That picture is Autzen Stadium in August 2008. I took to the road to see Washington’s season opener with naive expectations that the Huskies would be able to compete with the Ducks and that it would be a glorious beginning to a year that would culminate in bowl eligibility for the Huskies. A halftime 10-7 score had me brimming with optimism.

I ended up leaving the stadium midway through the second half.

For kids like Jermaine Kearse, Senio Kelemente, Chris Polk, and Alameda Ta’amu, kids that are now household names for Husky fans, this was the start of Husky careers that will come full circle at CenturyLink field tomorrow.

The class of… Continue reading

Chris Polk > LeMichael James

Chris Polk’s Heisman campaign starts today!…

There’s a saying in football. The back-up quarterback is usually the most popular player on the team.

What’s up, Nick Montana?

Dubbed Savior 2.0. The next generation after Locker. Nick Montana was supposed to be the kid who makes us forget about the whole Jake Heaps forsaking the home town team thing.

The Huskies are a perfect 2-0 without Jake Locker, but it’s not because of the Son of Joe.

Meet Keith Price, the starting quarterback for your University of Washington Huskies.

Everything about Keith Price’s Washington career has thus far been pretty unceremonious.

417 yards and 7 touchdowns and two wins in his first two games as ‘the’ starter of the Washington Huskies might not even be enough to change that quickly. But… Continue reading

Eastern Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell sure likes to talk the talk.

“They are picking this game for a reason,” the FCS national champion quarterback told Dave Softy Mahler on KJR 950 AM. “They want to come in and get an easy win to start the season out, and I know how that is… (Washington will) just prepare differently. And we are going to take full advantage of that and just try to come out and smack them in the mouth.”

I’m glad he thinks this. Levi has won a lot of football games for the Eagles because he has that kind of mentality. This is probably the same mentality that the divine and holy savior Jake Locker had in so many games in which the Huskies themselves were hopelessly outmatched, albeit… Continue reading

National signing day might as well be a Holiday. And around these parts, Steve Sarkisian just might be Santa Claus.

But he’s not dropping down your chimney and leaving you presents.

Instead, in exchange for your milk and cookies Sark is delivering the Husky faithful…athletes. Lean, mean, football playing machines.

Oh and signing day 2011 was a good one. According to the three major online recruiting services, Scout, Rivals and ESPNU, the Huskies reeled in a Top 25 class. In a majority of cases, that is correlated with wins down the road.

Husky Nation must have been on good behavior.

But in years past Dawg fans must have been naughty, because past UW coaches delivered coal on signing day more often than not. How else… Continue reading

We’ve spent all year trying to figure out who this Washington team was.

After a mind numbing loss to BYU in the opener we were all of a sudden questioning the heart of our Heisman contending quarterback.

After a humbling loss to Nebraska, we were wondering if this team was any good.

After a last second victory against USC all of a sudden our hope was renewed, and we developed a trend with our Cardiac dawgs.

After a thrilling OT win against Oregon State the trend continued. Maybe, just maybe, we were comfortable with our Huskies.

After three blowout losses in a row to the top three teams in the Conference we were once again humbled and threw into panic mode. Locker was hurt and… Continue reading

Suit up Mr. Keith Price. This is why you came to Washington. Your time is now.

Well, for at least a week.

After two weeks of a stagnant, quite pathetic, Husky offense, Sarkisian has drawn the line. Jake Locker is sitting.

Wait, what? Locker benched? Well, not quite.

The tipping point is because of the rib injuries that Locker has sustained over the course of the last month. It’s been revealed that what started off a ‘bruise’ or ‘hairline fracture’ of the ribs suffered against Oregon State, has progressed into full on cracked ribs after getting rocked by the Stanford Cardinal.

Insult to injury after he was stagnated against Arizona State four weeks ago with a thigh bruise.

The evidence of these injuries has… Continue reading