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Wow just wow - The times is a dumpster fire
jecornel
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Independent/ middle, he knew about Tyrone before anyone else....
Even compensating for a first year head coach introducing a new system, it is pretty clear:
THIS TEAM IS EXTREMELY POORLY COACHED.
I was one of the first to say Tyrone Willingham was a bad coach. I don't know yet if Petersen is as bad a coach, but I do know that this Husky team is not well coached.
As we saw, the offense is terrible. The special teams are terrible. The play calling is terrible. Basic skills, like tackling, are non-existent. On defense, Peterson will not likely get this level of talent again: Shaq, Shelton, Kikaha, Peters, Feeny, both Hudsons, Timu. This talent was wasted. If I were these players, I would be furious with the terrible coaching they have received this year.
We are absolutely not getting good coaching. Instead, we are getting unbelievably lame excuses. The weather? He is publicly blaming the weather? Even Willingham never blamed the weather. Also, I am not crazy about how Petersen always blames the players and implies that it is their fault, then tries to cover it up by saying a quick, "It's on me." You're damn right it is on you. We need to start focusing on him and he needs to start accepting the blame for his many dreadful and stupid specific moves instead of glossing it over with a blanket cover statement. For example, Troy Williams should not get any of the blame for last Saturday because the coaching staff put him in a situation he was not ready for.
This staff is *lazy*. When Petersen first arrived in December, I was surprised at how slow he moved and how lackadaisical he was. That slow pace has continued. I think this staff had it too easy at Boise St and lacks the intensity and hunger of other Pac-12 and major conference coaching staffs.
There was a lot of arrogance when the staff first came in, dismissing Justin Wilcox, Tosh Lupoi and Marques Tuiasosopo, great young coaches and recruiters who could have really helped this program. Wilcox and Lupoi built a great front-seven and did an amazing job developing the players. At the very least, the team would have been able to tackle if they had stayed. There is no way Peterson's staff can even come close to the level of recruiting of those assistant coaches.
Except for maybe Jake Browning, the recruiting is not as nearly good as it was with Sarkisian. The defense will be much less talented than it is now. With the dreadful performance of this year's team, the honeymoon period will end and we will start losing local stars and other major recruits.
The statement about favoring "our kind of guys" was unfortunate at best. Every African-American player from the inner-city -- the type of guys that were not present at Boise St -- has to wonder what that means.
Petersen went to great lengths to show everyone he was a tough guy, especially when it came to players who he perceived were not his kind of guys. The treatment of Stringfellow, Miles and Peters has been unreasonably severe. That kind of Woody Hayes treatment was recognized as unproductive and went out the window more than twenty years ago. The players needed a significant amount of discipline, but the lengths Petersen went to was uncalled for and bush-league. It will be much more difficult to recruit African American players (i.e. 80% of the four and five star players) who are not sure if they fit the Boise State mold Petersen is looking for and wonder if they will be subject to the same unreasonable discipline experienced by other players of their ilk.
This will be like Tyrone Willingham all over again. There will a lot of denial and a lot of animosity towards those who are willing to open their eyes and view the situation realistically. There will be no fixes until it is too late.
The saddest part is that the Huskies will be mediocre at best for the next several years.
Even compensating for a first year head coach introducing a new system, it is pretty clear:
THIS TEAM IS EXTREMELY POORLY COACHED.
I was one of the first to say Tyrone Willingham was a bad coach. I don't know yet if Petersen is as bad a coach, but I do know that this Husky team is not well coached.
As we saw, the offense is terrible. The special teams are terrible. The play calling is terrible. Basic skills, like tackling, are non-existent. On defense, Peterson will not likely get this level of talent again: Shaq, Shelton, Kikaha, Peters, Feeny, both Hudsons, Timu. This talent was wasted. If I were these players, I would be furious with the terrible coaching they have received this year.
We are absolutely not getting good coaching. Instead, we are getting unbelievably lame excuses. The weather? He is publicly blaming the weather? Even Willingham never blamed the weather. Also, I am not crazy about how Petersen always blames the players and implies that it is their fault, then tries to cover it up by saying a quick, "It's on me." You're damn right it is on you. We need to start focusing on him and he needs to start accepting the blame for his many dreadful and stupid specific moves instead of glossing it over with a blanket cover statement. For example, Troy Williams should not get any of the blame for last Saturday because the coaching staff put him in a situation he was not ready for.
This staff is *lazy*. When Petersen first arrived in December, I was surprised at how slow he moved and how lackadaisical he was. That slow pace has continued. I think this staff had it too easy at Boise St and lacks the intensity and hunger of other Pac-12 and major conference coaching staffs.
There was a lot of arrogance when the staff first came in, dismissing Justin Wilcox, Tosh Lupoi and Marques Tuiasosopo, great young coaches and recruiters who could have really helped this program. Wilcox and Lupoi built a great front-seven and did an amazing job developing the players. At the very least, the team would have been able to tackle if they had stayed. There is no way Peterson's staff can even come close to the level of recruiting of those assistant coaches.
Except for maybe Jake Browning, the recruiting is not as nearly good as it was with Sarkisian. The defense will be much less talented than it is now. With the dreadful performance of this year's team, the honeymoon period will end and we will start losing local stars and other major recruits.
The statement about favoring "our kind of guys" was unfortunate at best. Every African-American player from the inner-city -- the type of guys that were not present at Boise St -- has to wonder what that means.
Petersen went to great lengths to show everyone he was a tough guy, especially when it came to players who he perceived were not his kind of guys. The treatment of Stringfellow, Miles and Peters has been unreasonably severe. That kind of Woody Hayes treatment was recognized as unproductive and went out the window more than twenty years ago. The players needed a significant amount of discipline, but the lengths Petersen went to was uncalled for and bush-league. It will be much more difficult to recruit African American players (i.e. 80% of the four and five star players) who are not sure if they fit the Boise State mold Petersen is looking for and wonder if they will be subject to the same unreasonable discipline experienced by other players of their ilk.
This will be like Tyrone Willingham all over again. There will a lot of denial and a lot of animosity towards those who are willing to open their eyes and view the situation realistically. There will be no fixes until it is too late.
The saddest part is that the Huskies will be mediocre at best for the next several years.
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WTF
and ray-siss
Jeezus.
I said 8-5 for a reason and your delusional ass didn t listen. Now back to kimmy's corral with u
Still batting .200 of course.
I was only sharing it.
Hence the post title.......seattle times is a dumpster fire.