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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 08:32:44 pm

Jon Wilner's terrific blog takes a look at the toughest college football schedules, and this time Washington comes in second behind Georgia.

Here's what he has to say about the UW schedule:

2. Washington: Once again Tyrone Willingham gets no breaks from the schedule. The Huskies played one of the toughest last season and in ‘08 get Oregon, USC and Cal on the road, Notre Dame, Arizona State, BYU and, um, Oklahoma at home. I count nine bowl teams on the schedule.

For the past couple of seasons, most folks have agreed that Washington has played one of the toughest schedules in the nation, if not the toughest. And Wilner's No. 2 ranking affirms the degree of difficulty of a schedule that pours Brigham Young, Oklahoma and Notre Dame on top of a Pac-10 schedule. (I thought Wilner's pick of UCLA at No. 4 was interesting. I think if anyone in the Pac-10 has a schedule that rivals UW's it's USC ... with UW getting the nod because the Huskies have to play the Trojans, while the Trojans get to play the Huskies.)

That latter point, unfortunately, is reflected in Wilner's follow-up piece ranking the nation's five easiest schedules. And on that list are two teams whose out-of-conference schedule includes games against the Huskies: Oklahoma and Notre Dame.

Categories: Huskies basketball
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 05:59:18 pm

True freshman defensive tackle Senio Kelemete reported to his first UW practice this afternoon, his academic issues now behind him.

Kelemete is a 6-4, 260 pounder from Evergreen High and was a News Tribune Northwest Nugget and a members of the TNT's Western 100. He is a talent, and while his late start certainly doesn't help, it seems he will be given the opportunity to contribute this season.

Meanwhile, watching from the sidelines was former UW quarterback Johnny DuRocher of Puyallup and Bethel High, now a pitcher in the Mariners' organization.

Categories: Huskies basketball
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 12:55:10 pm

Another potential starter has gone down -- and is listed as day to day -- for the Huskies. This time it's center Matt Sedillo, who had apparently moved into the starting job filling in for the injured Juan Garcia.

Sedillo was kept out of morning practice after suffering a concussion, but there is no indication that he will be out long. And perhaps just as encouragingly, Garcia seems to be coming along well enough in the rehab of his injured foot that he has emerged as a viable candidate to step back into his old job.

This follows a steady stream of Huskies who have gone down in recent days, including QB Jake Locker (hamstring), TE Matt Gottlieb (hamstring), RB Brandon Johnson (recovering from knee, newly slowed by calf), and CB Byron Davenport (ankle), along with the loss of LB E.J. Savannah to off-field issues and WR Curtis Shaw to family issues.

In all, that would be a half-dozen or more potential starters who probably couldn't go if the Oregon game was tomorrow. But it isn't until Aug. 30, and Willingham doesn't seem concerned that the injury toll has become anything threatening, or even particularly unusual, just yet.

In other Wednesday camp notes:

Former coach Don James was a visitor today. He watched some of the morning practice and visited with the coaching staff but didn't address the players.

Willingham said there may be a personnel addition this afternoon.

Willingham also said that the team is looking for a way to get Trenton Tuiasosopo onto the field. Even with the starting linebacker corps apparently set, that could be accomplished with a change of either position, or at least responsibility, moving him closer to the line -- or, of course, in a 3-4 set.

The Huskies will practice again this afternoon.

Categories: Huskies basketball