It was the decision that seemed inevitable, but by all accounts really wasn’t.
Yet the apparent choice of redshirt junior Jacob Eason to start the season as Washington’s quarterback, achieved in characteristically painstaking and stealth fashion by coach Chris Petersen, is salve for those who yearn to see the Huskies climb to the next level of the college football hierarchy.
That isn’t to detract from Jake Haener, the hard-working junior who pushed Eason to the brink. And it’s certainly not to add to the criticism that has permanently attached itself to the outgoing quarterback, Jake Browning; all he did was win more games than any other Husky signal-caller in history, but it was never quite good enough for many, it seems.