whatshouldicareabout
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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.
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.
