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Dawg Pack Dirt: Arizona

Volume 6, Issue 17, February 3, 2010

Special to Seattle Sportsnet

The blackout was awesome and it was a huge win for the Dawgs on Saturday! Good job to the Dawg Pack for bringing it!

The Dawg Pack also managed to draw the ire of a few classless Cougar fans that learned a costly lesson: if you mess with a Dawg, you’re going to have to deal with all the others that will back us up.

This game is definitely a huge one if we want to hold onto any sort of NCAA Tournament hopes, so make sure to bring it again on Thursday.

*Editor’s note: Attention morally righteous Cougar fans. Please stop reading right now, as there are phone numbers of Arizona players posted below. We wouldn’t want you to see those and be tempted to use them to your advantage when the Wildcats come to play at the Beasley Performing Arts Center and Ballet Recital House on Saturday. Thanks for your understanding.

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Johnny Tivao

So it’s National Letter of Intent Day, which is basically Christmas if you run a recruiting website. I don’t, so I can basically go give my dog a bath and not miss anything. He really smells bad too, it’s time.

A couple of you have asked if Seattle Sportsnet will be doing anything big for signing day. The answer is no. This is as big as it gets (that’s what HE said, heh).

The fact is, I’m not going to try and pretend I know a ton about these kids who have stars next to their name. Yes, I’ll be excited like the rest of you when Washington lands a four-star recruit or, saints alive, a five-star. But until these kids actually put on a Husky uniform and get into a game, all they are is commodities for us to scrutinize. Might as well be stock options.

Last year my favorite UW recruit was that Johnny Tivao kid, a JuCo player who was literally about as wide as he was tall. Thanks to Google, I’ve just found out that he’s listed at 5’10″, 350 pounds. That’s my kinda dude right there. To make a long story short, Tivao didn’t have the grades to get in and we were all a little let down. So let’s just wait and see on this year’s crop.

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