Having a "tough schedule" is always exaggerated by being a bad team. If UW beats Iowa and Wazzu then suddenly those teams don't rate as high.
The schedule as it sits is top 25ish for difficulty and that's being propped up by two top 5 teams so if you remove those they still went 6-4 against a very mid schedule.
This turned out to be a very average team with little depth that was below average in key areas (OL and DL). Maximus McCree, Jayvon Parker, Quentin Moore, Zach Durfee, and Deuce Davis each missing most of the season particularly hurt. RB, LB, and Secondary were above average. QB, WR, and TE positions were average.
UW didn't face a team coming off a bye until the final week of the season. UW had two byes, their opponents had 1. UW played both Michigan and Indiana with their backups QBs.
we? are both fucking geniuses and predicted 10 wins. This team had enough talent to not lose two bullshit games and then beat Iowa. Then a bowl win. This schedule should’ve allowed for that.
This is 100% on fish and his staff. As a coaching “savant”, leading this team to 10 wins was the expectation. Don’t @ me, I don’t want to hear anyone’s fucking excuses.
Iowa, USC, Michigan, UCLA are all relatively equal. UW would have a better than even chance to beat them all at home. Rutgers and WSU are comfortable wins at Husky Stadium and NW is a game where they would have a 70/30 shot to win on the road. I think Indiana is a coin flip at UW. PSU and Oregon are the only teams UW had no shot against anywhere. You can put all these teams in a home/road blender and UW is anywhere from 8-4 to 4-8, hence 6-6 seems about right.
What I see is a team that had no offensive direction and horrible special teams, who got embarrassed by every decent team and dropped two games to bad teams. It almost feels like some want to give a 6-6 team credit for 8-4 because we should've won those ones. Well, we didn't.
Fisch isn't fired if I'm king for a day, but I wouldn't hate the queen if she dumped him while I was distracted watching other teams play meaningful games.
Fisch had said they held back NIL money (I think someone said $3 million?) so if they weren't at least somewhat punting on 2024, they would have spent half of that (if not all) on a better OL and DL. The back-up from Ohio State probably didn't have much in terms of NIL offers and the same for Logan S.
More difficult in the sense of travel and our level comparable to the teams that we played on the road … of the 5 games in conference only Rutgers was a team that had comparable talent … everybody else was going to be a difficult win at best.
Last year the difficulty was that the overall quality of the opposition (this is a down year in CFB across the board for a number of reasons) was better but from a road standpoint the toughest games were at Arizona (in hindsight - we benefited from catching them early), USC (because our defense sucked), and Oregon St (weather).
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Having a "tough schedule" is always exaggerated by being a bad team. If UW beats Iowa and Wazzu then suddenly those teams don't rate as high.
The schedule as it sits is top 25ish for difficulty and that's being propped up by two top 5 teams so if you remove those they still went 6-4 against a very mid schedule.
This turned out to be a very average team with little depth that was below average in key areas (OL and DL). Maximus McCree, Jayvon Parker, Quentin Moore, Zach Durfee, and Deuce Davis each missing most of the season particularly hurt. RB, LB, and Secondary were above average. QB, WR, and TE positions were average.
If UW had no home conference games they would have gone 4 - 8 POTD.
UW didn't face a team coming off a bye until the final week of the season. UW had two byes, their opponents had 1. UW played both Michigan and Indiana with their backups QBs.
we? are both fucking geniuses and predicted 10 wins. This team had enough talent to not lose two bullshit games and then beat Iowa. Then a bowl win. This schedule should’ve allowed for that.
This is 100% on fish and his staff. As a coaching “savant”, leading this team to 10 wins was the expectation. Don’t @ me, I don’t want to hear anyone’s fucking excuses.
it was not a touch enough schedule that these homos should be playing for only win #7.
go play in traffic.
Playing in the B1G and complaining about a tough schedule is laughable
The schedule wasn’t that daunting.
Our coach punted.
It may work.
It may not.
Players were soft.
Doogs were soft.
I’m right.
#Onesentenceparagraphs
Iowa, USC, Michigan, UCLA are all relatively equal. UW would have a better than even chance to beat them all at home. Rutgers and WSU are comfortable wins at Husky Stadium and NW is a game where they would have a 70/30 shot to win on the road. I think Indiana is a coin flip at UW. PSU and Oregon are the only teams UW had no shot against anywhere. You can put all these teams in a home/road blender and UW is anywhere from 8-4 to 4-8, hence 6-6 seems about right.
What I see is a team that had no offensive direction and horrible special teams, who got embarrassed by every decent team and dropped two games to bad teams. It almost feels like some want to give a 6-6 team credit for 8-4 because we should've won those ones. Well, we didn't.
Fisch isn't fired if I'm king for a day, but I wouldn't hate the queen if she dumped him while I was distracted watching other teams play meaningful games.
Fisch had said they held back NIL money (I think someone said $3 million?) so if they weren't at least somewhat punting on 2024, they would have spent half of that (if not all) on a better OL and DL. The back-up from Ohio State probably didn't have much in terms of NIL offers and the same for Logan S.
You really couldn’t expect UW to have a good season. You just couldn’t.
Ern I love ya, but this is such a limp-wristed post
Thazthajoke. Wrists get tired.
I'm hearing Washington Oregon would have been a competitive game in Seattle.
More difficult in the sense of travel and our level comparable to the teams that we played on the road … of the 5 games in conference only Rutgers was a team that had comparable talent … everybody else was going to be a difficult win at best.
Last year the difficulty was that the overall quality of the opposition (this is a down year in CFB across the board for a number of reasons) was better but from a road standpoint the toughest games were at Arizona (in hindsight - we benefited from catching them early), USC (because our defense sucked), and Oregon St (weather).
Anybody that starts their narratives without acknowledging how bad the OL/DL were then there's really no point in going any further in the discussion.
These were Tyrone to early Sark era caliber teams at the LOS
This is what it looks like when you have massive misses in recruiting and a roster gutted by graduation and transfers
You're not winning in this conference consistently if you are a bottom end LOS team
at least UW had plenty of excuses for throwing away the season