He’d be this guy if this guy had been the
captain and had no interest in self-preservation.
He’d cut the lines on the lifeboats and shoot anyone who tried to get off the ship. If he’s going down, everybody’s going down with him.
For 60 minutes Saturday night, Cody Bruns sat. Suffering from a slight hamstring injury, he watched with the rest of the 63,996 inside Husky Stadium, as Washington lost again, this time to Oregon State.
Two weeks earlier, for reasons that still don’t make sense, Washington coach Tyrone Willingham put freshman wide receiver Bruns into a lopsided loss at Arizona.
Bruns played three plays, but more important, he burned his redshirt season. After not playing for the first four games, after expecting to spend his first year of college learning the speed and the smarts of the game, Bruns’ season was wasted on three lousy plays.
And now he’s hurt.
[…]
It cost the freshman from Prosser a season. It made Washington look like a program that didn’t care about its players.
It felt like the move of an angry coach who knew he was in the last throes of his Seattle stay.
That decision is Willingham at his arrogant worst.
It is that typical my-way-or-the-highway approach that has turned so many Huskies fans and boosters against him.
Willingham has a history of cutting guys’ careers at Washington short. Willingham also has a history of being a horrible person and an even worse football coach.
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A detail from the story that is makes it sound even worse than in the excerpt above:
Washington was losing by 30 points when Bruns came into the game…
Just blows your mind, doesn’t it, Mike?
Doesn’t this sound a whole lot like what he did to Ryan Grant? Playing him in the Tenn game and then after he fumbled playing him in like 2 more games. Not positive on my stats but i’m pretty sure thats about how it went. Ty Sucks.
Hopefully the new coach will be smart enough to get that kid a medical redshirt.
I may be mistaken, DTK, but I think you can only get a medical redshirt if you only play in the first 3 games of the season.
I don’t think it matters which games you play (as long as it is in the 1st half of the year), just so long as you play less than a third of them you are in good shape. Technically, he could redshirt next year (under Kiffin?), he still has 5 years to play 4 seasons.
Well, for this kid’s sake, I hope you’re right, DTK.
I doubt it’ll be Kiffin. What’ll really be interesting is if Washington’s hire indicates they take football seriously again. People forget that it’s historically an excellent program.
He did the same thing with David Wolke. Put him in for garbage time to hand the ball off once or twice. Cost the kid his redshirt. When he transferred he had to go to I-AA so he didn’t lose another season.