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Official 2021 class panic/Lake is clueless thread
insinceredawg
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Starting a new thread to consolidate all the panic and Lake shit talking since it's spread across multiple threads.
Let's back track 6 months ago. The overall sentiment from the board was that Petersen didn't take recruiting seriously enough and it's a positive that he's stepping down and and getting replaced by a young, hot shot recruiter. The Lake era started off reasonably well - he brought Covington back into the fold, held onto the entire '20 class, and sent Pete off with a win in the Vegas bowl. What's happened since then?
-He hires Terrence Brown as assistant DB coach and promotes Will Harris to primary DB coach. Both have very little prior success in recruiting.
-Fires Bush and replaces him with an assistant RB coach
-Doesn't renew Paopao's contract and promotes Derham Cato, who spent the last 3 years as an analyst on the staff after getting fired from the OC job for a Davidson team that averaged 12ppg
-Strikes out on adding anyone to the class in the Feb signing period. This should have been the first red flag, Petersen added Irvin, Tuli, and Puka the last couple classes in Feb.
-Not only retains Gregory and KB but extends them a year and gives them raises
-Hosts a ton of '21 recruits and makes a halftime speech during the UW/UO bball game to pump up recruiting, UW then proceeds to blow a double digit lead and lose at home. Rumors are players felt Lake was doing a lame impersonation of the Ducks' recruiting strategies.
-Gets shit pushed in by Oregon on every single recruit they went head to head with. Bram Walden, Jonah Miller, Moliki Matavao, Darren Barkins, Troy Franklin, Xavier Worthy, Terrence Ferguson, Jaylin Davies. Basically all of these losses are attributed to the staff decisions he made.
The good news is we're over 6 months from signing day and still got a season to play. A lot of kids have committed to schools without setting foot on campus so an unprecedented wave of decommits is expected this fall. Still, it's a lot easier to hold onto commits than flipping kids from other schools and Lake sabotaged this class by the uninspired and lazy hires he made. I'll LIPO but Lake has set the margin for error this season to close to 0 if he wants to salvage what was supposed to be the best class in school history.
Let's back track 6 months ago. The overall sentiment from the board was that Petersen didn't take recruiting seriously enough and it's a positive that he's stepping down and and getting replaced by a young, hot shot recruiter. The Lake era started off reasonably well - he brought Covington back into the fold, held onto the entire '20 class, and sent Pete off with a win in the Vegas bowl. What's happened since then?
-He hires Terrence Brown as assistant DB coach and promotes Will Harris to primary DB coach. Both have very little prior success in recruiting.
-Fires Bush and replaces him with an assistant RB coach
-Doesn't renew Paopao's contract and promotes Derham Cato, who spent the last 3 years as an analyst on the staff after getting fired from the OC job for a Davidson team that averaged 12ppg
-Strikes out on adding anyone to the class in the Feb signing period. This should have been the first red flag, Petersen added Irvin, Tuli, and Puka the last couple classes in Feb.
-Not only retains Gregory and KB but extends them a year and gives them raises
-Hosts a ton of '21 recruits and makes a halftime speech during the UW/UO bball game to pump up recruiting, UW then proceeds to blow a double digit lead and lose at home. Rumors are players felt Lake was doing a lame impersonation of the Ducks' recruiting strategies.
-Gets shit pushed in by Oregon on every single recruit they went head to head with. Bram Walden, Jonah Miller, Moliki Matavao, Darren Barkins, Troy Franklin, Xavier Worthy, Terrence Ferguson, Jaylin Davies. Basically all of these losses are attributed to the staff decisions he made.
The good news is we're over 6 months from signing day and still got a season to play. A lot of kids have committed to schools without setting foot on campus so an unprecedented wave of decommits is expected this fall. Still, it's a lot easier to hold onto commits than flipping kids from other schools and Lake sabotaged this class by the uninspired and lazy hires he made. I'll LIPO but Lake has set the margin for error this season to close to 0 if he wants to salvage what was supposed to be the best class in school history.
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All we can do is LIPO, but his Margin for Error isn't close to zero, it is zero. In poker he has a 7/8 and the first two cards turn up Queen two. He needs last three cards to be 5/6/9
He was with Pete alot of years to be making what appears to be very rookie mistakes with the staff he hired.
I also don’t know if he was quite ready to be a head coach ... we are seeing that in the decisions he has made filling out his staff and the reality being that those decisions are because he likely doesn’t have a great network of coaches to pull from and established coaches viewed him as a risk
When Jimmy got the job he said a lot of things that sounded really good ...
To date there has been little action and substance behind what he has done
He’s got a team capable of doing really good things on the field ...
But if he comes in at like 7-5 or 8-4 ... I think it’s fair to say that the red flags are going to be out in abundance
@Oregon - Limited homefield advantage. Oregon will still be breaking in a new offense and QB. Will be a defensive struggle. Toss up game.
OSU - Win or GTFO
@ Utah - Limited homefield advantage. New QB, rebuilding defense, and possibly a new DC. Toss up game.
Arizona - Win or GTFO
@ Cal - Toss up game
Stanford - Win or GTFO
@USC - Will be an underdog but it's still Clay Helton
Colorado - Win or GTFO
@WSU - Win or GTFO
Now that I’m reading what I wrote i feel that this is heavy doogin and kinda want to click the fuck off button in myself.
LIPO.
Lots of hand wringing about recruiting and that it will magically turn around once uw gets recruits to visit. I believe that Seattle hosted a large 7 vs 7 tourney in January. Did he fuck up and not bring in any of those kids? Or did he and got nothing? Not sure which would be worse.
I also hear talk about how great Huard is. But something seems off. He plays with an elite group, but very few if any seem to want to play college ball with him. Maybe he is part of the problem. I don’t have any information to support that. But it could explain why local recruiting hasn’t gone as hoped.
fast strategy kids incoming