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Lambright enjoying life as second-year coach
Trevor Keemey
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Most second-year college foot
Imll coaches am struggling to lead
their teems to tin? .100 mork nml
ore trying to figure out what to do
to improve next year. Then there
ore u pocketful that have their
hearts set on a second or third
place finish in their division.
But Washington head coach
Jim l^nnhright is staring right in
the eyes of having the best record
in the Pacific- to Conference this
season.
I.;imbright took over as Wash
ington's head coach just two
weeks lie fore the start of the Inst
season, and led his team to a 7
•t record. The seven wins are
more than any other first year
Washington coach, and Lam
bright's 2fi-conset utive years in
the league ranks the highest
among active Pat-to coaches
ijist year's suit ess, however, is
being far overshadowed by the
Huskies performance and over
all situation this year
"It's the difference between day
and night," iuunbright said of the
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i.ompnriion twlwwn the two mm
sons. “Last year was still nega
tive. You're constantly trying to
(jitc h up from taking over just a
couple weeks before the open
er.
“This year is a situation of
progress made over spring." said
1 jimbnght. noting that the coach
ing staff was better adjusted this
year. "The team is a reflection of
the coaching tranquility to this
point."
"1 liolieve Washington is a (let
ter team than it was a year ago.
(from) everything that I've seen
so far this year.” Oregon head
r oach Rich Brooks said "Any
loan) that can go into Miami and
ltent Miami, and beat them con
vincingly. obviously is an out
standing team. They ant firing on
all cylinders on offense right
now. and i just think that they am
one of the premier teams in the
c ountry "
The Huskies are 5-1 this sea
son overall, and 3-1 in the Pac
10. hut are on probation because
of recruiting violations, and cj»n
not win the Pm 10 title or com
pete in any postseason
competition.
Despite the sani tions, the team
has made it a point to show
everybody that it is still one of
the best teams in the country.
Most notably, the team broke
Miami's record home-win streak
of 38 games earlier this season.
1-ast week, the team easily heal
Arizona State 35-M without a
strong performance from star tail
back Napoleon Kaufman, dis
pelling any myths that without
him the team could not win.
According to Lembright. this per
formance allowed Kaufman's true
colors
"The Arizona State game and
the Miami game were lioth exam
ples of Napoleon as a team play
er." l-ambright said. "He is very,
very prepared to do whatever it
takes for us to win."
“He's as good of a hac k as I've
seen in this league in years.'' said
Brooks of the All-American
senior, “and he's certainly got
world-class speed "
And in terms of a game plan,
lambnght is consistent with his
feelings that Kaufman is only one
part of the win. not all of it.
“It's a matter of how we can get
Napoleon the ball. If they are
going to stop him. it gives us the
balance," Larnbright said of Ore
gon concentrating on Kaufman.
"I think our main objective is
just lo contain (Kaufman) and not
hove him make the big play,”
Brooks said of beating the star
tailback and the Huskies. "I think
if you do concentrate too much
on him, Washington's got too
much other offense that ran hurt
you. I just don't think that you
can gang up on one guy and
expect to stop Washington's
offense.”
After an 87-game series with
the Ducks, which the Huskies
lead 54-2B-5 including 22 of 32
games on the road, the two teams
have developed a rivalry that, in
many people's eyes, surpasses
that of Oregon and Oregon State
or Washington and Washington
State l.nrnhrighi believes the
long-standing rivalry will provide
extra spark that will keep his
team from looking past the
Ducks.
"Our main concern is knowing
the history of our games with
Oregon, and they are such fero
cious, hard fought games, that
you can pretty much throw out
everything (they) have done up
to that time," Lambright said.
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