EL PASO, Texas — As with most postgame interview sessions, the one at the Sun Bowl for the University of Washington football team was fairly brief following a 35-34 loss to Louisville. There’s only so much you say after coming up short on the scoreboard.
Within 15 minutes of the game ending on a missed two-point pass and an ensuing onside kick, Husky coach Jedd Fisch, senior linebacker Carson Bruener, senior wide receiver Giles Jackson and freshman Demond Williams Jr. each took a seat in an enclosed end-zone room and stared out at maybe a dozen media members recording them with TV cameras or iPhones.
What happened next was not so much a question-and-answer session, but a testimonial to the almost unreal expectations set aside for Williams, for whom Fisch has invested almost everything in putting the UW program back in the playoff conversation after finishing 6-7 with this closing setback..
Not long after the first-year signal-caller from Chandler, Arizona, had passed for 374 yards and 4 touchdowns against Louisville and had the ACC team wondering what it had to do to stop him, his Husky coach didn’t hold back in what he envisions for the 5-foot-11, 187-pound teenager, who’s just 18…