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Pete brought UW back. Stuff I dreamed of as an embittered, millennial youth who suffered through the horrors of the 90s and 00s. I've never had more fun watching sports than I did in 2016. I will always unabashedly love Pete. There should NOT be a statue of him somewhere near Husky Stadium someday.
That being said, he did seem pretty burned out and generally tired.
His offenses were mediocre at best since 2012 (if you shine a magnifying glass on the 2016 offense you can poke lots and lots of holes in it too -- historically bad Oregon defense, both Stanford CBs out, complete airballs on O against USC, Bama, and zero passing game against Colorado etc). He's also aged pretty badly if you compare pictures from his iring in Dec '13 to now.
Jimmy Lake is a huge wildcard. Statistically, CFB coaching graveyards are littered with elite coordinators who were upjumped to HC and flamed out. On a positive note, he'll be able to dial up a lot of the sizzle/flair many bemoaned Pete about. We know his defenses will be solid-to-elite (assuming -- please god in heaven -- make K our DC), but what kind of O will he let us run? There are so many fucking variables at play here that make me mostly pessimistic about this.
I always just chalked this up to a down year and a realization that we're much more Wisconsin or maybe Auburn than Clemson.
Pete is the winningest or 2nd winningest coach in CFB. Lake is a completely unknown commodity.
That being said, he did seem pretty burned out and generally tired.
His offenses were mediocre at best since 2012 (if you shine a magnifying glass on the 2016 offense you can poke lots and lots of holes in it too -- historically bad Oregon defense, both Stanford CBs out, complete airballs on O against USC, Bama, and zero passing game against Colorado etc). He's also aged pretty badly if you compare pictures from his iring in Dec '13 to now.
Jimmy Lake is a huge wildcard. Statistically, CFB coaching graveyards are littered with elite coordinators who were upjumped to HC and flamed out. On a positive note, he'll be able to dial up a lot of the sizzle/flair many bemoaned Pete about. We know his defenses will be solid-to-elite (assuming -- please god in heaven -- make K our DC), but what kind of O will he let us run? There are so many fucking variables at play here that make me mostly pessimistic about this.
I always just chalked this up to a down year and a realization that we're much more Wisconsin or maybe Auburn than Clemson.
Pete is the winningest or 2nd winningest coach in CFB. Lake is a completely unknown commodity.
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Quite honestly, I am all over the place. I think we? will miss Pete and am worried about Lake doing well. Pete changed the course of this team and got it back to where we? wanted it. Hopefully Lake can take it to the next step and not fuck it up.
Who the fuck knows what's going to happen. I'm nervous.
Win or lose, the next two years will at least give us new shit to complain about.
I guess you guys really do care a lot about the Apple cup.
I'll always have tons of respect for Pete, he's quite easily the second best coach we've ever had in the modern era - sorry Gil Dobie. That said, there were plenty of frustrating games where the team just didn't have it, especially this year, and that leaves me wondering what the Petersen era could have been. None of that should overshadow the fact that Pete truly returned the program to relevance.
If Jimmy realizes the upside we think he has, Petersen handing over the reigns now will just be another feather in his cap, ala Stoops and Meyer.