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We are a safety school

dncdnc Member Posts: 56,722
James Lake has taken a program that Pete elevated to the first or second spot in recruiting in the conference and turned it into a fucking safety school. We have had 13, mostly midtier players commit to our coaches to sign with them in December. Of those, 5 have decommitted and 4 have committed elsewhere already (Texas, Oregon, Stanford, Notre Dame).

Kids are locking in their spot with us to be safe and moving to greener pastures.

This isn't about one position or one struggling assistant coach, these are commits from both sides of the ball and four different position groups.

We have leveled the fuck down.

And there's no telling how many more levels we will go.
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  • Beno4LifeBeno4Life Member Posts: 533
    Thank you for highlighting the fact that it's not just one or two or three shitty assistant coaches.

    I keep racking my brain to understand how Jimmy pulled the Buddas, Byrons, Moldens, Irvins, and other blue-chip DBs and seemed to be aggressive ("attacking" eye roll) in those efforts. But as HC, he can't close.

    Is it really as simple as Jimmy can sell but can't close? Results seem to be saying yes. Doesn't help 3/4 of our staff can't even sell to get into these kids' minds that UW is, err was, a legit contender.
  • FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    dNc stop bullying our? coaches
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,724 Founders Club
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,724 Founders Club
    Jimmy has coached 4 games

    Petersen had 6 years

    8 and 5

    Great recruiting

    Maybe I'm considering the source
  • haiehaie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,856 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited July 2021
    There's a chance Jimmy is just an egotistical asshole from his rather quick ascendance to being a head coach of a pretty good school and program with resources. And people don't want to work nor play for that.

    There's a chance the coaches are either lazy or don't want to pander to kids because for some ungodly reason they don't think they have to with the portal and their self-aggrandized development.

    There's a chance Jimmy knows he's just going to ride out the senior/junior classes and he's confident he can bolt to the NFL and doesn't give a fuck what he hands off to his successor.

    There's a chance UW fell off the map when Pete and his AD decided to self impose a death penalty for 2 years.

    There's a chance everyone sucks ass and you have to fire them all.

    A parent of a committed kid has sang nothing but praises, but that's not going to tell you everything either.

    To know it's one thing at this point, we won't find out for a bit, but these recruiting results are fucking disturbing. We need 10+ more players to fill out this class.
  • PostGameOrangeSlicesPostGameOrangeSlices Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 26,012 Swaye's Wigwam
    Petersen won his biggest games with a bunch of recruits you guys would fucking hate.

    Oklahoma, Georgia, Viriginia Tech, some damn good and Tuff TCU teams

    All with Kellen Moore and a bunch of 2 star scrubs.

    At UW he recruited better and lost the same caliber of game. Over and over.

    Let. It. Fucking. Play. Out.
  • greenbloodgreenblood Member Posts: 14,407
    edited July 2021
    Welcome to Washington's version of the Helfrich years. You'll have a good season this year riding with Pete's guys, then a small decline in 2023, with an epic collapse in 2024. The question then becomes, does the administration have the balls to pull the plug on Lake after year four, or will they give him year five?

    Remember, Oregon won a Rose Bowl and made a title game with Helfrich. While so far Lake has "won the north"
  • AEBAEB Member Posts: 2,972
    Just accept 7-6 for perpetuity. I have. Football at UW is over.
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