Help me CougCenter, you're my only hope!

by JimtheCoug on Sep 4, 2010 9:14 PM PDT

My only comfort through the terrible football loses has been the excellent pieces on CougCenter (and my wife's comforting hugs). Please, CougCenter, write a piece that will make me want to watch another Cougar football game this season after that gross opener. I am already feeling sick thinking about the Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, etc. games. I am just baffled. How did we do better in 2008 against the cowboys? Home field advantage doesn't influence the game that drastically. Plus, we were supposed to have a better team than we had in 2008 and OSU was supposed to have a worse team than their 2008 squad. (Sigh)

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…teams can look a lot different from week 1 to week 2, as Oregon proved last year. How’s that for a small ray of hope?

I’ll admit I’m surprised that WSU looked so hopeless in this game. I’m sure you guys will take some comfort in the fact my Huskies lost a winnable game and Locker’s Heisman campaign is probably DOA.

by kirkd on Sep 4, 2010 9:30 PM PDT reply actions

Was Locker's Heisman campaign ever really alive?

I realize there was some national chatter about it and lots of local hype, but I haven’t seen anything in 3 years that would lead me to believe he could end up as a serious candidate. Amazing athlete certainly, Heisman caliber QB unlikely.

by coug2828 on Sep 5, 2010 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Reid Forrest for Heisman!

by well you win some and lose others on Sep 5, 2010 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Sure it was

He had all the hype necessary and the marquee matchups to win over voters. He just didn’t deliver. The opportunity was there, but he failed to take advantage.

by kirkd on Sep 6, 2010 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Well I'll probably attend

but only because by 4 PM saturday I’ll probably be completely bored with nothing better to do than watch us get thrashed by a FCS opponent

Cougar999 version 2.0. Now with a shorter name!

by Coug999 on Sep 4, 2010 9:37 PM PDT reply actions

2 things frustrate me the most.

1. This team has been rebuilding since the 2004 (not 2008). Teams like Stanford, Arizona, and UW have hit bottom and rebuilt themselves in that time while the Cougs have sit in the lower half of the conference ever since that Texas win.

2. The incredible losses are hard to stomach. I know all of the reasons why the Cougs are thin, but that doesn’t make the drubbings hurt less. I was there for that first massacre at Martin Stadium in 2008: the 66-3 Cal loss. I had to leave. I could not believe the score got up that high. As the season progressed, I still didn’t get used to the horrible losses—I just endured them. The Apple Cup that year felt like a turning point, and it really wasn’t.

by JimtheCoug on Sep 4, 2010 10:01 PM PDT reply actions

After sleeping on it, I will articulate why I wrote this post:

When we lose (and continue to lose), Coug fans need a community. My wife gets tired of me complaining about the team and all the things that go wrong. She more or less points me to the computer and tells me to go onto CougCenter. I love this site because I can vent with other fans, and I know that I am not alone in my frustrations. Sometimes I will have a level head and I will readjust my expectations (like right now); other times I will be downright angry that my team keeps losing big and that my team is considered a joke in NCAA football right now. Whether I feel calm, angry (or even celebratory at times), I know I have a community that sympathizes with me.

I watched the Beaver game with my grandfather-in-law while I listened to our sad game, and I asked him after both games, “You rooted for the Beavs when they had that terrible streak, right? How did you do that?” He said, “Oh yeah! The Beaver Believers. You just don’t lose hope. You root for your team.” It was simple such a simple statement: you root for your team. I guess if I were concerned about winning I would be climb aboard some USC or Florida bandwagon. But, no. I root for my team. It’s that simple.

by JimtheCoug on Sep 5, 2010 11:13 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs

Venting is fine, it's healthy

Just keep it in the gamethread. If you’re still pissed the next day, keep it in the gamethread. Once the game is done, it’s done.

What I, personally, try to do after the game is figure out what went right and wrong for the Cougars. With the things that went wrong — and oh, boy were there a lot yesterday — I want to know if they’re things that can be fixed and how.

I hope that helps. Instead of assessing blame, I’d rather perform an autopsy and try to articulate why we see what we see.

CougCenter, SBNation Seattle, @FloydCoug

by Brian Floyd on Sep 5, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks

And I want to make it clear that I did not mean to play the blame game with this post. This post is not about organizing a pitchfork mob to Wulff’s office. I am basically in a Job-like state calling out to God wondering why the program is falling on such hard times. I’m just impatient. I am tired of people snickering when I tell them I am a WSU football fan.

by JimtheCoug on Sep 5, 2010 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs