The boards are still suffering from a post season hangover

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Virtually all the players and coaches we knew are gone, and this team has no identity. It pains me to see it like this after 2.1 million page views in December and 1.9 million in January. But it is what it is. It'll either pick up during spring ball or August camp.
Looking to see if Fisch can get Mike Ditka to come hang out on the boards here.
 
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RaceBannon said:
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We recovered quite well from the West Coast shutting down college football for a year. Getting into the B1G and Natty Game show that as an institution we still kinda care. But I don't see how an awful hangover can be avoided given the multiple severe traumas in such a short time frame.
 
The time between the end of recruiting and spring football is the most dead other than deep summer. Yet another shitty thing is with the new conference and transfer portal stuff it's hard to even project next season and the teams they are playing because it's hard to gauge rosters and I know almost nothing about most of the program's they're playing next year.
 
it’s almost like another city stole our? team but we got an expansion team immediately. We’re pretty sure they’re gonna suck but also curious because there’s a chance they get overlooked and surprise some teams
 
WoolleyDoog said:
The time between the end of recruiting and spring football is the most dead other than deep summer. Yet another shitty thing is with the new conference and transfer portal stuff it's hard to even project next season and the teams they are playing because it's hard to gauge rosters and I know almost nothing about most of the program's they're playing next year.
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I'm kind of going to miss the Podcast of Champions spring preview of all the Pac teams that they do this time of year.
Where David does the same bitchfest every episode about how spring games are a waste of time, and every P12 South guest besides Utah leaves a voicemail about how fucked their team is heading into the Spring.
 
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TheHB said:
it’s almost like another city stole our? team but we got an expansion team immediately. We’re pretty sure they’re gonna suck but also curious because there’s a chance they get overlooked and surprise some teams
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Like I was saying a few weeks ago, it's like we're getting the '77 Mariners and we need to find our Rupert Jones to root for.
 
Where the hell did my shitty donator badge go? And this new Vanilla interface sucks.
Sorry…got distracted. 🙂
It’s unfortunate we? don’t have a basketball 🏀 team that’s worth a damn. That would’ve helped bolstered people’s spirits and kept up the traffic to the site through part of the football offseason.
And sadly our? main malarkey draws ( @Swaye, @Gladstone, etc.) aren’t around much - poor @YellowSnow and @DerekJohnson can’t be expected to shoulder the entire burden of keeping this place active in the Spring and Summer months.
I don’t have any solutions to liven things up - but I’m sure things will pick up again in August.
 
Doog_de_Jour said:
Where the hell did my shitty donator badge go? And this new Vanilla interface sucks.
Sorry…got distracted. 🙂
It’s unfortunate we? don’t have a basketball 🏀 team that’s worth a damn. That would’ve helped bolstered people’s spirits and kept up the traffic to the site through part of the football offseason.
And sadly our? main malarkey draws ( @Swaye, @Gladstone, etc.) aren’t around much - poor @YellowSnow and @DerekJohnson can’t be expected to shoulder the entire burden of keeping this place active in the Spring and Summer months.
I don’t have any solutions to liven things up - but I’m sure things will pick up again in August.
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I haven't seen the traffic this low since the spring of 2013.
Sorry about the badge, it is now fixed m'dear.
 
DerekJohnson said:
Doog_de_Jour said:
Where the hell did my shitty donator badge go? And this new Vanilla interface sucks.
Sorry…got distracted. 🙂
It’s unfortunate we? don’t have a basketball 🏀 team that’s worth a damn. That would’ve helped bolstered people’s spirits and kept up the traffic to the site through part of the football offseason.
And sadly our? main malarkey draws ( @Swaye, @Gladstone, etc.) aren’t around much - poor @YellowSnow and @DerekJohnson can’t be expected to shoulder the entire burden of keeping this place active in the Spring and Summer months.
I don’t have any solutions to liven things up - but I’m sure things will pick up again in August.
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I haven't seen the traffic this low since the spring of 2013.
Sorry about the badge, it is now fixed m'dear.
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Thank you, fearless leader! 😘
 
haie said:
WoolleyDoog said:
The time between the end of recruiting and spring football is the most dead other than deep summer. Yet another shitty thing is with the new conference and transfer portal stuff it's hard to even project next season and the teams they are playing because it's hard to gauge rosters and I know almost nothing about most of the program's they're playing next year.
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I'm kind of going to miss the Podcast of Champions spring preview of all the Pac teams that they do this time of year.
Where David does the same bitchfest every episode about how spring games are a waste of time, and every P12 South guest besides Utah leaves a voicemail about how fucked their team is heading into the Spring.
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There was plenty I was tired about with the Pac-10/12 by the end and getting out was the only option but the reality of the unknown of what the fuck Washington in the Big 10 is definitely has started to kick in. I genuinely have no idea what to expect.
 
There also might be trauma fatigue. As I've said as someone who started to really understand football in the mid-90s I've been through the Lambo malaise, Neuheisel's descent and firing, Gilby, Losingham, 7-win Sark, Petersen quitting, Jimmy, and now losing a game they could have won in the natty, the coach immediately leaving and the roster bolting. Good times.
 
PurpleBaze said:
UW_Doog_Bot said:
We collectively got kicked in the nuts. Give it a minute.
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It takes a minute.
It's a process.
It's hard. Well, it might get hard again.
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The 2019 Rose Bowl to the 2022 season was a fucking drag where everything seemed to go bad. Even the middle part of 2022 sucked. Then 14 months basically of good times bro. At least now I feel confident the program is gonna actually try for the first time since the early Neuheisel years.
 
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