Saturday, August 25, 2012

Huskies Practice, Stadium Update, SDSU Preview

Shaq Thompson of the Washington Huskies Football Team
Shaq Thompson (Number #7), photo by CoachSark.com

Hello Dawg Fans!

The Huskies practiced last night at CenturyLink, home of the Seahawks obviously, and although the practice itself was closed to the public and media; Coach Sark uploaded some practice photos to his site which you can view here:


http://coachsark.com/blog/2012/08/photos-of-the-day-mock-game-edition/

Shaq Thompson has been getting a lot of reps with the linebackers unit and OLB Nate Fellner, who is out 4-6 weeks with a broken foot, said the other day that Shaq has been playing his position in practice this past week. As others have stated, this likely means Shaq will play a hybrid role as an OLB/Nickelback depending on which play DC Justin Wilcox has dialed up that day.

The Husky Stadium Renovation Project is ahead of schedule and coming in on-time and under budget. The main structures are already going up and a second crane was brought in and constructed this week. You read about the renovation at this link, which includes a panoramic photo by Dean Rutz of the SeattleTimes Newspaper:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskyfootball/2018987898_huskystadium25.html


A week from now the Dawgs will be taking the field at CenturyLink for the first game of the 2012 Football Season against the San Diego State Aztecs. The Aztecs have a couple weapons on offense, notably the TE Escobar and the WR Butler (USC transfer) and named Ryan Katz the starting QB this week (OSU transfer). Here is a detailed preview of the SDSU Aztecs football team:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/sns-tsn-afn-sandiegost-outlook-20120824,0,6480161.story

And here is a forum if you want to chat with Aztec fans: http://aztecmesa.proboards.com/


And finally, Ted Miller of ESPN has gotten to Washington's turn on his best case/worst case scenario series on the PAC-12 Conference. After taking a look at the Huskies, I highly recommend viewing the Washington State Cougars best/worst case article, it's hilarious:

http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/43341/best-case-worst-case-washington-5


More to come later, GO DAWGS! #Dawgpack

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