Wazzoo should have beaten Auburn too on opening day. I have a feeling that some low level team is going to run into the Cougs in a low level bowl and get a shellacking they will never forget. This is working!
The Cougs are my second team (Kes is my boy!) so at least I got something good out of yesterday! I agree with JO'Co... somebody is about to get much more than they wanted. 8)
Thanks guys! If we get to a bowl, and if we lose the Apple Cup, it will be as a fill-in for another conference that can't fill their contracts, so it will likely be against a lower tier team. In that case, I like our chances! I like everything Leach has done. He got rid of the quitting cancers last year, he's getting his system installed, and we're headed in the right direction. I don't know what the ceiling is, but at this point, I'll take it.
Not really. I hated the dude for the way he behaved toward my school... but since then I've seen now Tech (who was not even remotely relevant until he got there) turned on him. He was just playing the part to get a usually uninspired place fired up. It worked for them Once he left... he dropped it. And when I heard he was heading to WSU I figured he'd actually do well for them. He's weird... but he knows now to build a dangerous team from pieces that others can't.
Hey Kes do you agree with the Hippy Lumberjack description? I don't think of logging and the Palouse go together...nor hippy and WSU. The puppies would seem more preppy than hippy as well.
Huh, I've never heard that in reference to WSU. There are forests in Western Washington, but the Palouse isn't really a forested area. I would have to say that moniker would more closely apply to Western Oregon (Eugene and Corvalis), Western Washington (Seattle and Olympia), and Colorado (Boulder), including the hippy part. In fact, I would characterize Western Montana (Missoula) with that before I would Wazzu. Have I missed something?
I think Corey was referring to Oregon (the state of) with those remarks, and not really Washington. There are some hippy types in Seattle... that's for sure, but I sure wouldn't consider them Lumberjacks.
Yeah Corey called the puppies Hippie Hiphosters and you guys Hippie Lumberjacks. ...but it was in another topic. Now that I think of it without digging through threads, maybe he was referring to the Civil War.
No. Oregon is the dirty hippy lumberjacks and Oregon State is the dirty hippy hipsters. The Apple Cup is a whole different animal.
Wazzu opens as 14.5 point dogs to the hated puppies. Wazzu is 5-5 in the last 10 Apple Cups. Wazzu is 8-3 against the spread and have covered in every road game (wins against Cal, USC, Zona and a loss to Auburn). UW is 6-5 against the spread but have only covered twice out of their six home games. Bury Sankey, the traitor!!
Sagarin has WSU's schedule as the toughest in the nation. ESPN has it at #8. http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/66987/wsu-takes-a-right-turn-to-albuquerque
That was a very tough schedule. I heard Mike Leach on XM Radio the other day talking about how young the Cougars were this year and how he really liked Mack Brown.
Interesting link in the article. I know normally this is when we have to hear that the SEC plays the toughest schedule. I always contended that once the Pac10/12 went to the super conference format, we wouldn't have a true champion but we'd have higher SOS. according to this http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings/_/sort/sosRank/order/false 6 of the top 10 toughest schedules were played by Pac12 teams including one through four. They have 8 in the top 20. The only SEC team in the top 10 is Georgia (ya ever notice Georgia seems to be in the top 10 of everything and it just never feels right?). In total, I believe the SEC had 5 in the top 20.