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Our Sun Bowl thread was deader and duller than any bowl thread in our history

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club

    This will be unveiled to the world in the Seattle Times' "Defeat and Ruins" series coming out soon

  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
    edited January 3

    Nah, @Canadawg nailed his point re: @whlinder. I've gone down this path before, I know where Canada is coming from, and it's not a pretty sight or responsibility. It's not fun. It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it. All respect to @Canadawg calling it out. @whlinder fucked this one up.

  • Canadawg
    Canadawg Member Posts: 5,264
    edited January 3

    So you only support the team when they are in the national championship game now? Don't get me wrong if UW truly does shows apathy to success and lack of commitment to the fans for a measurable amount of time I can understand where you're coming from but let's not twist where things are at.

    This year sucked and I want Fisch fired just like all the olds fired DJ in the 80s but we're still 11th in win percentage of Power teams since 2016.

    Coaching hires has been one Sark that had enough sizzle to dig the program out of the pea patch and left some ingredients in the cupboard. Then one of the best hires of the decade in CFB in CP who took the team to the playoff, the real one. Then despite the connotation of indifference UW saw Jimmy tanking and pulled the plug after 16 games, that's a big dawg move. Went out and hired Deboer who promptly suplexed the Pac12 and got 3 of the best wins the program has had in decades. Amongst that the president of the school showed her cuban colours and once again big dawged the Zombie Pac and got a place at the table in the B1G. Even Fisch was well accepted at the time of hiring.

    All that to say that I love being pissed about bad games and coaches but to say that you're trying to hold yourself to some kind of standard is just bs because to me you sound like a soft ass fan. W/ respect

  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696

    @fuckvanilla @Canadawg

    I've been a fan through FAR worse games and coaches. You're again missing the point. The problem isn't that the team isn't in the CFP again, the problem is that one of the players who was skipped town for the biggest rival a week later. And several more chased bags as well. And I know the names of like three players on the team and aren't motivated to learn the rest because they'll either suck and be run or be good and go chase a bag elsewhere. Unlimited transfers has ruined the game, period. If the players have zero loyalty to the school/program/team, what kind of loser am I to show loyalty to them? What kind of loser are you? W /respect. Being a "hard ass fan" is a weird thing to brag about.

    I don't know what @whlinder's motivations are for saying he's not watching the game, but I've claimed the same this season several times, and my motivation has always been to encourage others to join the protest. They've ruined the sport, and we're just too dumb to stop watching it. If they're not punished, what's their motivation to fix it? On the bright side, having my Saturdays back has been pretty nice.

  • CallMeBigErn
    CallMeBigErn Member Posts: 8,028
    edited January 3

    You're proving the point and doubling down.

    NGAF. Enjoy your Saturdays, brother. I get that. I always have the pull to do something else. NGAF. I typically keep my college football viewing to one Husky game a week. NGAF. Seahawks are much easier to skip. NGAF.

    You didn't print a roster. NGAF. I did, and I learned the players and numbers just like I do every year. NGAF. IDGAF that you did not choose to learn the players. That's your prerogative. NGAF. I even had players that I particularly rooted for, Dawgs, just like I do every year. There were many. NGAF.

    NGAF about not watching Husky football in a Husky football thread. You don't need to explain yourself. There's much better forums to talk about not watching Husky football. Go ride Galbraith and hit r/MTB, ffs.

    w/ respect though. That's legitimate. I know you're good for it.

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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,266

    If the point is poasting about not watching it in a gay way, then ok, message acknowledged. I mean, it is a message bored. Derek mentioned the lack of engagement. I tried to provide perspective on why. Other options. It was apparently not a cool story bro. Maybe I should have gone to see Hamilton instead.

    If the point is I should be a better fan and watch the bowl game over other activities (aka "care more"), ok, but don't think you want to go down that path with me of measuring fandom. I try not to do that to our fans; as long as you're not a retarded Doog who is harming the program then I support whatever level of fandom each individual chooses to provide.

    I will point out that I literally wrote out this issue within the past 3 weeks when House entered the portal. My nonchalance about the Sun Bowl is a manifestation of that issue.

    I think there is an overestimation on how much we will root for laundry if the teen boi models wearing the laundry change drastically every single year and just get auctioned on an annual basis.

    The laundry means something to us, deeper than a fan connection to NFL laundry, cause huge chunks of the fan base also committed to the same "institution" as well as voluntarily funding its success.

    There are other sports and entertainment options out there to care about.

  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club

    "They've ruined the sport, and we're just too dumb to stop watching it."

    That would fit onto a beer goblet

  • dannarc
    dannarc Member Posts: 2,694

    I’ve thrown almost all of it away. Mariners and MLB are a joke, NBA since Sonics left, F’ the 12’s.
    Im disappointed and think the portal needs tighter strings, but I’m cool with NIL, we have Seattle big market money infusing the program, but would obviously like to see more, a lot more…

    My Huskies are the last team I am rooting for and probably always will, Dawg til death.

  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457

    This “fight” is

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