This program has ruined me as a fan
The shit I've had to watch the last 14 years has made me so pessimistic it's pathetic. When I watch the Huskies play, my first instinct is to assume that every flag is on them, every review is going against them, and that every time they make a good play, they're going to fuck it up and give it back. I didn't see Gaskin score tonight because I was looking for flags, and I do that on pretty much every big play without even consciously doing it.
When the score was 23-6 tonight, part of me was actually hoping Oregon would break out the plunger and finish them off just so I wouldn't get my hopes up. It's straight battered spouse shit. I keep hoping things will change, that at some point whatever loser coach we have will turn the corner and pretend to earn his multimillion dollar salary, but every time it ends with a swift kick to the dick followed by the realization that as long as a bunch of liberals who don't give a fuck about football run UW, the football team is never going to be good again.
There's no accountability, and it goes all the way up the chain. The president and BOR don't hold the athletic director to a standard of excellence, so there's no pressure on him to hold the coach to one, the coach doesn't hold his assistants accountable, mediocrity becomes acceptable, and all of a sudden your program becomes a breeding ground for losers. Sure, a coach may leave or get fired occasionally, but the culture remains, fueled by the fact that the people in charge don't seem to care.
I better cut this off before it gets any closer to Tequilla long, but I fear I've gotten to that point already. I'm just so fucking tired of this shit. It sucks watching something I care about continually fall short of what I know it can be. I miss Washington, dammit.
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I feel for you man.
I was a senior in college in 1991. I lived through the prime of this program during the prime of my life. I remember what it was like to be a fan of, and friends with, the baddest motherfuckers in college football.
What's worse ... having had the experience and then losing it in soul crushing fashion, or never having had the experience at all? -
https://www.ymtvacations.com/tour/grand-european-cruise-tour-august-sailing/itineraryThe shit I've had to watch the last 14 years has made me so pessimistic it's pathetic. When I watch the Huskies play, my first instinct is to assume that every flag is on them, every review is going against them, and that every time they make a good play, they're going to fuck it up and give it back. I didn't see Gaskin score tonight because I was looking for flags, and I do that on pretty much every big play without even consciously doing it.
. I miss Washington, dammit.
This sums it up for me as well. I've trained myself that we are two steps forward three steps back.
Case in point: freeman fumbles, clearly down, pac-12 ref's do their job which is to fuck it up as usual (but this time it's for us), blow the whistle to start and yet we don't have a phrase, sign, ANYTHING that says you snap the ball IMMEDIATELY and have Jake take a knee to get the play off. Sure enough Helfrich throws the flag or calls to and call reversed.
Or on the opening fucking kick-off Addison muffs the ball three times and we still can't find a way to get it.
My heart wants to believe so badly, but my brain has seen this for so many years it has conditioned me to know that the happiness and joy will somehow someway be killed. -
Trust me never having it at all is much worse. I've been a husky fan since 05DHD said:I feel for you man.
I was a senior in college in 1991. I lived through the prime of this program during the prime of my life. I remember what it was like to be a fan of, and friends with, the baddest motherfuckers in college football.
What's worse ... having had the experience and then losing it in soul crushing fashion, or never having had the experience at all?
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I'm 32 and in the same exact boat. My brain is wired to think that UW is a top 15 program by birthright, and still can't handle the fact that we're a top 80 program.
@dhdawg how in the world did that happen? Everyone else you know is a 12, I'd imagine. -
This program bears no resemblance to the one I watched as a child. I was 12 when we won the Rose Bowl last, and that program was nothing like it was 10 years before even at that point. It's a downward spiral of emotional abuse.
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I suggest either Alki or Golden Gardens for a nice walk.
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If you guys can't see that Peterson develops really fast Mexican kickers, then I can't help you
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I used to spend about $1,500/year on Husky related stuff (tix, jerseys, etc) and fly up for games. I stopped 6 years ago and other than my donation to this site I spend zero fucking dollars on this shit program...as if they fucking care though so there's really no point.
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dhdawg said:
Trust me never having it at all is much worse. I've been a husky fan since 05DHD said:I feel for you man.
I was a senior in college in 1991. I lived through the prime of this program during the prime of my life. I remember what it was like to be a fan of, and friends with, the baddest motherfuckers in college football.
What's worse ... having had the experience and then losing it in soul crushing fashion, or never having had the experience at all?
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I'm a few years older than some of you, so I can remember the early 90s teams really well. I can also remember the lame late 80s teams. Those teams were still better coached than today's team. That clock management was just horrible. I don't even remember the punts on fourth and short because: alcohol.
3-3 used to be considered really bad, like a major failure. I remember they started 2-3 when I was in fifth grade, and they had lost @ an AZ team that had beaten Oklahomo, Colorado (they were a top ten team then for you youngsters), and SC who owned the Pac 10. That wasn't acceptable though. It was fucking bullshit. I got so mad that I almost started rooting for other teams.
Now it's almost expected. And fuck all the senior citizens with perspective who remember when the team was 2-8 or some shit in 1968 because Jim Owens was a racist. Give me a break. Do you want to be a top 15-20 program or not? Stop excusing bullshit and mediocrity. -
I'm 28 and this post was nail.on.head.
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I'm 48 and I think it is much worse witnessing where the program once was, where it is now and knowing that it will never get back that level.
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You're probably right, but at least you got to see it in its prime. Guys like me just got enough of a taste to get hooked before the rug got pulled out from under us. The kids who didn't see any of it won't stick around. Most of them are probably Oregon fans now anyway.Dawgtona said:I'm 48 and I think it is much worse witnessing where the program once was, where it is now and knowing that it will never get back that level.
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In 1988, when we were 6-5, EVERYBODY thought the world was coming to an end. There was a feeling that it was unacceptable.
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6-5 now has them popping champagne in the AD offices because we are eligible to go to the Depends Undergarments Retard Bowel.DerekJohnson said:In 1988, when we were 6-5, EVERYBODY thought the world was coming to an end. There was a feeling that it was unacceptable.
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Until Pussyman admits the Smith hiring and subsequent adherence after last season was a colossal failure, I hate him. No Beaver should EVER coach on the UW sidelines EVER!!!
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You miss Washington? You were in diapers when we were good. You have no clue. Join in with the crowd. Make yourself feel cool. Typical millennial gibberish.EsophagealFeces said:I'm 31, so I barely remember '91, was in high school the last time UW went to a bowl game that was worth a shit, and have spent virtually all of my adult life watching the team I love lose to the team I hate the most(along with all other semi-decent teams). I'm at the point where I hate watching the games. I get so fucking mad that I lose all control and start spewing phrases that could make PL_SS blush. Old people around me in the stadium turn and look with horror, stunned that the human mind can construct such vile sentences. My friends and family get on my case about it saying I shouldn't get so mad over a game.
The shit I've had to watch the last 14 years has made me so pessimistic it's pathetic. When I watch the Huskies play, my first instinct is to assume that every flag is on them, every review is going against them, and that every time they make a good play, they're going to fuck it up and give it back. I didn't see Gaskin score tonight because I was looking for flags, and I do that on pretty much every big play without even consciously doing it.
When the score was 23-6 tonight, part of me was actually hoping Oregon would break out the plunger and finish them off just so I wouldn't get my hopes up. It's straight battered spouse shit. I keep hoping things will change, that at some point whatever loser coach we have will turn the corner and pretend to earn his multimillion dollar salary, but every time it ends with a swift kick to the dick followed by the realization that as long as a bunch of liberals who don't give a fuck about football run UW, the football team is never going to be good again.
There's no accountability, and it goes all the way up the chain. The president and BOR don't hold the athletic director to a standard of excellence, so there's no pressure on him to hold the coach to one, the coach doesn't hold his assistants accountable, mediocrity becomes acceptable, and all of a sudden your program becomes a breeding ground for losers. Sure, a coach may leave or get fired occasionally, but the culture remains, fueled by the fact that the people in charge don't seem to care.
I better cut this off before it gets any closer to Tequilla long, but I fear I've gotten to that point already. I'm just so fucking tired of this shit. It sucks watching something I care about continually fall short of what I know it can be. I miss Washington, dammit. -
Those shitty 80's teams. You know, 84-33-2 is really shitty. Your perspective is appreciated, albeit off base. Unless, of course, you buy into to the @TierbsHsotBoobs BS.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:I'm a few years older than some of you, so I can remember the early 90s teams really well. I can also remember the lame late 80s teams. Those teams were still better coached than today's team. That clock management was just horrible. I don't even remember the punts on fourth and short because: alcohol.
3-3 used to be considered really bad, like a major failure. I remember they started 2-3 when I was in fifth grade, and they had lost @ an AZ team that had beaten Oklahomo, Colorado (they were a top ten team then for you youngsters), and SC who owned the Pac 10. That wasn't acceptable though. It was fucking bullshit. I got so mad that I almost started rooting for other teams.
Now it's almost expected. And fuck all the senior citizens with perspective who remember when the team was 2-8 or some shit in 1968 because Jim Owens was a racist. Give me a break. Do you want to be a top 15-20 program or not? Stop excusing bullshit and mediocrity. -
James knew it was bullshit. That's why we weren't still pulling the same 6-5 bullshit 3 years later. I was at UW when the Huskies were 6-5 so I saw this shit before. But THAT shit lasted 2 years, not two fucking decades.DerekJohnson said:In 1988, when we were 6-5, EVERYBODY thought the world was coming to an end. There was a feeling that it was unacceptable.
That's the alarming part, is that we can't seem to unfuck ourselves, even after multiple coaching changes. I'm so sick of watching the Huskies find ways to lose.
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I am 26 and have aids
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Thanks for sharing. #couragedongman said:I am 26 and have aids
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Fuck. Off.HuskyInAZ said:
Those shitty 80's teams. You know, 84-33-2 is really shitty. Your perspective is appreciated, albeit off base. Unless, of course, you buy into to the @TierbsHsotBoobs BS.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:I'm a few years older than some of you, so I can remember the early 90s teams really well. I can also remember the lame late 80s teams. Those teams were still better coached than today's team. That clock management was just horrible. I don't even remember the punts on fourth and short because: alcohol.
3-3 used to be considered really bad, like a major failure. I remember they started 2-3 when I was in fifth grade, and they had lost @ an AZ team that had beaten Oklahomo, Colorado (they were a top ten team then for you youngsters), and SC who owned the Pac 10. That wasn't acceptable though. It was fucking bullshit. I got so mad that I almost started rooting for other teams.
Now it's almost expected. And fuck all the senior citizens with perspective who remember when the team was 2-8 or some shit in 1968 because Jim Owens was a racist. Give me a break. Do you want to be a top 15-20 program or not? Stop excusing bullshit and mediocrity.
Oh, and walk off, bitch. -
Yeah, I have no clue, because I can't read books and watch old games. Nevermind that my first memories of the program are from the greatest period/moment in its history. The fact that you apparently were alive during the glory years and still are ok with the bullshit we've witnessed this year shows what a fucking moron you are. Typical old loser doog gibberish.HuskyInAZ said:
You miss Washington? You were in diapers when we were good. You have no clue. Join in with the crowd. Make yourself feel cool. Typical millennial gibberish.EsophagealFeces said:I'm 31, so I barely remember '91, was in high school the last time UW went to a bowl game that was worth a shit, and have spent virtually all of my adult life watching the team I love lose to the team I hate the most(along with all other semi-decent teams). I'm at the point where I hate watching the games. I get so fucking mad that I lose all control and start spewing phrases that could make PL_SS blush. Old people around me in the stadium turn and look with horror, stunned that the human mind can construct such vile sentences. My friends and family get on my case about it saying I shouldn't get so mad over a game.
The shit I've had to watch the last 14 years has made me so pessimistic it's pathetic. When I watch the Huskies play, my first instinct is to assume that every flag is on them, every review is going against them, and that every time they make a good play, they're going to fuck it up and give it back. I didn't see Gaskin score tonight because I was looking for flags, and I do that on pretty much every big play without even consciously doing it.
When the score was 23-6 tonight, part of me was actually hoping Oregon would break out the plunger and finish them off just so I wouldn't get my hopes up. It's straight battered spouse shit. I keep hoping things will change, that at some point whatever loser coach we have will turn the corner and pretend to earn his multimillion dollar salary, but every time it ends with a swift kick to the dick followed by the realization that as long as a bunch of liberals who don't give a fuck about football run UW, the football team is never going to be good again.
There's no accountability, and it goes all the way up the chain. The president and BOR don't hold the athletic director to a standard of excellence, so there's no pressure on him to hold the coach to one, the coach doesn't hold his assistants accountable, mediocrity becomes acceptable, and all of a sudden your program becomes a breeding ground for losers. Sure, a coach may leave or get fired occasionally, but the culture remains, fueled by the fact that the people in charge don't seem to care.
I better cut this off before it gets any closer to Tequilla long, but I fear I've gotten to that point already. I'm just so fucking tired of this shit. It sucks watching something I care about continually fall short of what I know it can be. I miss Washington, dammit. -
Will you fuck my ex? No rubber. 2 hole. TIAdongman said:I am 26 and have aids
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I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading. -
That's why I specified late 80s. From '87 through '89, they were (it's they now) 21-13-1 if the math in my head is correct. Most of the other 80s teams were at least Rose Bowl contenders. The problem is, that's OK now to many. Peterman is 11-9 at UW now. We're exactly 20-13 since the start of the 2013 season. Stanford is good now. We can't expect to beat them. We're still young. We'll get Oregon next year! Utah is undefeated! It's just too competitive. Let's just be OK with 7-5 and the Bitcoin Little Ceasar's Bowl.HuskyInAZ said:
Those shitty 80's teams. You know, 84-33-2 is really shitty. Your perspective is appreciated, albeit off base. Unless, of course, you buy into to the @TierbsHsotBoobs BS.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:I'm a few years older than some of you, so I can remember the early 90s teams really well. I can also remember the lame late 80s teams. Those teams were still better coached than today's team. That clock management was just horrible. I don't even remember the punts on fourth and short because: alcohol.
3-3 used to be considered really bad, like a major failure. I remember they started 2-3 when I was in fifth grade, and they had lost @ an AZ team that had beaten Oklahomo, Colorado (they were a top ten team then for you youngsters), and SC who owned the Pac 10. That wasn't acceptable though. It was fucking bullshit. I got so mad that I almost started rooting for other teams.
Now it's almost expected. And fuck all the senior citizens with perspective who remember when the team was 2-8 or some shit in 1968 because Jim Owens was a racist. Give me a break. Do you want to be a top 15-20 program or not? Stop excusing bullshit and mediocrity. -
Dennis_DeYoung said:
I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading.
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