HOT TAKE: Losing Bobby Wagner is worse than losing Russell Wilson. BWagz was the RW of the defense, minus the circus. Truly the end of an era now.
#Seahawks
I had to look it up:
@UW_Football
went from 114th last year in total offense to 2nd this year. SECOND. And yet that's not good enough for Ryan Grubb to win the
@BroylesAward
? That's wild.
I know the national media will only focus on the reaction with Caleb Williams and his family, but
@UW_Football
fans hopefully got to see
@KalenDeBoer
and
@ztupufet
crying together post-game. A special moment for a special man who had to be really hurting today.
So
@UW_Football
is getting penalized for the egregious sin of playing in a league that decided it was vital to eliminate divisions now instead of doing it when the playoffs expanded to 12 teams. IMHO, UW fans have every reason to be salty about this turn of events.
@Dawgman247
Just took a quick look to confirm, but I believe this
@UW_Football
team is the first team in program history to play at least 4 ranked teams and go unbeaten in those games. Amazing.
@Dawgman247
"All my life I rep Seattle. I've repped it to the extreme. I've always said it's the best city in the world. There's no lie in that, and I still believe that, and I'm going to be at the Greatest Setting in College Football. So I'm excited." - Sav'ell Smalls.
Regardless of how you feel about the dissolution of the Pac-12 Conference, the end of Pac-12 officiating can’t come soon enough. It’s not funny anymore, it’s just sad.
#Pac12
#NCAA
#CFB
These fixtures will be lit up in Purple & Gold Sunday and Monday around Seattle.
@UW_Football
#PurpleReign
Space Needle
Great Wheel
Washington Ferries
T-Mobile Park
Lumen Field
Columbia Tower
Sheraton Grand Seattle
Amazon Spheres
Rainier Square
1201 Third Ave.
Federal Way PAC
Sam Huard tells the
#Dawgman
guys on
@SportsRadioKJR
that he wanted to commit early to help recruit the 2021 class, especially the in-state players. Thinks it could be the best class ever.
#Dawgman
INSTANT REAX, re: Smalls staying home. This is huge, people. The State of Washington isn't necessarily blessed with 5-star talent every year, but when shows up, it's essential to keep those players home. Doesn't happen often, but reason to celebrate when it does. Monster get.
Fabiculanan said he's recruiting his
@UW_Football
teammates hard to stay but respects whatever decisions they end up making for themselves. "Just know we're in great hands," when mentioning new HC Jedd Fisch.
@Dawgman247
@Softykjr
@dickfain
@933KJR
Nick Saban is touting Alabama's 3-0 finish as a data point in their favor when trying to get into the
#CFP
. So what about
@UW_Football
's 6-0 finish? Does that matter at all when trying for a NY6 game? 3 road wins, 2 over ranked teams... Is the committee paying attention at all?
Myles Gaskin is closing in on some huge records. He needs 39 yards to get to 5000 career yards. Only four have done it in Pac-12 history. He needs 94 yards to get to 1000 yards on the season, and would be the first RB in Pac-12 history with four 1000-yard seasons.
#Dawgman
#MMFG
Covered that 2011 P12 title game, still one of the greatest individual performances ever. Congratulations to
@isaiahthomas
on this deserved honor.
#hometeam
legend.
Per the Washington Athletic Club,
@UW_Football
OL Troy Fautanu and UCLA DL Laiatu Latu have won the 44th Morris Trophy Awards, annually given to the top Pac-12 OL and DL as voted on by their peers. They will be honored on January 18 in Seattle.
@Dawgman247
Looks like UW stirred up a hornet's nest at UCLA with not allowing Colson Yankoff immediate eligibility. But why should they? There was no special dispensation. He just wanted to leave. No different than Jacob Eason. Eason sat out, Yankoff should too. Easy call.
Whoever the new staff is, they've got their work cut out for them in a big way. Lake utterly destroyed Petersen's culture brick by brick. Hard not to feel for the players who returned to experience this catastrophe.
#AppleCup
@UW_Football
@Dawgman247
So
@UW_Football
fans should take the week off social networks because it’s going to be relentless. No one is going to give the Huskies a shot in hell. But here’s the thing; they have been doubted every week since beating Oregon. Every week. This week will be no different.
Mike Leach v. UW (yards passing)
2014: 31-13 (355)
2015: 45-10 (288)
2016: 45-17 (269)
2017: 41-14 (369)
2018: 28-15 (152)
2019: 31-13 (308)
Mike Leach at LSU
2020: 44-34 (623)
Washington State fans have to be livid. And
@CoachLakeUDUB
is laughing his ass off.
#AppleCup
In less buzz-worthy
@UW_Football
news at the moment, but still very important - senior safety Alex Cook won the Guy Flaherty Most Inspirational Award at tonight's post-season banquet.
@Dawgman247
.
Ryan Grubb is reportedly leaving Alabama for the NFL two days after Signing Day, when he announced himself as the new Crimson Tide OC. This already ridiculous postseason takes another turn for the absurd. At least this time around
@UW_Football
fans will enjoy this bit of news.
What we saw at
@UW_Football
fall camp was a mirage. Smoke and mirrors. Because it wasn't this. It wasn't great, but it definitely wasn't this. And Scott Huff needs to get as much heat as John Donovan right now. His OL is underperforming at a level I didn't know was possible.
#CFB
We heard the
#CFP
harp on
@UW_Football
's loss at Arizona State this week...but do the Huskies get credit for a current 6-game winning streak, including three road wins and two wins over ranked teams? They always tell us the games you remember are played in November.
@Dawgman247
BREAKING: Seattle (Wash.) Garfield athlete Rahshawn Clark just announced he will play for the hometown Washington Huskies and he talks about why he's staying home for his collegiate career
Kennedy Head Coach Sheldon Cross puts the word out: UW fans need to come to CenturyLink Field Friday night to show Sam Huard, Sav'ell Smalls, and the Kennedy players some
#PurpleReign
love.
@Dawgman247
@SportsRadioKJR
Crazy to think 10 years after 0-12, UW is now Running to the Roses and playing in their third NY6 game in three years. It seems a lot longer than it's really been. A phenomenal turnaround.
#Dawgman
Just to give some context,
@UWSoftball
just beat the winningest pitcher in
#WCWS
history. 8-0 until today. Shut out Oklahoma at the WS for only the second time in their history. And it was basically a home game for the Sooners. A monumental win for the Huskies.
Seattle and
@UW_Football
fam we have a deeper problem that needs to be identified, addressed and resolved. If we simply believe these events are by chance then we're fooling ourselves.
#PurpleReign
Nine
@UW_Football
players are playing this fall having already earned their degrees. Congratulations to them!
#OKG
#BuiltForLife
Shane Bowman
Jaylen Johnson
Kaleb McGary
Jojo McIntosh
Matt Preston
Max Richmond
Drew Sample
Sean Vergara
Jake Wambaugh
INSTANT REAX, re: Owen Prentice to UW...HUGE get...Huff keeps the O'Dea pipeline flowing...probably best in-state interior OL since Josh Garnett...pancakes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Very good athlete, best football still ahead of him.
#PurpleReign
#woof
@Dawgman247
The two teams that had
@UW_Football
players playing today - Cincinnati and the LA Rams - are both going to the Super Bowl. That's FIVE Huskies: Drew Sample, Jake Browning, Greg Gaines, Taylor Rapp, and Coleman Shelton. Good luck guys!
@Dawgman247
With the win over No. 19 UCLA, Arizona has defeated three consecutive ranked opponents for the first time in program history 😼
@MGMRewards
Highlights ⤵️
For those
@UW_Football
fans who think Kalen DeBoer just turned UW into Fresno State North, fewer coaches traveled with him from Fresno State to Seattle (6 of 10) than followed Chris Petersen from Boise State (8 of 9). Seemed to work out okay the first time.
@Dawgman247
The
@UW_Football
alums have been rallying huge ever since the news of DeBoer's departure, and the Huskies need to find a way to get Cort back on the field with his alma mater. He bleeds Purple and Gold.
And since I’m on Twitter tonight and love my alma mater,
@UWHuskies_AD
is going to make the right hire to keep this thing going. Stay positive, stay invested. I wish nothing but the best for Coach DeBoer but the UW program is going to be in good hands. Believe that 💯
That's 21 wins in a row for
@UW_Football
, and Kalen DeBoer is now 25-2 at UW. Will play Michigan in a classic Big Ten/Pac-12 matchup for it all in a week. Shades of 1991 all over again.
@Dawgman247
Throw back to Jordan Lolohea's commit to UW. He's expected to sign a scholarship letter and enroll in January with five years to play four after serving a two-year mission.
@Dawgman247
From DeBoer to Fisch, Hopkins to Sprinke, Cohen to Dannen to Chun - the
@UW
top brass navigated serious choppy waters the last six months and came through the other side bloodied but unbowed in their push toward the Big Ten. Exciting times ahead for
@UWAthletics
.
If I'm UW, I take the first game I find and don't look back. SDSU? Super. Army? Awesome. The opponent doesn't matter. If BYU wants to wait to see if their
#CFP
fever dream lives for another week, cool. UW can't afford to wait. They need a guaranteed game a lot more.
@Dawgman247
So
@UW_Football
ends up 10-4. They lost their first game by five and their last game by 5. They lost their four games by a total of 15 points. I think that might qualify as a 'what could have been' season...
#Dawgman
Is it possible to be selfish and selfless at the same time? I think Chris Petersen just pulled it off. Thinking of himself and his family first, he still did what he felt was absolutely the right thing for the Washington Football program now by stepping aside. Amazing.
To the UW fans saying no to Kellen Moore, you don’t have a scooby doo when it comes to understanding how coaches adapt and evolve. They can run anything, depending on need, personnel, etc… Moore could be a home-run hire. He’s a head coach-in-waiting.
@Dawgman247
Initial Reax: Tuitele commit. As polished an interior DL commit since Danny Shelton. Tough, aggressive, could have gone anywhere. Big statement of intent by Ikaika Malloe getting Faatui and Jacob Bandes in same class. Top-2 DTs out west ranked by
@247recruiting
.
#Dawgman
Isaiah Stewart did not equivocate during his commitment announcement. He's going after Jaden McDaniels hard to join him at UW. I'll be shocked if he doesn't get him. Quade Green will help put the full-court press on. Big Mo is huge in
@UW_MBB
's favor at the moment.
#Dawgman
Congratulations to
@KalenDeBoer
, who just picked up his 100th overall win as a head coach. His winning percentage is .892 (100-11) all-time.
@UW_Football
A THOUGHT: If you aren't in the service industry, chances are you have good friends/relatives that are. If you find yourself going out for dinner or having drinks at a bar, tip a lot more than you normally would. These people likely have no insurance and/or sick leave. Be kind!
This
#CFP
decision will have major ramifications for years to come. Basically obliterated their guidelines to protect a conference that lived off its own mythology this year. Pathetic.
With Cummings announced, this is what the new
@UW_Football
staff looks like so far.
Jedd Fisch - HC
Brennan Carroll - OL/OC
Jimmie Dougherty - QB/PGC
Scottie Graham - RB
Kevin Cummings - WR
Jordan Paopao - TE/STC
Jason Kaufusi - DL/DRGC
John Richardson -DB
Tyler Owens - S&C
Kamren Fabiculanan mentioned the Seattle and UW community as factors outside of football that he thought about when making the decision to stay at
@UW_Football
.
@Softykjr
@dickfain
@933KJR
INSTANT REAX, re: Rome Odunze to UW...big body, matchup nightmares for opposing DBs...a much faster Ty Jones...Huskies beat Oklahoma to get him, which is a statement of intent...a long-time target, Junior Adams strikes again...killing it on the recruiting trail.
INSTANT REAX re: Sam Adams to UW ... comes from a big football family, Dad was an beast in college/NFL. Has skills to play either side, wants a shot with the ball in his hands. Big, aggressive, plays behind his pads ... could be the best UW 'big back' since C. Dillon.
@Dawgman247