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by John Berkowitz on Aug 29, 2009 7:11 AM PDT
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PrintHappy Saturday morning...one week until the 2009 Husky Football campaign kicks off!
Just a few updates as we head into the weekend:
Captains Named
The Huskies named their 2009 Captains last night at the Raise the Woof celebration. Ryan Tolar and Jake Locker will be the offensive captains, while Donald Butler and Daniel Teo Nesheim are in charge of the defense. Of note, Jake is the first underclassman to be elected as a team captain since Marques Tuiasosopo in 1999.
Mock Game
Washington played a mock game Friday night in full-dress uniforms. The practice was open to neither the public nor media, and was called "full walk-through" by the coaches, with the purpose of preparing the team for game-day situations. Foremost among he changes will be the energy and emotion displayed by the team; expect the squad to hit the field at full throttle.
Recruiting
Chris Fetters of Dawgman.com believes Washington will host as many as twenty PSA's for the LSU game. Some of these high school players are among the best in California, as the Huskies continue to recruit that state aggressively.
Bowl Games
The Pac 10 signed a four-year agreement with the Alamo Bowl yesterday, sending its second-place team to face the Big 12's number two squad. The Holiday Bowl will now be the home of the Pac 10's number three team each season.
This move allows the conference a greater payday, though down the road though it may prove to strain relations with the San Diego-based Holiday Bowl.
Coming Attractions
Starting Monday, we will beging taking a closer look at our first opponent, LSU.
Have a great weekend!
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DT Nesheim
Check out the picture on Sark’s page. That kid’s a stud! He’s gonna do some serious damage this year! The new uniforms look pretty good too!
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Holt the Jolt!
Bobby C has a good article on the intense one. He does allude a bit to the fact that a new head coach has to have a chance to succeed. But I absolutely don’t want to get Crazi and Lear going on this again! :O(…GO DAWGS!!
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Oh I almost forgot...
…aWesome baby!
Washington Husky Football-Undefeated 1991 National Champions 12-0!
Awesome!
You don’t want us yelling at each other for no good reason? I don’t understand!
If Holt’s attitude and personality rub off on the players, it’ll be like watching a completely different team! I WANT TO SEE SOME EMOTION AGAINST LSU!
GO DAWGS
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
by Lear Pilot on Aug 29, 2009 9:03 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
All this is Welcomed at Washington
All the energy, passion, and excitement was desperately needed. We need to come out of that tunnel like CRAZED & RABID DAWGS! But I have to keep everything in perspective. The energy, passion, and excitement is back- but none of that means a dam thing unless we come out of that tunnel with our hair on fire and ready to GET ITON!
LSU is a very worthy opponent and to play with them will require everything we’ve got. No, I’m not talking about wins here vs. LSU fellas. I’m talking about “playing with them”- it’s going to take everything we’ve got to stay with them. Can we do that? Yes. Is there a slight possibility that we could win? Yes. Yet everything you need to know about this football team will be on display when and how we come out of that tunnel. That is what I am waiting to see, where it will be a great indicator as to how this coaching staff has reshaped the mindset, the coaches and players are complete battle-ready, and that we have the confidence in ourselves to stay with one of the premere giants in the game.
We have to be LSU-ready the very moment we come out of that tunnel. And purple clad Husky fans everywhere in the stadium need to offer LSU a huge welcome to HuskyNation by beeing louder then a Boeing-built airliner and close blank range!
Go Dawgs! WOOF!!!
All I saw was purple
Agree 100% - Didn't expect that one did ya!
I couldn’t agree more, it’s not about the result, I don’t care if we lose, as long as we are ripping their heads off while we lose! I want to see energy, passion, and FIRE!!!!! I want to see guys jacked up because they just leveled a LSU player!! Make them feel pain!!!
P.S. – Louder than a 707, the older the airplane the louder they are! I want Husky stadium ROCKING!!!!
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
I care if we lose- because I expect to win. Yet I know what your are saying. If we can come out of that tunnel with our hair on fire, get and keep the crowd in a hostile frenzy. I want the mad hatter and the bayou tigers to know that we came to WIN.
I’m tired of valant efforts, giving it the college try, and moral victories. We need to come out and compete and play to win. And you do that by being prepared and confident in your abilities.
Offensively we needent worry about LSU’s personnel on defense. The coaches will put together a sound offensive gameplan and hopefully it will be something that we can execute effectively in order to score enough points for the win. Defensively we need to look at everything from personnel, to schemes, and to formations. Don’t try to take everything away, just take something away.
That something is the bread and butter of LSU. Stopping the bread and butter LSU scheme will carry over to other LSU schemes and we just might find ourselves being more effective on defense then what we initially thought. Don’t try and take everything away, just take something away is the best defensive approach.
Go Dawgs! WOOF!!!
All I saw was purple
We want to be up but let's not get too amped...
…I mean, there is a balancing act there. Let’s build it up until it breaks loose at the kickoff!
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Raise the WOOF!!
Sounds like it was a rousing success. DJ was there, the Washington Official Site has a nice photo gallery of the event. Donald Butler has some guns on him!
Washington Husky Football-Undefeated 1991 National Champions 12-0!
It was a great event, very much looking forward to it becoming an annual deal.
Everything you’ve read about our coaching staff is correct – they all exude energy (well, maybe not Cozzetto) and passion and fire, and they are motivators.
Good cop ... bad cop
Coz is playing the bad cop. And it fits for his role as the offensive line coach and running coordinator. Why? Because offensive linemen don’t necessarily need adreneline or play with heart. A good offensive line is very cerebral and tend to take a business approach to their assignments. Ever notice how very seldom do you hear anything negative about O linemen? Coaches want mentally stable bodies playing on the O line, guys that can work together to get a job done. They are businessmen dressed in a football suit.
Their response to a big play that was successful due to their blocking? They just get back to the huddle and say “let’s do it again fellas”. The most excitement you’ll see out of them is a helmet to helmet head butt. And I firmly believe Coz is the right guy to teach offensivle line leverage, blocking schemes, and developing quality O linemen. Theres more to the offensive line then being talented and bigger then the next guy. It’s mostly skill, fundamentals, and technique. All 3 can be taught.
Love Coz! WOOF!!!
All I saw was purple
Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t criticizing Cozzetto. He is who he is, an older coach who is a hard-a$$, tough love coach. My only point is that he’s a definite contrast with the rest of the staff in terms of personality, and he acknowledged it himself last night. He’s never going to be a guy leading chants with his crew, dancing around and sharing elaborate hand shake/fist bump routines with his guys. And that’s fine.
Agreed- but that is why he was a brilliant hire
O linemen want their runningback mates to pay dirt. Always the first guys to celebrate in the endzone are 2 or 3 big O line guys hugging the crap out of the ballcarrier. But between the lines it’s all business as it should be. Good O linemen are taught not to celebrate until someone crosses the goal line. This fits Coz’s personality well.
I want our coaches (all of them) to be rah-rah guys. It creates energy and excitement for the entire team. Yet the only two guys I don’t want to see leading the cheers are-
1) Offensive line Coach- it’s business as usual until someone crosses the goal line. O linemen doing their job time and again. Once the ball crosses the goal line the O linemen can get on tv and celebrate with the RB in the endzone all they want- but not until then.
2) Offensive Coordinator- this guy is in charge of calling the series of plays. He must stay cool and collected so that he can think rationally about how to set up the next series of plays. His job is to call first down plays as often as he can and you can’t do that without having a cool, level head.
I think once Coz gets what he wants out of the guys he is asigned to, I think the hard ass stuff might loosen up a tad. Until then he must ride them until either they quit or get it right. One way or another Coz is going to see it get done.
All I saw was purple
Don't fool yourself Crazi...
…there’s a battle going on in the trenches on every snap!
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He may be the silent type...
…until he bites your head off!!
Washington Husky Football-Undefeated 1991 National Champions 12-0!
Bowl arrangements
I don’t think that relations will be strained between the Pac-10 and the Holiday Bowl. College football, when it comes down to it, is a business, and the Holiday Bowl understands that if the Alamo is ready to pony up more cash to the conference for its second place team then that’s just the way it is. The Holiday Bowl could have tried to outbid the Alamo Bowl but obviously they felt it wouldn’t be profitable to do so. I don’t think they’ll have any hard feelings over that toward the conference or anyone else. Why would they?
Agree.
The Holiday Bowl still gets access to a top tier Pac 10 team and a “local draw” without having to pay market value for the #2 team. Its a good deal for them all the way around.
Vegas lights shine bright off of Gekko's mojo.
I like it too
Yet I am still waiting for a bowl matchup with the SEC. Why don’t we get the SEC? One has to wonder. My thoughts? The SEC bowl games are all in their neck of the woods right now. Why leave the deep south? If we were to create a bowl matchup with the SEC, chances are they’d have to venture out west and that is not going to happen.
Rarely do SECers come out of the south- rarely. Why would they when they have everything they want at home and more? I give credit to LSU coming up to the Pacific NW in both basketball and football. I give credit to Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, and Arkansas for going out to LA. Georgia visited Arizona State last season and it was the first time out west in the history of the program. But when has Florida come out west? Have you seen their pathetic schedule?
The Alamo Bowl could become as entertaining as the Holiday Bowl- I welcome it. We’ve had lousy bowl affiliations for too long- adding the Alamo is a step up.
All I saw was purple
Wasn't DTN a captain last year?
Not like the Utah Jazz... it's about REAL jazz. Go Dawgs, Go Blazers!
Holt recognition
So this year after a huge hit, or defensive stand, is everybody going to start yelling AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME!?
Bowl Creation
The Pac 10 created the first and greatest bowl and has not created a single bowl since then.
Bowl creation in the West has to be a major objective of the Pac Ten in coming years. The SEC has a great bowl structure because they were intrumental in creating them.
John what do you think...
Now that we have the Alamo Bowl how does this look on paper.
Rose Bowl- Pac 10 champ vs. Big 10 champ
Alamo Bowl- 2nd place Pac 10 vs. 2nd place Big 12
Holiday Bowl- 3rd place Pac 10 vs. 3rd place SEC
Sun Bowl- 4th place Pac 10 vs. 4th place Big East
Emerald Bowl- 5th place Pac 10 vs. 5th place ACC
Las Vegas Bowl- 6th place Pac 10 vs. 3rd place Mountain West
I assume since adding a 5th BCS Bowl, we don’t have to worry about the Pac 10 not playing in the grand daddy of em’ all anymore. When the BCS National championship game is hosted by Pasadena, they now have the Rose Bowl and then host the BCS National Championship game following- correct?
I like my idea of bringing in the SEC to play in the Holiday Bowl vs. the Pac 10- how intense would that bowl be?
All I saw was purple
LSU
So apparently they’re thinking it’s going to be a blow out. I love the comments from their QB saying they’ve got “a chip on their shoulder” and that he “loves to play on the road”. What is he going to say? That he really doesn’t relish making long road trips and hates to play in hostile environments!?
Husky Fans need to REALLY turn up the volume Saturday! GO DAWGS!!
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The Volume will be UP!
We’re going to win this game.
We need to be a factor...
..and get into their QB’s head! Make those big olineman do “The Husky Stadium Shuffle”!
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The second coming of
“All I saw was Purple” is what we need, the energy we saw at Raise the Woof from the players and coaches will help get the fans fired up. IMHO
USC Report: Ronald Johnson is OUT
Just heard USC star WR Ronald Johnson is out for 6 to 8 weeks. With less then a week to go for kickoff, this might alter Pete Carroll’s plans and this might be something that could play to our advantage. Stay tuned…
All I saw was purple
As much as I want UW to beat USC
I also want USC to beat the CRAP out of Ohio State. We need USC to be good as a conference to be respectable and UW to get better to be Dominant.
Hayes Pullard
Just saw on Dawgman that Pullard has offers from just about everybody- except for Florida. It looks daunting that we’d get him, but…
We are the only school on his list that has him scheduled for a visit. Now I am not sure how much that would weigh in on his list of priorities, because he’s from SoCal and can visit USC and Ucla anytime he wants just by getting on his Shwinn bicycle.
Yet what it tells me is that this coaching staff is working overtime and around the clock to get the very best talent. We are the only ones who have him down as an official visitor and that says something.
Think this cat would be the next coming of a dude named Dave Hoffman, but with faster wheels!
All I saw was purple
Historically...
…half the battle is just getting kids to visit. The University with it’s great location etc, sells itself. The state of California is a disaster. I wonder if any of that factors into some of these kids decisions to get the hey out of Dodge?
Washington Husky Football-Undefeated 1991 National Champions 12-0!
It may be a disaster, but it’s their home. And when you have pride in your home then that’s all that really matters.
I personally think Don James did a great job of recruiting would-be USC kids and got them up here. How did he get them up here? Many of the SoCal kids grow up dreaming of being a USC Trojan and that is home to them. What I think James did was he had the ability to get the fandom out of the recruit and gave them the opportunity to dream of going elsewhere- out of the hood and still play national championship level college football.
You know dawgfan, I’m not too sure as to how Sark and Holt are getting the kids we’ve gotten thus far. We were stinking 0-12 and we’ve got kids that would make Oregon and Cal drool over. What’s up? I realize the campus is beautiful, the Stadium is spectacular, and it is all nestled away in a great city like Seattle. Sark mentioned that before he got into coaching, he was selling a product that hadn’t been manufactured yet- AND HE SOLD IT. This is exactly what he’s been doing up here since arriving. Washington has not manufactured a product yet [see our last season record], but the program is selling and the unmanufactured product has a freakin’ back order. This is crazi!
Not sure if Pullard will commit. I think in order to get him we must beat LSU and make a very strong showing vs. USC. If we drop like flies vs. LSU and USC comes up here and lays the wood on us- Pullard is going to be gone. I think this cat is the next big Mike linebacker on the West Coast- He and Holt would mesh very well through out his college career. The LSU game will be huge in landing some of these bigtime recruits. Sark knows it … Holt knows it … and we know it.
Pullard we want YOU! WOOF!!!
All I saw was purple
You said a mouthful!
Sark and Holt
are getting the kids we’ve gotten thus far. We were stinking 0-12 and we’ve got kids that would make Oregon and Cal drool over. What’s up? I realize
the campus is beautiful, the Stadium is spectacular, and it is all nestled away in a great city like Seattle.
These are bigger factors than we know. Yeah a kid wants to play for a program that gets exposure and is a winner but they also have to LIVE in that city and environment for 4 or 5 years.
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Playing time baby...
…he can be in on the ground floor of the turn around. Montlake will rock again! We’ve got one starter coming back at the LB position next year. Could this stud backer see himself starting for the Purple and Gold as a true freshman?!
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Good news on Nick Rowland – he canceled two of the four official visits he had scheduled. Out are Cal and Stanford. Still standing are Oregon and the UW, with ASU also likely in the mix (though no official visit scheduled yet).
I like the momentum I’m seeing with Rowland. It could very well be that he sees what’s going on with this recruiting class and is willing to jump on board.
I think Sark still needs to win 4+ games this year to keep all these stud recruits in the fold and get more to join, but where a few months ago I figured we didn’t have much of a shot with Rowland, here we are and the Dawgs are in the thick of it for him.
Go Sark!!!
I’m with you Kirk – we need to win 4-5 games and consistantly be pretty competative to keep everyone on board.
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