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How /good/ were we this year?

whatshouldicareabout
whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 12,991
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Or rather, what did we really accomplish as a football team? Here is our resume for 2013:

Wins:
BYU (8-5)
Arizona (8-5) (4-5)
Boise St. (8-5)
Oregon St. (7-6) (4-5)
Wazzu (6-7) (4-5)
Illinois (4-8)
Colorado (4-8) (1-8)
Cal (1-11) (0-9)
Idaho St.

4 wins against teams with winning records but none over teams with winning records in the Pac-12. There are some decent wins but nothing impressive. Nothing to really smile about, like beating 12-2 Stanford in 2012 or 10-3 Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl.

Losses:
Stanford (11-3) (7-2)
Oregon (11-2) (7-2)
Arizona St. (10-4) (8-1)
UCLA (10-3) (6-3)

Every team that beat us had a better record, both overall and in conference. Beating any of them would've been an accomplishment for this team. Instead, we're 0-4 in these games and have yet to break into the upper-echelon of the Pac-12.

In order to compete for the conference championships and Rose Bowls that Sark promised in his kickass presser, we need to beat the teams with the winning records in the Pac-12. This was arguably the weakest schedule we played with Sark as a coach and, to no one's surprise, also our best record. But to the fans who are paying attention, we've seen 5-4 too many times. And we're seeing 0-4 in the games that really matter the most (through Sark's 5 years: 6-14 against Pac-12 teams with winning conference records, 18-7 against Pac-12 teams with losing conference records). That's why we played in the Fight Hunger Bowl and finished 6th place out of 12.

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TL;DR ver.: 9-4 record is inflated and nothing special. We really didn't accomplish a whole lot.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,682 Swaye's Wigwam
    Hate to play this card, but water is wet as advertised.

    We're tallest midgets in the west and one of the tallest in the nation by my estimate. The 2013 Huskies, given a full schedule against 8-5 teams, would have a nice little season.
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    If you have to ask...
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102
    The PAC was pretty good.

    We were 5-4 against our peers in conference.

    We couldn't beat an upper-end team in conference despite having at least 2 very realistic chances to do so.

    Talent wise, we're better than what our record was.

    Coaching wise, we're pretty much exactly where we should have been.
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    We were 5-4 against our peers in conference.

    We couldn't beat an upper-end team in conference despite having at least 2 very realistic chances to do so.

    Talent wise, we're better than what our record was.

    Coaching wise, we're pretty much exactly where we should have been.

    The Pac-12 was fucking terrible.
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    Bullshit. The Pac-12's only official win over the final Top 25 teams in America required a Sun Devil defender to sit on the fucking football to prevent Wisconsin from winning.

    Take that asterisk win away and the best two wins were against a team that should have fired its coach and a team that forced its coach out after the Alamo Bowl.


    Fucking dreckfest.
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  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    Bullshit. The Pac-12's only official win over the final Top 25 teams in America required a Sun Devil defender to sit on the fucking football to prevent Wisconsin from winning.

    Take that asterisk win away and the best two wins were against a team that should have fired its coach and a team that forced its coach out after the Alamo Bowl.


    Fucking dreckfest.
    why do u hate stanford's win over ND
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,499
    2013 was the most amazing seasons UW has had in a while. It was good enough for Sark to LEAVE!

    Kim was actually right, 2013 was indeed special.
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  • MisterEm
    MisterEm Member Posts: 6,685
    dhdawg said:

    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    Bullshit. The Pac-12's only official win over the final Top 25 teams in America required a Sun Devil defender to sit on the fucking football to prevent Wisconsin from winning.

    Take that asterisk win away and the best two wins were against a team that should have fired its coach and a team that forced its coach out after the Alamo Bowl.


    Fucking dreckfest.
    why do u hate stanford's win over ND
    You mean the P12 championship game?

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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    dhdawg said:

    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    Tequilla said:

    The PAC was pretty good.

    Bullshit. The Pac-12's only official win over the final Top 25 teams in America required a Sun Devil defender to sit on the fucking football to prevent Wisconsin from winning.

    Take that asterisk win away and the best two wins were against a team that should have fired its coach and a team that forced its coach out after the Alamo Bowl.


    Fucking dreckfest.
    why do u hate stanford's win over ND
    That was a conference game.
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  • topdawgnc
    topdawgnc Member Posts: 7,839
    It was ripe this year for Washington to be smelling Roses.

    5th year senior
    Sankey
    ASJ
    Good receiver corps
    Weak conference

    Have fun SC!
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,455 Founders Club
    I don't think there has ever been a more empty 9 win season in UW history than this one.
    This.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    He_Needs_More_Time said:

    I don't think there has never been a more empty 9 win season in UW history than this one.

    There is literally no good wins to hang your hat on. Even the bowl game win was against a MWC team basically.

    This was probably the first year in forever UW didn't lose to a shitty team.

    With Peterman I think this past year UW would have won 11 games(UCLA and Stanford) while not being routed so easily either.

    Just so glad I don't have ever to hear "What a cool week for the Huskies man" in a serious tone by our head coach for a long while.

    ftfy

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  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457
    edited January 2014
    DerekJohnson said:

    I don't think there has ever been a more empty 9 win season in UW history than this one.
    This.

    The fact that anyone would place any sense of accomplishment in a nine-win season in the first place is pretty fucktarded.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,455 Founders Club
    TheHB said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    I don't think there has ever been a more empty 9 win season in UW history than this one.
    This.
    The fact that anyone would place any sense of accomplishment in a nine-win season in the first place is pretty fucktarded.

    Well, when the 1980 team went 9-3 with a loss in the Rose Bowl, that was still a season worth being proud of. But 9-4 with this schedule, it's a different animal.
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  • Global
    Global Member Posts: 333
    What does Doogman think of this? Please, can we get an urgent update and long discussion?
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  • topdawgnc
    topdawgnc Member Posts: 7,839
    TheHB said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    I don't think there has ever been a more empty 9 win season in UW history than this one.
    This.
    The fact that anyone would place any sense of accomplishment in a nine-win season in the first place is pretty fucktarded.

    9 wins with a solid OOC schedule is not a bad year. With the OOC Sark had ... it is kind of embarrassing.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    Global said:

    What does Doogman think of this? Please, can we get an urgent update and long discussion?

    You are more than capable of contributing to this post instead of bitching how all we do is talk Doogman.
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  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457
    Nine wins should be every season's minimum expectations.

    I'm old enough to remember being pissed off when Washington was a 7-4 team in the dinosaur days. That's equivalent to an eight-win season today using HB math.

    Yeah, nine wins may not be too bad, but it is never, ever, ever, worth creaming your sweatpants over.
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  • BayDawg
    BayDawg Member Posts: 1,623
    Global said:

    What does Doogman think of this? Please, can we get an urgent update and long discussion?

    This is a football topic, they aren't discussing football topics. They are waiting on baited breath for Kim to name today's "twister" or for Bleens to tell them Joe Tiller likes a nice Sangria while watching bowel games.

    As to this post, even though we did win 9 games this year, I actually don't feel any better than our 7-6 shit shows. Its just didn't feel like we accomplished much of anything. I don't really get my rocks off watching us blow out Colorado and Cal in the middle of the night.

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    TheHB said:

    Nine wins should be every season's minimum expectations.

    I'm old enough to remember being pissed off when Washington was a 7-4 team in the dinosaur days. That's equivalent to an eight-win season today using HB math.

    Yeah, nine wins may not be too bad, but it is never, ever, ever, worth creaming your sweatpants over.

    Gil Dobie would have killed for nine wins.

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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    dnc said:

    TheHB said:

    Nine wins should be every season's minimum expectations.

    I'm old enough to remember being pissed off when Washington was a 7-4 team in the dinosaur days. That's equivalent to an eight-win season today using HB math.

    Yeah, nine wins may not be too bad, but it is never, ever, ever, worth creaming your sweatpants over.

    Gil Dobie would have killed for nine wins.

    Dobie never had to play a ranked USS Oklahoma.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,142
    If you are playing in The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in your coach's fifth season, the season sucked. Same conference record as the years before. The only reason we won 9 was because we had a shitty non conference schedule. Fuck the 9 wins, every above average team won 8 or 9 games.
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