We always lose to Cal (aka Official 2024 Row Boat Season Thread)
Except for today me boys! Our guys won by 3 secs today against the defending national champs.
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5:24 is flyin
finally on 4/20 Cal was too high -
Hear me out, but what if they hopped off the boat afterwards and started murdering all the people in the crowd and raping their women and taking their land.
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Too soon?
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On we sweep with threshing oar, pal.
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The guysm here don’t realize how crazy fast 5:24 is. This is nuts.
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What I want to know is, if Yella could time travel as his UW varsity self, would he make the cut on this year's skwad?
Also, do the rowers hate the coxswain or are they drinking buddies outside of the boat?
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No. Most definitely not. The mid 90's Yella journey to UW row boat- i.e., tall, lanky ex-hoops guy who never rowed in HS - almost never happens at the Elite Row Boat Schools- i.e., Cal, Washington, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc.
I came to the sport at the end of an era. Up until the end the 90s, half of UW's squad had never rowed before college and a high percentage were in-state guys. You gotta remember that even to this day, the best (tall) HS athletes in America aren't doing rowboat as their #1 sport. We? aren't like @Canadawg where if you live on Vancouver Island you can do hockey or rowboat and that's it. So, UW always recruited tall dudes who were good at other HS sports and within a year or 2 had them turned into elite rowers. People forget that Al Ubrickson recruited Joe Rantz from Roosevelt HS (hoops) to try out for Crew at UW. George Clooney royally fucked up all this history.
By the late 90's things started to change rapidly in the sport. Recall, that while Crew has always been a REAL "Varsity" Sport (hi BFF @UW_Doog_Bot !!) since the early 1900's, there were never scholarships for the men's squad. In the late 90's the women's team started to get about 16 full rides to even out Title IX numbers and what not.
When @BearsWiin hired Steve @Gladstone in mid 90's , Cal's biggest booster asked what he needed to dominate Washington and he his response was essentially "16 full ride scholarships to go recruit elite Canadian and Euro JR Rowers". With that plan in place CAL went on to 4 Natties in a Row from 1999- 2002. By the time our boy @whlinder shows up UW was getting left behind in the sport and struggling to compete, and in the early 2000's UW had to follow suite and start offering full-rides and recruiting heavily from Europe, Canada and Australia. The rest as they say in history. Long gone are the days of a Washington Crew being Washington (or even American) guys.
Out boat that beat Cal had the following line up:
USA
Norway
Italy
UK
UK
NZ
Norway
UK
Don't get me wrong, I have the same physics as the current rowers in terms of height and VO2 max ceiling. But I would have had to start rowing as freshman in HS for some elite JRs team in Seattle or SFO and lifted weights and erged like a mother fucker to have a chance of making UW's team now-a-days.
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Also @BleachedAnusDawg the coxswains are generally besties with everyone else on the team. I'm still very close to this day to our coxswain.
People also forget that sometimes the Men's boat will have a female coxswain (it's hard to find short guys who are less than 125 lbs) . And more often than not, those females are really "loved" by the men's team if you catch my drift.
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I don't know if this was standard back in the day, but when I was first accepted into UW (1999) I got some mailed information about trying out to sit as a coxswain. I don't think they had any of my measurements, but I was 5'10" and only about 135 lbs when I finished up high school (and I could dunk a basketball with two hands, mf'ers). Not sure I could've afforded to lose 10 more pounds.
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You’re close to the coxswain….
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This was standard practice back in the 90s- i.e., they'd mail out some propaganda about trying out for crew, because the model still depending upon finding some walk-ons who could be turned into elite row peter puffers.
You are too tall the fit in the cox seat; it's basically a 5'6" and shorter jerb. Respeck for 2 handed jamming. 6'6" Old Yellar can't dunk anymore (although I could do it ok at age 18).
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Bruh, our coxswain turned me on the the Red Headed Stranger tweeds a few years back.
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What does that mean? Pot?
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Yes, there's a (sativa) strain called Red Headed Stranger.
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To add on to @YellowSnow 's comments on the mid/late 90s and Cal switching over to scholarships and Europeans, with Cal winning in 99 and the way they won I did not even consider Cal as an option when looking at schools.
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I had no idea. I guess I'm no longer cool.
Also, I had no idea the coxswain was so small. I always thought he was this big tuff dude that steered the boat using his cock as a rudder.
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The coxswain (/ˈkɒksən/ KOK-sən, or /ˈkɒksweɪn/KOK-swayn[1]) is the person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering. The etymology of the word gives a literal meaning of "boat servant" since it comes from cock, referring to the cockboat, a type of ship's boat, and swain, an Old English term derived from the Old Norse sveinn meaning boy or servant.[2] In 1724, a "cockswain" was defined as "An officer of a ship who takes care of the cockboat, barge or shallop, with all its furniture, and is in readiness with his crew to man the boat on all occasions." When the term "cockboat" became obsolete, the title of coxswain as the person in charge of a ship's boat remained.[3]
Feel free @PurpleJ to refer to row-boat as "cockboat". You're welcome, pal.
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LOL you got bossed around by a cock boy midget
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I think your "recruitment" to probably mirror that of some of the guys of my era- i.e., high level, HS rowers, but not elite international guysm. We even had some guys on the squad from Norther Virginia, including one Michael Callahan.
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Wait…we have two row peter puffers on this bored?
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Affirmative.
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Callahan would seemingly qualify as an elite international rower coming out of high school, what with a Gold at the junior World Championships.
I totally forgot he went to W&L. Note the L used to be another name.
There were 2 guysm a few years ahead of me in HS (and I rowed with their younger brothers) who went to Cal, really good HS rowers and eventually made Cal 2V and V4 in the 97-99 time frame, but no chance at the top boat as Gladstone got his guys in there to beat Washington.
International when I was rowing meant Canada. Calder was the obvious one, but think we had 2-3 Canucks in my freshman class. Cal had a bunch of guys from Europe by then.
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TIL @YellowSnow loves the cox…swain
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I love the cox in Swain’s Wigworm.
Shout out to that chick at the end of @DerekJohnson pod. -
@Mad_Son and @PurpleBaze coming to the greatest row boat setting this weekend!
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Washington still holding at #2 in the Polls.
Harvard had been #1 (they beat us early in the season in Sarasota, FL) but lost to Princeton by 1.6 secs recently in Cambridge, MA. Princeton is now #1 but expect our Dawgs to be the fastest crew in the country by the time IRA's roll around.
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https://x.com/UW_Rowing/status/1792200603185406451
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Eternal Pac-12 champions. At least the men.
The women finished 3rd. Yasmin on the hot seat? -
