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National Media Has Chimed In On Petersen
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Dan Wolken of USA Today:
Washington - Once a coach earns elite status from the college football cognoscenti, it’s like getting tenure as a professor – you pretty much have it forever. But Chris Petersen is living off a reputation he no longer deserves, and the only title Washington is going to win any time soon is as the nation’s most disappointing program. Since making the College Football Playoff in 2016, Washington has lost games each of the last three years as a double-digit favorite. The common denominator in those games? A sputtering offense, which no longer resembles the creative and freewheeling system that Petersen rode to prominence at Boise State. Washington’s 23-13 loss Saturday to a very mediocre Stanford team featured a meager 294 yards of offense, while quarterback Jacob Eason completed just 16-of-36 passes. It was a similar story earlier in the season against Cal in a 20-19 loss, but this trend extends back to the Jake Browning era where the Huskies’ lack of offensive explosiveness made them vulnerable to big upsets. Moreover, this is the second year in a row where Washington entered the season as a popular pick to make the playoff and yet suffered its second loss by mid-October. It doesn’t mean Washington is a bad program or that Petersen isn’t doing a good job overall, but we all need to start talking about the Huskies realistically rather than banking on some notion of coaching genius that isn’t showing up in the results.
Dan isn’t wrong.
Washington - Once a coach earns elite status from the college football cognoscenti, it’s like getting tenure as a professor – you pretty much have it forever. But Chris Petersen is living off a reputation he no longer deserves, and the only title Washington is going to win any time soon is as the nation’s most disappointing program. Since making the College Football Playoff in 2016, Washington has lost games each of the last three years as a double-digit favorite. The common denominator in those games? A sputtering offense, which no longer resembles the creative and freewheeling system that Petersen rode to prominence at Boise State. Washington’s 23-13 loss Saturday to a very mediocre Stanford team featured a meager 294 yards of offense, while quarterback Jacob Eason completed just 16-of-36 passes. It was a similar story earlier in the season against Cal in a 20-19 loss, but this trend extends back to the Jake Browning era where the Huskies’ lack of offensive explosiveness made them vulnerable to big upsets. Moreover, this is the second year in a row where Washington entered the season as a popular pick to make the playoff and yet suffered its second loss by mid-October. It doesn’t mean Washington is a bad program or that Petersen isn’t doing a good job overall, but we all need to start talking about the Huskies realistically rather than banking on some notion of coaching genius that isn’t showing up in the results.
Dan isn’t wrong.
Comments
2 for fucking 13 on third down.
Our coaches are so fucking stupid.
Common link between Sark and Pete is an obsession with the passing game despite it sucking. Fucking former QBs man...
Mikey and Creep can talk all they want, but you're the fucking retard still clamoring about raiding area 51 and how Phil Knight should just buy you and your Springfield buddies a tank brigade for such an event.
When this team has only ever been worth a shit when there's a slight threat of a Pettis/Ross/Eason and we're just pounding them with Gaskin/Newton/Coleman. Fuck it add McGrew.
Schmoe.
Dan's plagiarisming my shit, fuckos.