Just 15 days ago

whatshouldicareabout said:

WoolleyDoog said:

wooderson92 said:

WoolleyDoog said:

Houhusky said:

wooderson92 said:

RaceBannon said:

Jim Owens goes to three Rose Bowls

14 years until James gets another

1984 natty (hi ducks)

By 88 I would have fired Don James

91 natty part of 3 straight Rose Bowls

93 probation

2000 Rose Bowl

2002 Rick fired and the dark decade plus begins

2016 playoffs part of 3 straight NY6 Bowls

2020 Jimmy Lake hired

2022-23 25-3 Sugar Bowl win national runner up

Today

Is there any program that comes close to the wild UW rollercoaster of the last 50 years? We? have been to the top of the mountain and to the absolute bottom of the septic tank.

Nebraska probably

90s - 6 orange bowls, 3 NC, 3 decades of never finishing unranked

2002 - 2012 - shaky 9-10 win seasons with Bo Pelini, some unranked but mostly finishing just outside top 20

2013 - present - havent finished ranked in over a decade, since 2017 they haven't gone to a bowl game and their average wins per season is 5...

Nebraska the past 20 is a sad existence. They haven't had the true lows Washington has but they certainly haven't had the high level success. Michigan ironically had a similar situation before the past few years. Throw Miami in there as well.

Good call. While not suffering the pains of truly fucking terrible teams, it could be argued that 20+ years of lambo level mediocrity might be just as bad

I'd easily take what UW has gone through with those horrible lows over Nebraska's just perpetual below averageness and occasional average or above average.

Over the last 20 years, Nebraska had 10 winning records vs UW's 13.

UW had 6 seasons in a row without a winning record versus Nebraska's current streak of 7

Nebraska hasn't had a season over 0.750 in the last 20 years whereas UW has had 5

So yeah, it's a no brainer, even with our darkest decade

Notre Dame maybe? Good in late 80’s/early 90’s. Mediocre for a while then Willingham followed by a decided schematic advantage that got them to like 3-9. Back to good but clearly not elite, now kind of average.
They’re still Notre Dame and all the preferential treatment that comes with that though, so fuck them.