After watching what looked like girl scouts trying to play football last Saturday, I find myself being extremely apathetic towards the program. How could our team fold like that? What happened to the fire these guys were playing with prior to the bye week? It feels like we are going to lose every game from here on out. Not just lose, but get the doors blown off type losing. Anyone else feeling the massive the gut punch from Saturday? I don't want to give up on these guys but when we play like that, it seems like they've given up on themselves.
A sobering loss
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I didn't see girl scouts playing football. I'm not sure what they were playing, but it wasn't football.
Saturday was the first time I turned off a Coug game before we were "mathematically eliminated." I gave up at halftime, when I think it was 20-6. It was clear we had not come to play, and we weren't going to win. I was as certain of that as I was during any game in 2008-09, and I just couldn't continue to watch through the amazing lack of effort on the field.
I agree with others who've said that something must have happened during the bye week. This looks like a team that has already given up.
It seems like a lot of folks here are suffering from selective amnesia. Do you all think that the Cougars have never had games like this before? Like maybe against the huskies, or maybe vs Cal? I sure remember games like that and it didn't meant that world was coming to an end or the entire season was ruined.
Look, I am not here to be some Kool Aid drinking cheerleader, and I am well aware that this team has its flaws. We all knew that going into the year, if you recall. But come on, guys, let's give them a chance to bounce back and show us some better effort, show us they are still competing and will win some more games. Last week was disappointing as heck, but it doesn't mean that every game from here on out will be like that.
Hope for the best, but understand the reality, and don't bet the mortgage money on the Cougs covering the spread.
It was the first time I have seen us being close to a Top 10 ranking (might have had it if we beat fUcla) and then look like we could've been in the bottom 10 ranking.
That's why it was so bizzare.
But yes Stretch... we've been beaten horrifically dozens and dozens of times before.
That 2000 Apple Cup might have been the hardest to deal with. 1990 wasn't fun either.
However... 2008 vs. California is my 2nd worst memory of all time. The 1st freaking play and I'm not sure anyone could grasp that was the death of WSU as we knew it.
Of course the resurrection then being the last play against fuw in 2008... forever giving. 2008 = 2000 GREAT!!!
That's why it was so bizzare.
But yes Stretch... we've been beaten horrifically dozens and dozens of times before.
That 2000 Apple Cup might have been the hardest to deal with. 1990 wasn't fun either.
However... 2008 vs. California is my 2nd worst memory of all time. The 1st freaking play and I'm not sure anyone could grasp that was the death of WSU as we knew it.
Of course the resurrection then being the last play against fuw in 2008... forever giving. 2008 = 2000 GREAT!!!
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If I "justified it"... I am totally out of line.
I meant to say something more as "don't act like it's never happened"
Sucks donkey either way, but I will still be at the games. I won't leave early. I will still cheer. I will still donate. I will still wear my Cougar gear proudly.
Go Cougs!
FWIW....I thought your post above was solid. Most teams have baffling moments. UCLA was 8-1 last year and somehow managed to lose to 3-6 Arizona. UW finished 11-2 last year and somehow lost to eventually 3-9 ASU. Texas A&M was terrible last year but managed to beat 9-2 LSU by 15 points in their season finale.
We've had a couple terrible weeks and if it continues, it's going to be reasonable to question if Dickert is the right person for the job. ASU and Stanford will be our chance to get bowl eligible and get the team headed in the right direction. Even though the Arizona loss was despicable and Dickert deserves criticism for the way that the team played, if we can get our sh!t together and beat the Sun Devils and the trees, we would be sitting at 6-3 with a couple more winnable games coming up (Cal and Colorado). Beat those two and the Arizona loss would be ancient history.
There's a lot of season left. We can't ignore the last couple weeks but there's no point in dwelling on them if the coaching staff can get the team winning again.
Stretch -
selective amnesia is the only thing that keeps Cougar fans being Cougar fans season after season. By and large, our football team is not good. When we sniff a degree of success, the hope bounds forth and overtakes the masses, unearthing a tiny glimmer of what just may be a light at the end of the tunnel. 9 times out of 10 it turns out to be the light of an oncoming train (AC) and we have to grab our Men in Black neuralizer and grasp onto our halcyon past or dreams of future clover.
And there is the key-getting the team winning again.
Email from a buddy said something like this- The Cougs played an away game against a team that had a staff of coaches loaded with NFL experience, with the advantages of Los Angeles, and a ton of NIL money backing them up and the Cougs were driving to tie the game at the end in spite of losing the ball 4 times. Something to be said for that.
Let’s not get our panties all in a wad. The Cougs have had some horrible loses in the past and rebounded. Some times everything goes wrong in a game. That happened last week. When WSU clobbered Oregon 55-16 that year the same week they were on the cover of SI, NO ONE saw that coming, especially not duck fans. I’m just glad I was there to see it. I expect the Cougs to battled in Eugene this weekend.
Speaking of 2003 Oregon, we thumped them 55-16, they then lost to Utah, who finished 10-2 and they followed that up with a 14-59 drubbing at the hands of ASU....who was 2-3 at the time and on a three game losing streak. Funny things happen when you get upended. FWIW, Oregon went 4-1 in their next five games after they lost to ASU before losing a heartbreaker to Minnesota in the Sun Bowl. The ducks finished 8-4 in the regular season that year.
History is filled with decent college football teams losing strange games and finishing okay. We'll find out in the next three weeks what kind of team we have. Do we let adversity beat us down? Or do we get back up?
Pretty sad that at 4-2 (soon to be 4-3) we are writing off the season. If we aren't going to give Mateer a shot at QB, how about putting him in at RB? And not just for one trick play.
I remember back in '83 (or '84?) when we were 2-4 and won our last 5 games to finish at 7-4. No bowl unfortunately.
For all of the frustration about some of our history, it sucks to know that under today's rules, we would have went to bowl games in the years listed below:
1965: 7-3
1972: 7-4
1977: 6-5
1983: 7-4
1984: 6-5
1989: 6-5
2006: 6-6
One could argue that Walden NOT making bowl games was better for our program overall, but when you look at that time period, would he have been able to build our program to be more consistent so Mike Price wouldn't have had so much heavy lifting to do as he cleaned up the MCMW (more criminals more wins) issues on the roster?
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