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New Husky Fan Podcast Episode
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We talk about Gladstone's question and Pete's future over the next few years if he struggles. While we don't believe W/L will improve this year we each note one or two things that would indicate the chance for a leap in year 3. We also note the coaches that made huge leaps in year 3 or 4. We also weigh playing Browning as a true freshman.
In addition we rip on baseball, the Mariners, 710, cover the NBA Finals and Roadie cites a WSJ article.
Shoutouts to Derek, PuppySteel, Race, RavennaDawg, Gladstone, Tequilla
We talk about Gladstone's question and Pete's future over the next few years if he struggles. While we don't believe W/L will improve this year we each note one or two things that would indicate the chance for a leap in year 3. We also note the coaches that made huge leaps in year 3 or 4. We also weigh playing Browning as a true freshman.
In addition we rip on baseball, the Mariners, 710, cover the NBA Finals and Roadie cites a WSJ article.
Shoutouts to Derek, PuppySteel, Race, RavennaDawg, Gladstone, Tequilla
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Today is going to be special!!
Sounding good fellas.
Send my $10 to Derek Johnson!
And I won't calm myself damn you, I'm tired of sucking for 15 fucking years. RD's comment about Pete not being on the hot seat at 2-3 wins was amusing.
Otherwise, great listen as always and everyone had really interesting things to say. Jimmy sounded like he was on his deathbed though lol
To clarify the whole .600 winning percentage with 100 games left comment by channeling my inner John Nash, basically what was needed to get there was being slightly better than .500 in games started by non-Felix starters and then winning at a .750+ level with Felix starting. With the quality of the pitching staff, that wasn't a huge stretch. Apparently with the quality of the offense, expecting anything other than TSIO is entirely FS.
My 2 cents on Petes job security is that if we have Hawkins 2.0 on our hands, we better make sure he has failed before we hit the reset button. I get the entire 3 years or GTFO, but here is the reality.
Sark was a salesman (a damn good one) who went from a cell phone kiosk to an NFL head coaching offer in like 5 years. He didn't have the resume, inherited a relatively talented roster in retrospect, and produced medioce results while using the program as training wheels with the safety net of 0-12 to fool the nation he was good. It was a brilliant career move on his part, quite honestly a tip of the cap. But there was a legitimate call for his firing after year 3.
Enter Petersen. We know the resume. He gets as much time as he needs in my book barring complete Ty like implosion. I'm so apathetic to the program right now, I can't give him the quick hook no matter how many stats back up a call to fire him. If Chris fucking Petersen can't get us back to relevance, I seriously might be done.
In year 3 if we don't win the North i'll be pissed, but i'll give him to year 5 because i have absolutely zero faith in the next man we hire and am willing to gamble Petersen's mediocre start as an outlier to greater things than a complete reset of another regime that will fail because we are the new WASHINGTON and that's what we're good at.
This program needs him to succeed, I think he will, but if he doesn't, holy shit my money will start going elsewhere unless we poach Saban.
Chris Petersen is as good a coach as UW could ever reel in given our recent history. That's no dig at him but really shows how much of a Don James coat tail ride this University has been allowed. Petersen would have been a big get for Oregon when Kelly took over and probably even at his departure. He would probably have even a longer leash at USC than Sark will enjoy. This is obviously not a program that is going to snatch Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Les Miles or even your current sizzle coordinator like Jimbo FIsher or Will Muschamp (hardy har har) and, while not among the creme-de la creme, Peterman was an elite caliber coaching prospect when he was hired.
If it doesnt work with him then we may as well figure out how to convert that new stadium to a soccer arena because football will be will be a dirtier word than Bruce Jenner before we are ever relevant again.
If I misheard and you were talking about firing him then yeah I agree.
While it's very possible that Petersen will get a ton of shit if the QB position and Smith are disasters this season, those are easy fixes by firing Smith and then turning everything over to Browning afterwards.
There's more talent on this team than I think people are willing to talk about because of the black cloud on the offense/QB.
One thing that I do think is worth talking about from the podcast is this notion that Petersen is taking on the Stanford model and the idea that the Stanford model is successful with or without a QB. Since Luck left for the NFL, Stanford has been an above average team in the conference with what is a very average PAC QB. Make no mistake that in today's world of college football where 30+ points per game are more of a norm than an exception, that having quality QB play is paramount. If you have a all-conference (or better) caliber of QB, you have a chance to win your conference for sure. I can't think of many situations in the last 5 years or so where there has been a high caliber team that didn't have at least above average QB play. You can be an above average team with average QB play if the rest of your team is an upper end of the conference team and you can be a contender with above average QB play if you have an elite supporting cast. Until the UW gets back to having the kind of quality QB play that is needed to compete at a high level (and really, this has been as much of the root cause of the problem since the early 2000s as anything else), the program will continue to be relatively mediocre.
Knocking Hogan is akin to knocking Russel Wilson. He does what he's asked to do. I bet you he gets late round drafted, he almost went out after this year. If we had Hogan over Miley last year we beat stanford, arizona, and OKST assuming we still played them in whatever bowl.
Petersen is the best this school can do in hiring a football coach. It's really fucking hard to get a great coach, there are very few slam dunk hires but we got one.
Not to keep beating this drum but there are many great fucking coaches who don't do shit until year 3 or 4. We all will be pissed at 4-8 or 5-7 but that does not mean Petersen is off track.
In any event the offense has to get better or Smith has to go if it doesn't improve. He was a total fucking reach of a hire. And its not like this school doesn't have the resources to seriously upgrade the position. The hiring of Wilcox saved Sark's fledgling career. If the offense and QB play doesn't improve they need to make a change. The offense/QB cannot still be an impediment in year 3.
And I think he will get us back, so, yeah.