Thursday Dots: Staying Positive

Football Dots

• Washington has waited a very very long time to play a football game and it’s entirely possible they have to wait another week after the news from Cal’s program that 1 player has tested positive and many others are going through contact tracing.

• They aren’t the only program to announce issues with positive COVID tests as the UW baseball team paused workouts and there are 9 active positive tests among Husky athletes at the moment per an update from the school.

• Meanwhile, local public health agencies denied the request for family members of players to be allowed to attend home games at Husky Stadium this year.
• Christian Caple recaps OC John Donovan’s media appearance and goes back to people involved with his offenses at Vanderbilt.
• Jimmy Lake had his edition of the Coaches Show last night and you can read up on the notes here or listen for yourself.

• More clarity on the unfortunate injury for Myles Gaskin who had taken full control of the starting running back job in Miami just as the team was surging.

• Meanwhile, Dante Pettis who was waived by the 49ers on Tuesday was claimed by the New York Giants who are one of the worst teams in the league and therefore had the 2nd highest priority to pick him up. WR is one of their deeper positions however with Sterling Shepard, Golden Tate, and Darius Slayton.

Basketball Dots

• Washington comes in at 79th overall in Matt Norlander’s 1-357 ranking of every team in college basketball.
• KenPom has the Huskies similarly ranked 75th overall in what are viewed as the gold standard of college basketball computer projections.