The Big 10 (and college football overall, to a lesser extent) had a lot of putrid QBs and passing offenses and Oregon took advantage of that while UW flailed and got beat by some of the worst QBs to ever beat UW outside of the Ty years. All of the non-Pac-12 Big 10 teams outside of Ohio State and Penn State were easy to beat if you had a functional offense/QB or if you could stop the run at all. Unfortunately UW had neither and squandered the chance for an easy 9-10-win season in a scorched earth rebuilding year.
We all knew UW would be average at best and Oregon good with a golden opportunity in a shit field so them getting bounced in the Elite 8 and not even getting where UW got in 2023 is poetry.
Oregon's weakness under Lanning has been DBs. They just got away with it for a lot of this year because Ohio State was the only team with a pass offense with a pulse that they played. Looks like they spent a ton in hs recruiting this year though at DB.;
Oregon is still in a better place than UW for 2025 and beyond though so I'm only celebrating so much.
I don't study the teen bois closely enough to judge and mostly depend on this place to tell me who did what in the portal and recruiting. I see it when I see it. So, I can't comment on that part of it.
On the field, what I would say I saw was a coach with a middling roster deliver middling results. I'm not sure there was any chicken salad to be made from that chicken shit, to borrow a phrase oft-employed by Gary Stevens. But, I thought he stuck with Rodgers too long, maybe could have found a way to use Boston more and made some weird play calls in a few games. That's mostly all the bad things I can say about him. Maybe underwhelming is the word. The roster wasn't great, and Lord knows when the O line is in disarray pretty much everything breaks. But there are guys who can show up and do something in those situations and he wasn't that. Still, I would not compare him to Lake. It looked broken with Lake almost from the start. That was classic Peter Principle.
Let's just stipulate UW fucked up even though PGOS makes some reasonable points about Sexton and the fact that KDB is an upper-midwest guy who probably didn't want to die here or anything and was more likely than not to leave. And let's just stipulate that LIPO is the only option anyway, but I fully expect you to keep annoying everyone with it. If we didn't have that, this would be the other place.
I'll say this: it would have been interesting to see what KDB could have done with this year's UW roster. Would he have been better for Rodgers? Would he have started DW sooner and been better for him?
Well Demond is at Arizona or wherever Fisch went to in a hypothetical where Kalen stays at UW. Austin Mack would be the guy you are considering benching Rogers for.. Big hypotheticals as well if you keep the band together is if Rosengarten stays, Polk or McMillan at WR, and maybe Dillon Johnson at RB though I think he was broken and needed to go try and make an NFL roster.
I can't say about Rosengarten but I'm 89% sure Polk and McMillen are outta here. Any warm and fuzzies that might have kept them around another season to play outside of Rome's shadow would have been offset by (1) no Penix and (2) the real prospect of a draft-lowering injury. I can't see those two staying either way.
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HcH poll about UW's final record was normally distributed around 6-8 wins, yes?
Why so many surprised now?
The Big 10 (and college football overall, to a lesser extent) had a lot of putrid QBs and passing offenses and Oregon took advantage of that while UW flailed and got beat by some of the worst QBs to ever beat UW outside of the Ty years. All of the non-Pac-12 Big 10 teams outside of Ohio State and Penn State were easy to beat if you had a functional offense/QB or if you could stop the run at all. Unfortunately UW had neither and squandered the chance for an easy 9-10-win season in a scorched earth rebuilding year.
We all knew UW would be average at best and Oregon good with a golden opportunity in a shit field so them getting bounced in the Elite 8 and not even getting where UW got in 2023 is poetry.
Oregon's weakness under Lanning has been DBs. They just got away with it for a lot of this year because Ohio State was the only team with a pass offense with a pulse that they played. Looks like they spent a ton in hs recruiting this year though at DB.;
Oregon is still in a better place than UW for 2025 and beyond though so I'm only celebrating so much.
When you confuse relief with success…
I don't study the teen bois closely enough to judge and mostly depend on this place to tell me who did what in the portal and recruiting. I see it when I see it. So, I can't comment on that part of it.
On the field, what I would say I saw was a coach with a middling roster deliver middling results. I'm not sure there was any chicken salad to be made from that chicken shit, to borrow a phrase oft-employed by Gary Stevens. But, I thought he stuck with Rodgers too long, maybe could have found a way to use Boston more and made some weird play calls in a few games. That's mostly all the bad things I can say about him. Maybe underwhelming is the word. The roster wasn't great, and Lord knows when the O line is in disarray pretty much everything breaks. But there are guys who can show up and do something in those situations and he wasn't that. Still, I would not compare him to Lake. It looked broken with Lake almost from the start. That was classic Peter Principle.
Let's just stipulate UW fucked up even though PGOS makes some reasonable points about Sexton and the fact that KDB is an upper-midwest guy who probably didn't want to die here or anything and was more likely than not to leave. And let's just stipulate that LIPO is the only option anyway, but I fully expect you to keep annoying everyone with it. If we didn't have that, this would be the other place.
I'll say this: it would have been interesting to see what KDB could have done with this year's UW roster. Would he have been better for Rodgers? Would he have started DW sooner and been better for him?
Lots of hypothetical dealings, but if DeBoer stays so does all the oline and defensive transfers. Rogers has time to pass and UW wins 9 games or so.
Agree.
Anything short of 9 wins with your schedule and DeBoer would have been a modest setback.
Well Demond is at Arizona or wherever Fisch went to in a hypothetical where Kalen stays at UW. Austin Mack would be the guy you are considering benching Rogers for.. Big hypotheticals as well if you keep the band together is if Rosengarten stays, Polk or McMillan at WR, and maybe Dillon Johnson at RB though I think he was broken and needed to go try and make an NFL roster.
I don't think any of those guys were staying and I'm pretty sure Johnson was out of eligibility
All these hypotheticals suck. Like UW and Fisch.
I can't say about Rosengarten but I'm 89% sure Polk and McMillen are outta here. Any warm and fuzzies that might have kept them around another season to play outside of Rome's shadow would have been offset by (1) no Penix and (2) the real prospect of a draft-lowering injury. I can't see those two staying either way.
UW and Fisch are an unequivocal reality. Nothing hypothetical here.
I don't blame you for leaning into alternate universes, however.
Sounds like somebody's "relieved" because he actually thinks that Lanning has *finally* won a game with anything of consequence on the line..