Trashing Huskies gets really old

Published 2:43 pm Friday, December 18, 2015

Every year the University of Washington football team makes a bowl, I see a letter complaining about it. The writer’s assertion that the only reason they make a bowl is because they pad their non-conference schedule every year is flat-out wrong. Virtually every Division-1 NCAA Football team from a major conference does this now, and it is no guarantee they make a bowl game with doing that. They had to win some crucial games to get to 6-6. And that is the system. I don’t like it, but it is the way it is. From the Huskies to the Cougars to a storied program like Alabama, they all do it now.

I didn’t hear Husky fans saying the Cougars didn’t deserve to go to the New Mexico Bowl in 2013 with a 6-6 record because they played the likes of Montana or Eastern Washington. Two more reasons why the Huskies make a bowl game with a 6-6 record is because of their rich tradition and the way the fan base travels to these bowl games. Also, the writer said that the Huskies finished the year with a 5-6 conference record. Wrong. They only play nine conference games and they finished with a 4-5 conference record.

Jeff Swanson

Everett