If you can't beat out Miles and Lumpquist, there's a problem.
Thanks Billy. Was just going to post same thing, said it 100 times while he was here. See there's a reason Billy is Alpha doga power top Mod and I'm a power bottom on the higher discussion bored.
The more I read about Petersen, the more I think he's a small time pussy who stayed out of big boy football for a reason.
That's a real possibility, but the guy being quoted is an OC for a Juco. $20 Sven bucks his iq is under 100.
I might make the same wager on Petersen or Smith
I see them as Tequilla types. They are relatively smart, but are also retarded because they have a need to show off how smart they are.
Johnny smith: Hey Pete, check out this play for third and short. They will expect us to run, so we get Marvin Hall on an OLB.
Petersen: I love it. Marvin ran a 4.47 at our mock pro day. He has the advantage.
Then they call the play in the game, Marvin Hall gets stonewalled at the LOS by the OLB, it fucks up the timing and Browning ends up throwing it away under duress.
Peterman and Smith blame Pease during the following film session for not teaching Marvin hall to get off a jam.
Roaddawg, honestly I thought you were smarter than this garbage. Who was the Wide receivers coach? What does said coach teach? Underwater basket weaving? Fuck no. It is his job to teach the fundamentals and instill the proper mentality into his charges. Settling for second classs recruits because you know you can get them set the tone for Pease's tenure. Take what is easy and don't bother working hard to block your man or sett the edge. The receiver play during the bowl game showed more effort by the receivers in one game than they showed all year. If your coach settles for mediocrity why cant' the receivers. And they did. Blaming Petersen and Smith for Pease's shortcomings is laughable. Petersen doesnt play that game and that is why Pease sold the couch.
Huh?
Guess my original got deleted. Smells like Doogman up in here with the censorship. Mods protecting their golden geese.
No one deleted your post. By the way, who hired the WR coach? Who was responsible for having an idea of what the WR was or was not teaching the WRs? Oh yeah, Petermen.
I like Petermen and think he'll do well here but everything the team does or fails to do falls on the head coach.
The more I read about Petersen, the more I think he's a small time pussy who stayed out of big boy football for a reason.
That's a real possibility, but the guy being quoted is an OC for a Juco. $20 Sven bucks his iq is under 100.
I might make the same wager on Petersen or Smith
I see them as Tequilla types. They are relatively smart, but are also retarded because they have a need to show off how smart they are.
Johnny smith: Hey Pete, check out this play for third and short. They will expect us to run, so we get Marvin Hall on an OLB.
Petersen: I love it. Marvin ran a 4.47 at our mock pro day. He has the advantage.
Then they call the play in the game, Marvin Hall gets stonewalled at the LOS by the OLB, it fucks up the timing and Browning ends up throwing it away under duress.
Peterman and Smith blame Pease during the following film session for not teaching Marvin hall to get off a jam.
Roaddawg, honestly I thought you were smarter than this garbage. Who was the Wide receivers coach? What does said coach teach? Underwater basket weaving? Fuck no. It is his job to teach the fundamentals and instill the proper mentality into his charges. Settling for second classs recruits because you know you can get them set the tone for Pease's tenure. Take what is easy and don't bother working hard to block your man or sett the edge. The receiver play during the bowl game showed more effort by the receivers in one game than they showed all year. If your coach settles for mediocrity why cant' the receivers. And they did. Blaming Petersen and Smith for Pease's shortcomings is laughable. Petersen doesnt play that game and that is why Pease sold the couch.
Huh?
Guess my original got deleted. Smells like Doogman up in here with the censorship. Mods protecting their golden geese.
"Petersen was too controlling and conservative for Williams, they said, and Williams — such an "alpha dog" that even Kaub's assistants often deferred to him — was too outgoing for Petersen."
See, this is the problem with recruiting. A controlling and conservative coach takes over when the kid committed to the guy who would just let him go out there and rip it.
If you can't beat out Miles and Lumpquist, there's a problem.
Thanks Billy. Was just going to post same thing, said it 100 times while he was here. See there's a reason Billy is Alpha dog Mod on the higher discussion bored.
Alright! I'm a mod! I'm going to ban people who promote the SEC bullshit.
No player has ever been on the bench because the coach is a fucktard
That is fucking idiot talk. Honestly Race I understand you are some big man around these parts but I really hope all your anti-Petersen talk is bull shit. Your eyes are as good as mine and if you can not see what Coach P is building you are fucking blind.
Big man? No! Blind? Yes! Ice you're on the brink of a higher discussion invite . Keep up the quality posting.
No player has ever been on the bench because the coach is a fucktard
That is fucking idiot talk. Honestly Race I understand you are some big man around these parts but I really hope all your anti-Petersen talk is bull shit. Your eyes are as good as mine and if you can not see what Coach P is building you are fucking blind.
No player has ever been on the bench because the coach is a fucktard
That is fucking idiot talk. Honestly Race I understand you are some big man around these parts but I really hope all your anti-Petersen talk is bull shit. Your eyes are as good as mine and if you can not see what Coach P is building you are fucking blind.
Big man? No! Blind? Yes! Ice you're on the brink of a higher discussion invite . Keep up the quality posting.
Puppy is gathering quite the impressive collection of retards for his imaginary higher discussion bored.
If you can't beat out Miles and Lumpquist, there's a problem.
Thanks Billy. Was just going to post same thing, said it 100 times while he was here. See there's a reason Billy is Alpha dog Mod on the higher discussion bored.
Alright! I'm a mod! I'm going to ban people who promote the SEC bullshit.
You would be the worst mod ever.
Probably but you know it's a joke right?
I secretly enjoy the SEC arguments...at least it's actual sports talk
This wasn't a Chris Hemphill situation. Peters didn't buy in but he still started and made it through most of the season.
Williams sucked, took his ball and went home like a bitch.
Yes the conditions against ASU were horrible, but Williams threw 2 picks and another 2-3 that ASU guys had in their bread basket and flat out dropped. He looked like the 3rd string QB he was.
Some of you have a narrative and look really foolish trying to stick to it in this case, rather than observing objectively.
You want to take the gloves off Race? You want to get down in a pissing match? Let's do it. Let's roll.
I'm getting completely fed up with your hate, negativity, and throwing people under the bus.
Quite frankly Race, I'm very, VERY happy that I don't know you. I'm quite happy that I don't lead what appears to be such a pathetic life that is faced with looking for the negativity in every situation. You need to go find something to smile at. Last I checked, it's summertime. The weather in Seattle seems to be pretty damn good right now - why don't you go check that out.
You are pretty damn wrong about things. You may think that the amount of time that you keep spewing your views that that you've now heard it enough times that you are right. Doesn't make you right.
You talk about 12-47 like that happened out of the blue sky. I've never seen you once suggest that the process of the downfall of this program began well before Emmert arrived.
You want facts? You want truth? Here's your truth.
Emmert came to the UW prior to the GLORIOUS 1-10 season under Gilby. The year before that (2003) Gilby managed to do enough to get us to 6-6, but that included the debacle at Cal where we gave up 700 yards (or thereabouts). It was an indifferent team that pretty much was at best mediocre. We lost 5 of our last 8, including the blowout to Cal, the blowout to UCLA, and a home loss to NEVADA. Yep, the program was heading in the right direction.
The 2002 season under Slick was another sterling season example that is most remembered for the "Northwest Championship." That was great. But it hid the fact that going into the "Northwest Championship" we were a 4-5 football team that was pretty much a joke at 1-4 in the conference. In both 2002 and 2003, we finished the season with a 4-4 conference record.
These weren't good football teams. The trend was heading downhill.
Emmert comes on board and immediately gets sadled with the Gilby 1-10 debacle.
Prior to Emmert coming on board, Babs jumps ship after a decade of mis-management, including allowing the stadium to begin the erosion process.
Throughout 2003, we're faced with Slick leaving and the subsequent lawsuit(s), Dr. Feelgood, and a whole mess with the softball program and Teresa Wilson.
Now keep in mind the following: ALL THIS HAPPENED BEFORE EMMERT WAS ANYWHERE NEAR BEING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.
Things were not in great shape. I think just about everybody knew that.
A search committee is formed to replace Babs. The BOR, upper campus, and the big donor supporters of the school are sick of the egg showing up on their face. They are sick of the country club that Babs ran and the loose way she ran the department - particularly in light of what went on with Slick. They wanted someone prim, proper, and who they could count on would not sully the University name. ENTER TODD TURNER.
Now, this pretty much gets you up to the point where Emmert was hired. Did he have to sign off on the hiring of Turner? Most likely. But whatever.
At this point, Emmert isn't responsible for the on-field performance of the football program. There is a coach in place. It's not Emmert's job to oversee the football program or any other program in the athletic department. That job belongs to Todd Turner. It's Emmert's job to monitor the job performance of Todd Turner.
So 1-10 happens. Gilby is canned by Turner (rightfully so). Yes, the program went 1-10. But the actions of those charged with overseeing the program were correct. Turner fired the coach for poor performance. If I'm in Emmert's shoes, I can't complain.
Coaching search takes place and Turner has his heart set on Tyrone Willingham. It's Turner's hire. It's not Emmert's hire. Surely Emmert had to sign off on the hire. That's fine. You want to throw some blame on him for not having the foresight to negate the hire. That's fine. But the hire isn't Emmert's responsibility. It's Turner's responsibility. It's Emmert's responsibility to hold Turner accountable for the hire (which he did 3 years later when it was obvious that Tyrone wasn't the answer).
So Tyrone goes 2-9 the first year after a 1-10 year. Not great. Warning signs start going off, particularly with some poor performance to close games. But it's the first year of the regime and really hard to get too critical.
The next year the program goes 5-7 and has 2 significant events. The first significant event is the loss of the QB to injury. I think many could argue that without the loss of Isaiah that year, we go 6-6. The second event that was significant was the "suddenly senior" day and the unexplicable loss to Stanford with the most emotionless football team anybody had ever seen. Again, there's not enough there to fire Tyrone at that point. There are warning signs. There is ground to pretty much tell Tyrone that the following year is an action year where something needs to happen. He's on a short leash at this point in my opinion.
The following year we lose games in ways that are unexplainable. Blow a huge loss to Arizona - a game we should have never lost. The most ridiculous ending to an Apple Cup I've ever seen where a guy was open by 20 yards coming out of a timeout. Blowing a pair of 21 point leads to Hawai'i. It was pretty obvious at this point that things weren't working. Coaching change was in order. Perhaps an AD change was also in order. The coaching change was blocked and complicated. The AD's head fell - and rightfully so due to some other issues that he had and such a terrible hire of a head coach.
Prior to the decision to fire Tyrone after 2007, it's really hard to argue with ANYTHING that Emmert had done with respect to the football program.
I will say that bringing Tyrone back for 2008 was a disasterous mistake. It should have never happened. You want to throw 0-12 on Emmert - I'm all for it. I think if you caught Emmert in a reflective, truthful moment, he would tell you in hindsight that he should have made the move and that it wasn't worth the carnage of 0-12.
Throw Emmert under the bus for 2008. That's his responsibility. 2004-2007? Not so much. By all means, please, please tell me where he has responsibility for 2004 and 2007 other than the fact that he's the University President. Please tell me what specific actions that he did to undermine the program. You aren't going to find them - they aren't there.
Your criticism of Emmert is ridiculous. Your criticism of Woodward is just downright comical.
Where has Woodward screwed this program? He has only been responsible for this program in the summer of 2008 in a full-time role. Are you going to hold him to the fire for being the interim AD for the first half of 2008? How is he responsible for anything from 2004-2007 when he wasn't even involved with the Athletic Department? Talk about conspiracy theories. This may be one of the greatest conspiracy theories I've ever seen.
I don't like losing. I don't like what I've seen the last 5 years. It's made me sick to my stomach many times over. But unlike you, I can at least take a step back and realize that the genesis of this problem began well before Mark Emmert became President of the University of Washington.
If I spent my time being a "mindless Race Bannon minion," then I'd be convinced that the only logical explanation for our failures have been Mark Emmert and Scott Woodward.
Quite frankly, that opinion is one of the most idiotic insanely stupid opinions that I've ever seen in my life.
I don't defend the "wrong targets." There is blame to be thrown Emmert's way. I readily acknowledge that. But it isn't his full blame. Babs deserves blame. Gerberding deserves blame. McCormick deserves some blame. Slick deserves some blame. Gilby deserves some blame. Turner deserves some blame. Tyrone deserves some blame. Of the names I've listed, only 3 of those names have any timeline that extends into any portion of Emmert's tenure. That's less than half of those names.
Quite frankly Race, you are a world class donkey. When I hear people bitch and moan about the people in the State of Washington - you are a crystal example of why people bitch about the State of Washington. When I hear people that bitch about the fans of the University of Washington and what their complaints are, you represent what those complaints are.
In my opinion, you are not good for the University of Washington. You aren't helping the program. You aren't helping the University. You are entirely self-serving and a pompous, egotistical jerk.
You are barking up the wrong tree if you are going after me. I'm not naive enough to shove my head so far up my arse to ignore what I am seeing. I don't think that there is anybody that knows me that would say that I wouldn't call a spade a spade.
All that paying for and attending games longer than I've been alive has done for you is given you a perceived ability to go be a bitter old man. Congrats on that.
Thanks for showing those of us in a younger generation how not to act in 20-30 years when we are in your shoes.
No player has ever been on the bench because the coach is a fucktard
That is fucking idiot talk. Honestly Race I understand you are some big man around these parts but I really hope all your anti-Petersen talk is bull shit. Your eyes are as good as mine and if you can not see what Coach P is building you are fucking blind.
Big man? No! Blind? Yes! Ice you're on the brink of a higher discussion invite . Keep up the quality posting.
Puppy is gathering quite the impressive collection of retards for his imaginary higher discussion bored.
No player has ever been on the bench because the coach is a fucktard
That is fucking idiot talk. Honestly Race I understand you are some big man around these parts but I really hope all your anti-Petersen talk is bull shit. Your eyes are as good as mine and if you can not see what Coach P is building you are fucking blind.
Big man? No! Blind? Yes! Ice you're on the brink of a higher discussion invite . Keep up the quality posting.
Puppy is gathering quite the impressive collection of retards for his imaginary higher discussion bored.
Its common to criticize something you're not a part of. Remember high school Nacho? I think sitting home on friday nights while the rest of your class went to cool parties leaves you bitter 5 years later. The HDB is one of those parties. Its ok, you can always post here with the other 5-7 dorks left out. There's a forum for everyone here at HH. No child gets left behind:)
No player has ever been on the bench because the coach is a fucktard
That is fucking idiot talk. Honestly Race I understand you are some big man around these parts but I really hope all your anti-Petersen talk is bull shit. Your eyes are as good as mine and if you can not see what Coach P is building you are fucking blind.
Big man? No! Blind? Yes! Ice you're on the brink of a higher discussion invite . Keep up the quality posting.
Puppy is gathering quite the impressive collection of retards for his imaginary higher discussion bored.
Its common to criticize something you're not a part of. Remember high school Nacho? I think sitting home on friday nights while the rest of your class went to cool parties leaves you bitter 5 years later. The HDB is one of those parties. Its ok, you can always post here with the other 5-7 dorks left out. There's a forum for everyone here at HH. No child gets left behind:)
Just because you give it an acronym doesn't mean it's not imaginary.
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I like Petermen and think he'll do well here but everything the team does or fails to do falls on the head coach.
See, this is the problem with recruiting. A controlling and conservative coach takes over when the kid committed to the guy who would just let him go out there and rip it.
I secretly enjoy the SEC arguments...at least it's actual sports talk
Williams sucked, took his ball and went home like a bitch.
Yes the conditions against ASU were horrible, but Williams threw 2 picks and another 2-3 that ASU guys had in their bread basket and flat out dropped. He looked like the 3rd string QB he was.
Some of you have a narrative and look really foolish trying to stick to it in this case, rather than observing objectively.
I'm getting completely fed up with your hate, negativity, and throwing people under the bus.
Quite frankly Race, I'm very, VERY happy that I don't know you. I'm quite happy that I don't lead what appears to be such a pathetic life that is faced with looking for the negativity in every situation. You need to go find something to smile at. Last I checked, it's summertime. The weather in Seattle seems to be pretty damn good right now - why don't you go check that out.
You are pretty damn wrong about things. You may think that the amount of time that you keep spewing your views that that you've now heard it enough times that you are right. Doesn't make you right.
You talk about 12-47 like that happened out of the blue sky. I've never seen you once suggest that the process of the downfall of this program began well before Emmert arrived.
You want facts? You want truth? Here's your truth.
Emmert came to the UW prior to the GLORIOUS 1-10 season under Gilby. The year before that (2003) Gilby managed to do enough to get us to 6-6, but that included the debacle at Cal where we gave up 700 yards (or thereabouts). It was an indifferent team that pretty much was at best mediocre. We lost 5 of our last 8, including the blowout to Cal, the blowout to UCLA, and a home loss to NEVADA. Yep, the program was heading in the right direction.
The 2002 season under Slick was another sterling season example that is most remembered for the "Northwest Championship." That was great. But it hid the fact that going into the "Northwest Championship" we were a 4-5 football team that was pretty much a joke at 1-4 in the conference. In both 2002 and 2003, we finished the season with a 4-4 conference record.
These weren't good football teams. The trend was heading downhill.
Emmert comes on board and immediately gets sadled with the Gilby 1-10 debacle.
Prior to Emmert coming on board, Babs jumps ship after a decade of mis-management, including allowing the stadium to begin the erosion process.
Throughout 2003, we're faced with Slick leaving and the subsequent lawsuit(s), Dr. Feelgood, and a whole mess with the softball program and Teresa Wilson.
Now keep in mind the following: ALL THIS HAPPENED BEFORE EMMERT WAS ANYWHERE NEAR BEING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.
Things were not in great shape. I think just about everybody knew that.
A search committee is formed to replace Babs. The BOR, upper campus, and the big donor supporters of the school are sick of the egg showing up on their face. They are sick of the country club that Babs ran and the loose way she ran the department - particularly in light of what went on with Slick. They wanted someone prim, proper, and who they could count on would not sully the University name. ENTER TODD TURNER.
Now, this pretty much gets you up to the point where Emmert was hired. Did he have to sign off on the hiring of Turner? Most likely. But whatever.
At this point, Emmert isn't responsible for the on-field performance of the football program. There is a coach in place. It's not Emmert's job to oversee the football program or any other program in the athletic department. That job belongs to Todd Turner. It's Emmert's job to monitor the job performance of Todd Turner.
So 1-10 happens. Gilby is canned by Turner (rightfully so). Yes, the program went 1-10. But the actions of those charged with overseeing the program were correct. Turner fired the coach for poor performance. If I'm in Emmert's shoes, I can't complain.
Coaching search takes place and Turner has his heart set on Tyrone Willingham. It's Turner's hire. It's not Emmert's hire. Surely Emmert had to sign off on the hire. That's fine. You want to throw some blame on him for not having the foresight to negate the hire. That's fine. But the hire isn't Emmert's responsibility. It's Turner's responsibility. It's Emmert's responsibility to hold Turner accountable for the hire (which he did 3 years later when it was obvious that Tyrone wasn't the answer).
So Tyrone goes 2-9 the first year after a 1-10 year. Not great. Warning signs start going off, particularly with some poor performance to close games. But it's the first year of the regime and really hard to get too critical.
The next year the program goes 5-7 and has 2 significant events. The first significant event is the loss of the QB to injury. I think many could argue that without the loss of Isaiah that year, we go 6-6. The second event that was significant was the "suddenly senior" day and the unexplicable loss to Stanford with the most emotionless football team anybody had ever seen. Again, there's not enough there to fire Tyrone at that point. There are warning signs. There is ground to pretty much tell Tyrone that the following year is an action year where something needs to happen. He's on a short leash at this point in my opinion.
The following year we lose games in ways that are unexplainable. Blow a huge loss to Arizona - a game we should have never lost. The most ridiculous ending to an Apple Cup I've ever seen where a guy was open by 20 yards coming out of a timeout. Blowing a pair of 21 point leads to Hawai'i. It was pretty obvious at this point that things weren't working. Coaching change was in order. Perhaps an AD change was also in order. The coaching change was blocked and complicated. The AD's head fell - and rightfully so due to some other issues that he had and such a terrible hire of a head coach.
Prior to the decision to fire Tyrone after 2007, it's really hard to argue with ANYTHING that Emmert had done with respect to the football program.
I will say that bringing Tyrone back for 2008 was a disasterous mistake. It should have never happened. You want to throw 0-12 on Emmert - I'm all for it. I think if you caught Emmert in a reflective, truthful moment, he would tell you in hindsight that he should have made the move and that it wasn't worth the carnage of 0-12.
Throw Emmert under the bus for 2008. That's his responsibility. 2004-2007? Not so much. By all means, please, please tell me where he has responsibility for 2004 and 2007 other than the fact that he's the University President. Please tell me what specific actions that he did to undermine the program. You aren't going to find them - they aren't there.
Your criticism of Emmert is ridiculous. Your criticism of Woodward is just downright comical.
Where has Woodward screwed this program? He has only been responsible for this program in the summer of 2008 in a full-time role. Are you going to hold him to the fire for being the interim AD for the first half of 2008? How is he responsible for anything from 2004-2007 when he wasn't even involved with the Athletic Department? Talk about conspiracy theories. This may be one of the greatest conspiracy theories I've ever seen.
I don't like losing. I don't like what I've seen the last 5 years. It's made me sick to my stomach many times over. But unlike you, I can at least take a step back and realize that the genesis of this problem began well before Mark Emmert became President of the University of Washington.
If I spent my time being a "mindless Race Bannon minion," then I'd be convinced that the only logical explanation for our failures have been Mark Emmert and Scott Woodward.
Quite frankly, that opinion is one of the most idiotic insanely stupid opinions that I've ever seen in my life.
I don't defend the "wrong targets." There is blame to be thrown Emmert's way. I readily acknowledge that. But it isn't his full blame. Babs deserves blame. Gerberding deserves blame. McCormick deserves some blame. Slick deserves some blame. Gilby deserves some blame. Turner deserves some blame. Tyrone deserves some blame. Of the names I've listed, only 3 of those names have any timeline that extends into any portion of Emmert's tenure. That's less than half of those names.
Quite frankly Race, you are a world class donkey. When I hear people bitch and moan about the people in the State of Washington - you are a crystal example of why people bitch about the State of Washington. When I hear people that bitch about the fans of the University of Washington and what their complaints are, you represent what those complaints are.
In my opinion, you are not good for the University of Washington. You aren't helping the program. You aren't helping the University. You are entirely self-serving and a pompous, egotistical jerk.
You are barking up the wrong tree if you are going after me. I'm not naive enough to shove my head so far up my arse to ignore what I am seeing. I don't think that there is anybody that knows me that would say that I wouldn't call a spade a spade.
All that paying for and attending games longer than I've been alive has done for you is given you a perceived ability to go be a bitter old man. Congrats on that.
Thanks for showing those of us in a younger generation how not to act in 20-30 years when we are in your shoes.