The UW was in position to win the Pac-10 and go to the Rose Bowl, but the Huskies blew it by losing on the road to an inferior UCLA team. That's how good seasons become mediocre. Every week it gets bigger and bigger. He noted the difficulty in reaching the right emotional peak each week. But it remains to be seen if we're capable of doing it.
Coaches can talk themselves until they are blue in the face, but players have to want to do it.
But if ninth-ranked and unbeaten Washington wants to continue to move up, it's going to have to find a way. Neuheisel said that nose guard Ossim Hatem will return to action in three to four weeks, two weeks earlier than was originally diagnosed. Hatem's elbow sustained a deep contusion. . . . Neuheisel recently purchased a new Cadillac for his father, Richard.