Things you already knew about UW's 2024 schedule and performance

[CallMeBigErn]

 

[Canadawg]

Having a "tough schedule" is always exaggerated by being a bad team. If UW beats Iowa and Wazzu then suddenly those teams don't rate as high.

The schedule as it sits is top 25ish for difficulty and that's being propped up by two top 5 teams so if you remove those they still went 6-4 against a very mid schedule.

 

[HFNY]

This turned out to be a very average team with little depth that was below average in key areas (OL and DL). Maximus McCree, Jayvon Parker, Quentin Moore, Zach Durfee, and Deuce Davis each missing most of the season particularly hurt. RB, LB, and Secondary were above average. QB, WR, and TE positions were average.

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

The schedule narrative is hilarious. You? lost at Rutgers but all those home games against bad teams UW didn't dominate at all are just automatic wins if played on the road? What? FOH. Flip the games and UW could easy have gone 4-8.

If UW had no home conference games they would have gone 4 - 8 POTD.

 

[dtd]

Yeah, the best argument against it being a tuff schedule is the hypothetical that it was good to get teams we were evenly matched against (Michigan, LA schools) at home as there's a decent chance we lose those games on the road and games we weren't winning either way (Penn State, Indiana, maybe Iowa) on the road.
Even with that though you can get into common opponent stuff and home/road hypotheticals. Penn State wasn't as good on the road. Iowa had serious struggles on the road.

UW didn't face a team coming off a bye until the final week of the season. UW had two byes, their opponents had 1. UW played both Michigan and Indiana with their backups QBs.

 

[dirtysouwfdawg]

8-4 minimum you could sell the It's Hard transition etc and etc
6-6 is simply a system failure and a red flag but we have no choice but to let it play out so don't' say let it play out because it is going to play out whether we let it or not

we? are both fucking geniuses and predicted 10 wins. This team had enough talent to not lose two bullshit games and then beat Iowa. Then a bowl win. This schedule should’ve allowed for that.
This is 100% on fish and his staff. As a coaching “savant”, leading this team to 10 wins was the expectation. Don’t @ me, I don’t want to hear anyone’s fucking excuses.

 

[dirtysouwfdawg]

It was not a tough schedule.

it was not a touch enough schedule that these homos should be playing for only win #7.

 

[dirtysouwfdawg]

The schedule narrative is hilarious. You? lost at Rutgers but all those home games against bad teams UW didn't dominate at all are just automatic wins if played on the road? What? FOH. Flip the games and UW could easy have gone 4-8.

go play in traffic.

 

[TheHB]

If Fisch made the lay ups the board is different at 8-4
If he stole one of the 4 tuff games to get to 9 and was looking for #10 in a bowl there is legit praise and optimism
But that's hypothetical
Reality is 6-6 and the jury remains in deliberations

maybe the prosecution will ask the judge to dismiss the top charge?

 

[TheHB]

Playing in the B1G and complaining about a tough schedule is laughable

 

[Joey]

The schedule wasn’t that daunting.

Our coach punted.
It may work.
It may not.
Players were soft.
Doogs were soft.
I’m right.
#Onesentenceparagraphs

 

[theknowledge]

Yeah, the best argument against it being a tuff schedule is the hypothetical that it was good to get teams we were evenly matched against (Michigan, LA schools) at home as there's a decent chance we lose those games on the road and games we weren't winning either way (Penn State, Indiana, maybe Iowa) on the road.
Even with that though you can get into common opponent stuff and home/road hypotheticals. Penn State wasn't as good on the road. Iowa had serious struggles on the road.

Iowa, USC, Michigan, UCLA are all relatively equal. UW would have a better than even chance to beat them all at home. Rutgers and WSU are comfortable wins at Husky Stadium and NW is a game where they would have a 70/30 shot to win on the road. I think Indiana is a coin flip at UW. PSU and Oregon are the only teams UW had no shot against anywhere. You can put all these teams in a home/road blender and UW is anywhere from 8-4 to 4-8, hence 6-6 seems about right.

 

[chuck]

What I see is a team that had no offensive direction and horrible special teams, who got embarrassed by every decent team and dropped two games to bad teams. It almost feels like some want to give a 6-6 team credit for 8-4 because we should've won those ones. Well, we didn't.
Fisch isn't fired if I'm king for a day, but I wouldn't hate the queen if she dumped him while I was distracted watching other teams play meaningful games.

 

[HFNY]

What I see is a team that had no offensive direction and horrible special teams, who got embarrassed by every decent team and dropped two games to bad teams. It almost feels like some want to give a 6-6 team credit for 8-4 because we should've won those ones. Well, we didn't.
Fisch isn't fired if I'm king for a day, but I wouldn't hate the queen if she dumped him while I was distracted watching other teams play meaningful games.

Fisch had said they held back NIL money (I think someone said $3 million?) so if they weren't at least somewhat punting on 2024, they would have spent half of that (if not all) on a better OL and DL. The back-up from Ohio State probably didn't have much in terms of NIL offers and the same for Logan S.

 

[TheHB]

You really couldn’t expect UW to have a good season. You just couldn’t.

 

[DerekJohnson]

It was not a tough schedule.

It was reasonably tough, in hindsight. Not easy, but also not K2.
Could have been worse if all the teams UW beat were better or UW was worse. Could have been better if all the teams UW lost to were worse or UW was better.
This was a 4 to 8 win ballteam that won 6 games.

Next year is the barometer.

Ern I love ya, but this is such a limp-wristed post

 

[CallMeBigErn]

It was not a tough schedule.

It was reasonably tough, in hindsight. Not easy, but also not K2.
Could have been worse if all the teams UW beat were better or UW was worse. Could have been better if all the teams UW lost to were worse or UW was better.
This was a 4 to 8 win ballteam that won 6 games.

Next year is the barometer.

Ern I love ya, but this is such a limp-wristed post

Thazthajoke. Wrists get tired.

 

[dtd]

I'm hearing Washington Oregon would have been a competitive game in Seattle.

 

[Tequilla]

It was not a tough schedule.

Come on my man. I don't know if I would call it a tuff schedule, but it was a tough schedule. I'd be curious if people think it was easier or harder than last year's schedule.
I don't have confidence in us improving much in the front seven next year to be able to stand up to good Big 10 run games, but I think if we can actually have an offense and QB playmaker next year it can combat that if we can actually get up on teams and trade shots and put pressure on their offenses and shit QBs so they can't just run the damn ball.

More difficult in the sense of travel and our level comparable to the teams that we played on the road … of the 5 games in conference only Rutgers was a team that had comparable talent … everybody else was going to be a difficult win at best.
Last year the difficulty was that the overall quality of the opposition (this is a down year in CFB across the board for a number of reasons) was better but from a road standpoint the toughest games were at Arizona (in hindsight - we benefited from catching them early), USC (because our defense sucked), and Oregon St (weather).

 

[Tequilla]

Anybody that starts their narratives without acknowledging how bad the OL/DL were then there's really no point in going any further in the discussion.
These were Tyrone to early Sark era caliber teams at the LOS
This is what it looks like when you have massive misses in recruiting and a roster gutted by graduation and transfers
You're not winning in this conference consistently if you are a bottom end LOS team