BEAT WASHINGTON!

[NYCFootballFan]

UW will be more than a 2 TD favorite. The lack of game film meme is laughable.

Enjoyed the win over WSU at the Clink, but the game at Husky Stadium will present crowd and noise bigger challenges. I'll be there doing my part to even things out.

Division run? I checked with a Cal buddy who knows his PAC12 football and follows Rutgers, and he had this to say:

"I don’t see UW winning the Pac 12 north considering they placed 5th in the division this year. I know some think they will be second after Stanford, but I just can’t see them being on top of Oregon and Wash St. Plus I think Cal will be bowl eligible again even with the loss of Goff. I think it will be a tight race with UW being somewhere in the 2-5 range. With that said, any team that will make it to a bowl game can be trouble for Rutgers."

I was pretty pumped until the last sentence.

There will definitely be publications pumping them up for a "pre-season" North title run.

the publications don't have the insight that guy from Cal would have. I know a guy who went to stanford, but i wouldn't ask him about UW football cuz he would want to talk and compare them only to the Cardinal, so why wouldn't a Cal buddy do the same. Oh yeah, the Cal buddy brought up Cal in a question about UW.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

the publications don't have the insight that guy from Cal would have. I know a guy who went to stanford, but i wouldn't ask him about UW football cuz he would want to talk and compare them only to the Cardinal, so why wouldn't a Cal buddy do the same. Oh yeah, the Cal buddy brought up Cal in a question about UW.

Okay....I'm not trying to be rude...but in English, please?

 

[mdh2003]

There will definitely be publications pumping them up for a "pre-season" North title run.

Meh. Plenty of pre-season prediction pumping publications are piles of prepubescent poop.

Forget the opponent, the biggest obstacle here will be location - re: the west coast.

 

[Knight Shift]

Meh. Plenty of pre-season prediction pumping publications are piles of prepubescent poop.

Forget the opponent, the biggest obstacle here will be location - re: the west coast.

Rutgers is 1-0 in Washington! (we are not supposed to say that anymore?)

 

[RU Husky]

Rutgers is 1-0 in Washington! (we are not supposed to say that anymore?)

Yeah, we were 1-0 against Michigan. How did that work out?

 

[Knight Shift]

Yeah, we were 1-0 against Michigan. How did that work out?

C'mon Mr. Sunshine. New coach, new team this year. Let's not get carried away. UW is on UM.

 

[RU#1fan]

Okay....I'm not trying to be rude...but in English, please?

Yeah....what he say.

 

[Howie'81]

"Should be"?! They are gonna be somewhere around 12 point favs

Or more.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Meh. Plenty of pre-season prediction pumping publications are piles of prepubescent poop.

Forget the opponent, the biggest obstacle here will be location - re: the west coast.

Listen, the 2 things I've been saying - for a while now - about Washington are the following:

1) finished #25 in Sagarin last year (RU 98th) and expected to be BETTER, by most, this season

2) very, very tough road game environment. When The Huskies are good Husky Stadium is a one the THE BEST HFA's in the nation.

Again, I love this new staff, and can't wait to see what we've got, but my expectations are incredibly "tempered" for the 2016 season.

 

[Dpgru]

I think what we are all anticipating may or may not show up in the won loss column but we all are anticipating a different RU football team. That is where our expectations are grounded. What will we look like on offense, defense, and special teams? We all dream of a more competitive team that has a game plan that tries to attack and exploit weaknesses and a coaching staff that thinks on it's feet and adjusts during the game. Right now it sounds good but we have no real data to base anything on other than coach speak (granted it is really good coach speak). I can't wait to see how it translates to the field but until then we are, in the eyes of everyone else, the old RU and point spreads and rankings and predictions will reflect that. Let's not worry about the point spreads because they are probably pretty meaningless, especially for the first few games.

 

[FanuSanu52]

Listen, the 2 things I've been saying - for a while now - about Washington are the following:

1) finished #25 in Sagarin last year (RU 98th) and expected to be BETTER, by most, this season

2) very, very tough road game environment. When The Huskies are good Husky Stadium is a one the THE BEST HFA's in the nation.

Again, I love this new staff, and can't wait to see what we've got, but my expectations are incredibly "tempered" for the 2016 season.

I feel like this should be self-explanatory for those that participate on the board, but for some reason it's not. I guess it's the usual underestimating of non-blue blood programs that aren't named Rutgers. We had one of our worst seasons of the new millennium and are now starting with a new staff. Washington had a solid season last year with wins over some very tough teams. We're playing in their house. A win would be awesome, but a loss seems quite likely.