The Trials and Tribulations of Being a Husky Fan

So to continue the precedent I started last week after the BYU game, I'm here again to give you a few talking points I took away from today's Oklahoma-Washington game.

Willingham's days are numbered

The Huskies lost 55-14, are 0-3, and gave up 591 yards of offense today. I could keep quoting stats, but I'd just end up depressing myself.

What has become evidently clear is that Tyrone Willingham, though I have all the respect in the world for him as a human being, is NOT the man to take the Huskies forward.

I don't know who it is, but Washington just looks ineffective at best under Ty. That being said, Stanford in two weeks is a much more manageable test.

Oklahoma is very impressive

Sam Bradford put on a clinic as far as I'm concerned; the guy is just incredible, completing 18 of 21 passes for 304 yards and five touchdowns.

The Sooners are averaging almost 55 points a game and have only given up 42 points in three games.

They look fast on both sides of the ball. There were several times that I thought players were just going to break some big plays for the Huskies and all of a sudden a Sooner player steps in and levels him.

After watching them play I'm going to go out on a limb and say it will be Oklahoma and USC for the National Championship. USC looked impressive against Ohio State during an absolutely miserable day for the Pac-10.

I have nothing but sympathy for Jake

Jake Locker is a competitor, and he is an impressive athlete, two things that combine well in college athletics.

The team around him is letting him down, he needs help badly because he can't survive the year carrying this team on his shoulders. He took a hit on a run late in the first half and stayed down, and when he got up he seemed almost shell-shocked.

And over the course of the game, he was the recipient of bad snaps forcing one fumble, D'Andre Goodwin fumbling on a big pass play, and his own fumble on a run.

Ronnie Fouch looked good as a backup playing late in the game so we know if Atlas falls, we have someone solid to take his place.

The Husky defense is a joke when it comes to tackling

To quote Dan Hawkin's in a slightly different context than he intended, "this is Division 1 football!!!!"

The Husky defense looks like its going in for the big hit but gets surprised when it isn't high school players they are playing but Division I athletes.

The play that sticks out in my mind the most is the 77 yard pass to Ryan Broyles where several Husky defenders had him wrapped up and yet he still escaped.

It's unacceptable, it really is, and Ed Donatell needs to address this problem directly in the bye week or this is going to be a very long season.

And to add a little to my column here about the Husky games I'd like to include an observation from the NCAA as well.

Did the Pac-10 forget to show up this weekend?

UCLA gets creamed 59-0 by BYU, Cal loses to Maryland 35-27, we lose big time to Oklahoma, and WSU loses big to Baylor 45-17.

Sure Oregon St beat up on Hawaii 45-7 and USC won big, but those 4 loses are tough to swallow.

You'd think after beating Tennessee, UCLA would have put the pre-season rankings behind them, but that must have been a fluke.

I was frankly hoping for more from my hometown team of Cal but it wasn't meant to be, but going across country is always tough.

All I'm going to say is this is a year most football fans in the state of Washington would soon like to forget. 

Well until the Stanford game:

GO DAWGS!!