The College Football Season is Upon Us
Being a Washington Husky football fan; I just had to throw something out prior to the beginning of the football season.
Husky stadium is one of the most beauriful venues for college football. However, the football team has looked horrible for quite some time. Thankfully, paint dry Ty Willingham is gone. Willingham left at the end of a 0-12 campaign and ended up 11-37 while coaching at the University of Washington.
Paint dry Ty
Don James as the head football coach at the UW compiled a record of 151-59 between 1975-1992. He was called the Dawgfather of Husky football. He took his teams to 15 bowl games (10-5); nine straight from 1979-87. He guided the Huskies to six Rose Bowls. His 1991 team finished the season 12-0 and won Washington’s first ever national championship.
The Huskies have a new coach in Steve Sarkisian who is just 35 years old. Sarkisian is the former Southern California offensive coordinator whose brash and outspoken persona stands in direct contrast to that of the always-stoic Willingham.
He brings a tremendous amount of energy to the football program and has been recruiting very well; a top 10 recruiting class is not just a dream. He recently added Nick Montana, son of Joe and this has created a buzz in Husky Nation.
Nick Montana
New coach and new mascot; here is Dubs. Hopefully the football program will grow, like Dubs, into the powerhouse that they once were.
The Huskies have had a number of high profile quarterbacks.
Mark Brunell
Warren Moon
One of the most talented quarterbacks to ever play for the University of Washington Huskies. Sonny Sixkiller’s aerial show was a big hit in the early ’70s launching him into a sports legend icon.
In 1970, Sixkiller took a disastrous Husky football team which only won one game during the ‘69 season and made them winners. To this day he still holds several Husky passing records set over thirty-five years ago.
Now a color analyst for FSN Northwest Sonny remains a big part of UW and is still a football hero to Husky fans. In 1985, Sixkiller was bestowed its highest honor by being inducted into the UW football Hall of Fame.
Bob Schloredt
The “One-eyed Quarterback,” was more than just a dual-threat quarterback. In the days of one-platoon football, he could punt and play solid defense, too. By winning the 1960 Rose Bowl against Wisconsin, 44-8, Schloredt’s team also ended 13 years of embarrassment for the old Pacific Coast Conference (then the AAWU), which had made a regular habit of losing to the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl, having lost 12 of the previous 13 games.
Schloredt holds the Husky record for average yards per punt, 57.0, set by his 6 punts for 342 yards against Colorado in 1959. Schloredt was the 1960 and 1961 Rose Bowl MVP. He was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame in 1981 and into the National Foundation College Hall of Fame in 1989.
Junior quarterback Jake Locker is the real deal; he just needs a better team around him. Too often he has been called upon to do it all for the Huskies. As as a freshman quarterback at Washington in 2007 he set school freshman records for passing and rushing and was named first-team Freshman All-Pac-10 and Freshman Offensive Player of the Year by The Sporting News. Early in his Sophmore year he broke his thumb putting a block on a player and was lost for the year.
This guy is incredible; with better passing accuracy the Huskies could win 6 games and be bowl eligible. Tough schedule, they start with LSU then USC. They also play Notre Dame and many fans will just be happy to see a 4 win season.
Next Year?
