In all seriousness ... I think Jimmy has a number of elements that you want in a head coach
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
God, just think if Kellen Moore became our OC. Whoregon couldn’t negatively recruit against him and his system. Plus, based on his age and college football success, he could probably recruit a bit, too.
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.
You need to give James Reservoir more tim. Helfrich hired people that had never been coordinators into coordinator roles. James doesn't do that. He hires people who previously sucked at coordinating into those roles. It's looking like he's an equally lazy recruiter, but you can't win them all.
LIPO.
Is the "James Reservoir " dig an Oregon fanbase thing? Or just you?
It ain't much of a dig. It makes me embarrased for you.
Why not "Jimmy Puddles," "Jimmy Fake", or "Bad Choice Jim?"
Insult him or dont. GTFO of here with that "James Reservoir" milquetoast bullshit.
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.
You need to give James Reservoir more tim. Helfrich hired people that had never been coordinators into coordinator roles. James doesn't do that. He hires people who previously sucked at coordinating into those roles. It's looking like he's an equally lazy recruiter, but you can't win them all.
LIPO.
Is the "James Reservoir " dig an Oregon fanbase thing? Or just you?
It ain't much of a dig. It makes me embarrased for you.
Why not "Jimmy Puddles," "Jimmy Fake", or "Bad Choice Jim?"
Insult him or dont. GTFO of here with that "James Reservoir" milquetoast bullshit.
Jimmy Puddles would actually be great if it weren’t for one minor detail.
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It ain't much of a dig. It makes me embarrased for you.
Why not "Jimmy Puddles," "Jimmy Fake", or "Bad Choice Jim?"
Insult him or dont. GTFO of here with that "James Reservoir" milquetoast bullshit.