I think they are continuing to interview just so they have a firm backup, if Mora says no.

Kelly, I would love to see him hired if Mora stays with the Hawks, but he is a west coast guy to the core, and in the end I don’t think he would move his family out here.

If Mora says no, I think we are stuck settling with Pat Hill, and that would be very, very sad.

I think Woodward knows the score. He’s going to do what it takes to get some serious mileage out of this hire. Hill doesn’t do that. I’d rather see them hire Turner Gill or another up and coming coordinator. If you want to look at pluses with Hill it’s that he IS a California based head coach and has been for years. He would at least know the territory and have at least most of a complete staff quickly in place. He also fits the profile of a Seattle coach, believing in a strong running game. I’m not sure how his defenses and special teams have fared? My reservations about him are just that the Husky fan base needs that “WOW” factor and Hill doesn’t do that. I can see instant revenue increases if Mora or Kelly get hired.

http://washington.scout.com/2/817131.html

The comments below tells alot of where the program is out and where the leadership of coach Ty is at with this team. It all starts from the top…..I supported Ty and now with more stuff coming out…I cannot stand the man and am soo sorry for supporting him.

When people talk about how physically undeveloped the team is the comments below support the fact.

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"After a year of watching the team play the younger players aren’t sugar-coating anything. They realize things need to change and they need to do their part to make things better at Montlake. The coaches might like what they see out of the team’s habits, but at least one true freshman thinks the players can do a lot better.

"I’ve definitely learned a lot from sitting back and watching the whole team and how everything works," said Glenn. "There definitely needs to be some changes around here; guys not showing up to workouts and late to this and that. We realize that as a class and we’re going to try fix those things and turn this thing around.

"From my perspective, people don’t take (work ethic) as seriously as it needs to be changed"

Big ND fan who started following Udub when my sister moved to Washington in ‘01. Just wondering where the info is coming that Charlie Weis may be fired Friday? Could you pass along where you picked that up? Notre Dame has a big football banquet this Friday and it would seem strange to fire him the same day. Brian Kelly is going to be a killer coach, he’s the next Urban Meyer. If the Irish do fire Charlie Weis, Brian Kelly would be my first choice. Love college football and I’ll be interested to see how the Huskies coaching search develops as it could have an impact on my Irish, if Charlie Weis is indeed on his way out…

I’m sure it’s just that! There is a lot of angst out there because Willingham was fired at ND after 3 seasons. They reason that if Willingham was fired then Weiss should be too. Fair is fair right? Wrong, completely different situations. I think the fact that Weiss has recruited so well it buys him at least another year. If he tanks next season, I think he’ll be gone.

hmmm Huskyhalfbrains.com calls Mora to UW. Has Race totally lost his mind this time? more brain f***ery? He says some crazy, funny, sarcastic stuff sometimes, but I really doubt he would post that if he didn’t have solid info

I’m for Mora and hope he takes the job.

I also hope he doesn’t turn out to be another Charlie Weiss. I think that Weiss’ ego created problems for him, and he also wasn’t a HC at one point in his career. Also, I think he benefited from cheating while with the Pats (and I’m a Pats fan, by the way). But maybe it’s harder to go from the NFL to college football than we realize.

Anyway, I hope he takes it and does better than Weiss. And that he provides a clear schematic advantage for the Huskies when on the field, too.

Did you read Condotta’s blog? There is some strange mojo out there!

I’m personally not that high on Mora especially if it is taking hi this long to decided if he want to coach at the school which is suppose to be his dream job. Bottom line, he has never really won??

Hill, if he does bring anythig he goingto bring som much need toughness to UW. I’ve never known the Huskies to be so soft even before the days of Chico Fraley have the Huskies not been this weak.

My choice would have been Christiansen just given that he is young and has something to prove at his alma mater and you can’t refute the bloodlines.

I would love to see Charlie Strong in the Mix but I’m not mad at Brian Kelly either.

There is someone out there that is being strongly considered for the job that the media and internet guru’s haven’t mentioned yet.

So who is it? Or was Hugh sworn to secrecy!?

Brian Billick?

I remember how absolutely pissed off the usc faithful were when they hired Pete Caroll.

Sounds like they are both hireable…is that a word? Whittingham is making less than 700,000 and new contract talks have broken off with Petersen. I’m not sure what the pecking order is for coaches but these guys are open! It was funny reading what Petersen said, he would not close the door on the possibility of leaving. The guy could more than double his salary, why wouldn’t you?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008457886_convention02m.html

I believe oregon’s new 200 million dollar basketball stadium is funded by tax dollars. I think the state also kicked in for osu’s football stadium upgrade. That is where we’re at folks. We live in a state with more money and can’t even finance half of a “renovation”. This is still going to be Husky Stadium with a lot of what is there just being dressed up. I think the lower bowl will be completely replaced and I would have to think that the south side will be seriously worked over. I think that was added on to in like 1958.

It’s apparently OK for billionaire owners of professional sports teams to get palatial stadiums built for their teams but public universities who generate huge amounts of tax money get nothing. I don’t have a good feeling about this. Hence I want to know what the fall back plan is?

I’ve thought for a while he was going to be our coach based on how much interest he had in the position before and how much interest he had in the UCLA opening last year. He really wants to get on the west coast. I think it’’s come down to Mora if they can get him or Leach if they can’t. I see it as a win/win.

if Leach is hired. To me he has biggest “Wow” effect of all those that have been talked about. I think our class could turn out pretty good if Leach comes here in the next week or two.

Peterson or Leach………