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Grubb Reveals He Pursued DeBoer's UW Coaching Job and Didn't Get It

The Husky offensive coordinator says goodbye to his players.
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Grubb Reveals He Pursued DeBoer's UW Coaching Job and Didn't Get It
Grubb Reveals He Pursued DeBoer's UW Coaching Job and Didn't Get It

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The University of Washington appears to be making a clean break from Kalen DeBoer's football coaching staff, at least passing on offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb as DeBoer's successor.

Late Saturday night, Grubb posted on social media that he had applied for the Husky head-coaching job and didn't get it. 

"Though I wanted to be, I will not be the next head coach at the University of Washington," he wrote. "It would have been a dream to stay here and fight to maintain the standard that had been re-established. I showed up every day early and stayed late gladly to fight for my family. And with tears in my eyes, I know my last day in Husky Stadium has come."

With that announcement, the UW likely has settled on its coaching choice and an announcement could be coming as soonn as Sunday as the school tries to minimize the damage done with the coaching change, with seveeral Husky players leaving the program since DeBoer took the Alabama job on Friday.

Grubb likely will join DeBoer in Alabama as his offensive coordinator, taking a Crimson Tide job that was offered to him a year ago when Nick Saban was coach.

Grubb leaves the UW after two years and coaching one of the nation's leading passing attacks, which was built around graduating quarterback Michael Penix Jr. 

A glib and humorous individual, Grubb was a player and media favorite for his unfiltered ways. Where other coaches were purposely vague when asked about players, the offensive coordinator had no problem telling you a running back was too slow or a quarterback didn't have enough arm strength.

Grubb has coached with DeBoer for nearly two full decades at four different schools, coming with the him to the UW from Fresno State. 

"We will always love Seattle," he wrote on his farewell post. "To my players, I'm sorry we couldn't finish the fight."

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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