Do you think this just happens by accident?

[RaceBannon]

If that means the program doesn't crater if a coach leaves then yes
Tressell Urban and Day. Again not an accident
We'll see if our boy makes that happen at Bama

 

[YellowSnow]

1 Ohio St will burn to the ground if they’re not that level. Their fans will riot. They are more afraid of not being that level than they enjoy being that level. The only rioters we have are on this board. Most UW fans just turn their attention elsewhere. Go Marinooogs!

2 The talent within a day’s drive of Columbus is way more than within a day’s drive of Seattle. It also doesn’t hurt there is not another major football school in the state of Ohio. At least going forward we don’t have this problem.
The counter point to all this is Oregon , which goes back to want to.

Oregon wants to more than anyone. Still getting their shit pushed in by Ohio State when it matters.

 

[RaceBannon]

1 Ohio St will burn to the ground if they’re not that level. Their fans will riot. They are more afraid of not being that level than they enjoy being that level. The only rioters we have are on this board. Most UW fans just turn their attention elsewhere. Go Marinooogs!

2 The talent within a day’s drive of Columbus is way more than within a day’s drive of Seattle. It also doesn’t hurt there is not another major football school in the state of Ohio. At least going forward we don’t have this problem.
The counter point to all this is Oregon , which goes back to want to.

Oregon wants to more than anyone. Still getting their shit pushed in by Ohio State when it matters.

As opposed to when it doesn't matter lol
I would taken a meaningless one last Saturday

 

[YellowSnow]

If that means the program doesn't crater if a coach leaves then yes
Tressell Urban and Day. Again not an accident
We'll see if our boy makes that happen at Bama

We've never had 2 good coaches in a row. It's sad.
J.O. has to be looked as two eras.

 

[YellowSnow]

1 Ohio St will burn to the ground if they’re not that level. Their fans will riot. They are more afraid of not being that level than they enjoy being that level. The only rioters we have are on this board. Most UW fans just turn their attention elsewhere. Go Marinooogs!

2 The talent within a day’s drive of Columbus is way more than within a day’s drive of Seattle. It also doesn’t hurt there is not another major football school in the state of Ohio. At least going forward we don’t have this problem.
The counter point to all this is Oregon , which goes back to want to.

Oregon wants to more than anyone. Still getting their shit pushed in by Ohio State when it matters.

As opposed to when it doesn't matter lol
I would taken a meaningless one last Saturday

We beat @creepycoug and buck in the same season that we lost to Oregon.

 

[RaceBannon]

It's a new era

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

The one thing that's great about modern CFB is that Washington can be anything it wants to be if it's willing to spend the money. We aren't located in BFE or a MAC program.
Just need to be willing to find and spend huge money. 18 year olds don't care about tradition in the face of having big money in their pockets. See Ducks, Oregon. Pile of shit school in a pile of shit location.

 

[Canadawg]

@creepycoug regarding the AAC comment
Lots of scrappy programs would love to be perennial contenders. The difference is UW is already a regional power with hardware historically and recently

 

[RaceBannon]

The one thing that's great about modern CFB is that Washington can be anything it wants to be if it's willing to spend the money. We aren't located in BFE or a MAC program.
Just need to be willing to find and spend huge money. 18 year olds don't care about tradition in the face of having big money in their pockets. See Ducks, Oregon. Pile of shit school in a pile of shit location.

Thank you

 

[DoogmanRefund]

UW, at their most ambitious wants to be Michigan, realistically they’d love to be Wisconsin. It doesn’t matter what we want. We are still very much the lunatic fringe.

Someone said Ohio St is more afraid of not being Ohio St, same can be said for Alabama. Is there another program like that? Oregon wants it as bad as anyone and will stop at no lengths to get there, but that is crazy completely based on the demands of one man. Oregon isn’t afraid of Kyle the accountant from Gresham like Bama is afraid of their fan base.

 

[whlinder]

1 Ohio St will burn to the ground if they’re not that level. Their fans will riot. They are more afraid of not being that level than they enjoy being that level. The only rioters we have are on this board. Most UW fans just turn their attention elsewhere. Go Marinooogs!

2 The talent within a day’s drive of Columbus is way more than within a day’s drive of Seattle. It also doesn’t hurt there is not another major football school in the state of Ohio. At least going forward we don’t have this problem.
The counter point to all this is Oregon , which goes back to want to.

Oregon wants to more than anyone. Still getting their shit pushed in by Ohio State when it matters.

I don't think their level of disgust when not competing for titles is at the level of tOSU, Bama, Georgia or LSU.

 

[WoolleyDoog]

UW, at their most ambitious wants to be Michigan, realistically they’d love to be Wisconsin. It doesn’t matter what we want. We are still very much the lunatic fringe.

Someone said Ohio St is more afraid of not being Ohio St, same can be said for Alabama. Is there another program like that? Oregon wants it as bad as anyone and will stop at no lengths to get there, but that is crazy completely based on the demands of one man. Oregon isn’t afraid of Kyle the accountant from Gresham like Bama is afraid of their fan base.

Michigan is the only school academically and culturally that I think is comparable to UW as a school that has had major success and I don't think it's a coincidence that they've been maybe even more mediocre than UW the past 25 years outside of the three big Harbaugh years. Also, like UW, they probably got saved by a great coach deciding to help them push past mediocrity. Starting the last 15-20 years the more college town schools have taken off while the more urban schools with academic aspirations have struggled. No way that's a coincidence.

 

[sinceredawg]

Generally speaking, states with shitty or no professional sports teams have way more enthusiastic college fan bases.

 

[YellowSnow]

Generally speaking, states with shitty or no professional sports teams have way more enthusiastic college fan bases.

Off the top of my head Seattle and LA are the only cities with Super Bowl wins and post WW2 college football natties.

 

[YellowSnow]

oh and Miamuh

 

[YellowSnow]

oh and Pitt

 

[WoolleyDoog]

oh and Pitt

This line of reasoning went south fast. The city and good professional team/s making big time college football fade away is a thing and the level of engagement UW is able to get in west coast city like Seattle still, even after the three bottoming outs is pretty impressive. USC had some buzz when I moved there in 2008 but it was absolute crickets by the time I left.
College football used to also be way more cyclical but something also seems to have started to happen with college football around 2010 where it's getting harder for national title winning level programs to fall off and harder for ones to break through.

 

[dtd]

UW, at their most ambitious wants to be Michigan, realistically they’d love to be Wisconsin. It doesn’t matter what we want. We are still very much the lunatic fringe.

Someone said Ohio St is more afraid of not being Ohio St, same can be said for Alabama. Is there another program like that? Oregon wants it as bad as anyone and will stop at no lengths to get there, but that is crazy completely based on the demands of one man. Oregon isn’t afraid of Kyle the accountant from Gresham like Bama is afraid of their fan base.

Michigan is the only school academically and culturally that I think is comparable to UW as a school that has had major success and I don't think it's a coincidence that they've been maybe even more mediocre than UW the past 25 years outside of the three big Harbaugh years. Also, like UW, they probably got saved by a great coach deciding to help them push past mediocrity. Starting the last 15-20 years the more college town schools have taken off while the more urban schools with academic aspirations have struggled. No way that's a coincidence.

They were 168-91 from 2000 to 2020, allowing for your cherry picking of the last 3 Harbaugh years, good for 22nd in the nation in that span. UW was 137-120, "good" for 56th. If you want to normalize for their tradition/advantages, okay, I guess.

 

[creepycoug]

1 Ohio St will burn to the ground if they’re not that level. Their fans will riot. They are more afraid of not being that level than they enjoy being that level. The only rioters we have are on this board. Most UW fans just turn their attention elsewhere. Go Marinooogs!

2 The talent within a day’s drive of Columbus is way more than within a day’s drive of Seattle. It also doesn’t hurt there is not another major football school in the state of Ohio. At least going forward we don’t have this problem.
The counter point to all this is Oregon , which goes back to want to.

Oregon wants to more than anyone. Still getting their shit pushed in by Ohio State when it matters.

As opposed to when it doesn't matter lol
I would taken a meaningless one last Saturday

We beat @creepycoug and buck in the same season that we lost to Oregon.

and lost to my coug in said season.
Cuog!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[UW_Doog_Bot]

The one thing that's great about modern CFB is that Washington can be anything it wants to be if it's willing to spend the money. We aren't located in BFE or a MAC program.
Just need to be willing to find and spend huge money. 18 year olds don't care about tradition in the face of having big money in their pockets. See Ducks, Oregon. Pile of shit school in a pile of shit location.

This, the resources can be there. They already almost are. Who's got the will to use them?