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To new UW Huskies offensive coordinator John Donovan: an old friend says hello

The email arrived at 8:32 p.m. on Jan. 10, the same day John Donovan was announced as Washington’s next offensive coordinator.

The subject line stated simply, “John Donovan”.

The body text read as follows:

Text of the email on Jan. 10 from Craig Portee to The Seattle Times’ Mike Vorel.

What Portee didn’t say — at least, not initially — was that, when he first arrived at Villanova in 1997, he slept for several months on the pull-out couch in the Wildcats’ weight room; that he literally lived at work; that, because of his peculiar circumstances, he observed every practice, every rep, every drill, every play.