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One positive of DeWhore burning us…
We can now stop looking for the next Don James. That kind of coach doesn’t exist anymore. They’re all mercs, they’re all whores to the highest bidder, and they’ll all jump as soon as a perceived better job opens for a few more dollars. It was doogish and myopic to think that DeWhore was that guy, but at least we’ve had the scales removed from our eyes. The next Don James ain’t walking through that door, and he never will.
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I will be SHOCKED if Jeff Fisch coaches more than 3 seasons here and that's ok.
Buy a coach, buy a roster, win the games.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Every 3-5 years.
Let’s say he wins a natty in two years. The narrative will be he has a long way to go to catch Saban. Everything will be compared to Saban.
He could have built something meaningful at Washington and gotten a statue. But that wasn’t what he wanted. Oh well. He knew he had a rebuild in from of him and he hates recruiting.
In this day and age, the machine and culture of "the program" has to be owned by the athletic department and university, not the coach. Things regarding NIL/fundraising, etc., have gotten way too complicated, and it's too risky to build everything on top of one person. When Oregon loses a Cristobal, or eventually loses a Lanning, they just simply plug someone else in who looks like them who clears a certain bar for coaching/recruiting ability (there are 50+ new Cristobals and Lannings minted every year), and keep going. What their program is, and what they stand for (flash and frontrunning, har har) stays exactly the same, and the machine keeps running. Our athletic department has the heritage of hiring the football coach and just getting the fuck out of the way (other than doing things like going through the motions on NIL because it feels "icky"), with predictable results and outright panic when we lose a coach out of the blue like Peterman or DeBoer.
So while the hire is fine, what I want to hear from Dannen (soon), and what we? should ultimately judge him on, is charting a vision to what our program will be and how we will fix the resource gap to be amongst the on-going leaders in college football. Jedd Fisch, or any football coach for that matter, is not figuring this out for us, and shouldn't be tasked with it. Fucking figure it out and tell us how it's going to work, Dannen -- let's see it implemented and at full run rate by the time Fisch leaves in 3-4 years and as B1G full-share comes into being the year or two beyond that.
DeBoer won’t care. He will use Alabama for what it’s worth, and he’ll be off to the NFL if things work out with sabans recruits. Cold blooded.
Regardless, UW has to operate in the world in which it finds itself rather than the world it wishes it was in. The NCAA may make changes to things (that can survive a court challenge) but in the meantime, it has to do the best it possibly can. Part of that is making sure Fisch has a very large buyout so that if he does leave after a few years, UW is in even better financial shape.
DeBoer cut and ran.