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October 26, 2008 9:35 AM

The mourning after

A Sunday morning brimming with rumors left and right. Frankly, nothing that might happen in the next few days will be a surprise, and if something is to happen this week it will be in the next day or two as the team would need to spend the rest of the week getting ready for Saturday's game at USC.

Times columnist Jerry Brewer wrote today that it was simply another Grounddawg day at Husky Stadium, with the game that may have ended the Tyrone Willingham regime also exposing his greatest flaw --- an inability to build a team properly around Jake Locker.

Bud Withers wrote about what Notre Dame's fake punt and UW's unwillingness to be aggressive at the end of the first half said about the directions of the two programs.

Percy Allen wrote about the horrid offensive performance and the notebook looked at how even interceptions are turning bad for UW right now.

You can find all kinds of Notre Dame coverage here.

The updated NCAA stats are out and the two that may best tell the tale are these --- UW is 108th in total offense, 116th in total defense.

The Huskies simply aren't good at anything right now, and I would submit that this team may be worse now than the 2004 team, an angle that probably deserves its own blog post at some point.

But as a quick comparison, that team gained 311 yards per game while allowing 369.5. This year's team is gaining 291 per game while allowing 479.6.

That's not to say the program is necessarily worse off now than then --- there is more young talent on the roster now --- but the current on-field product is no better in every way, and Willingham is likely to soon meet the same fate as the coach of that team, Keith Gilbertson, who was fired after the eighth game of the season.

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