Enough!

When things seem like they can only get better for the beleaguered University of Washington football team, they somehow become worse. This team clearly has a gift.

Saturday's embarrassing 35-28 home loss to Stanford put a rusty nail through the collective eye of Husky Nation. At 0-4, the season is over. And if new athletic director Scott Woodward has any sense, he'll see to it that Tyrone Willingham's UW coaching career is as well.

In Willingham's fourth season, the team has regressed. The defense is inexplicably worse than last season. Their rushing attack is ranked 101 out of 120.

Willingham had an excuse with the first three games being against top 25 teams. But to lose to a Stanford team that many had ranked behind the Huskies in preseason Pac-10 polls is unacceptable.

Stanford is a great example of how a coach can invigorate a program. In a season and a half, head coach Jim Harbaugh has four less wins than Willingham has during his UW tenure.

At this point in his career, Willingham has shown himself to be as unqualified coaching major D-I college football program as Sarah Palin is at running for vice president.

It should be mere hours before Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis and his all white jump suit give coach Lane Kiffin the boot. As offense coordinator at USC, Kiffin's teams compiled a 23-3 record. Imagine what he'd do with a healthy Jake Locker. UW should bring Kiffin in immediately. Let him get comfortable with the players in 2008 and kick things into high gear in 2009.

UW football is in shambles. At a time when Seattle sports is desperate for a winner and when the Huskies could potentially recaputre their once iconic status, the team is nowhere to be found.

The time for change is now.