Issues that will come to light once Lake is fired

Geevis_and_Butthead

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

biak1

I’ve already heard from casual doog coworkers that last season doesn’t count for anything because Covid.

hardhat

Anything about how players like JTT and Emeka were just not OKG and Jimmy knew he'd find some 2 star kids that will be better?

1to392831weretaken

biak1 said:

I’ve already heard from casual doog coworkers that last season doesn’t count for anything because Covid.

By "casual doog coworkers," are you meaning 81% of the posters here?

TTJ

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done

Tell me you have no clue without saying “I have no clue.”

DerekJohnson

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aren't we paying Donavan $800,000 a year?

BleachedAnusDawg

DerekJohnson said:

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aren't we paying Donavan $800,000 a year?

I believe we have the highest paid pool of assistants in the conference.

RoadDawg55

DerekJohnson said:

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aren't we paying Donavan $800,000 a year?

It’s not huge money in the CFB world, but it’s enough to get just about any OC from a lower level.

You could even hire FCS and lower head coaches for that kind of money.

Tequilla

BleachedAnusDawg said:

DerekJohnson said:

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aren't we paying Donavan $800,000 a year?

I believe we have the highest paid pool of assistants in the conference.

Which I believe is close to $2M under what it was under Pete

DerekJohnson

RoadDawg55 said:

DerekJohnson said:

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aren't we paying Donavan $800,000 a year?

It’s not huge money in the CFB world, but it’s enough to get just about any OC from a lower level.

You could even hire FCS and lower head coaches for that kind of money.

My point being that if we hired Jon Don to save money, we could have paid him $400,000 or whatever. I don't think we were trying to save money, I think it was the best Jimmy could do.

RoadDawg55

DerekJohnson said:

RoadDawg55 said:

DerekJohnson said:

FireHisAssNOW said:

• His hands were tied with his staff choices because Cohen wasn't willing to pay top dollar. So that's why Lake was stuck with with John Donovan as OC and "Bob "shoulda been fired after 2019 at the latest" Gregory as DC.
  
• UW's administration was asleep at the wheel on NIL Legislation and that's why we were getting our asses kicked in recruiting by Ohio State and Oregon
  
• Only playing 4 games in 2020 really made it tough this season
  
• The strict Covid restrictions in Seattle/King County made it tough to get in full-scale workouts and conditioning during the offseason
  
• Jimmy really wanted to play Sam and felt it would make the team better, but Damon wanted to hold him out this season because the OL was unsettled
  
• Said the staff was really pointing to 2022 and next season had a chance to be "special" when it was all said and done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aren't we paying Donavan $800,000 a year?

It’s not huge money in the CFB world, but it’s enough to get just about any OC from a lower level.

You could even hire FCS and lower head coaches for that kind of money.

My point being that if we hired Jon Don to save money, we could have paid him $400,000 or whatever. I don't think we were trying to save money, I think it was the best Jimmy could do.

Okay gotcha. We definitely could have gotten him for $400-500k but even Lake and Cohen knew that would bring even more criticism to a hire that was already very bad on paper. And considering I think it’s a real possibility that was an agent hire (wish someone in the media asked about this), there was no way the guy setting up the deal wasn’t going to get the most money he could from it.

Side note that has very little to nothing to do with your post, I never really cared for the talk about coaches salaries. They get paid what they get paid. When Pete was going 8-5 in 2019 posters here would bring up that we were paying him 3.5 mil or whatever to go 4-5 in the PAC 12. It would have been just as bad if he was getting paid $100,000. Except for talk about buyouts, their salaries aren’t important and are irrelevant. The expectations at UW are to win PAC 12 titles often and compete for them every single year.

Sources

I honestly wonder if JD realizes how shitty he is as an OC

Canadawg

Sources said:

I honestly wonder if JD realizes how shitty he is as an OC

If some dude walked into the alley you give "massages" in and offered you a desk trading stocks for 800k a year you'd know your bad at it but you'd fake it till they kick you to the curb

DerekJohnson

Sources said:

I honestly wonder if JD realizes how shitty he is as an OC

You could see a moment late in the Michigan game when Morris came off the field after another failed series and Donavan was trying to give him a "hang in there, we'll get em next time" speech. The words were empty to Morris, and you could see the look on Donovan's face that he knew he had failed Morris and the offense and he felt terrible and overwhelmed by it. So yes, he fully realizes the pickle he's in. Everyone feel free to accuse me of being Baseman and reading Pete's lips from 70 yards away at the Rose Bowl, but that was my read on what I saw on the TV.