Now that the Huskies don’t have to compete with Washington State for the title of the worst team in the conference, let’s take a moment to explore the misery that is Cougar football. The most recent abhorrent performance was a 52-6 curb-stomping at the hands of Oregon.

It was so bad, in fact, that seattlepi.com’s Jim Moore was inclined to share a Coug-bashing quote from his friend the “Drill,” which is apparently just his alter ego. He doesn’t appear to be a Paul Wulff fan.

“We suck, we really suck, we suck like we’ve never sucked before,” Moore quoted his alter ego. “Last year’s team would beat this year’s team. I’m telling you, we’ve gotta get rid of Wulff. If we were in the SEC, he’d be gone by now. His hot seat’s on fire!”

That about sums it up.

Wulff also took time to question Oregon’s sportsmanship. The Ducks challenged a WSU touchdown with a 45-0 lead, and Wulff told Vince Grippi of The Spokesman-Review that he thought it was a little odd.

“There were some things like that happen,” Wulff told Grippi. “You know, let me just say this. In my first season and a little bit, particularly in that game, there’s been some things that have happened. We’re down right now, we know that. But there are some chips being thrown on our players’ and coaches’ shoulders right now that we are going to carry with us for a while. So, we have a lot of motivation. And we’re getting pieces of motivation from time to time, and we’ll have plenty of motivation moving forward.”

One might need a little extra motivation to decipher the first sentence of that quote.

Prince-ly returns

UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince, who missed the past two games after suffering a fractured jaw against Tennessee, was practicing again this week for the Bruins and could start on Saturday against Oregon. That would be big for a Bruins offense that has been somewhat anemic for the better part of the past two seasons.

What’s not good, though, is what Prince had to eat while his jaw was wired shut.

Per The Los Angeles Daily News: “This sounds gross, and I didn’t try it until week one had passed, but ... beans, spinach, rice and salsa, all mixed up. I sipped it up like a smoothie. That was my lunch for four days straight.”

Yum. Though you have to wonder what’s harder to stomach: Prince’s concoction or having to watch one more game of Kevin Craft at quarterback.

E-mail of the week

Everybody has something to complain about after every game. Evidence from my inbox following a story that detailed a couple of close calls during Washington’s 37-30 loss to Notre Dame last week (all [sic]’d, of course):

“UW got PLENTY of calls during the game. If the 2pt conversion was so iffy why not challenge it? Polk was at least a half yard shy of the goal line, he actually gained a foot on the spot. And the ‘lateral’ ruling could have gone either way. Also Tates long run to the corner could have been ruled a TD.

watch some tape and do your homework. The better team won.”

It just goes to show, people see what they want to see in these kind of games. As badly as Husky fans think they got screwed, there are always plays people can find that they think broke badly for the other side, too. Though it’s hard to imagine that happening to Notre Dame, with Jesus on its side and all.

Reach Sports Editor Christian Caple at sports@dailyuw.com.