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Proposed college football playoff fails to solve sport’s biggest problem

With the newly proposed four-team playoff system potentially set to begin in 2014, the college football powers that be appear to be making strides to fix the issues many people have with the current BCS system.

Despite draft-day disrespect, former Huskies could thrive

Washington football fans throughout Seattle waited with bated breath to see where their beloved former Huskies would end up at the next level.

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True measure of new coaches in NFL development

It would be easy to look at Washington’s spring game and decide that the defense is well on its way to being cured.

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Destructive defense dominates spring game

Entering the spring, this team was supposed to be all about the offense.

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UW Spring Game: Live Chat

Join us live from CenturyLink Field for the UW Spring Game

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Quick-draw Kiesau

Becoming the UW’s new offensive coordinator was a fast decision for Eric Kiesau

The job of a college football coach is not for the faint of heart, nor the indecisive.

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The whiz kid

He’s less than a decade older than many of his players, but that hasn’t stopped UW defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi from becoming one of the hottest names in the country

It’s a spring scrimmage underneath the warm sun at Seattle Memorial Stadium, and the Washington defense has just made a big stop on fourth down.

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A Beaver changes his pelt

After spending 12 years at Oregon State, Keith Heyward has a new job: saving the UW secondary

The same determined attitude that made Keith Heyward a standout defensive back at Oregon State — the same work ethic that allowed him to produce a number of all-conference and NFL defensive backs as a coach with the Beavers — is the same mentality he’s bringing to the secondary of the Washington football team.

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Back to basics

New assistant coach Peter Sirmon looks to fix the UW’s much-maligned linebacker corps

Being a linebacker on Washington’s football team was no walk in the park last season.

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The calm after the storm

New UW defensive coordinator is bringing a fresh attitude to Montlake

Meet the man tasked with reshaping and rebuilding the UW defense

Injuries force UW’s Porter to call it quits

The football career of UW junior Colin Porter is over, the school announced Tuesday.

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Led by Price, new-look Huskies prepare for spring

More so, perhaps, than in any other offseason of the soon-to-be four-year tenure of Steve Sarkisian as Washington’s head football coach, the last three football-less months have been ones of transition for a Husky program seeking to climb ever closer to the peak of the mountain that is Pac-12 football.

Spring is in the air for Husky football

Ah, spring. When the hope-filled tension of young love is interrupted by the grisly sounds of linemen being put through conditioning drills and of bone-crushing hits delivered by linebackers looking for an outlet for a quarter’s worth of pent-up bloodlust.

Practice report: Reviewing the Huskies first practice of spring football

The Washington football team completed the first of its 15 spring practices Monday morning, roughly 50 feet away from the eastern edge of the $250 million Husky Stadium renovation project.

UW defensive shift will take time

The recent revamping of the defensive staff could pay big dividends for a program that never really got up to speed last year thanks to its jet ski of an offense being hampered by a big, honking anchor of a defense.

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