While KJR-AM's Dave "Softy'' Mahler used his radio show this morning to ask for Tyrone Willingham to immediately resign as coach, it was business as usual up at UW today.

Willingham met with the media at noon for his regular Monday press luncheon, and much of the focus was on his past as the coach of Notre Dame, which rolls into town this Saturday to play the Huskies.

Willingham tried to deflect as much of that attention as possible, even seeming to laugh about the frequency of the questions on that topic at times --- though in the defense of the media, not a lot of other obvious story lines about this one right now.

Asked at one point if he's moved on from his ND years, Willingham merely said "I have,'' and then, uh, moved on to the next question.

He said the game holds no more meaning to him than any other and that he didn't want the focus of the game to be about him, but simply the two teams on the field. "It comes down to one simple fact --- let's win the football game,'' he said.

I think UW fans would be more than happy with that outcome, having waited 11 months now for that to happen.

On a few other topics:

--- Willingham said there were no new injuries Saturday that would keep anyone out of this week's game.

--- He said the hope is that David Freeman and Johri Fogerson will return to the lineup this week --- Fogerson missed the OSU game with a virus while Freeman is battling ankle injuries (so for those of you wondering if the coaches might still try to redshirt them, there is your answer --- no).

--- Willingham said he liked the new linebacker alignment and will likely keep that as the starting unit, though it might not get a lot of use this weekend as Notre Dame tends to go with a lot of empty-back looks that will require UW to use more nickel defenses.

--- Willingham said the PK job remains open after each kicker missed a makeable FG Saturday, and that for now Jared Ballman is the plus-40 kicker, Ryan Perkins handling the shorter ones.

--- Willingham said the offense Saturday of throwing deep often was more a function of the OSU defense and not something the Huskies will necessarily do every week.

--- Asked by a Notre Dame area reporter what hasn't gone right at UW, Willingham said "we've not outscored our opponent'' and then went into a little longer answer that didn't really detail anything other than that "we just haven't made happen the things we have to have happen.''

--- Willingham said the prognosis for Jake Locker is more on the eight-week part of the original 6-8-week recovery time, which likely means the only games left he might play in are the Apple Cup and Cal games, at the most.

--- He praised the play of Terrance Dailey and noted that he will again be the starting TB this week. Dailey met the media briefly and said he has some sore ribs and a cut mouth from the big hit he took but otherwise is fine.

All for now.