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  • SECDAWG
    SECDAWG Member Posts: 5,004
    If UW wants to fight fire with fire with Oregon’s Cristobal desired physicality model and beyond, need to open up the wallets and go after Todd Grantham as HC. A lot of experience with physicality the theme. Abundance. He’d bring it. Just a thought on this collective proverbial search for another HC.
  • JustWinNow
    JustWinNow Member Posts: 357
    It's not about every other program. It's about this one and if we are serious or not about winning. When its playoff time and the Saban is there and the dabo is there and Lincoln Riley is there. Where will we be? not in the playoffs again and again. Yes being a champion is very hard it's not for everyone especially betas and Petersen.
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    FirePete said:

    whuggy said:

    whuggy said:

    whuggy said:

    One more thing - UW hasn't had a good track record with promoting coordinators to the HC position.

    Furthermore, one may surmise that the coordinators are cut from the same cloth as the head coach. So, promoting one of them to HC would just be more inbreeding. New boss same as the old boss scenario - I've seen this at my place of work. Our current CEO operates like the previous one, even though he is more personable and the former was kind of like a robot. Same policies and same playbook; same culture. Yes, he worked up the ranks and was promoted within.

    On the other hand some of our non-coordinator hires haven't been too special either.
    Good poont!

    UW AD has found so many different ways to burn us out over the years. May as well keep throwing shit at the wall to see what finally sticks.

    Just so fucking tired and frustrated with a mediocre product.
    Swaye made a really good point when he said if you think Pete gives you a 1% chance to win it all and there's guys out there that give you 2% chance then you make the move every time. I have always liked Petersen but I'm starting to get interested in the 2% option. Who knows. Maybe JL bumps you up to 5%.
    Every team in the country is scrambling to figure out which coach could get them a championship. Problem is, only Saban, Dabo, and Urban have been able to do it in the playoff era. Lots of splash hires around the country that don’t bear fruit. Lots of college football royalty trying desperately to figure out who that coach is that will bring them back to the promise land.

    We are all so frustrated and tired of inexplicable losses because we expect championships from Petersen. You could hire a shit load of dudes that won’t even get you consistent 10 win seasons, let alone expectations of a realistic shot at a championship. You could easily cycle through 6 coaches over 20 years trying to find that 2% option you’re talking about that can finally break through.

    Petersen does 90% of things right which leads to consistency that I’ve been craving my whole adult life. It’s the 10% that fucks up the championship hopes I’ve been holding since I was a kid. Our only hope is that Petersen figures out the 10% and evolves.

    That 10% is:

    - In game decisions
    - Letting go of the offense
    - And recruiting at a top 10-15 level every year so the depth outweighs his coaching fuck ups

    We are fucked. We have to hope he fucking evolves. Because otherwise you are Russian Rouletting yourself into putting yourself in the same 20 year shit we were in before we got Petersen and got expectations.

    And for everyone who says “recruiting doesn’t matter you faggot, just win the games”. Yeah, well, the only team that has won a championship in the last two decades without being a top 10 recruiter or having top 10 composite talent is Clemson with a generational D Watson.

    So with Pete’s development and Sam Huard who is our lord and savior, we could be 10-15.

    But fuck off with this, “Fire Pete he cant get it don’t just go find someone who will”.

    Where? Who? Who is that going to be? Because no one else can fucking find them. It’s fucking hard. Ask Michigan. They’ve been looking since 97. You don’t just boot someone who at least has that 1%, because barely anyone has that. Saban and Dabo and Urban rule the world. The rest of us are scrabbling for scraps.

    Petersen won’t be fired, and even if he did who the fuck gives you a better chance.

    He either evolves or he doesn’t and we are fucked. But if we go out and throw darts at a bored we are fucked anyway. So he needs to evolve.
    Well it wasn't a fire Pete topic. It was simply a question about whether there is a succession agreement.
    Fair enough, but I’ve been worked up in a handful of threads @whuggy, so I kept my roll goin.
    Sorry @DoogCourics , I was just annoyed you finding excuses for his short comings.
    @DoogCourics is far too rational for the "Winners win, losers lose, alpha, beta, phi delta kappa" nonsense Me Tarzan, you Jane mentality that permeates around here. Can we get a cave rat board for lower level discussion amongst the simples?
    winner win, loser look for reasons to lose or have excuses. that is the god damn truth in life.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,274 Founders Club

    Who knows? Personally, I want them all gone. Just clean sweep... bunch of scrub coaches.

    Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,274 Founders Club
    digits said:

    Successful game/clock management has nothing to do with recruiting, talent, etc. He's lost several close games because he does not have the knack for making the correct, split-second decisions that effect the outcome of close games. He's proven as much, over, and over, and over again.

    I could not agree more
  • gabemarksknee
    gabemarksknee Member Posts: 336
    whuggy said:

    Between Pete and Jimmy with Jen's consent. Pete I'm sure isn't thrilled with what is necessary to take the step to the next level. He already hates the media stuff. Also seems Jimmy is very slow in taking the next step in his career. If he's still here in two years I think it's a valid hypothesis.

    Like Muschamp and Hopkins?
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,738 Founders Club
    guntlove said:

    There was a lot of talk by Petersen after the Rose Bowl loss about reevaluating EVERYTHING they do on offense... trying to simplify things and really forge an identity on that side of the ball. All that talk was then followed by an utterly fucktarded and unnecessary QB competition in fall camp... then once the season began, we ran the same directionless, pointless, unnecessarily complicated bullshit on offense we'd seen the previous two seasons. Pete changed absolutely fucking nothing.

    At this point, the only thing that will change my mind about Pete will be if Hamden is fired after the season and an OC is brought in from outside of Pete's coaching tree to run an entirely different offense. And if Bob Gregory is shitcanned. Those two things need to happen at the very fucking least. Otherwise, we will continue to lose 1-2 games every year against teams we have no business losing to, and we'll also continue to lose to every topflight program we play.

    This is Pete's last real chance to show he's serious enough to the make the necessary changes to play for a championship. If he doesn't do it after this season, he's never doing it. Unfortunately if I was to put money on it, I'd say Hamden and Gregory will both be back next year. So basically, we fuct.

    This.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,738 Founders Club

    Swaye said:



    This is a good post. I am very conflicted right now. Mostly I am just pissed off and wanting to throw things.



    Look, we aren't getting rid of him. I get it. And as much as I am pissed about this bullshit, that is probably the best idea. I wanted his ass fired Sunday, but I am an angry Injun who likes scalping whites - and Pete is as white bread as they come. A few days later I am still in full on "I hate Pete" mode, but brain synapses are now firing and I can see the logic in really hoping for that problematic 10% to change. I've said it, he is nails on the other 90%. But my issue with this logic that he probably shouldn't be canned is twofold.

    1) We are HHBs, and if there is one thing about being an HHB it's demanding excellence and cutting bait when it isn't being met. So let's go to the tape (courtesy of PGOS):

    Petersen is 2-4 against Oregon
    Petersen is 2-4 against Stanford
    Petersen is 2-3 against ASU
    Petersen is 3-3 against Cal
    Petersen is 0-2 against SEC teams
    Petersen is 0-2 against good B1G teams
    Petersen is 1-4 in Bowl Games

    Take out everything else you think you know about Pete. Look at those numbers. Is that up to standards? It's not even close. It is objectively fucking terrible. This is a serious problem. He has feasted on beating up on the weakest Pac 12 of my lifetim and some scrub WAC programs. We are NEVER playing in a CFP or 3 straight NY6 games if the Oregon of 5 years ago or the USC of 12 years ago exist. This is a historically WEAK Pac-12 and we are getting good records beating up on shit teams, scheduling 2-3 for sure wins a year, and going sub .500 over 6 years against the ENTIRE Pac 12 North sans CUOG and Beav. Sure, ok, don't fire Pete, but WTF man? Being .500 against the Pac-12 North, losing all 4 games against the B1G and SEC, and going 1-4 in bowl games is shit.

    TL;DR: Pete is not as "good" as his overall record indicates. This is a very average to slightly above average football team that has feasted on the Sisters of the Poor the last 6 years and gotten drilled whenever they play someone good.

    2) Pete is stubborn. Everyone on this bored says it all the tim. It's the one thing we can agree on. Is it wise to wait for a few more years of data hoping that Pete makes the changes to erase that 10%? I don't know. At this point I find it unlikely he changes. I think it much more likely we continue to bounce between 8-5 and 11-2 winning the occasional shitty Pac-12 crown and getting ass blasted in any real bowel game.

    So that's it. Yeah, I agree, Pete gets a couple more years to fix the 10% and unfuck this, but stop viewing him through purple colored glasses. This team is not as "good" as 3 Pac-12 Crowns in 6 years appears when you really look at the quality of the league and our scheduling, and our performance against "top teams" has been fucking abysmal.

    So, I will grudgingly agree that it is a HUGE risk to go try to find lightning in a bottle with someone else, but there are clear warning signs here that must be dealt with now.

    I'd give Pete a couple more years to see if he can work this out. But my patience for getting assblasted by shitty ass Cal every year is at an end. I hope Pete figures it out because 20 more years in the CFP wasteland would suck, but I'm with @Guntlove that we need to see changes NOW. Real changes. Not bandaid bullshit. Hamdan gone. Gregory gone. Minimum. A real signal that he is committed to a new way of doing business. I am past the "small measured" changes approach. Get your shit together Pete or put Swaye in charge!

    Brilliant post that perfectly encapsulates my feelings on the coaching situation right now. The scales have fallen from my eyes RE: Pete. I think a sizable part of my angst is I sometimes have a tendency to put certain individuals on pedestals, and when they fail (which people inevitably do) I don’t take it well. I saw him as the savior sent to us by St. Haden. He’s done a lot of good, but I question if he’ll get us to the national title promise land.

    Oh, and OT: every time I see that little girl gif, it reminds me of a photo of myself at about the same age around Halloween.

    Except my tutu was blue.

    And I was crushing a beer can.
    That's fucking hot.


  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,624 Founders Club
    LebamDawg said:

    just to add some other stuff about Pete's losses

    4 losses to Oregon, Stanford
    3 Losses to ASU, Cal

    one each UCLA, Arizona, Utah, and USC
    OOC Boise ST and Auburn

    Bowel game losses OK St, Pen St, Ohio St, Ala

    and to offset those losses, Signature win USC

    I'm not gonna look it up, but what was our record against those Pac12 teams and similar OOC competition the previous 10 years? 15? 20? How many three plus game loosing streaks did we? endure? How many plungers were forcibly inserted into our? anuses every year? How bad did we? loose to LSU, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Oregon, Stanford, USC over those years? I still feel the ring sting. I guess a bunch of you love the way that feels because you have forgotten how this program was abused by any team with a pulse for almost 20 years. My alcoholic memory is not that good and can be untrustworthy at tims but going to the semi final, Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl and winning two out of three, four now, Pac 12 titles is #whyistayed.
  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912

    FirePete said:

    Head coaching hires is always a crap shoot

    There’s really only been one guy in the past 30 yrs who was a slam dunk than Urbs going to tOSU. Saban had won a .5 natty but wasn’t GOAT yet. Harbaugh sucks. Chip 2.0 suck. Pete sucked through 2015. Now be sucks again.

    This is why it’s more risk to @FirePete than stick it out for another 1- 2 years and see what happens.
    I don’t know, but something is wrong with the coaching staff. Too many missed assignments, poor tackling, poor game management, stubbornness not to admit something is wrong, but more importantly the lack of confidence and edge on the team. Second half agains Oregon was pure mental breakdown by the coaches and the players
    It was a coin flip game and ended as such. I can deal with this loss. Stanford and Cal are unacceptable. We can sit here as arm chair coaches and nit pick this or that but what ultimately matters is wins and losses and conference titles above all else. If he keeps winning the PAC 33.3% of the time he gets to stay. If not he can GTFO. Tick, tick, tick...

    If you have a proven upgrade over Pete that is a slam dunk that we can hire, let me know. I’m in. But that dude better fucking win big time or you’re gonna be meeting me and lil’ piss at 7-11.
    I am with you Yella. However there seems to be something off with the attitude or "culture" of the players. And I dont fucking understand it.
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,782 Swaye's Wigwam

    LebamDawg said:

    just to add some other stuff about Pete's losses

    4 losses to Oregon, Stanford
    3 Losses to ASU, Cal

    one each UCLA, Arizona, Utah, and USC
    OOC Boise ST and Auburn

    Bowel game losses OK St, Pen St, Ohio St, Ala

    and to offset those losses, Signature win USC

    I'm not gonna look it up, but what was our record against those Pac12 teams and similar OOC competition the previous 10 years? 15? 20? How many three plus game loosing streaks did we? endure? How many plungers were forcibly inserted into our? anuses every year? How bad did we? loose to LSU, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Oregon, Stanford, USC over those years? I still feel the ring sting. I guess a bunch of you love the way that feels because you have forgotten how this program was abused by any team with a pulse for almost 20 years. My alcoholic memory is not that good and can be untrustworthy at tims but going to the semi final, Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl and winning two out of three, four now, Pac 12 titles is #whyistayed.
    In another thread (one of yella's) I mention that I think we are at a high level of mediocre that previous coaches. @RaceBannon made the comment that he hated James for being mediocre (I paraphrased what he said).

    I wasn't trying to compare previous years as that would just tick me off even more. With Pete I guess I expected more (which he has delivered somewhat) but at the same time I have fallen harder because of those expectations.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,035 Standard Supporter

    Pete sucks and you morons that don't agree are morons. You know how I know he sucks. Because it's year six and he still doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. Stop trying to make excuses for him. He fucken sucks. He has been coaching for 15 years and he doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. In Their first 10 years of coaching, Saban, dabo and Urban had already won a Natty. Those fuckers know How to win. Petersen knows how to throw seasons and games away. He is pathetic and if you defend him you are also pathetic. You are better than that. Snap out of it. He needs to go now. We can get Urban if we really wanted. We got the facilities and the once great winning tradition, he would definitely get us a Natty. But because UW is beta af that will never hau and if all we can get is Jimmy I'll fucken take it. Let Jimmy take over the show we need some passion. Petersen times up get the fuck out.

    I hate this year six bullshit like every program just makes linear progress and gets a step better each season. It doesn’t happen.
    Oregon should be the only loss UW has on their record. Pete & Co. fucked away two games with shit personnel decisions. There's no denying that and no excuse for it.

    Oregon is a more complete team and beat UW with UW's best talent getting plenty of snaps. That was not true at Stanford or especially Cal.

    Of course the D was going to be weaker this year given the departures. But the O should be much improved in the passing game, which decides a lot of games in the Pac12, and it's inexcusable that UW wasn't playing it's best talent and giving them the best chance to win.

    Otherwise Peterson's quotes about "raising the bar" are total bullshit. That's the BS I'm tired of.
    I agree with everyone that every loss this season was bad. Really bad. Pretty much inexcusable.

    I just get annoyed with the thought that we win a big bowl game and so we recruit better, and after we win the big bowl game, we’ll make the playoffs the next year, etc.

    We went from being 7-6 to making the playoffs in 2016. Georgia went from 8-5 to playing in the natty the next year. Progress isn’t always linear. Clemson bounced up and down for Dabo until he made it.

    What Pete has done this season is not up to par. Just touting year six like that’s supposed to be the year, or what coaches get paid, etc is FS.
    I think Pete invites that "Year 6" stuff by his constant references to "the system" and "the process" and even his "practice matters" stuff.

    Pete is the guy who constantly speaks in Linear Terms, so he's the one who invites that type of analysis, regardless of the fact that it doesn't always work that way. Pete sets the narrative to make it sound like it does work that way and he reinforces it with his canned answers. "We'll put the tape on" - "and those type of things."

    Act like a Robot, get judged like a Robot. And what's more Linear than a Robot?
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,274 Founders Club

    Pete sucks and you morons that don't agree are morons. You know how I know he sucks. Because it's year six and he still doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. Stop trying to make excuses for him. He fucken sucks. He has been coaching for 15 years and he doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. In Their first 10 years of coaching, Saban, dabo and Urban had already won a Natty. Those fuckers know How to win. Petersen knows how to throw seasons and games away. He is pathetic and if you defend him you are also pathetic. You are better than that. Snap out of it. He needs to go now. We can get Urban if we really wanted. We got the facilities and the once great winning tradition, he would definitely get us a Natty. But because UW is beta af that will never hau and if all we can get is Jimmy I'll fucken take it. Let Jimmy take over the show we need some passion. Petersen times up get the fuck out.

    I hate this year six bullshit like every program just makes linear progress and gets a step better each season. It doesn’t happen.
    Oregon should be the only loss UW has on their record. Pete & Co. fucked away two games with shit personnel decisions. There's no denying that and no excuse for it.

    Oregon is a more complete team and beat UW with UW's best talent getting plenty of snaps. That was not true at Stanford or especially Cal.

    Of course the D was going to be weaker this year given the departures. But the O should be much improved in the passing game, which decides a lot of games in the Pac12, and it's inexcusable that UW wasn't playing it's best talent and giving them the best chance to win.

    Otherwise Peterson's quotes about "raising the bar" are total bullshit. That's the BS I'm tired of.
    I agree with everyone that every loss this season was bad. Really bad. Pretty much inexcusable.

    I just get annoyed with the thought that we win a big bowl game and so we recruit better, and after we win the big bowl game, we’ll make the playoffs the next year, etc.

    We went from being 7-6 to making the playoffs in 2016. Georgia went from 8-5 to playing in the natty the next year. Progress isn’t always linear. Clemson bounced up and down for Dabo until he made it.

    What Pete has done this season is not up to par. Just touting year six like that’s supposed to be the year, or what coaches get paid, etc is FS.
    I think Pete invites that "Year 6" stuff by his constant references to "the system" and "the process" and even his "practice matters" stuff.

    Pete is the guy who constantly speaks in Linear Terms, so he's the one who invites that type of analysis, regardless of the fact that it doesn't always work that way. Pete sets the narrative to make it sound like it does work that way and he reinforces it with his canned answers. "We'll put the tape on" - "and those type of things."

    Act like a Robot, get judged like a Robot. And what's more Linear than a Robot?
    At the beginning of this season Pete was visibly irritated by the public's expectations of Eason and the team. He said something like "let's stop the speculation and let em play"

    At the time I thought to myself "Pete almost seems uncomfortable with expectations"
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,035 Standard Supporter

    Pete sucks and you morons that don't agree are morons. You know how I know he sucks. Because it's year six and he still doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. Stop trying to make excuses for him. He fucken sucks. He has been coaching for 15 years and he doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. In Their first 10 years of coaching, Saban, dabo and Urban had already won a Natty. Those fuckers know How to win. Petersen knows how to throw seasons and games away. He is pathetic and if you defend him you are also pathetic. You are better than that. Snap out of it. He needs to go now. We can get Urban if we really wanted. We got the facilities and the once great winning tradition, he would definitely get us a Natty. But because UW is beta af that will never hau and if all we can get is Jimmy I'll fucken take it. Let Jimmy take over the show we need some passion. Petersen times up get the fuck out.

    I hate this year six bullshit like every program just makes linear progress and gets a step better each season. It doesn’t happen.
    Oregon should be the only loss UW has on their record. Pete & Co. fucked away two games with shit personnel decisions. There's no denying that and no excuse for it.

    Oregon is a more complete team and beat UW with UW's best talent getting plenty of snaps. That was not true at Stanford or especially Cal.

    Of course the D was going to be weaker this year given the departures. But the O should be much improved in the passing game, which decides a lot of games in the Pac12, and it's inexcusable that UW wasn't playing it's best talent and giving them the best chance to win.

    Otherwise Peterson's quotes about "raising the bar" are total bullshit. That's the BS I'm tired of.
    I agree with everyone that every loss this season was bad. Really bad. Pretty much inexcusable.

    I just get annoyed with the thought that we win a big bowl game and so we recruit better, and after we win the big bowl game, we’ll make the playoffs the next year, etc.

    We went from being 7-6 to making the playoffs in 2016. Georgia went from 8-5 to playing in the natty the next year. Progress isn’t always linear. Clemson bounced up and down for Dabo until he made it.

    What Pete has done this season is not up to par. Just touting year six like that’s supposed to be the year, or what coaches get paid, etc is FS.
    I think Pete invites that "Year 6" stuff by his constant references to "the system" and "the process" and even his "practice matters" stuff.

    Pete is the guy who constantly speaks in Linear Terms, so he's the one who invites that type of analysis, regardless of the fact that it doesn't always work that way. Pete sets the narrative to make it sound like it does work that way and he reinforces it with his canned answers. "We'll put the tape on" - "and those type of things."

    Act like a Robot, get judged like a Robot. And what's more Linear than a Robot?
    At the beginning of this season Pete was visibly irritated by the public's expectations of Eason and the team. He said something like "let's stop the speculation and let em play"

    At the time I thought to myself "Pete almost seems uncomfortable with expectations"
    Well, they played, Pete. And look what happened? Seems like the speculation was entirely reasonable.
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    More like a suck-session agreement amirite
  • PurpleBaze
    PurpleBaze Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,308 Founders Club

    @YellowSnow - There are so many layers of humor to your reference to Darak Khosrowshahi, you have no idea. I just sent you a sext about it.

    It's almost as good as @RaceBannon's Iran Air Courtesy Bus references.

    @Laocoön & @89ute, this is the poast I was talking you about. Will explain more in person.