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*Editor’s Note: Dawg Pack Dirt is the unofficially official gameday info sheet for University of Washington Men’s Basketball.

Now in its sixth year of publication, Dawg Pack Dirt was conceived during the 2004-2005 season by me, Alex Akita.

Since then, it has become an institution among fans and students of Husky Basketball, passed down from myself to current members of the Dawg Pack student section who still compile and compose the dirt for every Husky home game. All of the work is original and the information is compiled from a variety of sources, ranging from newspapers, to social networking sites, to friends of friends around the Pac-10.

Back for another year, here’s the first installment of the 2009-2010 season.

Dawg Pack Dirt: Central Washington University

Volume 6, Issue 1, November 4, 2009

Special to Seattle Sportsnet

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LT Walter Jones will miss the rest of '09 with an injury.

Remember when the St. Louis Rams were the team to beat in the NFC West? No team — not the Seahawks, 49ers, or Cardinals — could wrest the division crown from the Rams’ iron grip.

Led by the likes of Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Marc Bulger, Kurt Warner, Orlando Pace, Leonard Little, and Marshall Faulk, the Rams were a force to be reckoned with in an otherwise weak division.

And then it all blew up.

Seemingly overnight, the Rams got very, very old.

Their rock of a left tackle, Pace, became an injury-prone question mark year in and year out.

Faulk ran out of gas and retired.

Bruce and Holt both dropped from their lofty perches as two of the game’s best wideouts. Each would see a reduced role in the team’s offense before moving on to different clubs.

Warner moved on, paving the way for Bulger. Bulger, in turn, took the reins of the St. Louis offense and proved consistently inconsistent.

The defense fell apart.

Coaches came and went.

It was a carousel of problems for the former Superbowl champs as they went from contender to cellar-dwellar over the course of a matter of months.

And their biggest issue? That came in failing to acknowledge their own demise.

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