Dawgman Radio: A Washington Huskies athletics podcast

The news many had been anticipating and hoping to hear, that the Pac 12 would be joining the rest of the Power Five conferences in playing football this fall, came down around 4 p.m. this afternoon following the conference CEO group's unanimous vote to return to play starting on November 6th. Washington head coach  Jimmy Lake  said on his  coach's show Thursday night  that he hoped for a November...

Pac-12 Football is back! And the conference hosted a media webinar Thursday evening to talk about the details and take questions from reporters. Present for the media call was University of Oregon President and Chair of the Pac-12 CEO Group  Michael Schill , Pac-12 Commissioner  Larry Scott , Arizona State Vice President for University Athletics  Ray Anderson , and Oregon State Senior Associate At...

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund - work around the fires and the power outages to get you the latest news from around Montlake, including all the comings and goings in the NFL when talking about all the former Huskies playing pro ball. They dig into all the players who were let go by NFL teams Friday and Saturday as the 53-man roster cut line took place thi...

Here is the audio from the Pac-12 Media Thursday Webinar with Pac-12 Commissioner  Larry Scott , Quidel President & CEO  Doug Bryant , Oregon State Senior Associate Athletics Director  Dr. Doug Aukerman  and Washington Section Head for Sports Medicine  Dr. Kim Harmon . It addresses the conference's groundbreaking testing research initiative with Quidel Corp. when it comes to rapid testing for...

Mike Hopkins  gave the media a new phrase to digest Thursday afternoon: positionless basketball. Yup, throw away all the antiquated terminology. Who plays the one? The two? It doesn't matter at UW right now. Hopkins said he's fully embracing the idea of 'offense is spacing and spacing is offense'. He talked about getting Quade Green  back, as well as how instrumental Wichita State transfer Erik St...

The guys from Dawgman.com -  Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund  - got together Friday morning to talk about all the latest news on UW Football, including a monster new contract for  Budda Baker . Baker is now the highest-paid safety in the NFL, and he's not the only Pro Dawg that has signed a big contract recently.  Shaq Thompson ,  Cory Littleton , and  Desmond Trufant  have already c...

Washington Head Coach Jimmy Lake and UW Associate Athletics Director for Health and Wellness Rob Scheidegger took questions from the media Friday in regards to the Pac-12's decision to postpone fall sports through the end of the 2020 calendar year, what the football team will do going forward, as well as more on the possibility of spring football and what's being done on the medical side that migh...

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott, University of Oregon President Michael Schill, Arizona State athletics director Ray Anderson, and Oregon State Senior Associate Athletics Director Dr. Doug Aukerman spoke Tuesday afternoon to the media and answered questions after the announcement that the conference would be postponing all fall sports through the end of the 2020 calendar year.

The guys from Dawgman.com -  Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund  - offer up their initial reactions to the Tuesday news that the Pac-12 has postponed all fall sports until at least January 1, 2021. Obviously this has huge ramifications, most of them still yet to be worked out. With current eligibility set on pause, how will this affect Washington's current seniors? And what about the ri...

Even though we would normally be getting ready for fall football right now, the guys from Dawgman.com -  Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund  - wanted to get together to break down all the latest news and notes coming out of the Pac-12 in light of the new football schedule coming out late last week. They talk about the realities of whether or not the schedule will ever be played and also...

Pac-12 Football Schedule Release Webinar with Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott, Stanford head football coach David Shaw, Arizona State athletics director Ray Anderson, and Oregon State Senior Associate Athletics Director Dr. Doug Aukerman.

We're getting down the nitty gritty of the 2021 recruiting cycle, but on Thursday, Husky Nation turned their attention to 2022 and saw their favorite team's class get started off on the right foot when Liberty (Henderson, Nv.) WR  Germie Bernard , rated as one of the top receiver prospects in the nation, made the decision to commit to the Huskies. With that news, it was a good opportunity for Dawg...

It's the end of the week, so it's also a perfect opportunity for the guys from Dawgman.com -  Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund  - to delve into the latest issues surrounding UW Athletics and recruiting. And there's no bigger story right now than Michigan canceling their scheduled trip to Montlake in early September. The Big Ten announced Thursday they were eliminating all non-conferen...

Things have begun to really heat up on the recruiting trail for the Huskies. They have received two commits -- DL  Siaosi Finau  and RB  Caleb Berry  -- so far this week and another one of their top targets, four-star Kennedy Catholic (Burien, Wa.) WR  Jabez Tinae ,  is set to announce his college choice on Sunday. Finau was a star on both sides of the ball Renton High School last season and he wa...

It's been a while since we've been able to catch up on the recruiting front, so there were a lot of subjects to talk about in the latest DawgmanRadio with Kim Grinolds, Scott Eklund and Chris Fetters giving updates from the recruiting trail. First, they took a look at the last three commitments to Washington --  Dyson McCutcheon ,  Maurice Heims ,  Will Latu  -- and went in-depth on each prospect...

Dawgman.com's Chris Fetters spoke this week with AJ Maestas, Founder and CEO of  Navigate , a trusted advisor to leading brands and organizations in sports and entertainment. Navigate provides clients with data-driven guidance on strategies, deals, and major decisions to help drive revenue and achieve success. Maestas got his undergraduate degree at Washington, so whenever he gets a chance to talk...

In this latest episode of Dawgman Radio, Kim Grinolds talked to the man who once used to live on Chicken Dinner Road in Caldwell, Idaho -  Cody Pickett . Pickett, best known as the quarterback who backed up  Marques Tuiasosopo  on the 2000 Rose Bowl-winning team, as well as putting together the greatest passing season ever for a UW quarterback (4,458 yards in 2002), is now back in Idaho. He spoke...

Under the most trying of circumstances, recruiting in the college football world continues to happen. Husky fans are lamenting the fact that one of Washington's top wide receiver targets,  Troy Franklin , is likely headed to Oregon while simultaneously being happy that local four-star linebacker  Will Latu  will make his decision known on Father's Day (June 21st). This has been the weirdest recrui...

We're starting to step up our one-on-one podcast game, and we figured we'd go back all the way to the beginning of Washington's Golden Era for football. That coincides with the start of the Don James Era, so Dawgman's Kim Grinolds tracked down one of James's early team captains,  Mike Rohrbach . Rohrbach was one of four captains of the 1977 Washington Football team that won the 1978 Rose Bowl, joi...

The guys from Dawgman.com -  Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund  - have way too much time on their hands, so that means we're playing with new technology in the hopes we can help bridge the gap during these interesting times. So Monday evening, the three hosted their first-ever remote radio show via WebEx. The 90-minute show was done in a format that tried to emulate the same format we...

Dawgman.com's  Chris Fetters  caught up with the Head of Hoops -  Aaron Beach  - to talk about all things Washington Basketball and recruiting, starting with the idea they may not be completely done with signings for the 2020 class. Both  Erik Stevenson  and  Nate Pryor  signed letters of intent last month to be Huskies, and now former Lynden Christian star  Cole Bajema  is back on the market afte...

With news from the Cal-State System chancellor recently that most classes would be virtual and then an announcement by California Collegiate Athletics Association  that they will not be participating in any fall sports , the questions have started to rise about whether there will be a Pac 12 football season and whether it will start on time or if there will be a delay and extra accommodations made...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for many Americans to navigate, but for football coaches, the uniqueness of the current circumstances has forced them to become creative in the way that they have been able to stay connected with their players. Typically, coaching staffs across the nation are out on the road this time of the year, doing evaluations and meeting with players. They are also wo...

Dawgman.com's Kim Grinolds spoke Tuesday afternoon with Washington signee  Sav'ell Smalls  for the first time a while, and a LOT has changed. For the freshman outside linebacker, it's still all about doing his schoolwork despite obviously not being at school. Everything is done via Zoom conferencing nowadays, and Smalls talked about the tricky nature of trying to keep on top of everything when his...

Like  Jimmy Lake  taking over for  Chris Petersen ,  Kyle Whittingham  went through a similar transition when he took over for Hall of Famer  Urban Meyer  at Utah. Whittingham's words of advice to the new Washington head coach? "Don't change just for the sake of change." But the fact is, a lot of things have already changed ahead of the 2021 football season, including the idea that the season may...