During preparations for their first road game of the 2019 season, Washington couldn't have reasonably replicated the crowd noise, the white out environment they saw at Brigham Young a couple of weeks ago. But they were able to successfully navigate the pitfalls of going on the road and dealing with uncomfortable situations.
This Saturday, Washington are Road Dawgs once again, but the challenges this week couldn't be any more different than what they saw in Provo, Utah. But they'll still find themselves feeling a bit awkward at times. In Provo there were 62000 screaming fans in white pressuring their every move. This weekend in Palo Alto, Calif., the Huskies will be dealing with a crowd not much more than half that size, and they won't be pumping out the volume at nearly the level UW heard against BYU.
But UW Head Coach Chris Petersen reiterated Thursday that Stanford's environment may be a unique one from that perspective, but the Cardinal have cultivated a football program that has one more games in the Pac-12 Conference the last decade for a reason, and part of that reason is how they've been able to operate at home.
And the Huskies understand this as well as anyone out west. They haven't beaten Stanford in their house in 12 years.
During Petersen's Thursday press briefing, he talked about Stanford's unique game-day atmosphere, the respect he has for the Cardinal and their head coach, David Shaw, the development of the defensive backs, rotating running backs, and the idea of being comfortable with being uncomfortable, something the Road Dawgs will certainly experience this weekend in the Bay Area.
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