I don’t know who decides the order of videos on YouTube, but right after watching this 360′ view of the proposed $350 million renovation of the Husky Stadium from UW Athletics (the UW Regents approved the renovation yesterday), guess what came on?
I am guessing it’s the number of views. The stadium video shows 41,685 hits, while the dirty dishes got 43,452. What was even more funny was that the dirty dishes video was immediately followed by a UW campus video tour. I heard the regents are discussing potential corporate naming rights for the Husky Stadium—given its students excitement over dirty dishes, I am sure Ajax would be interested.
Don’t put nonstick pans in the dishwasher! Silly girl.
Is she covered with a rash?
Good to see the UW getting its priorities straight and spending $350 million on a stadium that was just completely renovated a decade or so ago. Football is the purpose of the fully modern university, and we can’t recruit the illiterate felon players we need without a new corporate-branded stadium.
easy to see why they call them ‘Hushies’…..
Hey, at least the team won.
Although the UW women’s soccer team is setting major records too.
Your headline is totally misleading, because unless my eyesight has gone completely to-pot, I only saw one girl in that video. Therefore, the corrected headline should read: “UW Girl Does Dirty Dishes”
@fnarf
Its 250 million, not 350 million, most of which will be funded with private dollars and raised ticket prices.
The north section was errected back in the late 80s and will NOT be torn down as it doesnt need to be. The south section, most of it, is over 70 years old and will be torn down. Did you know UW has been playing football for 120+ years at that location? It has undergone a few renovations, this will be the latest.
Sales from football games, pays for almost all other sports at the UW. And when we hosted the Nebraka game, 25,000 corn huskers came to town, spent alot of money in a short period of time, left and thanked us for our kind hospitality
Accusing UW players of being illiterate felons, is a horrible stereotype. You should know better.
hella production values. see you on aurora baby.
@2 you hear woodward’s comment about the success of the oregon’s athletic programs & facilities being an ’embarrassment’ because their academics are simultaneously suffering? i was impressed i have to say. but i never have seen this cashflow clearly explained. do any of the athletic profits go back into the university? is the renovation budget coming from taxpayers er huh what? i guess i could look it up but ive got to go back to work after looking over tmz.
Hey, Kinison, the UW, like all major college programs, has a history of hiring illiterate felons to play for them, and has an entire program set up, with special lawyers and special access to prosecutors, to say nothing of special protectors within the school and within the local media, to protect them in the legal system.
Remember Curtis Williams? You probably remember him as a hero who suffered a terrible injury on the field, whose death was mourned by millions. You probably don’t know that he broke his wife’s arm and nose, was arrested dozens of times, spent months in jail, never paid a penny of child support, and had multiple assault warrants outstanding when he took that fateful hit (which was his own fault; he had been warned many times for helmet to helmet contact (which the league condones, even encourages, even though it’s officially against the rules).
Curtis Williams was a scumbag. And he’s not even the worst Husky. All football players are scumbags. They get to take special classes, with a huge staff of special tutors and support people.
And all that business about “football pays for everything” is bullshit, pure and simple. It doesn’t take into account academic costs or capital costs. It doesn’t even account for all of the salaries.
And worst of all it diminishes the reputation of the school. It’s a school, remember? And every student who attends it (which doesn’t include football players; they’re not really students at all) is diminished by it as well. When they’re not being raped in the mud outside their houses by some brain-damaged freak whose actions are covered up by the university.
Fuck UW football.
Yeah, Jake Locker is quite a scumbag. As is the rest of the current team, despite being 8 years removed from the Jerramy Stevens era.
@7, Woodward’s comments were interesting, but a little disingenuous, since the UW’s support for academics is also falling to pieces. And as AD, he surely knows that athletics RUN the entire university here, and not just through school funding. The entire university is hostage to big-dollar boosters of the football program in the local business community.
@9, does the team still have a special relationship with Satterburg’s office? Does Mike Hunsinger still represent Husky players for almost nothing when they get into legal trouble? If Locker or the other Huskies ever did get into any trouble, would it ever even make the papers, or would the court records and arrest records be illegally sealed by a football-friendly judge? HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW?
Does Locker take Swahili or Leisure Activities classes for his grades?
Technically, Fnarf, you’re wrong.
They’re not felons when they’re brought in.
They become felons after that.
Swahili is a good language to know, actually. Very useful in a number of fields.
Would a current Husky behaving badly make the papers? I don’t know — ask Kavario Middleton, he might have an idea. Or since we’re using Neuheisel-era players as examples, ask Jerramy Stevens — his off-field antics have been well documented.
Reaching back ten years to Curtis Williams — and a completely different UW administration — and using him as evidence of current players’ alleged misdeeds and stupidity is lazy. And why should I care what classes the players take? Most of them won’t have careers in the NFL or CFL, so if they want to dick around in electives rather than a meaningful major, that’s their own career choice.
@12, Swahili’s great. However, at the UW, for more than twenty years it was possible to achieve a B average for two entire years in Swahili without learning a single word of it. You don’t even need to attend class; you just get your tutor to do it for you. If you’re a football player.
That’s why football players — who still get first crack at all course assignments, over regular students — all take it.
@Fnarf “All football players are scumbags.”
Stop right there, realize what you are saying and calm the f**k down. You are trying to perpetuate a stereotype and for that, you should be ashamed. You are to lose what credibility you have by attacking something you obviously know little about.
Take a break, go have a smoke, do some yoga, do what you need to do to calm down. Let this one go, you will not win this argument. You make yourself look more foolish the more you type.
@ 15, those of us familiar with Fnarf’s style ignore the hyperbole. When you do that, you’ll see he’s usually making a very substantive argument, as he does here. He doesn’t look foolish; the person who just claims he is, while not addressing one single substantive point raised, does.
@15, you’re right. It’s ultimately not the football players I’m mad at. They are, after all, merely slaves; and even the Jerramy Stevenses of this world probably wouldn’t have turned out the way they did if they hadn’t learned at an early age that if they just went out and sacrificed their bodies and brains every weekend, they could get away with anything, anything at all.
What I’m mad at is the system that created Jerramy Stevens and Curtis Williams. None of them paid any price for their crimes. Rick Neuheisel earns millions coaching football still. Barbara Hedges just got elected to the National AD Hall of Fame. All the lawyers, all the prosecutors, all the judges are still there, except for the ones who have passed away, like Norm Maleng, revered as a hero. All the boosters still fork over the money by the millions for their entertainment. Everyone who had a hand in the Jerramy Stevens Story is still there, cheering on “their” team. The football team still runs the UW; the revolving door continues to spin, sending the outgoing president to the NCAA, while the new one will have to pass the approval of the athletic department, which will be doing the hiring. The coach still earns millions of dollars, many times what the governor or UW president earns; and nowadays, even his assistant coaches and coordinators earn more than them. The special classes and special meals and special treatment up and down the line are still there.
You’re right, it’s not the players’ fault. They’re the ones who are being used. They’re the ones who will be standing helplessly at the foot of stairs in ten years, unable to walk up them. They’re the ones who are probably already showing signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy from the thousands of concussions or near-concussions they have suffered. They’re the ones with the 1 in 10,000 chance of earning a decent living in the pros, for a year or two (average is 1.5).
Yeah, it’s not the fault of the players. You’re right. I’m sorry.
@16, I dare you, or anyone here, to read “Scoreboard, Baby” by Ken Anderson and Nick Perry and not get so god-damned angry you want to shut down the entire NCAA.
UW boosters love to trash Neuheisel and are rubbing last night’s win in his face…NOW. But boy oh boy when he first showed up you would have thought he was Jesus Christ returned to Earth, despite plenty of warning from his tenure at Colorado. The basic fact is that UW’s program is STILL recovering from his time here. However, that two principal members of Pete Carroll’s staff at USC are now running the show at UW tells us all we need to know about where the Tyee Club stands with respect to running a clean program.
You got it, Fnarf…indentured servitude, baby.
I wonder how much of a pay raise they’ll be giving the football coach during this budget crisis …
19: curious because I don’t understand this stuff, but how is the program still recovering if none of the players involved played under him? Just hoping you’ll elaborate
@ 18, I’m from Colorado as you know, and although that program reached its nadir after Neuheisel left for UW (they got a female kicker who was then gang-raped by her own teammates), I’ve been familiar with how fucked NCAA athletics is from my time in Boulder. It was sliding downhill even when the Buffaloes won the national championship.
@23, every university has a series of stories like these.
The woman that Jerramy Stevens drugged and raped in the mud outside her house still has never received a single word of apology or even concern from the UW, ten years later. She was chased from the school; they never even bothered to inform her of their own rape-survivor counseling services. She was nothing to them, just dirt — still is, to this day.
Saintly Norm Maleng, King County Prosecutor at the time, put his arm around the woman’s mother and told her, “hey, look at it this way, at least she’s still alive”. Charges dropped.
That speaks not to the football program but the university, and the city itself. If you cross the football program, the university and even the government will always stand against you.
Stevens, of course, continued to play for the UW until his eligibility ran out, and then, despite being arrested again about a million times, continued to play in the NFL until less than a month ago.
Motherfuckers. All of them.
@fnarf
David Neuheisel, who was coach when Stevens was a embarassment to the school, was fired for lying to the UW athletic director about betting on NCAA basketball. That alone isnt a crime, but she fired him mostly for not being truthful. The director basically cleaned house and very little is left over from that era.
The football program didnt turn Stevens into a f**k up, he did that all on his own. You really cant accuse sports as some vicious entity that breeds screw ups. Last year at Yale you had Raymond Clark murder a lab partner, stuff her dead body into a locker. Before that it was Seung-Hui Cho, who was studying computer science at Virginia Tech who killed 32 people and before that it was Harris & Klebold at Columbine High School. None were into sports, yet what they did was considered acts of evil.
Do not worry about current players, they have unions with massive pensions that pay for any physical problems they face later in life. No, you should worry about the old school players who retired in the early late 70s & 80s, who did not have these special benefits and really struggle with simple things in life.
Now it is true that coach Sarkisian is making 1.75 million, but seriously, after going to Husky games for the past 6 years, those seats were mostly empty when Willingham coached and consistently lost games. Once Sarkisian took the team from a 0 – 12 season (lost every game) to 5 -12 the next year, boy did you see people filling up those seats, boy did the stadium suddenly get loud, boy did people suddenly start watching the Huskies play like they used to in the 80s & 90s. A winning team will sell more seats, which pays for the new stadium renovation, more wins mean more lucrative TV contracts, which mean more money to the school, which in turn means more money for scholarships. When ESPN is paying the school a 500,000$ to air the game, there is no cash flow problem and the school can easily afford this. Its an easy bet to say that 50-80 years ago, the program was far more dangerous, did not pay for itself (no TV or merchandise contracts), heavily favored athletic scholarships over academic ones and had little or no safety guidelines for the players. Husky Football program has come a long way.
@25, you’re forgetting a few facts. Neuheisel’s firing by the UW was later found to be in error, and the school had to PAY HIM FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS. That didn’t come out of the UW athletic budget, I guarantee it.
His name isn’t David Neuheisel, either; it’s Rick.
You’re simply wrong about the “clean house”, too. Almost everyone involved in those years still works there, or at another school that’s just as bad.
Your analysis is all, and I mean ENTIRELY, predicated on the assumption that the purpose of the University of Washington is football. Notice that your chain of logic ends with “more money for scholarships — FOOTBALL scholarships. As long as the football team wins and the money pours in, everything is cool!
Sorry about that chick in the dirt there who just lost her virginity, and her anal virginity at the same time, to one of your Huskies! No biggie! We all have to make sacrifices!
Fuck you, and fuck your seats and your loud crowds and your ESPN money. Fuck your boosters. Fuck your fans. Fuck the Huskies. Fuck them hard, fuck them often, fuck them forever. You’re an embarrassment to civilization.
Preach it brother!
Oh, and guess what? That funding? It’s a lie. “the project will draw on a $210 million loan from UW’s internal lending program, which also is used to finance other building projects on campus.”
So maybe it gets paid back from donations, maybe it doesn’t. It probably depends, like Kinison says, on whether the team is really good or not. Which increases the pressure to let things slide a little in recruiting and in monitoring player and coach behavior.
It takes the entire university hostage to the football program. All other campus building, you know, all that stupid-ass stuff for STUDENTS, like classrooms and libraries and stuff, boring crap that no one paints their face for, gets put on hold while we all wait and see who’s going to pay up and when.
Meanwhile tuition continues to go through the roof, driving students away. So much for “recruiting”; what good does it do to recruit students to a school they can’t afford? They go elsewhere. Recruit my fat ass.
Goddamn Huskies. God DAMN them.
“And though the proposal passed unanimously, the regents questioned whether the project could diminish the university’s ability to borrow money. The short answer: The athletic department is reasonably sure it will not.”
The athletic department runs the university, not the other way around.
So they borrow $210 million, which is money that now can’t be used for anything else, even though the UW is facing further massive cuts on top of the ones they’ve already suffered. They’ve raised $14.5 million; they hope to raise that to $50 mil eventually. The rest comes from ticket price increases OVER THIRTY YEARS, which is when the UW gets its building fund back.
So that means no more building on campus until the goddamn stadium is paid back IN THIRTY YEARS.
And we still have to listen to the apologists for this garbage bleat “oh, football pays for itself”. IT DOES NO SUCH THING.
If Jake Locker hadn’t come back for his senior season, he could’ve donated to UW the $40 million he lost this year by playing like crap. The “Heisman hopeful” threw for 68 yards last night. He couldn’t carry Ryan Leaf’s jock.
@25
College players have pensions? They get a pension for 1 to 4 years of service? That would make the renovation money look like chump change.
Or are you talking about the pros, that only one player out of a zillion will ever see. It’s telling that the only players you have concern for are the ones who make it.
Shoot – I forgot what I came here to say. (Thanks, Fnarf.)
Using a dishwasher is not “doing the dishes.” When I hear about hot girls doing dishes, i expect SUDS.
@32, it’s also telling that he thinks some amount of money is going to make up for dementia and early death.
@25
Forgetting the facts? Dude, your making wild bullshit up and your accusing me of forgetting facts?
You are accusing the NCAA of not only coddling rapists and murderers, but creating them. You drum horrible stereotypes that all football players are illiterate felons! You misquoted the overall costs of the stadium renovation and you confused a major renovation with an 100% total re-build done 23 years ago. You accuse the UW Football program as this economic black hole that drains more money than it makes and discredits the school and the millions of diplomas that students have earned. You personally attack someone (Jake Locker) you dont even fucking know and accuse him and fellow players of being a brainless jocks who takes easy classes to get a passing grade. You accuse football players of breaking numerous laws (which you cant cite) and assume they are put in front of football friendly judges (who you cant name) who dismiss the charges. You accuse the players of being slaves to the NCAA and that what few UW players that were total fuckups and got caught, were victims of society, when in reality they were fuck ups years before they enrolled in college, fuck ups after they left college and played in the NFL and continue to be fuck ups when they get fired from the teams they played for. You assume that women are being gang raped, all the time, by football players, throughout america and its all one big cover up! You know this because you read a book once about it. you make assumptions that school leaders are powerless pawns who have no control over anything and that the athletic dept really controls the entire school.
You see a 210 million dollar loan for the stadium renovation and freak out because OMG how can the school/state afford this during such a harsh economic recession and assume that nothing else can be built for the next 30 years! Oh but wait, whats this? 170 million dollar expansion to the medical center? They already broke ground on this, how can they possibly afford this and the new stadium? 170 million is alot of money, how can they afford a stadium renovation? /sarcasm
By all means, if you think i’m wrong, post an interactive poll on SLOG asking its online readers if they really really think the UW is really is a breeding ground for illiterate felons, or better still that Jake Locker is an absolute moron who takes Swahili classes to get a passing grade. Dont be shy, print the online results in next weeks edition and not just in an I,Anonymous or some other BS section, be serious, put it on the front fucking page, stand strong for the wild make bullshit that you believe in! Embarrass me, humiliate me, im literally begging you to prove me wrong! Fuel your self righteous hate for sports! Go all the way for what you believe in and what you believe in is, because you dont like college or pro sports, the world would be a far better place without it. Who needs school spirit, who needs a rivalry, who needs competition at all. Sports are a waste of everyones time.
Well, I can certainly see that you haven’t spent very much time on the upper campus; if you had, you’d be able to spell and punctuate.
For the record, I love sports. I love sports where the players are paid appropriately for their labor. And I don’t see what sports have to do with a school.
The medical complex is part of the school. Teaching doctors is one of the major functions of the university.
Your comments about Columbine and so forth are ridiculous, for the simple reason that when those boys shot up that school the entire community didn’t mobilize to protect them. If they had lived, they wouldn’t have gotten free lawyering from the school, they wouldn’t have had the prosecutor quash the case, they wouldn’t have had judges illegally seal the records. All of these things are done in support of football players at the UW.
And yes, I did name names. I’ve got references. You’ve got nothing except “school spirit” and hyperventilation.
Um. Woman in bathing suit and heels?
Anyone?
Anyone?
@fnarf
Well thankfully you are in the minority, because everything out of your mouth, in regards to the UW athletic ruling cobal, is absolutely, 100% complete and total shit and any serious attempt to preach this sick and fucked up fantasy world of yours will indeed be laughed.
You dont love sports, you hate it, its painfully obvious that you do. Nobody would make up such wild bullshit if they actually liked sports, so please stop trying to kid yourself. Your words echo with such hatred that it burns the skin of anyone who thought they could earn an education by playing sports for a college.
But im dead serious, prove me wrong. Post a on online poll to justify your wild bullshit about the NCAA being a breeding ground for illiterate felons. I have absolutely no problem admitting (through popular opinion) on SLOG that you were right. But of course you wont really do this, why? Because you were never right about anything. You were wrong about …. E V E R Y T H I N G!
But you wont, because your wrong. So crawl back into whatever watering hole on Capitol Hill you bullshitted yourself out of and think about the fact that Will in Seattle happily came to your rescue and joined in on the shit storm you started. Now you have a friend!
I will now pray for your troubled, sorry ass soul.
I attended my first professional sporting event in 1967, sugar plum. I saw the Baltimore Orioles play the Seattle Pilots at Sick’s Stadium in 1969. I was at the first game ever played in old Texas Stadium in Dallas; my first pro football game was a bizarre 5-0 victory by the Cowboys over the Detroit Lions in the Cotton Bowl (safety, field goal, yes, really). I saw the Mariners play in their first season in the Kingdome and the Sounders play in their first season in Qwest Field (I’m a Sounders season ticket holder). I’ve seen the Sonics play in the Coliseum, the Kingdome, and the Key. I’ve seen the Seattle Totems play hockey; I’ve seen the Harlem Globetrotters. I’ve seen the Everett Aquasox. I’ve seen the Red Sox play in Yankee Stadium and the Yankees in Fenway Park, and the Mariners five or six times in Oakland Coliseum.
I’ve met Bob Feller.
I’ve been to an Australian Rules footie match between St. Kilda Saints and Collingwood Magpies. Ah, now that’s a good game.
I’ve stayed up late into the night to watch the Rugby World Cup. I’ve seen more events at the Olympics than you’ve had hot dinners.
I’ve been to Anfield to watch Liverpool play soccer. I’ve watched every single game of the last three World Cups. I’ll be getting up at 4:45 tomorrow morning, er, make that THIS morning, to watch Tottenham Hotspur play at Arsenal.
What were you saying about sports?
From someone who cant even get basic facts straight about the stadium renovation, it sure does sound like a load of bullshit to me, well all except the MLS part.