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Adversity is a friendship’s truest test. Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Season 2, Episode 21
UW has another long trip to the Midwest this week-their 3rd trip to the Midwest in the last 4 weeks. Let’s hope that this weekend’s game goes as well as the last two! Maybe the adversity of playing away from home is what this team needs.
Football Dots
- Washington and Notre Dame have agreed to a home-and-home series. UW will play in South Bend on September 27, 2031 (so, another Midwest trip). Notre Dame will come to Seattle one November 11, 2034. As Andy Yamashita notes in his article about the scheduling agreement, UW hasn’t played Notre Dame since 2009, and UW has never beaten Notre in any of their 8 games so far. Christian Caple reminds us that a Husky coach with fired the Monday following the last meeting with the Irish in Husky Stadium in 2008. It likely isn’t a coincidence that the College Football Playoffs announced that teams need to play at least 10 Power-4 (or Notre Dame) opponents as part of the expanded playoffs.
- In addition to adding those games to their future schedule, UW is in discussions to continue playing the Apple Cup past the 2028 season (which is the end of the current agreement).
- UW Coaches and players met with the media yesterday
- Coach Walters again represented the defensive coaching staff. He detailed what happened with the 12-men-on-the-field penalty towards the end of the Penn State. He took the blame and said that he and the other coaches need to be more detailed so that doesn’t happen again. He also reiterated what Coach Fisch had said before-that they didn’t really make any adjustments at halftime; the coaches just reminded the players to follow their assignments on the plays.
- Coach Switzer represented the offensive coaches. He talked about the development of Kodi Greene and Kolt Dietrich and how they want to get the running game going early in the game to really open up the offense.
- Derek Colman-Brusa and Darin Conley were the defensive players that met with the media. Conley talked about going back to the Midwest (close to home), and Colman-Brusa talked about playing in the Big Ten in his first season. Dawgman has a transcript.
- Demond Williams, Geirean Hatchett, and Jayden Limar were the offensive players that met with the media. Geirean said that he had hoped to “play side by side with” his brother in his final season of college football. Dawgman has a transcriptof the interview.
- You can view the entire press conference by watching the video below.
- Lars Hanson highlights how Jayden Limar showed promise in the Penn State game. As Coach Fisch noted, however, he was limited as he works his way back after his injury in the Apple Cup. The hope is that he will be able to play more snaps in the game this weekend (and in the rest of the games this season).
- Hunter Green has set a UW record with 7 punts of 60 or more yards in a single season.
- Husky great, Olin Kreutz, was honored as the 13th Husky player to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
UW Athletics Dots
- Several members of UW’s Women’s Tennis team will be playing in the NCAA tournament. The tournament will begin November 17th.
- UW Men’s Soccer will face Rutgers in the Big Ten semifinals tonight at 6 PM at Husky Soccer Stadium. The Huskies defeated Rutgers 4-1 back in September (also at Husky Soccer Stadium). If UW wins, they will play in the conference championship game on Sunday-either at home or at Indiana depending on the outcome of the other semi-final game.
- UW will be one of the teams competing in the Clearwater Invitational (softball) tournament in February.
