Dawgs Luck Out Against Beavers
Man, what an impressive win by the Huskies last night! They beat the seventh-ranked Beavers 20-17 at Century Link Field!
First of all, talk about an overrated Beaver team. Seventh in the country? Come on. But I don’t want to trash the Beavs; I like the Beavs, always have, just wish they had played better last night.
What stood out the most about the Dawgs’ win:
- How they were motivated by comments from Oregonian columnist John Canzano, who called them soft. This is what it took for them to show up? Critical comments from a newspaper columnist? Wow, that’s going to the bottom of the barrel for motivation.
- And did you really storm the field after beating Oregon State? That didn’t happen, did it? I thought I was seeing things or maybe had too much Jack Daniels last night, but no, I still swear I saw a bunch of Husky fans rushing the field after the game. When you’re doing that kind of thing to celebrate a win over the Beavers, it pretty much tells you how far your program has fallen.
- If Sean Mannion hadn’t been rusty from his layoff and thrown four interceptions, none of this Husky resurgence talk would be happening right now. If Cody Vaz had started, we’d be talking about the brilliant Beavers and the disappointing Dawgs this morning. It’s not as if Keith Price was suddenly magical last night.
But listen, I’ll tip my crimson-and-gray cap to you anyway, knowing that next week the Dawgs will get it handed to them at Cal. The Golden Bears will be primed for revenge after Coach Sark took two of their assistant coaches away from Berkeley in the offseason, most notably Tosh Lupoi, who brought Shaq Thompson to Seattle with him.
When you say hanky, I say panky – that always seems to be the case at Probation Nation.
COUGS GIVE IT HELL: Damn, we almost pulled that one out in Palo Alto, losing to Stanford 24-17. Jeff Tuel, as you know, was called for intentional grounding after we converted a 4th and 21 to get to the Stanford 9-yard line with a chance to tie and send the game to OT.
Then Tuel was sacked, and the Cougs didn’t have any timeouts left, so the clock ran out. That was tough to take, but it was still encouraging to see the Cougs fight to the end, just like one of the lyrics in their fight song says they will.
Did anyone ask Mike Leach if he would’ve gone for two if the Cougs had scored? Or would he have kicked the extra point and taken his chances in OT? Just wondering.
Loved what I saw from Tuel, and I’ll give him a pass for what happened in the final seconds. The guy was under siege all day long, sacked 10 times. Yet he still put the Cougs, as 24-point underdogs, in position to win.
Now we’re 2-6 and heading to Salt Lake City to face Utah on Saturday with a noon kickoff on the Pac-12 Network.
I think we can beat the Utes, who are coming off a 49-27 win over Cal. I also think we can lose to the Utes because, let’s face it, we’re the Cougs and we’re still not a very good team, and we’ll be on the road again.
Go Cougs.
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Disagree dawgfather. It will change next weekend. They will be 2-7.
Right on, Jim! Luck, luck, luck! Luck alone made UW win and luck alone was responsible for the WSU loss! It can’t be that WSU has some good parts but overall isn’t a very good football team right now and it’s going to take Leach a little while to turn the ship around. It can’t be that UW has underperformed a lot this year but Sark has a knack for getting his kids up against a Top 10 program at home when the chips are down. NO WAY! Hanky panky! Waaaaah!
And, by the way, kids storm the field because they’re excited. I don’t blame you for being angry and confused, though. I know it’s been quite a while since a Coug had anything worth celebrating in life.
There’s a thin line between your 4-4 Huskies and 2-6 Cougs, if you think it’s a sizable difference your ego is even bigger than I thought. I guess being gracious in victory and defeat isn’t a trait that UW fans possess. Of course people are saying “what if” well, what if Manion didn’t gift wrap those 4 INTs? Both the Cougs loses and the huskies “victories” have come down to “what if” moments, so it goes both ways. WSU has a new coach, and has had 17 players leave the program, and I think Coug fan’s expectations were a little lofty. It’s going to happen for the Cougs, but not overnight. It is highly ironic, because last week Husky fans were about to jump off the cliff, now they are stroking their egos and back to creating over inflated opinions of their team. I don’t get you guys, I probably never will.
Go Cougs! Coug Nation has your back Jim!
P.S. I seriously doubt your sophomoric and narrow minded comments are congruent with the real Dawgfather Don James.
you are jealous jim.
if wazzu would have upset the beavers then they would have been a bonafide #7 team in the country to jazz up your win.
you can’t play both sides jim. Everyone can read through that.
Figure it out.
Wazzu is always our little brother.
How is that Leach hire working out?!
it doesnt matter who you hire…..It’s Pullman.
BOW DOW AGAIN THIS WEEK JIM
GO DAWGS
I always knew Jim Moore was a hypocrite, but this takes the cake. WSU went absolutely crazy after beating a much worse Oregon State team in 2010. They acted like they had won the national championship. Even more pathetic was the time they stormed the field after beating Southern Methodist in overtime in 2009. No other Pac-12 fan base would have done that. Washington State University – celebrating mediocrity since 1890.
Don’t forget WSU stormed the field after beating UW, marking the 0-12 season.
Jim, I watched the last quarter of the Stanford-WSU game and I really thought the Cougs would pull it out.
As for picking the Cougs to beat the Utes – you are drunk. I mean, more drunk than usual.
Do Cougs really have anything to say about other teams?
You lost to Colorado at home on homecoming in your new high school stadium remodel.
You are winless in the Pac 12.
You have 5 wins in conference in the last 5 years
Your coach is a Pirate who doesn’t run the football and doesn’t care about Wazzu. He just used it as a stepping stone to get back into coaching after his scandal at Texas Tech.
How do you Cougs cope every week with being a Coug?
You guys are just truly awful
Its History
Its your destiny
Its why Jim spends more time writing about the Huskies than his Cougs because of his Jealousy. Deep down inside Jim wishes he was a Husky.
I can’t wait for Jim’s kids to tell him that they want to go to UW later in life.
BOW DOWN Cougs
WSU has lost 37 of their past 41 conference games and probably has the longest active bowl drought of any team from a BCS conference, now that Duke is bowl eligible this year. The misery and bitterness in Pullman just go on and on and on…
Imagine if they go 0-9 in the Pac 12 this year and follow that up with a last place finish in basketball.
Washington State University – celebrating mediocrity since 1890
So I guess pirate guy is going to leave tool in til he gets killed and then try and find some confidence for his backup after he’s gone. Just more of the same to come, next week, month, year.
Scrub U
“Loved what I saw from Tuel, and I’ll give him a pass for what happened in the final seconds.”
Yeah you should definitely give Tool a pass, because remember he’s still a freshman who has yet to learn what college football is all about… oh wait…. hmmmm.
I love how you start off you post about how the Beavs are over-rated… but clearly the most over-rated team in the conference is the Stanford Cardinal. They have good front 7 and a decent run game. But not much else after that (and possibly the worst starting QB in the conference).
So the fact idea that you guys should pat yourself on the back for going down there and “kept it close” or “gave yourself a chance” or “just ran out of time” is possibly the most laughable imagined “moral victory” I’ve ever heard.