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There's really never any shame aside from when Ryan Leaf pops up in headlines. It's just that it's a life of waiting for a team to only ever potentially be great like once a decade or so.
They do fine for what they are; college football is a world of natural haves and have nots, and of course the school out in the middle of the wheatfields in eastern WA is only going to be able to do so much in an attempt to be consistently competitive with schools twice our size in LA, Phoenix, Seattle, and the Bay Area. Recruiting against basically every other conference school is tough sledding. So it is what it is; you hope to hit lightning in a bottle and spike a couple of great recruiting classes once in a while, and hope to parlay that into the occasional Rose Bowl (our last was in 2003).
It's just that if a person was going to randomly latch onto a college football team, it wouldn't make much sense to latch onto one that is at inherent competitive disadvantages with everyone they compete with. It would make more sense to latch onto a team like UW who at least recruits to a major metro area and seems to have a significant amount of media in their back pocket.
Granted that the fanbase is the biggest bunch of delusional ****ing idiots to grace the planet (they literally ALWAYS think that the Huskies are far better than they are, they CONSTANTLY think they're right on the brink of being a national power), and worse yet they're arrogant as hell based purely on...I don't know. They seem to think that the fact that they were elite for a few seasons nearly a quarter of a century ago gives them license to be delusional and arrogant forever. At least other programs' fanbases offer reason for their fans to be cocky. And at least I can proudly say that my own school's fans keep it real at almost all times with regard to how good or bad we can reasonably expect to be. To hell with UW, they're the absolute worst thing in the world.
In conclusion: enjoy your new team, Dylan!
I only latched onto this team because the Riders (my CFL team) signed Keith Price a few weeks ago. I googled him, watched Youtube clips and thought he was pretty awesome. So I'm officially awaiting the Keith Price era in the CFL. lol
I watched my first UW game on Saturday and picked up on a few things I hate:
- Every time the Huskies score any type of points, they blast this horn off. It's like a hockey goal horn. So annoying.
- The commentators would refer to them as "the Dogs." I hate that! Made me think of the Georgia Bulldogs.
I'm sure I'll grow to hate more as I view more games and learn about the players and such.
Maybe it's a dumb reason to jump on a team's wagon, but I've been trying to get into college football for years and figured this was an okay reason. I once tried to support Penn State, but could never fully commit. I look at that as a good thing now.