Boom! Costello to Miss St

[Vogelbomb]

Was never in favor of going back-to-back with transfers. Getting Eason was one thing. Local kid. UW only had a couple of RS freshmen in the position vying to start. He had multiple years left to offer the program.

This situation feels far different. First, Costello has never been much more than average. Lately he's been injured and average. Not a good combination. To add to it, he only offered a single year and then you're right back to where you started. How's that help? 2021 you could have everything in place for a truly legit NC run with an experienced OL, a DEEP DL, LB and secondary, experienced wideouts... having a QB with experience in the system, experience leading the team, playing with the OL and WRs... that's MASSIVE

So thank you Mike Leach for going to Miss State and running the offense that you do to steal away Costello. I didn't want the kid anyway.

[Donn Beach]

Lake doesn't seem satisfied with the qb situation, says there is a "huge gaping hole"...sounds like he would like to add a qb.

Lake, specifically, does not feel good about UW’s current quarterbacks room — but that may be more of a numbers game than anything. When asked about the possibility of adding a quarterback via the transfer portal on 950 AM KJR on Wednesday, he said the following:

“As soon as a guy is not the starter … it’s not like back in the old days, where they’d go, ‘OK, I’m just going to work harder, and maybe I’ll unseat him after week 4 or week 5 or whatever.’ They just up and leave. So we’ve had a couple guys do that here, which put a huge gaping hole in that quarterback room. So I think there is a potential. You do want to look at that and maybe you do have to fill in a guy or two to make sure we’re back at full strength.”

Of course, Lake is referring to former UW quarterbacks Jake Haener and Colson Yankoff — who transferred to Fresno State and UCLA, respectively, last offseason. In the wake of Jacob Eason declaring for the NFL draft, that leaves the Huskies with just three scholarship quarterbacks — redshirt sophomore Jacob Sirmon, redshirt freshman Dylan Morris and true freshman early enrollee Ethan Garbers — when practice kicks off this spring. Of that group, I’ve been told Sirmon would be the heavy favorite to start the season opener against Michigan on Sept. 5.

But is the quarterback room complete? Lake could have emphatically swatted the possibility that the Huskies add a transfer quarterback this offseason; he didn’t do that. In fact, he voluntarily used the words “huge gaping hole” to describe the state of that room. Remember, also, that before Wake Forest graduate transfer quarterback Jamie Newman announced Georgia as his landing spot earlier this month, he included Washington in the list of schools he was considering — implying mutual interest.

[Vogelbomb]

That interview was approx. 3 weeks ago. Speaking to the transfers of Colson Yankoff and Jake Haener, two subpar qb prospects, he's speaking to the numbers, not the talent in the room -- at least one would think. Yankoff was only ever 4th in line for reps and Haener is/was a midget check-down artist w/ limited arm

[Donn Beach]

and?...he would like to find another qb, it could have been Costello, it is about the numbers, who said it wasn't?...again its about adding competition

[Vogelbomb]

and?...he would like to find another qb, it could have been Costello, it is about the numbers, who said it wasn't?...again its about adding competition

Yeah well it's not going to happen now. No other even decent names out there AND UW transfer reqs too high to facilitate a transfer

[57reasons]

So Leach finally beats Lake, just has to travel over 2,000 miles to do it.

[D-train]

Leach's three HC stops. Lubbock, Pullman and Starkville. The trifecta of culture, sophistication and refinement. lol

[Vogelbomb]

I once spent a month in Lubbock one day..

[Donn Beach]

Paul McCartney played Lubbock, in honor of Buddy Holly, inspiration for the Beatles

[D-train]

Paul McCartney played Lubbock, in honor of Buddy Holly, inspiration for the Beatles

Lubbock might be the most metropolitan of the three.