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So I woke up this morning
RaceBannon
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and thought it was just one week ago today that I got up all excited to go watch the worst Husky Rose Bowl performance of my lifetime.
Then I thought about what I watched last night
Then I decided to pick some message bored fights on coaching, recruiting, and how do we find a way to beat Cal.
If we don't at least get as excited about branding and recruiting as Oregon does and we don't, how are we going to Dabo our way to the top? We have as good of a DC as Venables. I really believe this. But we're miles to go on offense both in coaching and players. I'll settle for a REAL O line for now.
The biggest disappointment in the 5 years so far is the inability to steal even one win or to show up ready to play every week or to have some sort of competent special teams
I do know it can change and we are recruiting better but it doesn't matter what we? think it matters what Petermen's bosses think
If you have a coach that can beat better teams before we are even in players you have an elite coach. Pete is a conundrum. I just hope he isn't Kirk Ferentz
That's how dark my mood is
Then I thought about what I watched last night
Then I decided to pick some message bored fights on coaching, recruiting, and how do we find a way to beat Cal.
If we don't at least get as excited about branding and recruiting as Oregon does and we don't, how are we going to Dabo our way to the top? We have as good of a DC as Venables. I really believe this. But we're miles to go on offense both in coaching and players. I'll settle for a REAL O line for now.
The biggest disappointment in the 5 years so far is the inability to steal even one win or to show up ready to play every week or to have some sort of competent special teams
I do know it can change and we are recruiting better but it doesn't matter what we? think it matters what Petermen's bosses think
If you have a coach that can beat better teams before we are even in players you have an elite coach. Pete is a conundrum. I just hope he isn't Kirk Ferentz
That's how dark my mood is
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That is literally all they are paid to do all day, every day.
Did you hear their players recruiting kids at the post-game last night?
But you do need bofe: recrooting and corching matter equally IMO. You can trickeration your way to a sneaky win in a bowl game against a better opponent who doesn't see you coming (hi Stoops!). But you can't do it in a real! conference consistently and you can't play with the juggernauts without the players. In the wise words of Jimmy Johnson on that 30/30 from Islamorada, "We were just so much better than everybody else."
PS: Congratulations for waking up this morning!
I was there! when we were shit-talking before the 2000 UW/Miami game. While you were still dating cheerleaders.
even with slightly deficient talent
Pete used to do it at Boise.
Here? Not so much.
UW will never have the institutional culture, structure or support that the schools in the South have created. NEVER.
The likelihood that UW will ever achieve a top 10 composite roster regularly better than Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, FSU, USC, Clemson, LSU, Michigan, UT, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Florida, or Penn State is rather low.
It was always going to take top 5 coaching, mixed with top 15ish recruiting talent to win big at UW. It was always going to take a top tier coach overcoming a small as possible talent deficiency to win big, like BSU over Oregon or Oklahoma.
Recruiting matters, it matters a lot, there is room to improve, but the ceiling really isnt that far away.
Coaching matters, it matters a lot, so far Pete is miles away from what people thought his coaching ceiling was.
If Pete needs top 5-10 recruited talent on the roster to win a big game NOW then he is never going to win a big game and he's not an elite coach. No ammount of UW recruiting at its ceiling is going to change that.
All that love had gone.
What? You lost to fuckin' Cal?!