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2000 Rose Bowl Season in "Ruins" PDF Print E-mail
Written by Huskies Suck Dot Com   
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:00

The Seattle Times ran a week-long expose on the criminal activity over at the Montlake Correctional Facility during the 2000-2001 Rose Bowl season. The "Victory and Ruins" series details such sordid details as attempted murders, rape, drug deals, beatings, and outlines flatly inexcusable behavior by UW administrators and public officials. Meanwhile, the article reminds us how these thugs were utilized as players on Saturdays, and how they provided immense contributions to a winning season.

Their success climaxed with...  these teammates clenching roses between their teeth after a Rose Bowl victory. The roses, red as the blood on their hands, and red as the blood spilt from their victims bodies, became the symbol of that season. This series should change all that and serve as a call to the NCAA to invalidate the season and penalize the university on the grounds of Lack of Institutional Control.

"At least a dozen members of the Rose Bowl team were arrested that year or charged with a crime that carried possible jail time. At least a dozen others on that team got in trouble with the law in other seasons."

The series certainly echoes the transgressions collected here at HuskiesSuck.com, the home of
Bad Dawg - The Unofficial Husky Hall of Shame. Taken as a whole, it is clear that the University conducted itself with a complete disregard for the law, and that it lacked any form of "institutional control" over its coaches and players. This series documents how, on numerous occasions, players played with outstanding warrants for their arrest, while the team and coaches worked with boosters to coerce the police and prosecutors to look the other way.

The result? A Rose Bowl season, another "glory year" that Husky fans will use as the basis for their infinite arrogance.

Here at HuskiesSuck.com, we pay tribute to the Seattle Times series by updating our long-running
Husky Article Generator which was originally created around the time of these infractions were taking place. This Article Generator seems more relevant in light of this series than it did at the time, and certainly could've been used to fill the inches of our local dailies with details of those recurring and too-frequent transgressions.

The Seattle Times is reporting this story in its entirety, so there's not much to say that the Times' series won't say more accurately and eloquently. So let us take this chance to point at the evidence and remind the general public that this is a key reason that for many, dislike of the Huskies goes well beyond a banter-filled friendly college rivalry.

Let this be a reminder as to why, as the Huskies so often like to point out, that the Huskies' rivals seem to have stronger, more palpable dislike for the Huskies than is returned.

And above all else, let it be a facts-based and unfiltered reminder as to why, more than any other university in this nation with a major athletic program, the Huskies suck.

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