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Excellent SI article on Jack Lockner

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,779 Founders Club
    Gladstone said:

    RaceBannon said:



    He could have got Ty fired and didn't

    Dumb and unfair.
    30 Husky players organized secretly and were going to approach Emmert and tell him they were boycotting the team unless Willingham was fired. This was in January 2008, right after Emmert and Turner brought him back. It was either Hasty or Kirton that told me the group consensus was they couldn't do this without Jake being part of the effort. They knew Jake felt the same but it was iffy whether he would join them. Sure enough, Jake said he wanted no part of a threatened boycott. And the players never followed through with it and went on to the 0-12 season.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,779 Founders Club
    I'm halfway through it and it's a good read and great writing.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,129 Standard Supporter
    Pitchfork51 said:

    I'm drinking beer out of my desk drawer at the office waiting for the Cox guy so I have no idea what's going on here

    Fuck Cox with a 100 foot pole

    They make Concast look good.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,679
    edited April 2018
    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    I'm drinking beer out of my desk drawer at the office waiting for the Cox guy so I have no idea what's going on here

    Fuck Cox with a 100 foot pole

    They make Concast look good.
    It was actually the century link guy.

    I hate cox. Century link is like half the speed but not dealing with cox is worth it.
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  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,379
    edited April 2018
    Tequilla said:

    Jake was a good but not great QB in college and the pros ... he had the talent to be better than he was but whether it was not full blown dedication in college (would his story be different with an OKG direction under Pete) or a train wreck of an organization in Tennessee always helped him be one of those maddening should be better than he is kind of guys.

    As for Locker being responsible for Tyrone in 2008, that's just not fair to pin on him. The reality is that Tawdy got ahead of the firing and basically said he was going to play the race card if something happened to Tyrone (very similar to how many were sounding that narrative on firing Romar. Even though Emmert could have fired Tyrone with merit and moved away from the race angle in firing Tyrone, he chose not to at the time. Instead he more or less allowed Tyrone to fail in 2008 and the firing was made when it was clear to even the most PC of people that Tyrone had to be fired.

    Whether you like Cohen or Cauce right now, you have to give them credit for being able to pull the trigger on Romar.

    The UW Jack Lockner legacy: A Safety, peculiarly close to his mom, who QB’d shit UW teams.
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