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This program has ruined me as a fan

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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,271 Standard Supporter
    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.
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  • biak1
    biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
    I'm 28 and this post was nail.on.head.
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  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,445
    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.

    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.
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  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,306 Founders Club
    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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  • HuskyInAZ
    HuskyInAZ Member Posts: 1,733
    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.

    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.
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  • HuskyInAZ
    HuskyInAZ Member Posts: 1,733
    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.

    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.
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