Happy Monday Dawg fans, and welcome to today’s Dots.
It was a quiet weekend for Husky football, with no new names in the Portal, and no new coaching rumors. The rest of the country was arguing on social media over the CFB Playoff structure – and I realize now that this debate will endure forever, whatever changes are made to the system.
The wife of a friend of mine is from Brazil. When I met her years ago, the topic got on how religion and politics are dangerous discussion points. She told me “Yes, but in Brazil it’s religion, politics, AND football (soccer).”
In America it soon may be Religion, Politics, and the state of College Football.
- Husky Women’s basketball shot 53%, and 48% from 3-pt to blow the doors off Pacific in Stockton, CA., 90-50: “Washington Husky women dominate Pacific in final nonconference tuneup” (Seattle Times)
- “Washington gymnastics suffers from dangerously insufficient facilities” Jared Tucker, UW Daily
- Men’s soccer: “Five Huskies Selected in 2026 MLS SuperDraft” (GoHuskies.com) The five draft selections from Washington are the most of any team in the 2026 MLS SuperDraft, and included:
Richie Aman to DC United. The MAC Hermann Trophy Finalist becomes the fifth Top-10 selection for the Huskies in the last five years.
Zach Ramsey and Connor Lofy to the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Joe Dale to the Seattle Sounders.
Asher Hestad to the Colorado Rapids.
- Dan Raley’s “5 Huskies In Football Limbo, Looking To Climb Out Of It” includes WR Kevin Green Jr., DT Omar Khan, OT Elishah Jackett, OT Justin Hylkema, and TE Charlie Crowell.
- “NCAA ‘vehemently opposes’ Kalshi’s plan for prediction markets on [college sports] transfer portal” (FYI: ”Kalshi is the first CFTC regulated exchange dedicated to trading on the outcome of future events. From inflation, to fed rates, to unemployment, to will the government shut down, Kalshi allows people to trade on a broad range of topics.“)
- “Ex-Michigan assistant Matt Weiss seen on video hacking into student accounts, security footage reveals” (CBS Sports)
Does the NCAA’s “Lack of Institutional Control” charge still exist? Does it even matter anymore, as toothless as the NCAA is in 2025? Punishments that actually punish, i.e: vacated wins, negated Championships, etc. for stunts pulled during Jim Harbaugh’s reign at Michigan?
Under Pete Carroll in the 2000-oughts, USC had to vacate over a dozen wins across two FB seasons, including a National Championship, over “improper benefits to players”. Twenty year later, paying players is now an accepted and crucial part of the game. I doubt sign stealing ever will be. Nor the egregious and criminal behavior by multiple coaches under Harbaughs tutelage.
College football certainly has changed a lot in twenty years.
I really wouldn’t take a 2023 Nat’l Championship retro-awarded to the Huskies seriously. Honestly, I wouldn’t. I doubt most rational Husky fans would. But I would absolutely buy a t-shirt celebrating it and wear it when I visit friends down in Oregon. Legions of Duck fans stopping me in public and arguing that makes two titles we never actually won would be hysterical.
- The former Conference of Champions (RIP) with the largest share:
Go Dawgs!!