Coaching Staff Makes Husky Football Likable Again

From Head Coach Steve Sarkisian to volunteer assistant Marques Tuiasosopo, it’s hard not to like the coaching staff of the University of Washington football team. A group of passionate, excited young teachers that, in many cases, look like they could still take the field themselves are the men in charge of guiding the current roster of Husky players. Not one year ago, it was an entirely different group that patrolled the Washington sideline on gameday. Led by Tyrone Willingham, the 2008 Husky coaching staff was older, more reserved, and lacking the spark that fades with age and losing. The dispassion exuded by those coaches spawned an atmosphere of gloom and doom on Montlake that seemingly could not be lifted. But less than 365 days later, the clouds have parted and sunshine is breaking through on the shores of Lake Washington once again. The new regime that runs, jumps, and chest bumps along the north end of Husky Stadium has done the near-unthinkable, transforming all the ne...