TOP OF THE TOWN – Five games into the college football season and the Washington Huskies are 3-2 and should be 5-0. The blame for the two losses lay on first-year coach Jedd Fisch. Simply put, the Huskies are undisciplined. That is coaching. There shouldn’t be a reserve player leave the sideline to celebrate a blocked punt as Vincent Holmes did Friday night in the Rutgers game, a 21-18 defeat. Teams normally have a coach in charge of keeping players from swarming onto the playing field. Apparently, the Huskies don’t. The Huskies were flagged for illegal substitution negating the blocked punt. Rutgers then scored a touchdown on a pass that should never had happen.
There were key penalties that killed drives in Rutgers’ territory and 3 field goal misses by Grady Gross, including a 55-yarder in the dying seconds that would have tied the game and forced overtime. All three misses were to the left.
A glass half-full approach could be had because there weren’t 16 Husky penalties as there was in the Apple Cup loss to Washington State, but the lack of discipline that has slowed the Huskies still shows up.
The lack of discipline didn’t stop the Huskies from running up 521 yards to just 299 for Rutgers. But they are the first team in the last 282 college games to out produce their opponent by at least 222 yards and lose.
If the Huskies get some discipline in their program, and don’t bring back Jimmy Lake (this is a sarcasm), they have a chance to do well in their first year in the Big Ten. There are several big-time playmakers in running backs Joah Coleman and Cameron Davis. wide receivers Gils Jackson and Denzel Boston and lincoaebacker Carson Bruener.
That’s it for today.
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