Welcome to the first edition of weekly All We Hear is Purple for the 2022 Husky football season!

Just like the Dawgs we start the season off with a win, as the illustrious Coach B joins us to go over everything we saw in the 45-20 victory over Kent State, Kalen DeBoer’s first game as Husky head coach.

Andrew and Coach B talk:

What Michael Penix, Jr brought to the offense on his first night in purple

The Husky offensive line in pass protection

The Husky run game versus Kent State’s defense

What will we see from the UW defense and the secondary going forward?

Talking Oregon and Utah losses, along with Oregon St. and Arizona wins over Boise St. and SDSU.

Go Dawgs!!

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Today we have for you an astonishing podcast, by which we mean that somehow astonishingly we managed to finagle Gabey into “actually doing her” job and being on this episode because she finally used up all 1,642 excuses for why she can’t record.

Anyways, a couple weeks into fall camp and the gang went for a position-by-position vibe check.

How wonderfully bizarre it feels to finally be able to say “the receivers whip ass”

Learning curves and the anti-linear nature of progress

Scott Huff...?

A cross-sport analogy for the defensive interior versus the edge

Scheme changes and how that eases the linebackers’ job

Scheme changes and how that eases the running backs’ job

Love song to Trent McDuffie and Kyler Gordon, RIP

Completely neglecting to mention the safeties until we don’t

Enjoy!

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This week our esteemed football guru Coach B joins Andrew to discuss the big wave of recent recruiting commitments and the looming specter of conference realignment (5 stages of grief... ever hear of it?).

Gabey couldn’t make the session and was sorely missed, but she sent in this communique from an undisclosed location:

“*ahem* Fox Sports & the telecomms corporations & those underachieving cretins that are USC & UCLA can go choke on a foghorn”

“I hope the San Andreas fault collapses, transporting southern California into an unprecedented tectonic rift eastwards so that LA can achieve its dream of being closer to Bloomington, Indiana”

And lastly: “Larry Scott is the absolute worst”

Oh wait actually not lastly cuz I have to add “@UCLA: up yours you Los Angeles talent wasting-ass bitc**s”

Enjoy the summer weather and Go Dawgs!!

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This week we are joined by special guest, our very own Coach B to discuss the state of Husky football at the conclusion of Spring practices.

Coach B took part in the Coaches Clinic offered on the penultimate weekend of Spring practice, and this VIP vantage brought him special insight into:

The high energy practices run by Kalen DeBoer and Co.

Ryan Grubb’s comments on his three QB’s

The secondary, the overall personality of the defense, and how it all contrasts with what’s come before

How the defensive talent can flourish in this new scheme

Structure and attention to detail in the passing game

The change in culture

Also:

Recruiting and the class of 2023

NFL Draft review

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Hello and welcome to one of All We Hear is Purple’s bi-annual better-than-normal episodes.

That’s because today we’re joined by a certified cool person. What makes their coolness certifiable?

Well when you’re a former All-Pac-10 infielder, the all-time winningest UW coach across all sports, a national champion, the head coach for Team USA, and a general Redmond #icon (go Mustangs amiright?), that’s certifiably kickass. It’s basically science.

If you hadn’t figured it out by now, we’re talking about Washington Softball Head Coach Heather Tarr.

We talk about:

The human component of managing a program

Husky Softball Stadium concession stand hot dogs

Team America (and Seattle U) and coaching against former players and assistants

Chris Petersen being a wise, Gandalf-like figure

The evolution of recruiting the last 15 years

The evolution of batting the last 15 years

The psychology of going from high school depth player to college star

What do Gabbie Plain and Danielle Lawrie have in common in their ass-kickingness despite them being, from the outside looking in, complete opposites?

Differences offensively between ‘22 Washington and ‘21 Washington

Becoming a head coach before turning 30

Andrew’s favorite author of late

Ozark. Also Clueless.

Plus, a cameo from Cat Tarr — the tragedy of this episode being that podcasting is sadly an auditory medium and thus none of you get to see him. So you’ll have to just trust us, he was a great cat right there.

Enjoy!

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This podcast brought to you by Managing Editor Max going “Hey you guys gonna do a podcast on account of it’s spring practice and you haven’t done sh*t in two months?” to which Andrew and Gabey responded “lol oh yeah that exists.”

Anyway, today we talked about spring practice stuff, such as:

Offensive line fun times

Running back fun times

Quarterback fun times

Defensive line fun times

Kalen DeBoer knowing what we want to hear, and then saying it

Like “haha what idiot would just run the inside zone all day?”

Wanting more than anything for the former-boxing-champion-slash-offensive-lineman-MJ Ale-to-defensive line transition to work out

All those new S&C player weights, complete with everyone’s favorite new coaching staff cliché, “guys are working harder than ever” and “the new staff just have a new energy”

Chuck Klosterman’s book, The 90s

The joy of letting your brain forget stuff that doesn’t matter, like sports and any franchise Disney has blown to smithereens the last five years

Rhys Darby, who is maybe perfect? Maybe?

Rhys Darby as a pirate, which is awesome.

Oh and taking it seriously when Cade Otton says Mishael Powell is good

The absurd frequency with which Gabey’s stomach revolts and chunders everywhere

Apologizing for making you listen to us talking about barfing

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With NLI day come and gone, Coach B sat down with us to talk about the players that joined Kalen DeBoer’s Huskies this week.

What overall grade does Coach B give the new coaching staff on recruiting? Which direction are we trending in? What about the 2023 class?

Go Dawgs!!

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This week you guys are lucky because instead of listening to just Andrew and Gabey’s voices (ew gross) and opinions (*dry heaving noise*) you get to hear the one and only wonderful Husky, Deontae Cooper (awesome and cool).

Not only is Deontae a delightful person, but he has some great insight into all sorts of aspects of the game, both as a player and now a coach. This episode, we talked to him about:

Taking over as the head coach at Highline High School and leading them Disney movie-style to their first KingCo 2A title since the Eisenhower administration

The difference in recruiting when he was in high school versus now, and how he tries to aid his players in the process

The mental and physical aspect of going through — and overcoming — so many injuries

How strength and conditioning has changed from the 20th century to his time to now

What makes a good coach, and what he learned from the three different head coaches in his college career

What went into his decision to transfer after so long at Washington, and how that set the stage for him returning to the Puget Sound after college

Dawgs he’s looking forward to watching next season

Who worked him so hard during a conditioning session that he took the 3:10 express train to vom city

Enjoy!

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Andrew and Gabey talk about — who would’ve guessed — the things that have happened since the last episode.

In other words, not that much, except:

Now the coaching staff is complete, we are contractually obligated to have opinions on them

Gabey being an idiot who’s German-ass brain takes over when deciding the pronunciation of “Inge”

Early signing day, in which the Dawgs have a class small enough that they could be a normal-sized boy band

Remaining potential targets for 2022, headlined of course by Josh Conerly

The addition of Michael Penix Jr.

The state of Oregon State, for some reason?

Some implications from the Fresno bowl game

Potatoes

Jesse Plemons and fictional universities in the Friday Night Lights canon

Feeding the pigeons, sometimes feeding the sparrows too, it gives one a sense of enormous wellbeing (Parklife!)

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This week, Gabey and Andrew discuss all the things we know and the things that are rumored about how head coach Kalen DeBoer’s coaching staff is rounding out, including:

Analysis and wild guesses about who the offensive coaches will be and what that might mean for next year’s UW offense.

More of the same on the defensive side, which led to a tangent on how little they both know about the CFL.

The ideal balance between specialized roles and balanced contributors on a coaching staff.

Where things stand in the transfer portal, from Cooper McDonald’s departure to Jake Haener’s non-arrival.

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