What is the story about?
UW gets a commitment from the top-rated high school football player in the state. Hana Moll gets yet another honor. And the UW Baseball team gets their first win the the Big Ten tournament. Those and more for your Wednesday dots.
Football Dots
- Aaron has his write-up on the commitment yesterday from 4-star in-state DL Tevita Nonu. This will be the third year in a row that Fisch has got the commitment of the top-rated player in the state of Washington. Christian Caple has his ($) thoughts on the commitment. Dawgman ($) has their commitment impact.
- This article explores how the San Francisco 49ers have been drafted quite a few players from UW, including their latest two additions-Carver Willis and Ephesians Prysock.
- Single game tickets for this fall are on sale now for some of the games (the non-conference ones).
- The Big Ten had meetings this week and among the discussions were about governing of college sports. UW AD Pat Chun said of whether to expect help from the federal government: “I am also in the camp that is not expecting help from D.C.,” said Chun, who has spent time on Capitol Hill. “Because there comes a point where, after all these years, you just can’t expect it.” So one of the ideas discussed was to have the Big Ten govern itself according to this article.
- Another topic of discussion was the CFP. Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti spoke with reporters and said “We’ve had zero conversation about 16,” he said. “Plan B is what we have now. We would stay with what we have now.” Petetti laid out the reasons that he is for a 24 team playoff and not 16 teams. “I just don’t think it works economically,” he said. “I don’t think it works schedulingwise as well. I think it doesn’t create enough new inventory. And then the last piece, I don’t think it gets enough access.”
UW Athletics Dots
- UW’s baseball team beat Ohio State 8-6 in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. They now play Michigan today at 7 PM PT. If they win, they will play Oregon on Friday. If they lose, they will face the winner of Rutgers-Ohio State on Thursday.
- Hana Moll continues to impress. She was name “UTSFCCCA National Athlete of the Week for the second time this season.
- UW Women’s Golf taught some golf and made some connections.
