Don James becomes a worse coach every year
Doogs who were too young to see James coach like to diminish his contributes to passively aggressively pump up whoever the loser coach is at the time.
Most Doogs are 30 and under or at least 50.
The younger ones, especially the ones born in 1986, '87, '88 and so on have no memory of DJ. They probably remember Lambright's shitty last years and Slick Rick, but never really saw a great Husky team except for the overacheiving 2k team. They think 7-5 is normal.
The older Doogs like to bring up things like early 70s struggles, how Sixkiller did great with what he had, how Owens was mean to black players/how their was political unrest on campus and on the team in the late 60s (as if this was unique to Seattle) and the really old Doogs bring up McElheny, Heinrich, how they've had season tix since 1933, but how they hate 7 p.m. starts and that darn band nowadays, and this will be their last yr.
Hhbs and people with similar expectations grew up with winning and don't accept 7-6 every year.
and yes, I realize some of you are 50 + and under 30 so kudos