As the recruiting dust settles.....NICKNAMES!!!

Another year of recruiting has more or less come to a close and you have to feel good as being part of the Husky Loyal Army. Great class. Really, really good class. Besides Daeshon Hall being as cool as the guy at the gym who wears those shoes with toes, we more or less closed the recruiting season landing in the top 20 nationally with all of the major recruiting sites. In fact, we landed as the number 14 team according to Scout.com, pretty freaking good. And, most importantly, we are ahead of the Ducks in most experts eyes and the #2/#3 Pac-12 team as well. Yes we lost Hall. Yes we couldn't steal Nico Falah (see my comment regarding toe shoes). Yes Eddie Vanderdoes teased us right up until 5:00pm. And yes the Robinson Twins turned out to be as loyal as Bill Clinton (you know, goes away for a little...but comes home when he realizes he'll make more money if he sticks with his first). BUT, there is a lot to be excited about with this class. Awesome defensive line class, amazing group of receivers, solid offensive line pick ups and a QB of the future. There has not been a lot to be excited about with Husky football over the last few months, but this is where it turns around. A veteran team with a favorable schedule and a great crop of players on their way in with a new stadium. This is starting to feel pretty good.


Now for the fun part. I was seeing all these names come in on Wednesday and I was already attaching nicknames to the new players. I thought I could spice up this blog by offering "a little something different", and here it is. If you are offended by any of the following nicknames........sorry.

David Ajamu - "Jammy"

Andrew Basham - "Mash"

Keishawn Bierria - "Key-Be"

Lavon Coleman - "Stefan" (of Steve Urkel fame)

Sean Constantine - "Roman"

Dane Crane - "Bane"

Darrell Daniels - "Double D's"

Patrick Enewally - "Wally"

Marcus Farria - "Buffet" (name reminds me of Margarita, Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffet, but we'll go with 'Buff-eh' because he eats up QB's/RB's)

Jermaine Kelly - "Jelly"

Kevin King - "Juan" (get this CB on an island, San Juan Islands, San Juan....and Juan"

Andrew Kirkland - "Eastside"

Joe Mathis - "Judge"

Connor O’Brien - "Conan"

Elijah Qualls - "Biggie Qualls" or "Biggie" for short

John Ross - "Maybach"

Coleman Shelton - "Thermos"

Demore’ea Stringfellow - "Stringer"

Cameron Van Winkle - "Rip"

Azeem Victor - "Cigar"

Trevor Walker - "Luke"

Troy Williams - "T Willy"

I probably need to explain each of these in a little more detail, but I think I will leave most up to the imagination. Pass this list to as many people as you want, leave comments for me, tweet at me with suggestions, criticisms, all of the above. Find me @UWHuskyLoyal or comment in the section below.

This is gonna be a good year.

GO DAWGS!!!!