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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,776
    I swear it's like Fire Marshall has never heard of a low center of gravity.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,466 Standard Supporter
    Rich Alexis was pretty bad. He could take an option pitch from Tui, but that's about it. Once Tui left he was serviceable, but below average. He was big and pretty fast, but had no vision or instincts at all. In a worst case scenario, I see Dwayne Washington being a more athletic version of Alexis. I think Washington will develop, but they have some similarities.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,337
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Rich Alexis was pretty bad. He could take an option pitch from Tui, but that's about it. Once Tui left he was serviceable, but below average.

    exactly. Pickett was a helluva passer and, TECHNICALLY, a better athlete than Tui (i.e., he was bigger and had more straight-line speed and a better arm), but you can't teach that feel for the option game and running in the open field. Tui oozed it and Pickett was horrible. I remember going to games that season and watching Rick push the option at least a few times on every drive. it was like even the old ladies in the stands were yelling, "he can't fucking do it; he's a pocket passer!"

    once Alexis had to play with Cody, it was over because they couldn't run the option and Alexis ran into his own blockers and was never a vision guy.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,337
    RaceBannon said:

    dnc said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I actually am a long time Cane fan. ESPN the early days used the local Howard Schnellberger Show as filler when Howard was building the empire pre 1983. For some reason I got hooked on this shitty football team trying to become someone.

    I made the mistake of going to dinner with some chick who I quickly realized wasn't going to fuck me during the Orange Bowl against Nebraska. I figured like everyone else that the Huskers would boat race Bernie and the boys. I got home in time to see the failed two point conversion.

    I rank that 2000 win as probably the best team I have ever seen UW beat. Nebraska and Michigan in 1991 were bigger wins, but those were mediocre teams. To actually witness the Dawgs beat the Canes at Husky Stadium was pretty fucking cool. I think the 2000 Canes were better than the 1994 Canes.

    The sad thing is that the 2000-2002 Canes only got one ring. Losing to Ohio State was inexcusable. And painful to watch.

    The article was correct in pointing out that Husky Stadium beat the Canes that day. That 21-3 jump out was the ball game. I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

    How'd they compare to 84 OU Grandpa Race?

    Miami owned Switzer
    Miami owned Switzer and anybody else with a one-dimensional offense, no matter how good at it they were, especially if it took a second to develop behind the LOS and was predicated on getting to the edges like Oklahoma's.
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  • unfrozencaveman
    unfrozencaveman Member Posts: 2,303
    2001 Miami was indeed one of the best teams ever

    But keep in mind that game was rescheduled due to 911. Played after the Apple Cup

    I blame 911 for the lopsided loss
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Great article. I really like the Miami program and wish they were dominant again. They churned out great NFL talent and the teams were bad ass. The 2001 team is the best team I have ever seen. The 2004 USC team is the only team that's even remotely close. That was a bullshit PI call that fucked Miami in 2002. They are probably my second favorite program. It's too bad they have fucked up their last two coaching hires.

    Miami is kind of hypocrites for the whining about FSU. UW beat Miami, yet they don't acknowledge that. I fully get Miami's thinking that they should have won that game and were the better team, but that's irrelevant. When they played, they lost. It's not like UW's one loss was to a bad team either. Oregon was a top 10 team that beat Texas in the Holiday Bowl. I would assume the Pac 10 was stronger than the Big East as well. It's too fucking bad there wasn't a playoff to settle it. That would have sucked.

    TL, DR: Cry me a fucking river Miami. UW had just as much right to be upset.

    The Miami corner grabbed the wrs jersey with the ball in the air. That's pass interference. Watch the replay.
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  • HeretoBeatmyChest
    HeretoBeatmyChest Member Posts: 4,295
    edited September 2014
    I'll have to ask metrics superiority guy who is the best team UW ever beat (according to the metrics) but it very well could be that 2000 Miami team.

    In the modern era SRS has Nebraska 95, UW 91 and Miami 01 as the 3 best teams.

    Here is a look at Sagarin's all time ratings and the same 3 teams are the top 3 in the last 40 years.

    http://www.huskermax.com/rating.html

    Uncle Race probably can elaborate but I guess back in the day top teams played really tough schedules. Their SOS ratings are through the roof which is why most of the teams on the Sagarin list are pre 1975.

    As far as talent and pro talent I can't imagine any team coming close to Miami in 00-01.
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  • whatshouldicareabout
    whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 13,015
    DerekJohnson said:

    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    puppylove_sugarsteel said:

    Thanks to the weaz for destroyin g our running game tradition. Alexis was the worst tailback, in terms of vision and escapability, than any back dating back 4 decades. Horrible. Mo Shaw ran a close second.

    Our running gayme was fucking dreck from '98 through about '08.
    UW led the Pac-10 in rushing in 2000 at 275 yards a game.
    Yeah, but still
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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,394
    creepycoug said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Rich Alexis was pretty bad. He could take an option pitch from Tui, but that's about it. Once Tui left he was serviceable, but below average.

    exactly. Pickett was a helluva passer and, TECHNICALLY, a better athlete than Tui (i.e., he was bigger and had more straight-line speed and a better arm), but you can't teach that feel for the option game and running in the open field. Tui oozed it and Pickett was horrible. I remember going to games that season and watching Rick push the option at least a few times on every drive. it was like even the old ladies in the stands were yelling, "he can't fucking do it; he's a pocket passer!"

    once Alexis had to play with Cody, it was over because they couldn't run the option and Alexis ran into his own blockers and was never a vision guy.
    IIRC when Pickett came to UW he was the all-time leading rebounder for HS hoops in Idaho.
    I know it's Idaho, but still. That's some natural athletic ability. And of course his bull-riding...

    He couldn't run the option like Tui but it wasn't terrible. Though once Pickett separated his shoulder it was over for the option.
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