I have never seen so little Husky football talk in mid-August
Wow, just wow
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Hard to compete with hot purple dildo talk.
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I prefer to focus on the Mariners who are hours away from doing their mid-August thing of losing a series to a dead in the water team right when they get in position to go to the playoffs.
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I'm waiting until week 1 to start re-learning the roster.
I've been trying to listen to the B1G network during drive-time and they don't talk about UW or UCLA, at all. USC gets a little play and Oregon gets almost as much attention as Nebraska, which is very classy of the station.
The conference realignment is not doing anything to help UW's profile.
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Supposed to be 9th in a conference we shouldn't be in with guys who ain't there to play school, but will take $500,000 from Glen Grant Chevy, then transfer twice more
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This is probably the best answer there ever could be.
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After The Great Exile I could really give a shit anymore. It drained everything I had.
I’m all in on 12U softball now
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I can't give a scientific answer for it, but this is by far the least excited I've been about Husky football and college football this time of year. Usually I'm itching for the games to start. Right now I'm pretty apathetic. Last year I at least still had some of that dust from 2023.
Get to 3-0 and beat Ohio State with @dannarc and the crew rocking in the north end zone and damn near throwing Buckeyes over the ledge and I think I'm in. I think college fandoms might turn to more pro sports like frontrunner bandwagon shit.
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All these are good reasons but winning is a great cure. Pretty sure Columbus and Austin are amped up for the opener
The great exile combined with a lack of faith in getting back has a damper on things as well
Again the cure is winning. Big season this season is
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Yes but also it would be nice for players to stick around long enough to follow their development and root for them as a familiar unit
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The organic nature of CFB is what endeared the average fan where they could watch a HS recruit>commit>look promising>play a little>blow up. Now it takes till fall camp to have any idea of what the team will be. So having said that I definitely was not locked in on recruiting or spring camp as much as usual but now that the roster is coming together I have a little tingle of excitement
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Not being able to get my kids hyped to go to a game with me has also cut down on my excitement. Fucking 8 pm kickoffs.
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The last Seattle gayme I went to was Boise CC. Yes it was Labor Day weekend and skool ain't going yet, but anyone who says there were over 42,000 is a liar. That was the 13-1 season too.
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If I were King college football would have ignored all the non college footballs fans and their "fixes" to the game. But that ship sailed and I was exiled on main street
We can only work with what we have now. I could have told you that this would hurt if not ruin the game and I am pretty sure I did
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Peoples’ obsession with “fixing” football started the BCS in ‘98 and here we are 27 years later. Is it fixed yet?
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Close. Couple more tweaks should do it
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You guys need to look at a roster, listen to an podcast or read an article or two. Demond Williams is something to be excited about. Jonah Coleman and Denzel Boston are fucking exciting. Taco Davis was an elite portal pickup. Boston, Devin Bryant, Elineus Davis, Rashiid Williams, Jacob Lane, Landon Hatchett are all Dawgs that have developed at UW, are expected to be contributors and did not transferred out. All of which I’m excited to see. D Williams, T Davis, Loadsock, Manu, Uiungalelele, Coleman, Muhammed, Audric Harris, Kevin Green, and others all transferred to UW strictly to continue to play for Judd Fish. That’s also a form of portal era loyalty that I’m hoping Judd can engender and replicate at UW. I picked 9-4, I’m very excited for this season. Those that can’t muster enthusiasm need to do their own research if it doesn’t cross swords with your politics too much. There’s a lot to like on Montlake this year if you allow yourself a modicum of positivity.
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Devin Bryant, Elineus Davis, Rashiid Williams, Jacob Lane, Audric Harris, Kevin Green
I honestly don't know who these dudes are. Looks like I need to do my own research.
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My interests are elsewhere anymore. At this point, I'm more likely to go see Hamilton than a Husky game.
ATBS, I was never here for football content. It was always about the malarkey, which has also fizzled out.
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I've done the research. The number of years that required even a BCS true title game to crown a true champion fix are less than you think. Then when you go to seasons that needed a four-team playoff, and beyond and you get almost basically to zero past a four-team.
I wish college football being the weird enigma it was would have just embraced being flexible and more like boxing or something to determine a champion, if needed. So if there still isn't a clear champion after the bowls, do one more game, pay-per view. Two maybe if needed.
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Devin Bryant was a DeBoer LB recruit and was the trinity league defensive MVP his senior year at Bosco. Needed to get bigger and had to sit behind Bruener and Tupatala last year.
Elineus Davis was a DeBoer recruit on the Dline. Redshirted and played in spots last year. Flashed potential when he played.
Rashiid Williams was a 4* DeBoer recruit at WR. Redshirted and played some last year showing good hands.Jacob Lane was a DeBoer recruit at DE. He played as a true freshman on the 2023 team, was forced to play some on the interior last year when the line died and has been rotating as first team edge in camp this year.
Audric Harris was a 4* WR early enrollee recruit to Arizona and then portaled to UW when Judd came, just like Demond Williams. He played some last year as a true freshman.
Kevin Green was an Arizona portal WR that was said to be pushing for time as the starting slot last year but hurt his knee in the last practice of fall camp and that ended his season.
HTH
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I'm hearing good things about UW. Sleeper, darkhorse, unheralded, etc.
Fisch has the B1G right where he wants it.
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I'm just as engaged as I was last preseason I think. That's still about 1/10 of the give a fuck that I had every other preseason going back to 2000.
Still though, UW has an exciting QB, I still remember some of the players' names from when they were recruited, and I still hate everyone who isn't UW. That outta get me through another season.
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If you took away the glow of the positives of 2023, I will say, there's a lot more to be excited about this season than there was going into last season.
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I mean, it’s truly hard to get excited about a team that has 50% of its players as new guys that we don’t know ~ I mean, good job at getting the available new talent, but regardless of how good they are, they are unknown. Its also probable that the team will need to gel which is another way of saying that the coherence that marks a good team is not going to be there this year unless miracles happen at Montlake.
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We? have a very good roster (not a lot to bitch about) but also don't have the built up hype from an 11 win season in which you were clearly the best team in your conference and are returning everybody.
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I don't know either.
Part of the fun of CFB was watching the roster grow organically. Guys might play as a RS freshman, then start as a so. Now it's everyone for themselves, transfer to Texas A&M. Wait, Clumpson will pay me more to endorse nail polish. Let's go there. I am not going to bother to invest time in rosters that turn over by 50 or 55 guys each year.
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It's really not different at all.
Saw IT on campus every other day. He was clearly getting paid. A lot.
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Last year was an exhibition season thanks to the exodus. Great home games horrible road performance
I don't think it has a lot to do with this year. Year 2 is big as always
Fisch has the tools now, can he use them
We? have always been impatient. That's why we're not at dogman. But a consequence of pay for play and multi million dollar coaches has made a lot more fans impatient
No 5 year plans or wait until he gets his guys in there
NFL fires coaches every two or three years that don't make the playoffs. It's the tradeoff for getting paid a lot
I agree with the consensus that beating buckeye will light it up
I'm interested.
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The portal is what's different.
