All Aboard the hype train
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losers.
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Refuse to Lose disagrees with you @haie
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There’s a reason for the saying, “truth hurts.” And there is zero credibility in optimism for optimism’s sake.
This is not a 10-win program.
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Really the only thing holding UW Football back is funding for Montlake Futures. If UW wants to beat Ohio State, it helps if the payroll is closer. Les Wexner is a billionaire and likely their biggest funder.
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Realistically I don't see UW ever being the massive payroll type thing we see at Oregon, Ohio State, Texas, etc. Apparently the basketball program kind of has something like it so never say never, but seems like a pipe dream to me.
UW's path to getting back to competing for a title is a combination of being a program that probably can spend somewhere between #11-25 and finding some lightning in a bottle like they did with DeBoer/Penix. Not that easy.
Realistic best case is probably the program gets some success and foundation again with Jedd. He goes to another job and we get a coach who is like a Petersen/Harbaugh/Kirby type with a connection to the program who wants to stay instead of just jumping for another job, at least for a while.
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Ideally Fisch stays 3-4 seasons minimum because Lake and DeBoer lasted just two (for opposite reasons). Some continuity would be nice because the program was obviously on its back foot and had to scramble once DeBoer bolted post-NC game. Need to stack a couple of more recruiting classes.
I will say that the Congressional decision to allow schools to pay +/- $20 million a year to players will help a school like Washington more than the ones that are privately funded by huuuuuge boosters already.
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I think there's a lot of media glazing going on with some of the appointed big spenders. Washington kept all the NFL players on the team last season and had the NC trophy in the building.
My sense is actually fairly positive about how UW or MF handles the money in that they aren't just throwing bags at underwear athletes and washed up 5* QBs. Hopefully that means they are picking the spots intelligently but having said that the lack of olineman picked up last month is a massive questions mark.
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UW won the offseason natty in 2023 and came a quarter away from the real natty.
But they are the Mariners.
UW is not perfect and deserves criticism, but this the annoying minority here acts as if seasons like 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023 are impossible.
UW is batting about .500 this past decade with 10 win seasons, so they are due for one next year.
UW is 1-4 in major bowl games, but does have an Alamo Bowl win over a ranked Texas too. It would be nice to add more hardware and win a playoff game or two. Petersen's beat up the Pac 12 and lose OOC shtick was frustrating.
9 wins should be the bare minimum for Fisch to keep his job, with the expectation that 2026 is playoff or tarmac.
Anything less is a decrease in the standards.
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Sure
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Man you sure do get fixated
The current UW approach to player acquisition was compared to the Mariners approach...the current one. Neither is willing to jump into the market with both feet. That's it.
This is the first time I've been in the first group who vocally gives up on a new coach during or even after his first season. I think I see Fisch for what he is and what his finished tenure at UW is going to look like. If he turns it around I'm going to live making fun of myself for being the first to be wrong. I'm sorry that it annoys you so much.
If it helps at all, I'm bound to lose interest in threads like this, and soon, so you won't have to be put out on my account for long.
