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ESPN writer's take on John Donovan from covering him at Penn State

louism2wash
louism2wash Member Posts: 367
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Not sure if this was posted before but I liked this podcast on John Donovan. It doesn't try to speculate on what scheme he will run or anything forward looking. It just talks about who John Donovan is, his coaching history, and what went wrong at Penn State. By no means does it make me comfortable with the hire but it gives some color around what the circumstances were at Penn State when he was there and how those contributed to how bad the offense was:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/fourth-and-inches-a-husky-podcast/e/66500360

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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,942
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Donovan had Barkley, Chris Godwin, Daeshon Hamilton, and Mike Gesicki. There was no excuse to be 101st in points. He was really bad. There is a reason he was Asst RB coach in Jacksonville.

    Hackenberg did suck, but he was worse with Donovan than he was before.

    I will say the OL talent he had was god fucking awful
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,373 Standard Supporter
    backthepack said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Donovan had Barkley, Chris Godwin, Daeshon Hamilton, and Mike Gesicki. There was no excuse to be 101st in points. He was really bad. There is a reason he was Asst RB coach in Jacksonville.

    Hackenberg did suck, but he was worse with Donovan than he was before.

    I will say the OL talent he had was god fucking awful
    I believe it, but they were good enough to make the Rose Bowl the next year. He was a huge part of the problem. The only doog hope is that Hackenberg was truly that big of cancer.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,676
    I'm hearing he's a big fan of racial slurs


    Just what I'm hearing
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,802 Swaye's Wigwam
    DawgDaze71 said:

    Because it doesn't matter if you're a world class sniper if you don't have the bullets

    Not the best choice of words for this board. Were you around in 2005?
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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,942
    RoadDawg55 said:

    backthepack said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Donovan had Barkley, Chris Godwin, Daeshon Hamilton, and Mike Gesicki. There was no excuse to be 101st in points. He was really bad. There is a reason he was Asst RB coach in Jacksonville.

    Hackenberg did suck, but he was worse with Donovan than he was before.

    I will say the OL talent he had was god fucking awful
    I believe it, but they were good enough to make the Rose Bowl the next year. He was a huge part of the problem. The only doog hope is that Hackenberg was truly that big of cancer.
    We are fucked duh as always but I want to prolong the inevitable as much as possible, so I don’t go crazy before the season
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  • thechatch
    thechatch Member Posts: 7,483 Standard Supporter
    I am very happy that UW hired Donovan.
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