For the most part Husky FB was fun under Rick, we had a blast at the Rose Bowl, blew big ones in the Sun Bowl and couldn’t win the track meet in San Diego.

My impression of Rick is that overall his a much more compassionate human being than the present guy and he made the fans feel welcome instead of shutting the team up in a private jail.

Jack

John, I’m very disappointed. Applaud him? I didn’t realize we had fallen so far that we would applaud the destroyer of Husky Nation! Rick should run for president, he can sell ice to eskimos. Anybody that thinks that his “apology” was sincere is crazy. He is trying not to get booed, his giant ego can’t handle it. Yes he is sorry for what happened here, he is sorry he got caught! The only thing that changed about Rick is he now knows he isn’t above the law.

As far as on the field, they won their first two years because of Tui. How quickly we forget they couldn’t win a game until the last two minutes, and Tui pulled it out for him. He doesn’t know the meaning of hard work. His players were lazy. Read the article on Jordan Reffett after Ty got hired, they didn’t work out, they didn’t go to class, they didn’t lift weights, all they did was party. THAT is what caused his last two years to fall apart, and it would have continued getting worse had he not been fired.

THIS MESS IS HIS FAULT, HE STARTED MAKING THIS PROGRAM AND ITS PLAYERS LAZY!!!!! Don’t compare Rick to Ty, they both are horrible coaches for completely different reasons.

DON’T YOU DARE APPLAUD A MAN WHO PISSED ON THE UW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To applaud Neuheisel because he is better than Willingham, is the same as applauding Hitler because he is better than Osama Bin Laden!!!!!!!!!

I’m with Lear Pilot and Snostrebla on this one. Whether or not Neu is a “nice guy” is missing the point. He is guilty of the same things that Ty is guilty of … an inability to win (in Neu’s case, win at the rate UW was accustomed to, in Ty’s case win at all) with his own players. Both performances were unacceptable in the time of their tenures. I certainly don’t see Ty as some how more responsible than Neu for the state of college football. Ty’s crime is not turning it around; Neu’s crime was letting it turn the wrong way.

One thing about rick is everyone has an opinion about him…that was a pretty good response from all angles from everyone.

I don’t blame Rick for the downfall even though things were starting to slide. He understood that and was taking the steps to take care of that when he was fired. i can guarantee you the program would never have fallen to these depths with him in charge even though we were due a couple of mediocre years.

The people I blame are William Gerberding and Barbara Hedges. Those two clowns started all this when they conspired to force DJ out. Don’t forget that Gerberding forced Harshman and Lude out prematurely also.

keep ’em coming.

As far as Neuheisel and “the slide” – I’m a little surprised to see how Neu’s time has been romanticized. Like I said, time must heal all wounds because I remember some weak recruiting, a couple of embarrassing bowl losses (giving up nearly 50 pts to Texas???) and a couple of extremely embarrassing regular season losses (Or St at home, Miami in Miami, Air Force, and BYU come to mind). In hindsight, we’d love to have those records now given how bad things have become, but I see no evidence to suggest that Neu was any better than the .500 record we were trending towards. I’m sure JB is right – stability would have probably ensure that we didn’t slide into the abyss … but Neu would not have lasted much longer at the rate he was going. At the time, we would not have stood for it.

I think Neu was good for a couple of more years if he hadn’t screwed up on the gambling pool. Like any coach except Saint Willingham he was expected to win and he knew it. Bottomline the program wouldn’t have fallen as hard as it did if Neu wasn’t fired prematurely without an adequate plan in place to put someone adeaute in charge to replace him.

i also think Neu would have thrived under an athletic director like Mike Lude.this one is all on Hedges and Gerberding. don’t forget McCormick who didn’t provide any oversight over Hedges.

wow. Like I said, time heals all wounds.

His crime was hitting the iceberg, and letting the ship start to sink. He didn’t even go down with the ship, at least he did sink himself.

Rick himself proved my point this morning on his interview with Mitch in the Morning. He said that by firing Lambright, and hiring him, the “culture” of Husky football changed.

It was that change in culture that caused the downfall of Husky Nation.

The NCAA AND the PAC 10 raping the UW started the decline of UW Football, Neuheisel put it into a freefall, Willingham jump on board and is riding it into the ground.

Neuheisel wasn’t the best coach in the world, but I did like him, and I still do. I think putting the programs failure on him is just idiotic. He was a good game day coach, and to my knowledge (which on UW football is limited), he was a fairly good recruiter. I think in the long run he would have been good for the program, and would have made uw competitive in the pac ten.