The only thing to rival Oregon success is Husky misery

Things are imploding in Montlake. Running back Adam Mohammed has left for Cal, Denzel Boston and Jonah Coleman have finished their careers, and now the Huskies are threatening to sue their quarterback.

While the rest of the team was at a memorial service for soccer player Mia Hamant, sophomore quarterback Demond Williams announced that he was entering the transfer portal. Didn't talk with his coaches or teammates, just announced it on Instagram.

"I have to do what's best for me and my future," he wrote. Williams, who threw for 3,065 yards and 25 touchdowns, ran for 611 yards and six touchdowns, is rumored to be joining Lane Kiffin at LSU.

He reportedly signed a contract with UW on January 2nd before deciding to enter the portal and the program is prepared to sue him to enforce it.

The sophomore from Chandler, Arizona has a redshirt year available, so he could become college football's first contract holdout, or the second since Matthew Sluka of UNLV, depending on how you count it.

Against Oregon in November Williams was 15-30 passing for 129 yards in a 26-14 loss, suffering two interceptions and four sacks. Earlier in November in a monsoon at Madison he had trouble gripping a wet ball, 20-32 passing for 134 yards, five sacks and one interception as the Dawgs fell 13-10 to the 4-8 Badgers, dropping them out of the Top 25 and playoff contention.

Washington fans are so outraged at his betrayal and apparent tampering by Kiffin that they're urging the program to tamper with Noah Fifita at Arizona, who is not in the portal. The 5-10 junior and three-year starter in Tucson has already publicly announced a return to the Wildcats after a 24-19 loss to SMU in the Holiday Bowl, citing unfinished business.

Who's in charge here?

The entire saga underscores how badly NIL and the Transfer Portal needs guardrails, brakes and some type of continuity and sanity, perhaps multiyear deals, buyouts and a collective bargaining agreement.

Over 4,000 players have entered the portal thus far, and it's open for another nine days plus a week's extension for players in the National Championship Game. Bidding has gotten insane with quarterbacks commanding deals upwards of four million-- starters are leaving their programs for lucrative new offers.

In one way it's karma for Washington coach Dedd Fisch, who quietly lobbied for open jobs at UCLA, Florida and Michigan before being passed over. Now he's sleepless in Seattle without an offensive backfield.

It's not sustainable. Soon the sport will have its first $80 or $100 million roster.

So far the Ducks have been quiet in this free agent frenzy, adding a punter, kicker and longsnapper. It looks as though they may focus on retaining their existing players, a sound strategy in all the unbridled idiocy. Already Iapani Laloulu and Bear Alexander have announced their returns.