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The Seahawks lost 20-17 yesterday to the Redskins and Seattlest concurs with head coach Mike Holmgren's sentiment. He began the post-game presser simply: "Questions?" The Hawks are now 2-9 and the season is over, blah blah blah.
But today is all about the Apple Cup aftermath. Who woulda thought that the best game on Saturday would include the two worst teams in college football? The Cougs actually didn't "Coug" it, winning 16-13 in double overtime. The star of the game was WSU kicker Nico Grasu, whose kicking motion is more erratic than an Amy Winehouse tour. Grasu hit a field goal in overtime to clinch the win for the Cougs, and as Jim Moore points out, it might be the first time in history that fans ran onto field to celebrate after beating a winless team.
Today, Husky fans are still fuming. The yappers on KJR-AM have been ranting all day long about soon-to-be former head coach Tyrone Willingham. The coach said this. The coach did that.
Guess what, Huskies? He's fired. The Tyrone mania is tiring us. You are beginning to sound like those guys on Fox who are still ranting about how McCain lost because Obama is really from Mars and he's gonna sell the moon to the Martians because they have a shortage of cheese back home.
Will you not rest, our forlorn Husky fans, until Tyrone calls a news conference at Husky Stadium and then leaps from the upper deck? Will you not rest until you have a cold corpse to drag through the streets?
How is it that athletic director Scott Woodward has escaped the venom? Woodward is the man who made the deal to fire Tyrone and let him keep the job for the end of the season. It was Woodward's call, not Willingham's. Isn't the incessant jumping on Willingham's grave a direct attack on Woodward's authority? What coach in their right mind would take the Husky job when the angry mob of alums already show zero support for the new AD?
The national media has reported that the UW has already offered the job to a few prospects, each time, the candidate used Montlake as a nothing more than a fulcrum to leverage themselves into better contracts at their current jobs.
Husky Stadium is old. The Pac-10 provides weak national media exposure. The cupboard is pretty bare talent-wise. Half of Seattle won't rest until Jim Mora is head coach at Montlake. All told, it's not really that great of an opportunity for a coach, other than a carpetbagger who is in it for the money, and we've been there before. And now, with Husky fans absolutely insane with displaced rage, the head coaching job at UW is virtually radioactive.
"Baby David," by Flickr contributor daveynin
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Boy, you couldn't be more right on virtually every point. The only thing I'd say is that I think there is some talent on this team and someone with half a brain could get a lot more out of it than Ty has, but that's not enough to lure a guy away from football heaven (LSU and the South) to Seattle.
I think we need to face facts that the greatness of Husky football was Don James. He was a once in a lifetime coach that turned the UW into a national powerhouse and it will take a miracle to ever return to that glory.
I didn't become a Dawg fan until the post-Don-James-era, so it really shocks me how many old school Husky fans really expect that we will be able to find the magic coach and suddenly become USC north.
I would be satisfied with stocking the talent to make a Pac-10 championship run every 4 or so years, as long as the in-between years don't slip much below .500. I'm sure I'll be cursed for "low" expectations.