Fresno State--They suffered a heart breaking loss last week at home to Hawaii 32-29 in OT, in a game they had a chance to win with 43 seconds to go in regulation. Although they were ranked #21, the Bulldogs fell out of the top 25 with the loss. They take on Idaho tonight at 7 pm at Bulldog Stadium in their Homecoming.
UW Huskies--The Huskies have the week off, so at least they won't lose. I turned on KJR Radio in the car the other day and the topic was "who should replace Ty Willingham?" I had to rush home and check the online newspapers because I thought I had missed his firing. I didn't think the Huskies morale could get any lower than it was after the Stanford loss, but with another poor showing down in Arizona last week,my guess is this maybe an all time low for them. Former UW quarterback Hugh Millen says this about the team, "It's the worst Husky football team I've ever seen. Former Husky coach Dick Baird had to go back 39 years to 1969 to find a team he thought was as bad." KJR radio personality Dave "Softy" Mahler says, "This is the worst atmosphere I have ever been a part of around this program."
My feelings:`Ty must go. All along I didn't feel he was the right fit here. Now he seems so beaten down and at a loss that I don't see him turning it around. The Dawgs can't go through another year of "let's just give him one more year." His first senior class is not very good, if they were, half the starters wouldn't be freshmen. What? We should wait for this great crop of freshman to turn into great players? I don't think any of us are that patient. The Huskies had their chance a year ago with Jim Mora just across the lake, but they let him get away. I wonder who the next coach will be?
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Injured UW quarterback Jake Locker
After the Stanford game:
What does the future hold for the UW football program? The quarterback that was supposed to resurrect the program and bring it back to national prominence has broken his thumb.
Dick Baird said after the loss, "This just is not a very good team".
As I sat and watched Ty Willingham at the post-game press conference after the game, I saw a beaten man. Hugh Millen said, "The bench looked like a beaten team with no life and no enthusiasm." He added, "How the Huskies bench acted during the game is a reliable indicator of the state of the team."
This is Willingham's fourth year and his first recruiting class are finally seniors. The program was supposed to be on the verge of turning the corner. Looking at the starting line ups--offense and defense--against Stanford, there were only five seniors in the lineup, but there were six freshman both true and red shirt. That's a lot of inexperience! You can't win big time football with that many inexperienced starting players. Jim Harbaugh told his team in a post game speech that they physically dominated the Huskies in every aspect of the game. Ty was asked if this was the toughest position he had ever been in as a head coach and his answer was, "Without question." He continued, "What is it that hasn't allowed us to get it together?"
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