Husky fans need to ask themselves what's more important: Continuing to wallow in the little brother syndrome? Or a return to championship football?
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OREGON SITUATION REVEALS HORRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT HUSKY FANS
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Husky fans need to ask themselves what's more important: Continuing to wallow in the little brother syndrome? Or a return to championship football?
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If you're just here to beat up Husky fans you won't last long
TierbsHsotBoobs
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It would have been fine if you had just said that these fans deserve another 0-12.
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OREGON SITUATION REVEALS HORRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT HUSKY FANS
Husky fans need to ask themselves what's more important: Continuing to wallow in the little brother syndrome? Or a return to championship football?
Read the full story here
Not your best effort.
Podcast?
I hope Hou Husky will be able to write for us on a semi-regular schedule come football season
HillsboroDuck
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This sanction ordeal is a black eye on the face of the UW football program, not because it included UW but because it didn’t.
BlackEyeForOregon!!!!! True???
BlackEyeForOregon!!!!! True???
Somebody go post this on Dawgman and record how many minutes it stays on the site. When it is taken down, wait an hour and then re-post it.
I'm probably wrong about this as I've been told a million times by smarter guys with Insider knowledge, but from what I see and hear, the vast majority of folks who still consider themselves Husky fanatical enough to cough-up the bucks each year to attend live football events at Montlake, don't know or care about the Internet habit of obsessing over anything Oregon, much less a mob of cheating ducks........ and let's not ignore those suddenly Husky hating Beavers. I just spent a long weekend on the Oregon Coast and can say that duck and Beaver smack has lost most of it's relevance. Huskies are now solidly cast in the Pacific NW as cupcakes probably not as fearsome as sodbusters.
I can't speak for any Dawgs other than my crew of traditional Husky Football loving fanatics made-up primarily of my immediate family and a few hanging-on close friends. Let's step back and give this some alternate thinking. Compared to what we had in 1991-92 and most of the preceding seasons in the 1980's, our favorite football program has been thoroughly trashed. With only a very few exceptions such as the Whammy In Miami and the 2000 Rose Bowl season, our football program had been in continual decline for 16 years(1993-2008) prior to the Sark rebuilding which may or may not now be losing steam.
By the end of Husky Football's collapse, attendance had fallen from 72-74,000 to 40-45,000 while season ticket sales were reduced by around 25,000 with no promise that sales wouldn't continue to decline. UW student interest had gone apathetic. I can testify that at the end of the 2007 season, my adult children all of whom had grown up going to Husky Football games all the way back to the 1970's and the Sonny Sixkiller years were finished, burned-out, wanted no more of the Purple and Gold and frankly, I was ready to quit after 45 years as a season ticket buyer (32 Tyee).
What kept us in the game? Surely by the end of the 2007 season, it wasn't our rivalry with Oregon or hatred of duck football or that of any other school. For my part, it was the pleas of my grandsons to "Grandpa, please keep the Husky tickets going until we can take over!" that made it impossible for me to not continue the family tradition even in the face of Dr. Snakeoil's ultimate insult of retaining Tyrone thru the 2008 season solely for the purpose of painting his 0-12 masterpiece. That insult was Emmert's parting shot and yes, my distain for the former UW president and his 2 1/2 predecessors, Huntsman, McCormick, and Gerberding leaves no room in my Dawg's heart for hatred of Oregon, OSU, or WSU.
As I've said before, the mediocrity of Sark and his near .500 football so far has at least had the affect of revitalizing some Husky Pride and Fever. You youngsters might wonder how mediocrity in football coaching can have such a positive affect, but I've been there before when Jim Owens decided to mostly skate along and just get by being occasionally competitive following his early Rose Bowl glory years. I find it difficult to believe that there could be any UW leadership remaining on campus who might still prefer such mediocrity in our football program's performance and I hope this is born out at least in part by the recent changes in coaching staff and of course,....... the far too long belated stadium renovation.
Bottom-line, Husky Football has fallen too far and been down on the bottom too long for us to be obsessing about duck football or even slug football. We still don't have either offensive or defensive lines, which were the core of Husky Football back when we were good. The 9 going on 10 game losing streak, thanks to a pack of losers given the power to dismantle Husky Football, is too long now to ever be turned around fully in my lifetime and from where we're at now and need to go, who can give a pile of Dawg shit about it anyhow?
I can't speak for any Dawgs other than my crew of traditional Husky Football loving fanatics made-up primarily of my immediate family and a few hanging-on close friends. Let's step back and give this some alternate thinking. Compared to what we had in 1991-92 and most of the preceding seasons in the 1980's, our favorite football program has been thoroughly trashed. With only a very few exceptions such as the Whammy In Miami and the 2000 Rose Bowl season, our football program had been in continual decline for 16 years(1993-2008) prior to the Sark rebuilding which may or may not now be losing steam.
By the end of Husky Football's collapse, attendance had fallen from 72-74,000 to 40-45,000 while season ticket sales were reduced by around 25,000 with no promise that sales wouldn't continue to decline. UW student interest had gone apathetic. I can testify that at the end of the 2007 season, my adult children all of whom had grown up going to Husky Football games all the way back to the 1970's and the Sonny Sixkiller years were finished, burned-out, wanted no more of the Purple and Gold and frankly, I was ready to quit after 45 years as a season ticket buyer (32 Tyee).
What kept us in the game? Surely by the end of the 2007 season, it wasn't our rivalry with Oregon or hatred of duck football or that of any other school. For my part, it was the pleas of my grandsons to "Grandpa, please keep the Husky tickets going until we can take over!" that made it impossible for me to not continue the family tradition even in the face of Dr. Snakeoil's ultimate insult of retaining Tyrone thru the 2008 season solely for the purpose of painting his 0-12 masterpiece. That insult was Emmert's parting shot and yes, my distain for the former UW president and his 2 1/2 predecessors, Huntsman, McCormick, and Gerberding leaves no room in my Dawg's heart for hatred of Oregon, OSU, or WSU.
As I've said before, the mediocrity of Sark and his near .500 football so far has at least had the affect of revitalizing some Husky Pride and Fever. You youngsters might wonder how mediocrity in football coaching can have such a positive affect, but I've been there before when Jim Owens decided to mostly skate along and just get by being occasionally competitive following his early Rose Bowl glory years. I find it difficult to believe that there could be any UW leadership remaining on campus who might still prefer such mediocrity in our football program's performance and I hope this is born out at least in part by the recent changes in coaching staff and of course,....... the far too long belated stadium renovation.
Bottom-line, Husky Football has fallen too far and been down on the bottom too long for us to be obsessing about duck football or even slug football. We still don't have either offensive or defensive lines, which were the core of Husky Football back when we were good. The 9 going on 10 game losing streak, thanks to a pack of losers given the power to dismantle Husky Football, is too long now to ever be turned around fully in my lifetime and from where we're at now and need to go, who can give a pile of Dawg shit about it anyhow?
HillsboroDuck
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tl; dr
MikeDamone
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disagree. It was a well thought out post, if not boarderline classy.
I agree with most of the post. Also, It touchs on why I still have my tickets(bseides hating money). Traditon, "we've always had them", Crisp Fall afternoons with Dad, etc.
Good post Tailgater!! Don't let the haters get you down!!
Great article and so true. Consider: I've heard many, many Husky fans talk about how great the Nebraska fans were when the UW went back and beat them on their own turf. How the fans gave them a standing O after the game. I'm not suggesting that would ever happen in Eugene or Seattle at an Oregon/Washington game, but what is clear is the most vocal Husky fans in area and in the media have acted disgracefully and with a behavior ruled only by jealousy. The Q I ask my Husky friends, why don't you recruit any OL and RB's? This year you will have no less than 4 QB with at least a 4 Star rating, how many 4 star OL will you have? That's a huge problem. The other huge problem is the AD. The guys an idiot.
Finally I would add that unless you're USC, Alabama or tOSU, running the pro set offense is difficult to play with the big boys. It requires that you "out talent" the opponent at nearly every position. Safe to say UW sits around 4-8 in the Pac 12 talent scale. The HC was the OC operating the offense loaded with 5 stars, not much innovation required.
Finally I would add that unless you're USC, Alabama or tOSU, running the pro set offense is difficult to play with the big boys. It requires that you "out talent" the opponent at nearly every position. Safe to say UW sits around 4-8 in the Pac 12 talent scale. The HC was the OC operating the offense loaded with 5 stars, not much innovation required.
TierbsHsotBoobs
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It all started with one fateful appearance by a fatass at a Seattle Bowl (RIP) practice...
MikeDamone
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um...no it didn't. If you want to get into a pissing match and take the gloves off about bad fan behavior over the last 50 years, let's do it, let's roll.
HeretoBeatmyChest
New Fish
Its not that they arent trying to recruit lineman, its that Sark has no credibility with OL. If you are an OL, you'd first want to play for UO, Stanford, UCLA and Arizona.
They had great success only one year and unfortunately some of the best guys got hurt and there is no depth.
DL recruiting was a complete disaster until the new staff came along. Last years DL class was very very good even after they lost Hooks and Hall. But it wont get any better unless they win 9+ this year.
TierbsHsotBoobs
New Fish
The rivalry started long before the Seattle Bowl.
The Seattle Bowl was just the first admission that Oregon was the big brother and that Huskie fans were little bitch Doogs.
HTH
MikeDamone
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Yes, that did help. Thank you.