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We might as well all be happy with Gilby. Ms. Hedges has no other choice in the matter, as do we. Her hands are tied and she’s locked into Gilby like Cody to Reggie.

The media and NCAA are one in the same; they are married like Tricky Dick and Slick Willy, like a third-rate burglary and never inhaling, like a tape recorder and a blue dress, like Donald and Roger—etc.

So, forget them, they are passé at the UW with Keith Gilberston's arrival as head coach, if and when that happens.

Yawn.

Supervisor of the football office? That fits Gilby.

Yawn.

According to those who supposedly knew him at Cal, Gilby carries a low golf handicap, some reluctance to court alums, and an inability to recruit.

The fact that so many former UW players are beating the bushes for him, makes me wonder about him. What do they really know about him and when did they know it?

This all means he needs to lift up off the ball a time or two, develop a gushy personality, hit-the-recruiting-road-jack and tell his former players to cool it, for they accept and solicit too much. Are they, along with the media, trying to sell us a used car without an engine?

If his detractors are correct, the worst-case scenario will be for Gilby to get off to a blazing start as he did at Cal—for the cupboard's not bare at the UW, nor was it bare when Bruce Synder left the Bears and Gilbertson took over. 

Then, with a four-year contract in hand, Gilby slowly takes us asunder, while mutineers abound, local products go elsewhere, and the UW stock market goes ursine over a four-year period.

Do you wants seats on the 50-yard line, in what used to be the Tyee section?

That scenario is kind of like watching a rerun or two, like watching both a last-year-Lamboing in slow motion and an-all-years Odelling of the program.

I don't think Gilby will let that happen, in that he's got a fair shot at making things work this time. He really got the dirty end of the stick at Cal.

A more likely scenario is for Keith Gilbertson, 55, to continue to hit them long and straight, while two-balling those eight footers with a resounding plunk. He can try to develop a Neuheisel personality--not likely--by visiting a soap opera or two, and as far as hitting-the-recruiting-road-jack, that’s best left to assistant coaches anyway, along with the aura of Dobie, Owens, James and facilities to curry a recruit’s favor.

As for the local media, the Gilbertson persona offers little more than dullsville, a Karl Dorrell just out of Marketing 101, a Bill Doba just off training wheels.

If Gilby, Karl and Bill should have a meeting together, they would all fall asleep. All of a sudden, three/tenths of the Pac-10 coaches are as shy of quips as Forrest Gump would be while doing an impromptu monologue, which should be enough to make John McKay turn over in his grave.

Reportedly, members of the Grid Club at Berkeley ignored Gilbertson after his talks to them, letting him sit alone at a bar and drink alone. And why not? Can you imagine any one of those elitists wanting to converse with a guy who tells it like it is and is as run-of-the-mill as you or I?

But that’s good. The local media will have nobody to kick around anymore. They don't dare rip Gilby apart because he's a blue-collar coach; he's a down-to-earth guy who a lot of readers and viewers will identify with. Gilby is one of them.

Following Neuheisel's era, Gilbertson's will seem quiet, as if a thousand jack hammers were turned off at Montlake. The UW moves from a juvenile delinquent to a senior citizen, from a James Bond to a Colombo, from a you-fill-in-the-blanks to a you-know-what. 

As for Barbara Hedges and the controversies she brings to the plate, well, she’s bound to retire soon.

Because the UW will have fired Neuheisel, assuming his appeal is nixed, the NCAA should have barely more than a carcass to pick at.

Yawn.

Who's sorry now? The media, the NCAA? You won't have Gilbs to kick around, guys, he's a stay-at-home, play at home, eight o' clock, sleepy time Gil.

Go Gilby!

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Thought for the day. After that P-I reporter overheard Neuheisel talking about his 49ers interview on his cell phone, why didn't he tell Neuheisel he'd overheard him talking about the job, instead of trapping him by asking him whether he had interviewed?

Coach Neuheisel was boarding the plane at that time and had little time to think, with a confidentially agreement in mind.

None of this might have happened if the reporter had been forthright, and he still would have had a story.