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The Unofficial UW Husky Hall of Shame

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Academics

Athletic Performance

Breaking Team Rules and Quitting Etc

Drugs

Recruiting Violations and Ethics Etc

Sheep

Shooting, Rape, Fraud, Hit-and-Run, Etc

MADDD believes that, as the cumulative affect of the violations below, including the recent gambling (which a UW athletic official said in famous email was OK), and the alleged dispensing of narcotic pain killers (and possibly steroids) like candy without physician examinations, that the UW will get slapped with “Lack of Institutional Control” and its loss of bowl games eligibility, television revenue, scholarships, and possibly even the dreaded athletic “death penalty” for one or more programs.

Note: MADDD apologizes for the length of this page, and how long it might take to load, even on broadband Internet connections. We felt it was necessary, and we fervently hope that in the near future Dawg fans will also apologize for the necessity of the length of this page, and repent from their errant ways… The Dawg fans might well win out on this one, however; MADDD staffers are complaining of repetitive-motion injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome from the heavy volume of shameful activities they have to keep up with to keep this web page current.

MADDD encourages members of the public who know high school football coaches in the Pacific Northwest or in California to pass along the URL for this Hall of Shame, so the coaches can help their star players avoid the bad influence and path down the life of crime that is UW football this decade. Their players would also be saved the agony of being on a sinking ship and missing out on bowl games etc. should NCAA sanctions be even half as severe as many think they will be.

Academics

· Huskies’ Day Declared Academically Ineligible—SeattleTimes

· 2002 Golf Academic All-Pac-10 has Zero Huskies on First or Second Team—Pac10 Conference

OSU finishes 1^st with 3 players on First and Second Team; WSU and 3 others tie for 2^nd with 2.

· 2002 Football Academic All-Pac-10 has Zero Huskies on First Team—Pac10 Conference

Members on First Team:

1. Cal, Stanford (tied)

3. WSU, one other (tied)

· 2002 Men’s Track Academic All-Pac-10: Huskies Tie for 6^th with one player on First Team—Pac10

WSU and UO tie for 1^st with 4 players on First Team

· 2002 Women’s Track Academic All-Pac-10: Huskies tie for 5^th with only one player on First team; only one team is worse with zero players—Pac10

finishers(players on first team):

1. WSU (6)

2. Stanford (5)

3. Arizona, UCLA (2)

· Dawg hit by car, shot to put out of Misery, then Frozen, yet lives—CNN We takes a break from this otherwise very sobering rap sheet for a humorous break. MADDD realizes that the dawg here is not a UW Husky per se. However, we find it noteworthy that a dawg can be hit by a car, shot in the brain (by a policeman putting it out of its misery), frozen for 2 hours in a “body bag”, and not only live but suffer no brain damage. This goes to show how low of a brain function dawgs have to be able to take such abuse. Not unlike a turtle, which can be almost frozen all winter.

Athletic Performance

· No Bowl Game or Winning Season for 2003 Husky Football (condensed from many wire reports)

· No Huskies Taken in 2003 NFL Draft, Not Even in the 7^th Round—ESPN Note that 6 Pac-10 schools had first-round picks: Arizona State, Cal, Oregon State, Stanford, USC, Washington State. UW did not have any in any of the 7 rounds…

· UW Fed to the Wolves―SeattleTimes

· Rottten Apples―Dawgman “And just when Husky fans thought that the bottom had been reached, think again.” So opens a very pessimistic article by Dawgman, generally very pro-Husky no matter what the realities or ethics …

· A Year of Woe for the Huskies―SeattleTimes

· Huskies No Longer Big Dawgs―SeattleTimes

· Huskies Roll Over―SeattleTimes

· Gilbertsen Says He Will Muzzle Barking Huskies―SeattleTimes

· 2002 Football All-Pac-10 First Team: UW tied for fewest, WSU tied for most—Seattle Times

· 5 Cougs, 1 Husky named to first team All-Pac-10 teams—Seattle Times

· UW Can’t Explain What Went Wrong (Cal game 11/15/03)

· Huskies Defense Grasps At Straws—SeattlePI

· A constant reminder of what not to do—Tacoma News Tribune

· Bruins handle hapless Huskies—SportingNews.com

· Cougars a solid bust-to-best study from which Huskies could surely learn—Seattle PI

· Criticism follows Huskies everywhere—Tacoma News Tribune

· Dawgs back home, digging for answers—Seattle PI

· Huskies go from bad to worse in 34-24 loss—Seattle PI

· Huskies just trying to avoid disaster—Seattle Times

· Huskies Notebook Losing 'eats away' at senior captain Zajac—Seattle PI

· Johnson blasts undeclassmen for lack of maturity—Tacoma News Tribune

· Neuheisel: “I wish I could tell you I saw this coming ...”—Everett Herald

· Purple people eaters: Bruins batter Huskies—Seattle Times

· Top ten reasons why Huskies run on empty—Seattle Times

· UCLA hands Dawgs third straight defeat—Everett Herald

· UCLA Picks off UW Opportunity—Tacoma News Tribune

· UW looking to fix leaks on line —Tacoma News Tribune

· UW's wimpy play calling baffling—Tacoma News Tribune

· Washington woes not new to Neuheisel—SportingNews

Breaking Team Rules and Quitting Etc

· Huskies offensive guard opts for culinary school—SeattlePI

· Another Husky player leaves team—Seattle Times

· Frederick leaves UW practice after tiff—Seattle Times

· Frederick still a Huskies no-show—Seattle PI

· Huskies' Frederick still AWOL—Seattle PI

· Huskies Notebook - Vontoure dismissed—Seattle PI

· UW loses top cornerback—Seattle Times

· Robinson quits football—SeattlePI

Drugs

MADDD finds that it is quite sordid that it is necessary to have an entire category in the Hall of Shame dedicated to this.

· Special Section on UW Athletic Department Drug Scandal―TacomaNewsTribune MADDD feels that it is shocking and unprecedented that the UW would merit a special section on the TNT web pages just for the drug scandal.

· Doctor: Coach Knew of Drugs―TacomaNewsTribune “A University of Washington coach and at least two athletic trainers knew a team physician stockpiled drugs for the softball team's use without written prescriptions, the doctor told state health investigators …. Also revealed in the transcript of the Kirkland doctor's interview was his admission that he prescribed anabolic steroids to one UW male athlete, a violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.”

· UW Scandal Stuns NCAA’s Expert―SeattlePI “My Lord, I'm really shocked this goes on in 2003, because there are so many ways to safeguard against it," said Frank Uryasz, director of The National Center for Drug Free Sport, official administrator of the NCAA drug-testing programs. "I've worked in this business since 1986, and I don't ever recall a case like this," Uryasz said.

· Former UW Doctor Faces Criminal Probe Over Drugs―SeattleTimes The doctor, whom the athletes nicknamed “Dr. Feelgood” for his promiscuous handing out of drugs like candy, “worked with various UW athletic programs, including the football and basketball teams, from 1986 to 1999” as the article notes (emphasis by MADDD). This would take him back to the middle of the Don James Era.

· Officials Told of Misuse 2 Years Ago―TacomaNewsTribune “UW athletic director Barbara Hedges did not cut ties with Scheyer until this past August amid a state Health Department investigation of Scheyer”

· State Alleges Improper Prescriptions by UW Sports Physician―SeattleTimes

Recruiting Violations and Ethics Etc

· Make Your Voice Heard, Keep Your Money―ESPN MADDD appreciates this frank commentary by a UW alum. It is their worship of performance and excusing or ignoring some of the unethical means of achieving it that has brought the UW Athletic department and especially its football program to such disrepute. And it will be UW alums, and especially rich donors, who can most effectively insist on high ethics. Some key quotations:

Ø “What I'm talking about is when your school behaves so badly off the field that it becomes a national punchline.”

Ø “I'm going through this right now with my alma mater, Washington, which has spent the better part of the past decade spitting on the ethical sidewalk.”

Ø “The Internet may be infinite, but even it doesn't provide ample space to document the Huskies' offenses.” MADDD tries to provide a reasonable subset of those articles for posterity and as an agent of change.

Ø “Heck, for plunging the department to Defcon 4, athletic director Barbara Hedges was just rewarded with a contract extension.” MADDD notes that “Defcon 4” is a high level of military alert.

Ø “It was to the point where I was rooting for Washington State in last Saturday's Apple Cup, figuring it would take a loss to the hated state rival to force the Huskies to mend their ways.”

Ø “This non-losing-season streak is truly the most pathetic of marks. The school will go to any length to preserve the streak, scheduling such fierce non-conference opponents as Idaho, Indiana and Nevada this season. Unfortunately, the Huskies lost to Nevada, so they will have to find someone much worse and much safer for the future. Any day, I expect them to join the Big East so that they can get Rutgers on the conference schedule.”

Ø “If the school is too arrogant to discipline itself, the alumni must step in and say enough is enough. Cut off the source of revenue…. When a school has run out of shame, the only way it will change is when it also runs out of money.”

Ø “Besides, what's the point of a seat on the 40-yard-line if the view turns your stomach?”

· UW Regents Pressured President to Leave―SeattleTimes The Times reports that former UW President Richard McCormick was pressured to leave for poor performance and adultery with a female UW employee. After denying for years both that the Regents had pressured him and the affair, McCormick admitted both when he learned that the Times would publish the story. MADDD wonders if perhaps the problem was President McCormick was quibbling over the word “is”.

· Gilbertson May Have Broken State Ethics Law—SeattleTimes

· UW Guilty of 3 Minor Violations, Pac-10 Says—SeattleTimes

· UW Slaps 12 in Betting Scandal—SeattlePI Allegations were made:

· That last June, Gilbertson called former UW graduate assistant Ikaika Malloe, who was scheduled to talk to NCAA investigators about betting pools, and told Malloe that he might be in line to become a UW tight ends coach if Gilbertson was named Husky head coach. The report alleges that Gilbertson told Malloe: "I'm going to come clean. I'm gonna tell (the NCAA) that I participated in the pool in 1999, and I'm gonna leave it at that."

· That Malloe, when he faced NCAA investigators, felt "influenced" by that conversation to essentially confirm Gilbertson's story.

· · That Malloe subsequently retracted his story, that he had organized betting pools in the athletic department in 2001-02, and that Gilbertson, Heater, Hundley, Nevin and others had participated.

· Neuheisel Fires Back—SeattlePI “Rick Neuheisel's legal team yesterday revealed allegations that current University of Washington football coaches participated in office betting pools over the past three years -- charges not cited in the Pac-10 list of violations despite testimony of a former football graduate assistant.” (Emphasis by MADDD.) The 38-page document Neuheisel released can be found here (.doc, .pdf).

· More Fuel Added to UW Fiasco—SeattlePI “Neuheisel's defenders have named names, including some former assistants he brought to Washington, and cast a dubious eye upon some of the Pac-10 and UW assertions.” (Emphasis by MADDD.)

· UW To Discipline 12 in Hoops Pool—ESPN “The University of Washington announced disciplinary action Tuesday against 12 athletic department employees, including football coach Keith Gilbertson and compliance officer Dana Richardson, for participation in gambling pools on college basketball.” (Emphasis by MADDD.) MADDD finds it a compelling statement of “lack of institutional control” that a UW Athletic Department compliance officer (and lawyer) not only authorized gambling on athletics, but actually participated in it!

· Investigations continue on NCAA pools at Washington―SeattleTimes

· Pac-10: More betting at UW―SeattlePI Coach Gilbertson: “If they want to hang me for being in a damn basketball pool, then hang me.”

· Gilbertsen Questioned Again Over Gambling―SeattleTimes

· Coach Confirms NCAA Inquiry―ESPN

· Ex-Husky Looks Back in Anger [At Racism]―SeattleTimes

· Lack of Control Could Be an Issue for UW―SeattleTimes “It's hard to remember the last time the University of Washington Athletic Department has been in such sad shape.“

· An Appaling Lack of Oversight at UW―TacomaNewsTribune

· Regents Need to Throw a Flag at Hedges, UW Athletics―TacomaNewsTribune

· Gilbertson Involved in $3 pool―SeattlePI

· UW tourney pool may have violated state law―SeattlePI

· Wanted: UW Accountability—Tacoma News Tribune MADDD believes that the UW President asking for accountability in the UW Athletic Department is far too late for the public good.

· Hedges’ Contract Extended One Year―SeattleTimes MADDD vehemently asserts that this is in diametric contradiction to Pres. Hunsinger’s assertion that he wants more accountability!

· UW Audit Raises Issues―SeattlePI

In one case, former Huskies football player Dominic Daste was found to have worked as a student employee in the fall of 2001 "when he no longer qualified as such." In addition, his timesheets "generally reflected 13-16 hours worked each day without a meal break."

The auditor noted about the Daste case: "As it's unlikely an employee would work that many hours without a meal break, it's possible this employee may have been overpaid." [MADDD thinks that auditor was being very legalistically cautious: it seems much more plausible that Daste was being paid for work not done, a severe NCAA violation.]

· Huskies’ Athletic Department Out of Control―SeattlePI

· UW in Dawghouse? Dismissal may not get school off NCAA hook

· Heat on UW Might Get Even More Sticky―SeattleTimes

· A Proud Tradition Earned over Decades is Sullied in Years―SeattleTimes

· Neuheisel’s had a Rocky 4 Years at UW―ESPN

· Neuheisel Can’t Cover the Spread on This―ESPN

· UW Faces Major Mop-Up—SeattleTimes

· UW coach's missteps mimic predecessor—SeattleTimes

· The Lying Game: Deceptions shed light on sports' gray areas—SeattlePI

· We shouldn't be surprised by Neuheisel's lack of judgment—Tacoma News Tribune

· Barton ran indirect route to Washington—Seattle Times

· Dollar paid the price for UW recruiting violations - Hardly—Seattle PI

· Bonnell will likely have to delay transfer to UW—Seattle Times (NeuWeasel called him, a WSU grayshirt, on the telephone; “It surprised me big-time,” Bonnell told the South County Journal. “I didn't even know I could be recruited.”) MADDD speculates that Bonnell transferred because he saw the skill of Kegel, Hurd, and Swogger, and decided he would not want to be 4^th string in 2003 and at best 3^rd string in 2004–5. MADDD finds it noteworthy that the Dawgs find a 4^th stringer at WSU (“Quarterback U” according to Sports Illustrated) a good catch, and speculates that WSU may be much better off without him.

· Pac-10 to Investigate Bonnell Recruitment—SeattlePI

· Newheisel Censured by Fellow Coaches—SeattlePI

· Lack of Candor Costs Newheisel Credibility—SeattlePI

· Neuheisel must learn honesty is best policy—SeattleTimes

· Lie Puts Pressure on Neuheisel: Many Boosters Disappointed with UW Coach—SeattlePI

· Hedges-No Punishment for Newheisel—SeattleTimes

· Hedges Regrets Neuheisel’s Latest Misstep—TacomaNewsTribune

· Washington Will Not Discipline Neuheisel—ESPN

· Huskies beg for scraps-Get real—Seattle PI

· Huskies Neuheisel restriction part of Colorado penalty—Seattle Times

· Huskies UW coach's image as golden boy again starts to show some tarnish—Seattle Times

· UW Hoops Violations Reviewed—TacomaNewsTribune

· NCAA places Colorado football on probation—ESPN

· NCAA slaps Neuheisel—Seattle PI

· Neuheisel - I didn't try to break rules—Seattle Times

· Neuheisel apologizes for 'inadvertent errors'—Seattle Times

· Neuheisel cannot accept deal from Nike—ESPN

· Neuheisel denies intent to break NCAA rules—CNNSI

· Neuheisel apologies—Tacoma News Tribune

· Rick Neuheisel timeline - Dates with trouble—Seattle Times

· The Drill: Want a free pass? Play for Neuheisel—Seattle PI

· Another UW Skeleton [in their closet]A whistle-blower casts a lurid light on the Burke Museum’s fossil collections—SeattleWeekly

Sheep

There is a good reason that some Cougar fans spell “UW” as “Ewe Dub”…..

· “Incident Involving Sheep Brings Probe of a UW Fraternity”, SeattlePI, January 23, 1990, Page B1. (You can see the article for a modest fee via the PI archives on www.seattlepi.com .) “The police officers said when the pledges were told to return to their rooms, they were wearing only underpants, had white grease on their hands and had peanut butter and other substances smeared on their bodies. When police found the sheep in the house, ‘they appeared overheated and agitated,'’according to the police report.”

· Keep Theta Xi out of UW, Tony Conorro, Letter to the Online Daily (UW student paper), January 27, 1997. “The article in the Daily was a little vague. They weren't just hazing, they were accused of MAKING THEIR PLEDGES [CENSORED BY MADDD] WITH FARM ANIMALS. Is this to be part of one of the “extreme sports” that they will participate in?”

Shooting, Rape, Fraud, Hit-and-Run, Etc

· Woman sues Seahawks' Stevens over alleged rape (which occurred while a UW Husky)―SeattlePI

· Seahawks’ (Ex-UW) Stevens arrested for drunk driving―Seattle Times

· Seahawks’ (Ex-UW) Stevens sentenced to jail for probation violation―SeattleTimes

· Stevens sentenced to 2 days of jail, 2 years of probation (for reckless driving)―SeattleTimes

· Husky Tailback Jailed for ‘Mischief”―Sports Illustrated

· Tuiasosopo charged with Felony―SeattleTimes

· Tuiasosopo gets deferred sentence―SeattleTimes MADDD notes that yet another Husky football player gets very nice treatment…

· Attackers Stab Students Outside Fraternity―KIRO-TV

· UW's Alexis allegedly hits security guard, claiming racist remarks—SeattleTimes. The article notes, “They were told it was a closed party and that they weren't on the guest list. According to the report, an argument ensued with witnesses claiming that Alexis and Williams became enraged and shouted, ‘We're football players, let us in. Do you know who we are?’ The report says the two tried to push their way into the party.” MADDD speculates that the fraternity men did indeed know that they were football players (hint: UW’s 7-5 football record in the then-recently-concluded 2002 season…)

· UW parties turn volatile; 60-75 police are called in―SeattleTimes

· Racial remarks no factor in alleged UW assault—SeattleTimes

· Assault charges filed against UW’s Alexis—SeattlePI MADDD also speculates that the Dawgs may be better off with Alexis in jail, where he should be sent for this crime, since he is their leading rusher but only got 688 yards in 2002. Also noteworthy is that NeuWeasel let him still practice with the team after being charged with assault.

· Alexis might face year in jail after frat house run-in—ESPN

· Washington’s Top Running Back Pleads Guilty—ESPN

· Go 2 Guy: Dawg in distress? This lawyer answers the call—SeattlePI

· Prosecutor: UW staff destroyed damning documents—SeattleTimes

· Ex-Husky Pharms charged in robbery—Seattle Times

· Huskies Huskies' Ware charged with assault, suspended—Seattle Times

· Jeremiah Pharms Charged with First Degree Robbery—King County Prosecutor, Seattle, Washington

· Barton back in fold - Backup QB set for Holiday Bowl after trespass charges dropped—Seattle PI

· Charges could keep players from Holiday—Seattle Time

· UW's Stevens arrested in assault investigation—Seattle Times

· Neuheisel takes team to task - Players' behavior at issue after arrests of Pharms, Stevens—Seattle PI

· Neuheisel should have known about Pharms—Seattle Times

“Both Neuheisel and Washington Athletic Director Barbara Hedges say they knew nothing about the 13-month investigation of Pharms, who is alleged to have committed the crime in March of 2000. At best, that is curious.” MADDD believes that it is virtually impossible that they did not know, but chose to let him play an extra season rather than exercising team discipline. After all, Pharms was a big star who was drafted in the NFL right before his arrest, and the Dawgs have shown countless times that they value winning over ethics or discipline…. MADDD speculates that the Cleveland Browns management would very much have liked Neuheisel and Hedges to have been honest and done the right thing, so as to not waste its draft pick on Pharms.

· Ex-Husky Pharms arrested in robbery, shooting—Seattle PI

· Huskies star charged in hit-and-run—Seattle PI

· Ex-Husky Pharms pleads not guilty—Seattle Times

· Neuheisel comments on arrests of players—Seattle Times

· Huskies' Stevens apologizes—Seattle PI

· Pharms to enter not-guilty plea—Seattle Times

· Stevens offers apology for hit-and-run—Seattle Times

· UW's Stevens cited for hit-run, reckless driving—Seattle Times

· Second Washington football star has run-in with law—Yahoo! Sports

· Huskies’ Hooks Jailed After Car Crash—CNNSI

· UW Receiver Hooks Jailed in Car Crash—SeattlePI

· Hooks will face hit-and-run charge—SeattleTimes

· UW doctor pleads guilty to obstructing billing investigation―SeattleTimes

1. UW to Pay $950,000 (up to $3.6M) for surgeon to leave―SeattleTimes

Most of the following (non-URL) entries are courtesy of the All Star Husky Arrest Squad, John Loschky ed.

· Oct. 1993: Univ. of Washington wide receiver Jason Shelley is expelled from the team after being arrested in Eugene