ALL ABOARD THE RECRUITING FAILBOAT
Total number of verbals for Washington thus far for 2009? Hint: it’s the same number as the total number of successful accountants who are also flesh-eating lycanthropes!!!! Wait, we know one of those. Howard Felber. Great dude. We’ll just cut to the chase and use the scientific notation: 3.429 X 10 to the power of exactly jack and shit.
By comparison, Miami, the program Washington upended in historical fashion on two occasions in the past fifteen years, has nine verbals. Not to worry, Husky fans: rival Arkansas State doesn’t have any as of yet, either. So you’ve got that going for you. [/spackler'd]
(HT: Bill.)
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GamecockTony says:
The good news? Ty is now a three handicap.
/obligatory
July 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Atlantadomer says:
Ah here we go again. The molder of men showing his true prowess in becoming unbelievably disinterested in the program he is heading by year three.
I can’t wait to hear the pearl of wisdom Ty will bestow upon all of us to explain this. His platitudes are golden. There is no coach on the planet who can say less with more obscure references than Ty.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:16 am
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Berdingo says:
Um, i think you might need to brush up on those math skilz, lawya:
3.429 X 10^0 = 3.429
or, alternatively
(3.429 X 10)^0 = 1
July 21st, 2008 at 11:19 am
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Daniel says:
Psh… jack+shit –> -(infinity)
July 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
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yoyofutbawl says:
If only he’d hired The Orgeron this post would not be necessary. They’d have those 3.429 verbals. And, I’d like to see what a 0.429 recruit looks like.
Coach O, we miss you. Come back to CFB soon.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am
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Geaux Irish says:
Re: #3 Berdingo…
Jack sh!t = 0, not 1
http://washington.scout.com/a.z?s=147&p=9&c=8&yr=2009
July 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
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Daniel says:
#6
anything^0=1
Go back to math class
July 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
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AllWhoYonder says:
clearly, the most important aspect of this post was getting the math right.
/people completely focusing on the wrong thing
July 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
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Crabapple Buck says:
At tOSU they have 25+ verbals. Andy Geiger was wise to hire Tressel over Ty in 2001*. I wonder what our record would be under the molder of men, and whether I would have been alive to see it thru.
* He was never under consideration then, now or evah
July 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
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St Jude says:
Ty can cure cancer with just a prayer and hitting the perfect 6-iron shot.
He is a miricle from God.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
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Domer Guy says:
Clearly you all are racists for criticizing this man.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
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Football says:
“Notre Dame doesnt care about black people.”
July 21st, 2008 at 11:39 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Domer Guy,
I’m not voting for Obama either. My racism knows no bounds.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:40 am
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Nick Satan says:
25+ verbals? That ain’t shit, aight.
My process has netted – no shit, we really use nets – 427 verbals in spite of the fact we’ll only have room for 25 actual recruits next year.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
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Hooker of Horns says:
I thought anything x 0 was 0. Meaning 10^0, which is 10 x 0, would in fact = 0.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
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evanshall says:
w00t! Marshawn Lynch!!
July 21st, 2008 at 11:59 am
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UgasTexan says:
Who plays more golf, HBC or Ty?
July 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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hobeg8r says:
If the verbals are any guide, Ty does. The OBC has 10 verbals.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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PW says:
Once I saw that there were 16 comments on here, I knew it was already too late to criticize Orson’s math gaffe.
Nice save though, Daniel @ 4.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
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Doug says:
It’s obvious, isn’t it? Nick Saban stole them all.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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WarCardinals says:
#15 -
They both find the time to do a DiGiorno commercial, so I’d call it a wash
July 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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Geaux Irish says:
Daniel, not questioning the math of x ^ 0 –> 1, more along the lines of that TW doesn’t even have 1 recruit.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
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meatybob says:
I just looked at USC’s verbals. I think I am going to throw up.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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fife in the bay says:
more time, more bullets.
oh, another Seattle Times paparazzi trash article couldn’t hurt either.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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J in SD says:
Of course, this complete failure to recruit for the 2009 freshman class will really only come home to roost in 2012 when that “class” will be in their third year and Washington is starting freshman and sophomores at critical positions because they have no juniors. But the college football world will not appreciate the essence of the long fused timebomb that this really is because that would actually require more than the most superficial of analysis.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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fife in the bay says:
@ J in SD
they’re starting freshman and sophs right now. so i guess uw will be used to it?
i see what youre saying though
July 21st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
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J in SD says:
God help all Husky fans. This was a very proud program at one time that used to punch USC and Miami in the mouth.
July 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
Re: mathematical impotence: we plead English major.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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Berdingo says:
The capsules link on the rivals page says it best:
“Washington has no recruits”
July 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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Berdingo says:
BTW, Orson, if you can plead English Major on math questions, can I plead Engineer on all english/grammar mistakes? It only seems fair….
July 21st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
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NDEddieMac says:
Damn, you mean all the good golf jokes AND the pizza commercial jokes have been taken? Oh well, guess that’s what I get for being a racist that wanted Ty fired right?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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Rob says:
“I thought anything x 0 was 0. Meaning 10^0, which is 10 x 0, would in fact = 0.”
10^0 can’t be expressed as 10×0.
Consider 10^2/10^2. When you divide two figures like that with like bases, you subtract the bottom exponent from the top – which gives you 10^(2-2), or simply 10^0. 10^2/10^2 = 1, so it follows that 10^0 = 1 as well.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
When Orson started this blog, he was told that there would be no math.
And consequently, when Ty took over the UW gig, he was told there would be no recruiting, just cloning of Jake Locker. Who wants to go to Washington? Bunch of snow, rain and hippies. Only thing good from UW is the UW team from the early 90’s with them speedsters.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
That is the UW team from NCAA 2009, the 91 huskies
July 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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skinnyphatman says:
You are assuming of course, that “exactly jack and shit” equals zero. Not so fast my friend. “Exactly jack and shit” is a mathmatical number all its own, and in fact 10^ “exactly jack and shit” equals zero. Look it up.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
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Domer Guy says:
Pelican @ 33:
Not to get all meteorological on your ass (there is too much nerdery in these comments already), but there isn’t much snow in Seattle. Rain on the other hand, yessir.
/rant from northwest-born non-hippie
July 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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eers2snow says:
yo 10^0 =1…don’t give the huskies that much credit.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
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George says:
It’s been too long without football when, despite my blinding hatred for old Ty, my first impulse was to correct the exponent.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
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John in KY says:
Nick Saban doesn’t have time for this shit…
[since everyone is kickin around jokes that are old news to us irish fans…thought i’d kick around a retired bama joke.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 am