How sweet it was, an undefeated season, a second consecutive win, and a share of the
national championship.
Can the dogs win again?
What's the potential for another national championship and a record-breaking third consecutive
Rose Bowl?
And how does success on the field translate into cash on the barrel head?
And there's another kind of football making news, the men's and women's soccer teams
are gearing up for their most challenging seasons ever.
All that and more as we kick off a new season of Husky Profile coming up next on Crime Sports
Northwest.
The first of the 1992 fall, winter of 93 Husky Profile, a new edition.
And remember this picture folks, remember real well come about November and the end
of football season, a sun-drenched 75 degree day on the shores of Lake Washington.
Hi again everybody, Don Poirier along with Chuck Nelson beginning our third year of bringing
you a Husky Profile as well as play by on the delayed telecast of Husky football.
Gee, it's our third year, we're getting old.
Not bad, we've been very successful since we've been here though, both on the field
and off the Husky football team of course in the two years that we've been here.
22 and 2, we feel like we're doing our part.
Well I think Don James has finally discovered that probably this has been one of the keys
for the success the last two years are the announcers.
Yeah right.
We've got a lot going on this season and a new show as you can see we have an hour show
now that will be coming out every month, Husky Profile covering the athletic department at
the University of Washington.
And as the fall season nears, all eyes of course are on the Huskies and all pens as
well so we have something new, a look at some of the recent headlines from the Seattle Times
and the Post-Intelligencer.
Headlines like a panel of 31 writers and broadcasters at the Pac-10 Conference's media day predicted
the Huskies would win the Pac-10 Championship in 92.
For the first time since Coach James has been at Washington, the University is sold out
of season football tickets.
Jason Shelley, a freshman participating in his first scrimmage where the Huskies got
five passes for 122 yards and two touchdowns.
Shelley is 6'2", 180 pounds from Vallejo, California.
Bob McDonald resigned as baseball coach to accept a similar position at the Naval Academy.
McDonald has been with Washington for 16 years and last season guided the Huskies to their
first NCAA tournament since 1959.
Seems like deja vu doesn't it folks?
The Hurricanes and Huskies who finished 1-2 in last year's Associated Press College Bowl
are starting the 92 season the same way.
Miami received 1,511 points and Washington received 1,453 votes in the AP Preseason Survey.
According to an NCAA study examining the scholastic progress of college athletes, Washington
graduates only 33% of its football players.
Coach James disputes how the NCAA determines graduation rates but has taken this problem
very seriously, stepping up the emphasis on graduation rates using several methods.
Like we said, lots going on.
That's it for Husky Highlights this month.
We'll have many more for you next month and the month after as the entire athletic season
goes on through fall and through the winter.
So we've got a lot to cover here in the next hour as we're on the outskirts of Husky Stadium.
The team will be coming out of the practice field behind us on the natural turf in their
afternoon session.
You'll probably get to see some of that.
We've got a lot coming up so be sure and stay with us here on Husky Profile.
The talk of pre-peat is already in the air as the Huskies make a high and mighty debut
with the pre-season polls.
And who could resist a look back at the season that did it all?
All coming up next on Husky Profile.
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And right now Chuck Nelson and I are sitting about halfway up Husky Stadium looking at
the open end and behind us.
And you'll see them starting to show up now.
Some very tired Husky football players entering their second week of two a days.
But we've got lots coming up.
And of course September 5th it all begins.
That's when the Huskies, the defending national champions go down to open their 92 season
against the Arizona State Sun Devils and new head coach Bruce Snyder who moves down from
California.
Yes there will be a lot of individual honors and team honors for the Huskies in 1992.
But more importantly this team as a whole has a chance to do something that no other
Pac 8 or Pac 10 team has ever done.
January 1st, 1991 the Huskies met the Hawkeyes in Pasadena.
The James Gang led by Rose Bowl MVP Mark Brunel ran past and pummeled their way to a 39-14
lead.
Fast forward 365 days in 11 straight wins and find the Huskies in the 92 Rose Bowl in
the hunt for a national title.
Gary Moller's Michigan Wolverines stand in their path but not for long.
The dogs dominate Michigan as Billy Jo Hobart, Mario Bailey and Steve Emphman star in the
finale to the first undefeated untied season in Husky history and claim the first ever
national championship at Washington.
Rewind 68 years to 1924 the Washington Huskies coached by Enoch Bagshaw ties Navy 14-14.
It's the second year the game was played at the newly constructed Rose Bowl.
Since 1923 back-to-back Rose Bowl victories have occurred only eight times all of those
by West Coast teams.
Three straights, it's never happened.
The 1992 James Gang is ready to ride into Rose Bowl history, a three-peat in Pasadena.
Picture day is past, fall practice is about to end.
The first step toward Pasadena will be taken in Tempe, Arizona next weekend.
Time to talk to the coaches and players about last season's successes and this year's expectations.
One thing that last year's team did besides play well week in and week out, you know they
came to practice every day.
They worked hard and they stayed healthy.
That's the thing that you know we've got to get through fall camp and we've got to get
through the season.
Week in and week out without a lot of major injuries, serious injuries and I think that
the key issue probably is still is just a day-to-day basis.
Come to work, work hard to get better.
You carry a great emotional surge from such a high point as last year.
The players carried in the spring practice.
I fully expect us to gain a lot of benefit from it.
The other thing that you carry as a coach is you carry the constant fear of taking a
step backwards.
And so I think it's really important that you work from the standpoint of I don't ever
want to lose this edge.
That's definitely an incentive.
It's a goal but the main focus of this year is Arizona State right now.
We had a model last year that I kind of like to stress upon as each game being a national
championship game.
And it's going to be the same thing for me again.
This fire first upon Desire on the state and that's national championship game number one.
So we're going to go out there and hopefully and not hopefully but we will go out there
and do the things necessary to win and put it together for the next ten games.
I don't think the team's concerned about doing it three in a row.
I think the team's concerned about what we're doing this year.
I know I don't care what we did last year.
I was last year's team.
This year's a whole different story.
We still got to go out and perform like I said.
You know 20 years down the road then yeah we might look back and say wow it's kind of
great doing three in a row.
But I don't think anybody really cares what we did last year.
We just want to do what we can do this year and worry about it 10 years down the road.
Well I think just going through you know back to the films of last year and looking back
and last year people say you know they call it the perfect season 12-0 but it wasn't perfect.
I made mistakes you know and I'm gonna go back to the films and you know learn from
those mistakes and before we play a certain opponent I'll go back and watch last year's
game and say oh you know I messed up here I messed up here.
I got to fix those things and that's just part of being a better linebacker and I look
forward to you know hopefully being a better player this year.
That's a goal every year I kind of come in.
I don't want to be the same as I was the year before.
I want to be a lot better.
You see it in the weight room even before we even came back to start lifting weights
and going out on the field guys are in there two and three and four hours.
We were out there running as hot as I don't know what and people were still running sprints
and had a game of water out there just so if they did dehydrate they were drinking fluid
stuff so guys are we really want it.
You know the quarterbacks are getting on our case and not coming out throwing the ball
and catching the ball so we got a lot of team chemistry and I think we're gonna be alright
just here.
Last year was very unique in that I mentioned it earlier that every guy was so accountable.
I mean it was we had an incredible amount of teamwork and I had never seen it before
in this program.
I mean guys were you know if one guy had a bad practice or maybe someone had a bad game
the other guy his neighbor would just pick him up and say let's go let's get it going
and that's what I learned and I really didn't think that it was you know as important as
it should be you know years back but last year I just learned how important it is to
just keep guys going encouraging guys and it's just that is what makes a team to me.
That's what I see is what keeps a team going is guys helping each other out.
I mean sure you don't have to be best friends or buddies with every guy but when you're
on a team you gotta be there for the next guy and he's gonna be there for you.
It's like you're making a sandwich sort of.
You the first time you started like last year for example we would use we would have a lot
of ham a lot of turkey and stuff on the sandwich.
Now we have a lot of smaller guys.
We don't have guys we don't have too many guys as big as Supele Malamala as strong
as Ed Cunningham.
We don't have those guys as fast and big as Aaron Pierce on it as a tight end.
We have guys that are smaller but they're still great athletes and they still can go
out there and play.
We don't have Steve Atkins anymore.
We have DeMarco Flores.
He's two different type of athletes.
Steve was a big powerful finesse type of guy.
DeMarco's a guy who has an incredible speed and will beat you if you blink.
So it's a different you're making a different sandwich all over again but you're still hopefully
it'll taste as good as you made the first one.
Do you like it?
I'm hungry so.
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And don't forget we'll have the broadcast of the Huskies against Arizona State.
Chuck and I will be calling that game for you.
You'll see it here on Prime Sports Northwest that beginning Sunday at 8 o'clock on the
6th of September.
It's going to be fun to be involved again.
We heard the players talk about in somewhat vague terms thinking about last year projecting
it to this year.
I remember one of the neat things about last year was they just played them one game at
a time.
They learned their lessons from the year before.
Now last year season obviously different lessons were learned and we'll see if they can apply
those to this year and come out 12 and 0 again.
Most forgiving factor for this team has to be the fact that they have seven home games.
And they do open a conference play down there at Arizona State but I think that's the time
to play them right now before Bruce Snyder gets that program going.
Well as you said seven home games is always nice.
They've got some great home games too.
The only four road games they have are the two Arizonas, Oregon and Washington State.
Not really top tier teams at least at this point in the Pac-10 and then you throw it
in Nebraska at home.
You've got SC, Cal, Stanford all coming in here.
It's a great home schedule not just for the players but for the fans as well.
Yeah absolutely.
It's going to be a great year.
All right we've got lots more coming up on this one hour edition as it will be every
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Welcome back to Husky Profile.
I'm Chuck Nelson along with Don Poir.
As you can see behind me football season is once again upon us and one thing that means
is cliche season is also upon us.
Play them one game at a time.
You can't look too far ahead.
Well what happens after you've done all that.
After you've played them one game at a time and you've won them all.
Nobody says you can't take a look back.
The dogs kicked off their quest for a second consecutive Rose Bowl in Palo Alto against
the Cardinals.
The California Sun may have been bright but the spring scrimmage loss of Rose Bowl MVP
Mark Brunel a quarterback cast a long shadow over Don James Hopes.
Would this new quarterback making his first start be able to take his team all the way.
The answer wasn't long in coming.
Billy Joe Hobart connected on two TDs that day and led the dogs to their first win of
the season passing for 244 of the Huskies total for 15 yards while the defense led by
Dave Hoffman eight tackles offered up its own statement by holding Stanford to just
one touchdown and only 28 yards on the ground.
When Billy Joe connected with Mario Bailey over Von Bryant with just seconds left in
the first half it was all over but the shout.
The Huskies and their new quarterback would not only win they were a conference win closer
to that second Rose Bowl.
The next test for the would be packed in champs was in Nebraska against the eighth ranked
corn huskers but the test seemed to be more of the Huskies composure as flags nullified
seemingly play after play.
The dogs managed to post just one touchdown and trailed at the half despite dominating
the game statistics traveling 100 more yards than Nebraska.
The third period seemed to promise only more disappointment.
Every time things seemed to come together.
Yellow flags took them apart.
The test of team composure reached all the way to the top.
Washington trail 21 to 9 heading toward the fourth period.
But with just seconds left in the third the dogs pulled it all together one more time
and this time it stayed that way.
The Huskies scored four unanswered touchdowns capped off by an 81 yard Jay Barry scamper
to shock Nebraska with a 36 to 21 drug.
When the Huskies took the field for their home opener against Kansas State they scored
on six of their first seven possessions and held the Wildcats to minus 17 yards on the
ground.
In posting a 56 to 3 win it was clear that these dogs were.
Arizona was the next victim of the purple juggernaut and when Billy Joe Hobert went
down in the third period Mark Brunel came on to show he still knew how to play the game.
The dogs balled the Wildcats 54 to nothing.
Former UW offensive coordinator Gary Pinkle brought his Toledo Rockets to Seattle for
the Huskies last non-conference game.
No doubt he had a more cordial greeting at the James House that night.
The second half of the season started in Strawberry Canyon where the now third ranked Huskies
had a brawl with eight ranked Cal.
After Jay Barry's nine yard TD run gave the dogs the first half 17 to 10 lead Lindsey
Chapman 68 yard score tied the game heading into the fourth period.
As if to reinforce just how tight this game was Beno Bryant took off on his own 65 yard
tear to take back the lead.
With time running out Cal went for the end zone offsetting penalties gave him one more
shot.
For the second time that season the dog had beat a top ten opponent on the road.
Back home Mario Bailey caught his way into the record book against the Ducks.
And against the Sun Devils the Huskies scored 14 points before ASU could run their second
play from 31 to nothing at the half it was 44 to 16 when the smoke cleared.
The dogs then went to the LA Coliseum to record their first win there since 1980.
Beno Bryant ran for a personal best 158 yards and the defense recorded 14 tackles for loss
including five sacks.
It was also the second year in a row that the Huskies had denied the Trojans the end
zone.
The rain in Corvallis the next week brought out the roses.
Mario Bailey chalked up another record as the dogs clinched their second straight Rose
Bowl.
Any other bowl would not have smelled as weak.
Back home the next week the Boquise were all laid out but there was one more piece of business
to complete.
The Cougars stood between the dogs and their first perfect season since 1915.
The way the Huskies played you'd have thought they had a bone to pick.
Wazoo head coach Mike Price's vote for Miami as national champion might have had something
to do with it.
It seemed like when the offense wasn't scoring the defense was.
The 56 to 21 final score gave Washington its third straight Apple Cup victory and a perfect
11 and 0 season.
But from the opening kickoff it seemed the Rose Bowl should convince anyone who'd witnessed
it that the Washington Huskies had earned and deserved at least a share of the 1991
national championship.
Tears.
Carol and I as he jumps up started calling family and friends and I'm emotional now
but it's so difficult to express the feeling that I have for these kids.
And again I'm an emotional person but see these guys what they've gone through and for
them not to get a piece of this would have been a tragedy.
Those highlights are awfully fun to watch but hindsight makes it seem almost inevitable
that they would go 11 and 0.
But what is truly impressive is that they did win them one game at a time.
It may have been 18 years or another 18 where we see Don James that emotional again.
It's an incredible sight really incredible sight.
It's fun to look back isn't it.
Well we all know and it is well documented the success of this Husky football team back
in 1991.
But the high expectations for the 92 season has spawned some incredible demands and support
off the field as well as Husky mania is at an all time high.
With two Rose Bowl wins and a national championship in the past two years suddenly everyone is
a Husky fan.
Nowhere is the rush greater felt than at the Husky ticket office where season tickets are
all gone.
In past years with a donation the tie club was a safe bet to secure your season tickets.
Not this year.
Season tickets this year are impossible to come by we actually have a lottery for the
last several tickets that were available down in the horseshoe the end zone but the tie
program when we opened up the new deck in 87 was fully sold the year or two after that
because so many new people came in and didn't get exactly what they wanted.
There were some openings but now we're back to the point where you can't even get a tie
seat anymore.
We're probably up around 66,000 right now and that's all we can sell because when you
take student seats you take the away game or the visiting team seats and things of that
sort that's the most we can sell and they're all sold.
Besides tickets interest in the Huskies for promotional purposes has been as great as
ever.
Cindy Holt is the director of marketing and promotions for the Husky Athletic Department.
She says the biggest change for her group has been the proliferation of out of town
requests.
More of the increase in requests have come from outside of the Seattle and actually Washington
area I've gotten calls from practically every state in the country requesting promotional
type material you know posters and schedule cards and trading cards and autographs and
photographs and that sort of thing.
Appearances have always been pretty strong here in our local Seattle area so the biggest
increase has been in the exposure across the country you know just the sheer requests for
promotional material has been incredible.
Coming up with a theme for football season is a yearly task at Cindy's office.
Last year it was bad to the bone.
This year's theme will make Husky opponents colorblind.
The theme this year is real dogs wear purple.
We want everybody to be wearing their purple in the stand.
Cash registers at stores selling Husky apparel and souvenirs also have experienced an increased
workload.
Matt Ulrich owner of the tequila club a U district retailer hopes the good fortunes of the team
continue not only as a loyal Husky fan but for his business too.
Well our business is up about 40 percent the last two years over previous years you know
and those are due to the to the bowl wins to Rose Bowl wins and a national championship.
Yeah so it's you attribute sales to you know as a team goes so goes the sales of merchandise.
It's amazing how.