Do you think this just happens by accident?
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Michigan is the only school academically and culturally that I think is comparable to UW as a school that has had major success and I don't think it's a coincidence that they've been maybe even more mediocre than UW the past 25 years outside of the three big Harbaugh years. Also, like UW, they probably got saved by a great coach deciding to help them push past mediocrity. Starting the last 15-20 years the more college town schools have taken off while the more urban schools with academic aspirations have struggled. No way that's a coincidence.
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Generally speaking, states with shitty or no professional sports teams have way more enthusiastic college fan bases.
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Off the top of my head Seattle and LA are the only cities with Super Bowl wins and post WW2 college football natties.
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oh and Miamuh
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oh and Pitt
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This line of reasoning went south fast. The city and good professional team/s making big time college football fade away is a thing and the level of engagement UW is able to get in west coast city like Seattle still, even after the three bottoming outs is pretty impressive. USC had some buzz when I moved there in 2008 but it was absolute crickets by the time I left.
College football used to also be way more cyclical but something also seems to have started to happen with college football around 2010 where it's getting harder for national title winning level programs to fall off and harder for ones to break through.
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They were 168-91 from 2000 to 2020, allowing for your cherry picking of the last 3 Harbaugh years, good for 22nd in the nation in that span. UW was 137-120, "good" for 56th. If you want to normalize for their tradition/advantages, okay, I guess.
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and lost to my coug in said season.
Cuog!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This, the resources can be there. They already almost are. Who's got the will to use them?
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this was all just to get you to waste time looking shit up. Meanwhile I just held you up from picking up your next Lyft shift
