Which Huskies were you not excited about that actually panned out?
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Driving up the coast from California back home to Olympia with my girl after visiting my brother in Berkeley. Game wasn't on TV but did watch the Husky HighlightsWeakarmCobra said:
Race was thereHanseeHall78 said:Don James. James was a convenient hire for Mike Lude since they previously worked together at Kent State.
That said, it was clear from James's game 1 (1975) at Arizona State - a 35-12 loss in the desert -- that UW was a well-coached team, and that James was a solid game planner and game day coach.
That was a brutal schedule. It took me until they beat UCLA and USC in the same year that year to realize we had a coach even though it was a 6-5 season thanks to Al Burleson, Spider Gaines, and the coogs gonna coog.
I didn't want to fire James until we lost to Indiana the next year -
Thalo Green: Upon learning that Thalo Green was a red-headed white dude with no leaping ability, I was shocked and heart-broken and expected him to suck balls (Based on name alone I expected him to be a "quick-twitch" power forward that would mash dunks); however, the crafty ginger was a solid contributor on Benders tourney teams of the late 90's and a pleasant "try-hard" surprise.
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I can’t remember my weekend that vividly, maybe I should give up cocaineRaceBannon said:
Driving up the coast from California back home to Olympia with my girl after visiting my brother in Berkeley. Game wasn't on TV but did watch the Husky HighlightsWeakarmCobra said:
Race was thereHanseeHall78 said:Don James. James was a convenient hire for Mike Lude since they previously worked together at Kent State.
That said, it was clear from James's game 1 (1975) at Arizona State - a 35-12 loss in the desert -- that UW was a well-coached team, and that James was a solid game planner and game day coach.
That was a brutal schedule. It took me until they beat UCLA and USC in the same year that year to realize we had a coach even though it was a 6-5 season thanks to Al Burleson, Spider Gaines, and the coogs gonna coog.
I didn't want to fire James until we lost to Indiana the next year -
Don Butler
Chris Juergens
Todd Elstrom
Butler was really good. Did not see that coming. The other two were, slow white WR's but both played well for Lambo/Nue. Really did not see that coming. -
"His dad was a painter, he named him after his favorite shade of green" was the original "his dad named him Isaiah because he lost a bet".DawgWagonDan said:Thalo Green: Upon learning that Thalo Green was a red-headed white dude with no leaping ability, I was shocked and heart-broken and expected him to suck balls (Based on name alone I expected him to be a "quick-twitch" power forward that would mash dunks); however, the crafty ginger was a solid contributor on Benders tourney teams of the late 90's and a pleasant "try-hard" surprise.
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I think one of the greatest loads of horseshit Husky fans have ever bought into was Keith Price sucking.
By no means was he great, but after all of Doog Nation sucking off Jack Lockner for 5 years to ultimately beat a unchinterested Nebraska team in the Holiday Bowl - the attacks on Price were total bullshit. Price won more, played better, and wasn’t nearly injured as much as Jack.
And those attacks were born from and fed to the doog masses by Steve Sarkisian via the Doogmen. And if any of you think this isn’t true then jump into a fucking fire.
The excuses were just awful.
“Keith isn’t Sark’s Guy, Nick Montana is”
“Trust issues”
“He’s broken”
“It’s not the O line’s fault he’s getting decapitated”
“He’s hesitant”
“He’s not LETTING IT RIP”
These were all Sark’s words to the Doogmen to “leak” out on their message boards.
@Tequilla might be correct about his expectations of Price, but if he ever sucked off Lockner for not meeting the same standards then he should jump into a fire as well.
I mean, if Lockner has already had his own Husky Legend Day, then Keith Price should have had six of them by now. -
CSB time...David Richie used to be my step brother before my mom and one of his dads got divorced 15-ish years ago. Andy Mason also went to my high school, and I went to school with his younger sister (no pics, flag me). He also gave our high school football team a tour of the locker room after the spring game in 1993.Dennis_DeYoung said:I generally hate the players so once I hate a player it's hard for me to un-hate them...
On the current team Jordan Miller is a really pleasant surprise. Looks like an alien and got lit up by Brownshorts in the last game Jake ever played that meant something to Jake. From San Diego? Lightly recruited? It's not a recipe for success... but fuck if he doesn't look damn good.
Princeton Fuimaono is a guy who I thought was a really good player for us. The Sark stench is skrong, but he was good.
Really impressed by Bull Johnson all around.
@SonnyShackelford was a lot better than I expected him to be (given that I expected a kid named Sonny from Bev Hills High to be worthless).
I thought Elliot Silvers would be a bag of trash, but he ended up being good and that was fun to the extent that rooting for a prematurely balding black guy named Elliot can be fun.
I was honestly shocked by how good David Richie was before he got injured. He was tearing people the fuck up. And he was a 6-5, 230 kid from fucking Kelso. Never liked the fact that we had a guy named David Richie and a guy named Richie Chambers.
It was also pretty surprising to me how good our OLBers in 91 were. I'm not sure I expected Andy Mason and Donald Jones to do anything interesting. Turns out they were good.
