Dots: Will They or Won’t They?

Football Dots

• Christian Caple gives us 6 reasons Washington both will and won’t win the Pac-12 this year in order to keep both the optimists and pessimists among us happy.
• Mike Vorel writes about Elijah Molden’s return to the Huskies in which he is hoping to meet the incredibly high standards he has set for himself.
• The 2nd edition this year of the Jimmy Lake show aired last night and you can listen to it right here:

• If you don’t have the time to listen and are a Dawgman subscriber, they have a a recap of the interview.
• Cade Otton is comfortable with his role in the new Washington offense under a new tight ends coach.
• The Pac-12 announced a COVID-19 testing contract with another company (Fulgent Genetics) to provide additional PCR testing support.
• In news that appears a bad omen as the Husky football team returned to practice, an outbreak of COVID-19 throughout Greek Row in the last several days has seen 88 positive cases so far across 8 fraternity and sorority houses.
• Unfortunately, Myles Gaskin doesn’t get to physically return to Seattle when taking on the Seahawks on Sunday since the game is in Miami but he’s doing all right for himself

• He promises he gave it his best shot, guys

Basketball Dots

• Not a surprise but Washington wasn’t one of the 5 Pac-12 programs to appear in Andy Katz’s first 2021 NCAA tournament bracket prediction.

Bonus Dots

• Our own Gabey Lucas shared her thoughts with the SB Nation LSU blog (along with other Pac-12 sites) on how to handle a loss to Mike Leach. Although in Gabey’s case it was a theoretical exercise because Husky fans actually have no idea what it feels like since the Coach K/Jimmy Lake tandem arrived.