Sprinkle: ‘Personal’ to take over UW program

Mar 27, 2024, 08:31 PM ET

SEATTLE– It was personal for Danny Sprinkle when, after a years as an assistant coach, his very first opportunity at being a head coach came at his university, Montana State.The feelings were really similar for Sprinkle after accepting the head-coaching task at Washington.”This is personal, too.

And not just my daddy playing here, however like all of his good friends that he played with. My sis, we matured on Husky football. We still do. We enjoyed the championship game game,”Sprinkle stated Wednesday.”They’re most likely going to get mad, however I would leave some Montana State and Utah State games to go watch the Husky game. I’m a fan of Husky football and sports like everyone else is here too. So there is an individual touch.”Sprinkle’s affinity for Washington is tied to father Costs playing football for the Huskies in the late 1960s. His family beinged in the front row Wednesday; his daddy wore socks with a Washington’W’on them and was talking with Washington football coach Jedd Fisch afterward.But that connection with the school will permanently be various now that Sprinkle is being entrusted with turning around a program that has actually been to the NCAA competition when in the past 12 years.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated For a school that reached the NCAAs 6 times between 2004-12, that do not have of appearances in March Madness

is inappropriate. And Sprinkle’s task is to now go from a casual fan of the school to being the one accountable for bringing change.The increase for Sprinkle has been quick, and that wasn’t lost on the 47-year-old during his introductory news conference filled with boosters and some existing and previous Washington players. One player in participation was RaeQuan Battle, who began his profession at Washington before transferring to Montana State and playing for Sprinkle there.Sprinkle kept in mind that at the end of the 2018-19 season, he was still an assistant living in “a one-bedroom house”in Southern California before finally getting his break to be a head coach at Montana State.He won one Huge Sky Conference regular-season and two tournament titles in his 4 seasons at Montana State. He parlayed that into the task at Utah State, where the Aggies won the Mountain West regular-season title this past season and beat TCU in the preliminary of

the NCAA tournament.In his 5 seasons as a head coach, Sprinkle is 109-50. “Has it come quickly? Yeah. However I have actually been dreaming about stuff,”Sprinkle stated.” I was dreaming about winning championships at Montana State ten years before I got worked with. I had no concept I was going to wind up at Utah State; Logan, Utah, I’m thankful I did due to the fact that it’s all

part of preparing me for a job like this.”Sprinkle said he’s positive the structures to the success of his groups the past few seasons can translate to Washington and its pending transfer to the Huge Ten, even if the style of play will be different. “We have to have our system and create it, and we got to make individuals adapt to us. But I think our system with some of the skill we’ll be able to get with some elite level players, no doubt we will,”Sprinkle said.