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by | August 30, 2010 · 5:03 pm

Huskies Release Depth Chart for BYU Game, Other Notes

UW released the official depth chart for Saturday’s game today.  You can find it here.  There aren’t really any surprises.  The back-up QB spot is listed as Price or Montana, so no answers there.  Not that an answer is needed until one of them has to play.  D’Andre Goodwin is listed as the third starting WR, a product of a good camp for him and James Johnson missing time with an injury.  Johnson will play, but might not be quite up to full-speed after missing parts of the last two weeks.  Some other notes about the Huskies and the rest of the Pac-10.

  • Sarkisian said that all 12 true freshman on the two-deeps would likely play, along with a couple more possibilities.  When asked about Josh Shirley and Sione Potoa’e, Sark gave an uncomittal, “Potentially.”
  • BYU is planning to play both quarterbacks after failing to choose between Jake Heaps and Riley Nelson.  Nelson is more of a scrambler, while local boy Heaps can throw the ball all over the place.
  • ASU decided on Steven Threet as their quarterback, although Brock Osweiler will get chances to play in the first few games.  Luckily for ASU, they play Portland State and Northern Arizona their first two games, which should give them a chance to test both quarterbacks while still winning fairly easily.  The Sun Devils are also breaking in a new spread offensive system.  There’s always the potential for new offenses to click quickly and surprise opponents for a while.  I’m not betting on it here, but ASU is a bit of a sleeper to me.
  • We’ll have a deeper look at this week’s Pac-10 games later this week, but there are some big ones, especially OSU at TCU.  OSU often starts the season slowly, so if they can come out and beat a top 10 team, it could get them rolling quickly.  It would also knock TCU out of a chance at the national championship, which would make me happy, if only because we wouldn’t have to listen to talk about it all season long.  We’ll get enough of that from Boise State fans, unless OSU can beat them as well.  In related news, I’m close to annointing OSU as my second favorite Pac-10 team, in case you were wondering.

That’s all for now.  Only 5 days till game time!

-Matthew

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by | August 17, 2010 · 7:57 pm

Who Are These Guys: Sione Potoa’e

“Who Are These Guys?” is a series the Good Guys are doing on the Husky football freshman class.  We’ll be telling you a little more about the guys who we think will play this year in this series.

Sione Potoa’e was one of the biggest names in last years recruiting class.  He was also one of the biggest bodies.  Usually rated as the second best prospect in Washington (Jake Heaps was first), Potoa’e is big, explosive defensive tackle.  This big guy was rated as a four-star by both recruiting services.

If you’ve followed the Huskies over the last couple years, you probably know about the defensive line’s problems.  Opponents ran over our team at will most of the time and there wasn’t much of a pass rush to speak of.  We did have Teo-Neshiem, but one guy can’t save an entire unit.  Willingham didn’t recruit lineman very well.  I would argue he didn’t recruit anything very well but that’s for another time.  Sione is one of the guys who we hope can turn around the defensive line.

Potoa’e (6-2, 285) does have a few bodies in front of him on the depth chart.  Alameda Ta’amu is the best player at this position and has a firm hold on the job.  According to Sark, he looks like a new man is apparently playing like one.  I sure hope so.  Cameron Elisara will most likely be the starter at the other spot.  He’s played quite a bit the last two years and should be pretty strong at the other tackle position.  Semisi Tokolahi is also in front of Potoa’e.  Tokolahi is a true sophomore who played sparingly last year.  He lost a ton of weight and has been playing pretty well in camp so far.  He’s played some with the first unit.

So where does that leave Sione?  At the moment it leaves him on the second unit and the 4th overall tackle (two tackles are on the field at once generally), obviously.  But, he could move up pretty quickly.  He had one of the best first weeks of camp for any freshman, getting great reports from Sark a couple of times.  Why should we be excited about him?  Sark said he has the most explosive hands of any defensive lineman he’s seen here.  He’s already up to size and doesn’t look much like a freshman right now.

Should he red-shirt?  Maybe, but I think he could help this team right away and therefore should not red-shirt.  Defensive tackle is a good place to have depth and he adds that to this team.  Those big guys get tired, you know?

That’s all for now.  Here’s today’s scrimmage report from Condotta.  I wish I could have been there but I suppose surfing at the beach is a nice consolation prize.

Andrew

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