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October 29, 2008 3:19 PM

Willingham notes

As promised, UW coach Tyrone Willingham is continuing with his normal routine, which means a daily meeting with the press before practice.

Willingham said that Tuesday's practice, the first since the news of his ouster, was "kind of subdued. A solid practice but far from someone just jumping up and down. But that was to be expected. Probably a lot of emotions going through our young men, a lot of different thoughts. But I think for the most part we got done what we needed to get done.''

Willingham said now the trick is to get better in the final two days of the week.

"The goal now is to be much more aggressive and assertive in who we have to be to be the team we have to play,'' he said. "This (USC) is not a football team you can play or defeat being passive. You've got to be ultra aggressve against this team. That means coaches, players, even our equipment guys have got to be ready to be aggressive in this ball game and if you don't, then you don't have a prayer.''

In other notes:

--- Willingham said that for now, recruiting will go on with a few tweaks. Willingham said the coaches had not yet received a directive from the UW administration on how to approach recruiting "so it's kind of been as we normally do it, for the most part, with the exception of the head coach because there's not a lot he can say to them right now.'' Willingham, however, said he didn't yet know if assistant coaches will travel to high schools in southern California this week as was originally planned.

--- Willingham said RB David Freeman, S Victor Aiyewa and LB T.J. Poe are out this week but that everyone else (other than those with long-term injuries, obviously) should be ready to go.

--- Willingham reiterated the earlier positive report on Senio Kelemete, though he said the absence could be closer to a month.

--- Asked how USC compares to Oklahoma he said "I think they are close, if not better.''

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