3 Hours Until Game Time. Go Huskies!

Where in the hell did the summer go? Husky game day is upon us, and the mighty Huskies travel South to Eugene for another installment of our most bitter rivalry. This season kind of snuck up on me and although I have been reading the blogs and charting Jake Locker's progress, I can't help but think this year went by quickly. I probably would have written a more in depth and unresearched analysis of this addition of Husky Football, but I have been a little preoccupied. So, instead I will go over a few things on my mind.

1. By every account this year is Ty's make or break year. Win and he keeps his job, loose and we are again looking for another coach. So let me go on the record now. I am officially in favor of Ty as Husky Coach and Moral Steward for this year and next. I know this is an unpopular sentiment. In the must win now climate of sports, it is unpopular when you don't. However, there are many factors why he should stay, and should be around next year as well. First, recruiting is already being hurt by the limbo this program finds itself in, again. Second, we don't even have an AD to hire a new coach. Third, when we do get a new AD, he/she must focus all his/her capable energy on getting the renovation done on Husky Stadium. This will be no small task and I don't want the person in position worrying about hiring a coach when they should be camping out on the steps of the capital in Olympia until they get the appropriate funding to make the stadium first class and safe. Keep Ty around, let him recruit another class, build some stability, get a new stadium, and then see what happens. He may end up winning some games. Let's not put the cart before the proverbial horse.

2. Hire an f'n AD already. Seattle is one of the most desirable places to live in the country if not the world. All the magazines and my friend Joe swear on it. (Although I have chosen pdx as a residence I spent some great years in the Emerald City.) The University of Washington is one the premier public universities in the country, with class and tradition paralleling any other. The alumni want to win, and win now, the pressure on Ty and the firing (or whatever you want to call it) of Todd Turner, proves it. This could be one of the great jobs in the country, and was once. Let's make is so again. Hire someone who can build us a stadium by bending the legislature to their will.

3. Jake Locker. Can you overcome all the obstacles, all the pressure, to be superhuman? To save this once proud program? To bring winning ways back to Montlake? Can you win so many games so as to save your coach's job? So many games to get the state and our alumni to build us a new stadium? Can you stay healthy while getting the crap kicked out of you every game? Will you wear that target on your back with pride and run like it means your life? Tonight you get Oregon, our most hated rival, your journey begins in Eugene. Godspeed young Jake for much depends on you.