Congrats on a great Game! Huskies were lucky.

[purplehusky]

Congrats on the great game yesterday. Us Huskies were very lucky. You should have won, deserved to win.
I watch that game last year with Delaware and was very impressed the way you came back from 19 points down to win the game. What a Gunslinger Stud you have for a QB. And Kaufman, #1 is also awesome. The whole team for that matter.

I told everyone on the Husky forum this would be a dangerous game, but most said it was a gimme, even the writers. Maybe the team though so too. Not me... I was worried. I really think you could beat half of the Pac12. Look at what happened to the Beavers yesterday.

Anyways, good luck with the rest of the season and hope you get the National Championship again.

 

[FreeBird]

Thanks PurpleHusky, I enjoyed the game and was dissappointed in the loss, but I think the Huskies won through preparation, not just luck. The bottom line is that special teams was a point of emphasis for them in their fall camp, and it paid off. You don't beat a quality opponent losing the turnover battle by 4. That being said, I was proud of the effort our team made. To the man, they gave everything they had, and had a shot to win it at the end. I don't know if you remember Brock Huard's Husky teams that just knew how to win games, but that is how this Eastern team is. You come to expect that they will make the plays at the end that it takes to win. Starting at our own 5 with less than two minutes to play on Saturday, was no exception. We expected to win. Props to Desmond Trufant for his play on that ball.

Good luck to the Dawgs the rest of the way. I hope this game helps prepare them for the likes of Hawaii and later in the season Arizona. I'll be rooting for the Dawgs too.

 

[LDopaPDX]

I sure thought Eastern deserved to win; we certainly outplayed the hell out of UW for large portions of the game. UW won by being careful with the ball and opportunistic when they were on the receiving end of turnovers. Plus, one single miss by the kicker and Eastern kicks a FG to win the game... but he didn't miss even bombing in two long-rangers. All we needed was one break and the Huskies didn't provide one.

That said, I thought our team played *really* well. The fumbled punt was just an opening game error. The second punt "fumble" was just a freakish bounce that probably couldn't be replicated in a thousand tries. Both of Bo Levi's picks were the correct throw to a live reciever, just not a picture perfect pass. Given how many beautiful passes he threw over the course of the game, it's tough to be upset over a couple misfires.

Our receivers and QB play were definitely as advertised (great). Our OL play was solid, although we couldn't get much rushing going, that's the best DL we'll see this year. Everyone on our defense made plays when needed. UW likely only scores 17 or so had it not been for bad field position.

Take away the four TOs and the TD taken off the board, and we win by a decent margin. 504-250 total yards is a BIG discrepency. You won't lose too many playing like that...

The important thing here is to keep up the intensity. If we play like that from beginning to end, we could be winning every other game on the schedule. But the important thing is the intensity... no let downs; come out fired up like that every week and we'll have one helluva year.

 

[HannahO]

Just watched the Root telecast of the game and it allowed me to see all the stuff I couldn't see from those God awful seats in the visitors section (it's about time they removed the track and upgraded that stadium, it's too beautiful to be so bad to watch a game in). I was very impressed with our line play - especially the d-line - they could have forced a number of holding calls if the PAC 12 officiating crew could believe that a UW o-line would have to hold an FCS d-line! :rofl:

I was hoping to see a replay of the play where Nick Edwards knee was called down on the catch where he had broken the tackle and probably would have scored but no such luck. The shot from the camera also didn't show it and Warren Moon and the play-by-play were pretty careful when discussing it.

All in all, it was just as heartbreaking in the end and I feel very bad for young Mr. Miller and his achilles tendon injury. Chin up! Good Luck in South Dakota!

 

[JoinTheEAA]

Item below from the Husky press guide. Coach Holmes led EWSC to the 1967 title game and he still has the best winning percentage among head coaches at Hawaii. He returned to University High School and high school coaching after establishing Hawaii as a respectable program. Hawaii was a 50 point underdog in 1973 when they faced UW.

The Huskies opened the 1973 season with a 10-7 loss to the Rainbows (as they were
known at the time) at Husky Stadium. The Dawgs scored their lone points
on their second drive of the game as a one-yard run from Pete Taggares
capped an 11-play drive. Later in the first quarter, Hawai'i got a 27-yard
field goal from Reinhold Stuprich to make it 7-3. The Huskies had a chance
for another score in the second quarter when the UW recovered a fumble
on the Hawaii 23, but Taggares lost a yard on a fourth-down run from the
one, and then missed a 35-yard field goal in the final minute of the half.
Hawaii took the lead for good in the third quarter when Casey Ortez hit Abe
Brown with 24-yard pass. In the fourth, the UW squandered chance after
chance, fumbling the ball at the Hawaii 23-yard line with 13:05 left and
at the Rainbows' eight-yard line with 7:48 remaining. The Dawgs then got
the ball back on a fumble, but Denny Fitzpatrick's fourth-down pass from
the Hawaii 17 was intercepted. The Rainbows then ran the final 3:37 off
of the clock to hang on for the win. The game featured five interceptions
(three from UW, two from Hawaii) and 13 fumbles (six lost: two from UW,
four from Hawai'i). After the game, Hawai'i coach Dave Holmes called it
"the biggest win ever for me."