A key difference between Don James and Chris Peterman

DerekJohnson

Don James had the humility to fire Dorazio and bring in Gilby to revamp the offense, while still retaining Pinkel as coordinator. DJ was a few years late to the party but what a different it made when he did.

Some of us thought Pete was having that moment with Tedford, but after Tedford left Pete went back to shitting the bed offensively.

Peterman could have burned out in style with multiple Rose Bowl titles

DerekJohnson

Someone out there will read this and go "god what an idiot, he doesn't even know Chris Petersen's name!!1!!"

GrundleStiltzkin

They both quit though.

DerekJohnson

GrundleStiltzkin said:

They both quit though.

you've quit HH a couple times.

Even had Gladstone texting me to go search the morgues

GrundleStiltzkin

DerekJohnson said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

They both quit though.

you've quit HH a couple times.

Even had Gladstone texting me to go search the morgues

True, I've oft been dubbed the Don James of these Boreds.

RaceBannon

There are two stories on James quitting. One is that he told his bosses he would quit if UW ever got put on probation. The other is that he gave an ultimatum on taking a TV ban not a bowl ban but the admin kept the TV and took the bowl

At any rate quitting with two national championships and a 4-2 NY Day bowl record > quitting

DerekJohnson

RaceBannon said:

There are two stories on James quitting. One is that he told his bosses he would quit if UW ever got put on probation. The other is that he gave an ultimatum on taking a TV ban not a bowl ban but the admin kept the TV and took the bowl

At any rate quitting with two national championships and a 4-2 NY Day bowl record > quitting

According to Coach James it was the boldfaced part above plus he was furious that Gerberding told the Pac-10 he was fine with the 2-year bowl ban, whereas Coach James would have accepted the one-year bowl ban. He told Barbara Hedges to tell Gerberding that if he didn't support them better than that, he would resign. The next morning, Barbara called James and said Gerberding wouldn't be at the meeting because he had left town. So James became pissed off and promptly resigned.

Actually, July 20 will mark the 16th anniversary of my interview with him in the Don James Center, when we talked about all that. Time flies.

PurpleBaze

A key difference between Don James and Prickly Pete...

RaceBannon

GrundleStiltzkin

RaceBannon said:

More like this, amirite @Mosster47 ???

RaceBannon

PurpleBaze

RaceBannon said:

Look at the crowd's social distancing. Pete was a pre-pandemic trendsetter.

YellowSnow

Pete could have been better than James if he wanted to. He just didn’t have the fire in his belly. Guess getting paid like 10 times what James did adjusted for inflation will do that to a man.

Pete had his boot on Oregon’s throat and he let them off.

RaceBannon

YellowSnow said:

Pete could have been better than James if he wanted to. He just didn’t have the fire in his belly. Guess getting paid like 10 times what James did adjusted for inflation will do that to a man.

Pete had his boot on Oregon’s throat and he let them off.

Pete could have gone on a better run than any we've had but he didn't

Sad

PurpleBaze

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

Pete could have been better than James if he wanted to. He just didn’t have the fire in his belly. Guess getting paid like 10 times what James did adjusted for inflation will do that to a man.

Pete had his boot on Oregon’s throat and he let them off.

Pete could have gone on a better run than any we've had but he didn't

Sad

You can take the boy out of Boise State, but...

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

Pete could have been better than James if he wanted to. He just didn’t have the fire in his belly. Guess getting paid like 10 times what James did adjusted for inflation will do that to a man.

Pete had his boot on Oregon’s throat and he let them off.

Pete could have gone on a better run than any we've had but he didn't

Sad

Nothing sadder than wasted potential. 2016 was a brilliant campaign that should have just been the beginning.

DerekJohnson

RaceBannon said:

BennyBeaver

RaceBannon said:

There are two stories on James quitting. One is that he told his bosses he would quit if UW ever got put on probation. The other is that he gave an ultimatum on taking a TV ban not a bowl ban but the admin kept the TV and took the bowl

At any rate quitting with two half mythical national championships and a 4-2 NY Day bowl record > quitting

FTFY

RaceBannon

BennyBeaver said:

RaceBannon said:

There are two stories on James quitting. One is that he told his bosses he would quit if UW ever got put on probation. The other is that he gave an ultimatum on taking a TV ban not a bowl ban but the admin kept the TV and took the bowl

At any rate quitting with two half mythical national championships and a 4-2 NY Day bowl record > quitting

FTFY

Go coogs

thechatch

Upper Campus made James quit.

Mario Cristobal made Chris Petersen quit.

James just quit with 4 NYD bow trophies and half a NC behind the glass.

Petersen quit with...I honestly don’t even remember...

That said, Petersen is the 2nd best head coach in the last 50 years at UW, just ahead of Rick, who was basically an upgraded version of Sark.

Emoterman

Isn't it conventional wisdom at this point that Marlon, Togiai, Asa, Puka and that Asian trap made Petersen quit?

Having to go HARD on recruiting kids who are getting hoodwinked, pimped out by their HS coaches, razzle-dazzled, and who are ultimately not as bought into OKG/B4L as he probably thought they were.