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Husky Spring Football Will Close with a Friday Game

New coach Jedd Fisch's team will share the weekend with the Opening Day Regatta.

Dan Raley

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Jimmy Lake wanted to make the University of Washington spring football game a big event, something  on the order of what they do at places such as Alabama or Georgia.

Kalen DeBoer simply decided to leave Montlake and head to Alabama to conduct spring practice already accommodating its legions of fans.

Jedd Fisch?

He's been left with something entirely different, closing Husky spring football on Friday, May 3, which is believed to be the first time in program annals that the practice schedule doesn't wrap up on a Saturday — and could be at night, though the school hadn't confirmed that.

One reason for the change is the football activities would conflict with the Windermere Cup rowing event and Opening Day Regatta already scheduled for the following day.

Amother is simply maybe to do something different, such as Friday Night Lights.

On Monday, the UW released the 15-practice spring football schedule late in the afternoon without any detail. Efforts to determine a starting time didn't merit a response. 

The Huskies will begin practice on Tuesday, April 2, and operate on a Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday rotation for four weeks, with practice times still to be determined.

For the final week of spring ball, the UW will change things up and practice on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Fisch earlier said he will open up every spring practice to Husky fans, which wasn't the case for Lake or DeBoer, who permitted access to only selected alums, recruits, players' families and media members before the closing game or scrimmage.

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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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