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Huff Joked About Losing UW Job, Now Appears to Have Endless Opportunities

Reports say the former Husky line coach will be hired by the Seahawks.

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For all of the football coaches coming and going in Seattle over the past month involving the Huskies and the Seahawks, Scott Huff's departure was the one that seemed kind of forced.

The former University of Washington offensive-line coach, in his time in Montlake, always spoke about keeping things simple, how he liked living in the Northwest and just developing his guys on the practice field.

He spent seven seasons coaching at the UW as the unique one, hired by Chris Petersen and retained for the Jimmy Lake and Kalen DeBoer coaching staffs, the only assistant to survive all of those changes.

Huff said he was always the happiest, not on game day or recruiting future players, but coaching outside rather than in the indoor facility, or as he put it "on the grass," though there's only artificial surface in and around Husky Stadium.

So it would be no surprise if the spate of recent social-media reports — namely one from ESPN's Adam Rittenberg— that suggests Huff will leave Alabama to join the Seahawks, same as former Husky offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb, all come true.

Besides his coaching track record that includes a Joe Moore Award — for having the nation's top college line — Huff has become a sought-after coaching candidate because he relates well to his players. He's got a sense of humor that helps take the edge off the drills, the contact and the drudgery involved in this position group.

Before the Sugar Bowl and the UW's appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinals, Huff was asked if he ever intended to become a head coach someday.

"My wife asks me that all the time," he quipped.

However, with Huff, he's more than a master of the one-liner, especially when he gets on a self-deprecating roll. Continuing on, he came up with the following image of him.

"It would be interesting," Huff said. "It might be a compliance nightmare. Nah, I'm just kidding, totally joking! I just lost my job! Delete that!"

Lost his job?

Huff currently appears to have more employment opportunities than he knows what to do with.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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