugarsteel said:
Illinois is a B game. Its a fucking Big10 team. I know they have more talent than WSU (who beat us) 2-10 or not! Scheelhasse has been their 5 years, and is a legit duel threat senior qb compared to Price, who is more of a 1/2 threat qbSoutherndawg said:I too laughed at referring to BSU, Illinois and Idaho State as an ABC schedule. The only saving grace is the road trip to Chicago.
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He cannot cite causationdhdawg said:
He drives the bandwagon for the "we can't fire sark we've had too much coaching turnover already." and "we need to stop firing coaches"Passion said:dick "coaches-should-never-get-fired" baird? The guy has absolutely Z-E-R-O credibility. An ex-coach? Sure, but he has ruined his good name with the constant excuses and pandering over the past decade plus. I want to urinate in his bourbon.
Not to mention he actually had the audacity to scrap with me on air. What gall.
He needs to realize this argument has 0 credibility. Over the last 10 years we've fired Rick, Gilby, and TY. So in his opinion, firing coaches caused our downfall, not the quality of coaches. Last year he was advocating for us to leep Holt. my god imagine our record if he was still on our staff last year. -
Its already been covered Illinois is a C gamepuppylove_sugarsteel said:
Illinois is a B game. Its a fucking Big10 team. I know they have more talent than WSU (who beat us) 2-10 or not! Scheelhasse has been their 5 years, and is a legit duel threat senior qb compared to Price, who is more of a 1/2 threat qbSoutherndawg said:I too laughed at referring to BSU, Illinois and Idaho State as an ABC schedule. The only saving grace is the road trip to Chicago.
Illinois would have lost to WSU last year...
Western Michigan - W 24-7
@ASU - L 45-14
Charleston Southern University - W 44-0
Louisiana Tech - L 52-24
Penn St. - L 35-7
@Wisconsin - L 31-14
@Michigan - L 45-0
Indiana - L 31-17
@Ohio st. - L 31-17
Minnesota - L 17-3
Purdue - L 20-17
@Northwestern - L 50-14
They were 111th in passing yards, 99th in rushing yards, 122nd in points for, and 95th in points against
Out of their 10 losses they were competitive in one of them, they never lead at halftime for any of the losses.
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All (4) of Lambo's losses in 1994 were on the road which made the Whammy In Miami even more surprising. Halfbright had staff hiring problems, especially on offense, and I always believed that was because he only ever was a longtime assistant at UW and never got around enough in his coaching career to know who or where the good assistant coaching talent could be found. His staff had a Pacific NW bias with mostly former coogs and vandals if they weren't Huskies and of course, he didn't have a football knowledgeable AD in Hedges to help him with the staffing. This sounds kind of familiar except that Sark had much less experience as an assistant and coordinator before getting the UW job.Southerndawg said:That was a friggin disappointing season. Beating Ohio State and Miami in OOC games in the same season back then meant you had enough talent to compete for a conference title. Losing to USC always sucks, but it was downright embarrassing to lose to Oregon, Stanford and the Cougs that year. That was a clear sign that a change at the top would be needed.
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I had always believed in Lambright until the Oregon game.TierbsHsotBoobs said:
Lambright should have been fired on the 50 yard line at the end of theSoutherndawg said:That was a friggin disappointing season. Beating Ohio State and Miami in OOC games in the same season back then meant you had enough talent to compete for a conference title. Losing to USC always sucks, but it was downright embarrassing to lose to Oregon, Stanford and the Cougs that year. That was a clear sign that a change at the top would be needed.
Apple CupOregon game.
Damn that year sucked after beating Miami in Miami I thought that team was headed towards a 10-1 season. -
I'm guessing we'd be 7-6.dhdawg said:
Last year he was advocating for us to leep Holt. my god imagine our record if he was still on our staff last year.Passion said:dick "coaches-should-never-get-fired" baird? The guy has absolutely Z-E-R-O credibility. An ex-coach? Sure, but he has ruined his good name with the constant excuses and pandering over the past decade plus. I want to urinate in his bourbon.
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PurpleJ said:
"Although the pre-season has a balance of one really good “A” caliber team (Boise State), one Big Ten “B level” team (Illinois, a 2-10 team last season), and one lower division “C” opponent, (Idaho State), they will be played in that order. Ideally you would want to play in reverse order and progressively improve along with the level of your opponent."
I stopped reading there.He_Needs_More_Time said:
I had always believed in Lambright until the Oregon game.TierbsHsotBoobs said:
Lambright should have been fired on the 50 yard line at the end of theSoutherndawg said:That was a friggin disappointing season. Beating Ohio State and Miami in OOC games in the same season back then meant you had enough talent to compete for a conference title. Losing to USC always sucks, but it was downright embarrassing to lose to Oregon, Stanford and the Cougs that year. That was a clear sign that a change at the top would be needed.
Apple CupOregon game.
Damn that year sucked after beating Miami in Miami I thought
that team was headed towards a 10-1 season.
10-1? I don't know about that. WHOREgon (lol) did end up making the Rose Bowl that yr., and the Kooks made a bowl game as well. There wasn't top ten talent on that team. 9-2 would've been a very good year, and 8-3 seems about right.
'97 was the Lambo team that pissed me off. Going from a number 2 ranking to losing to Ryan Leaf and the Coogs to end up 7-4 made me want him fired.
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