Some thoughts from a UW alum who made separate trips from Manhattan to the West Coast and attended the past two #Huskies games:
1) If you hear someone referencing the crowd size/enthusiasm as being a part of the problems currently facing UW football, that person is stooging for the athletic department and should be regarded as such.
2) It is very clear that Jimmy Lake won't coach another game for the UW. I don't disagree with that decision, but if the athletic department is seeking to fire him with cause, I want to point out a couple of things.
Who benefits most from a firing with cause? The answer to me -- pretty clearly -- is the current AD, who is exonerated of the financial obligation and some cases the liability for what has happened. The AD gets a do-over without the financial commitment Lake's hiring entailed.
Firing Lake for an incident from before he was head coach -- which presumably could have/should have been uncovered before he was promoted to head coach -- seems dubious at best and outright shady at worst.
This isn't so much about the concept of fairness to Jimmy Lake -- though there's room for that -- as an attempt to mitigate or even escape responsibility on the part of the administration.
Finally, Washington's attempt to institute this light show between the third and fourth quarter is the most derivative, stupid, embarrassing thing I've ever seen my school do and that includes the '95 switch to purple helmets.
Last week, it was a rip-off of Michigan State. This week it was something I thought sounded like Enya, but I'm not sure. I was too busy booing. Having one-third of the people present in a half-full stadium hold up lighted cell phones was Harry High School crap.
Is this right? It was Coldplay? I need to know for reporting purposes. My wife was asking and I really couldn't tell her other than it was the most uninspiring, lamest song with the absolute worst timing possible.
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