Dots: Embracing Washington's Bye Week

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Football Dots

• UWTV has footage of Chris Petersen's Monday press conference, where the coach talked about Saturday's struggles and what the Dawgs hope to accomplish during their bye week.
  
  
• Make sure to bookmark Bill Connelly's page breaking down Washington's advanced statistical analysis for the 2015 season.
  
  
• Dave Softy Mahler, Hugh Millen and Dick Baird hosted a fiery Husky Honks show yesterday, breaking down the loss to Cal and looking ahead to USC.
  
  
• Adam Jude writes about Petersen's efforts to improve the offense by leading with the carrot rather than the stick.
  
  
• Tani Tupou opened up to the Everett Herald about being asked by Steve Sarkisian's staff to move on from the Washington program.
  
  
• The Dawgman guys spoke with 2016 cornerback commit Kentrell Love and 2017 defensive end/tight end prospect Malik Thirdgill ($) about their experience Saturday at Husky Stadium. Also, Scott Eklund reports that Washington extended 2018 quarterback Jacob Sirmon his first scholarship offer; check out the Dawg Pound discussion of that development here.
  
  
• USA Today slots the Huskies at No. 61 in their re-ranking of all 128 FBS programs.
  
  
• Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch writes about how television networks in general, and ESPN specifically, are grappling with the fact that college football games keep getting longer.
  
  
• For those of you who are still bummed about Saturday's loss, I say to you: Cheer up! It could be worse. After all, we could be Arkansas fans.
  

Basketball Dots

• Dawgman's Aaron Beach gives his weekly update on the state of the roundball program.