Do you think this just happens by accident?
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People forget Ohio State (#41) and UW (#42) are in a dead heat in Academis per the UW News National University Rankings.
Always got a chuckle out the Big Seattle Money caring about other things besides football. Multiple generations of Nordstom yoots rowed for UW and thus gave a boat loads of money to the program. Those guys should have played football!!
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Gates cares about Tennis. He's been around that sport at the highest levels (Federer) in exhibitions.
OH MY GOD THAT'S LARRY SCOTTFS MUSIC
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There's not that many coaches that could have feasibly won a natty in the past decade and Washington has had 2 of them. Petersen got burned out sure but that gets brought up an unfair amount considering what he did for the program.
And I'm not sure what you mean by 4 of the 5 being the best that would come here. That's a good thing?
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I don't think it's really a good or a bad thing. I just don't think the hires specifically show the school is mega invested in winning or anything. Sark, DeBoer, and Fisch were all guys any fan (me and Joey actually first called for DeBoer and Fisch on the pod I believe) could have just identified and hired.
Petersen was the only hire that would suggest that was a coup and he basically just called up the school out of the blue from what I remember.
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Again that sounds like a good thing that there were obvious good choices and they got them. Where do you think those coaches the up if they don't go to UW? I'd think similar level of school
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I don't think it was a common perception for two years that Pete was burning out. When I speculated that he was burning out in 2018 I was met with numerous hostile or irritated posts/PMs.
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It seems incredible to me that you only have 5,420 posts.
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Especially with all the typing in the pod background
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I don't think with fans but I assume internally it had to be known or felt at least almost a year ahead. Didn't Jen have to beg him not to retire at the end of 2018?
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Is that a good or a bad thing. I didn't actually start poasting until I got divorced.
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Agree.
Time flies when you're having fun. Or something like that.
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I would have guessed 15,000+ posts
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Sending irritated PMs is pretty gay.
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It's worth mentioning that in the apple cup preview show last year, Petersen specifically said he was 'slipping' or using a word to imply that he was just simply not as good of a coach anymore and wasn't going to be happy to continue to win 7/8 games. Burnout is probably a hug contributor to that, but he never explicitly said he was tired of coaching or UW or anything. He was simply not as good at his job and had the ability to step away which most people don't, is what I took from that interview.
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When Babs hired Neuheisel away from the Buffs for roughly $1 mill. per in '99, he was one of the highest paid HCs in the nation.
After Rick took them to the cleaners in court, UW upper campus got gun shy, and have been ever since, when it comes to paying coaches top dollar. I think it's due to multiple factors, but IMHO one of the major reasons is because the university/city/community has become increasingly more PC. TITTT. -
People forget Ohio State wanted to kill granny for the sake of playing football in 2020. I don't see how you make Seattle culture into Ohio State culture, which I guess makes me a low expectations, cuckold loser. TITTT.
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You were on the UW softball team?
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In the past 30 years, there have been exactly 1.5 natties from 2024 Blue States. USC in 2002 and 2003.
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Those chicks are winners!!
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Alabama has had one of the best dynasties in sports during that time so definitely tilts it and are Florida and Michigan red? And aren't most college towns blue?
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Ohio State played 9 games in 2020. UW played 3? Bucks made the natty and lost to Bama
The SEC owns natties since 96 so I'm not sure how that disproves the point. If there is one
From 1920 to 1990 the Midwest and Pacific coast dominated football
Except for 1926 dammit
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Just for fun
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well at least Pete Rose can be in Cooperstown now !!
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Petersen was never winning a natty with that offense.
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Harbaugh was never winning a natty with that offense
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Back in the 1980s UW had a season ticket waiting list of something like 5,000, even with the Seahawks being all the rage regionally. In the 1990s, more than one media person called the UW and its fan base a Pac-10 school with an SEC fanbase. Its possible we've gone too soft and PC, but we do have a history
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@SECDAWG! True???
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As much as I'd love to dunk on the Oregon Rose Bowl thing - they won at Ohio State with a young CJ Stroud at QB and went toe to toe last year in their home stadium and found a way to win. We jumped directly to the GREATEST DEFENSIVE OFF ALL TIME line which 75% of the time when I feel like we do that after a loss like that said defense goes out and gives up 38 to Minnesota.
At the moment they're are much closer to Ohio State than we are. We see how this season plays out.
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That was before half of the student body became international and out-of-staters. No, I will not take it to the Tug.
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I think the program winning one game in 2004 and zero in 2008 had something to do with that. Plus a shitload of mediocrity surrounding all of those.
