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Was Jimmy just lazy?
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All hat, no cattle
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Feels unlikely but possible.NeGgaPlEaSe said:Does that make Jimmy the only Coach to be fired twice by Washington?
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Either way, I will be blindly repeating this stat ad-nauseum until someone proves otherwise.dnc said:
Feels unlikely but possible.NeGgaPlEaSe said:Does that make Jimmy the only Coach to be fired twice by Washington?
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So you're saying he was both shiftless and lazy.dnc said:He was absolutely lazy. He got the job, stopped recruiting and immediately had his agent shopping him to NFL teams. He didn't think he had to work to prove himself at this job and was going to leverage it to go to the league.
He had no clue how hard it was going to be.
Not because he was black. Gilby stopped recruiting just like Jimmy did.
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Yes he was both characterized by laziness and lazy. Also slack, neglectful and indolent if we need more redundant synonyms.SFGbob said:
So you're saying he was both shiftless and lazy.dnc said:He was absolutely lazy. He got the job, stopped recruiting and immediately had his agent shopping him to NFL teams. He didn't think he had to work to prove himself at this job and was going to leverage it to go to the league.
He had no clue how hard it was going to be.
Not because he was black. Gilby stopped recruiting just like Jimmy did.
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ISAFNRC
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Jimmy can suck my dick!!! Asshole set the program back 3 years. Lazy and arrogant asswipe! Take your $9.9 million and fuck off
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Overconfident and Lazy.
Jimmy is a good/great DB coach that got lucky Kwat did all the hardwork for him at DC and it’s clear Lake never even knew how much work goes into being an actual coordinator let alone a HC.
He thought he could just kinda do the same half assed shit he has been doing his entire career and skate by; it’s clear in the player development, recruiting, coaching hiring, game planing…. It all screams lazy person still overconfident that the ship will just kind of automatically right itself like it always has.
Incompetent people that work hard get lucky every once in a while, they get upsets, recruiting surprises, improve, bring in people to help, and have wild swings in success/failure.
When I look at Lake I dont see a guy slowly drowning and fighting to keep his head above water, he is a guy talking about how big a fish he is going to catch after his nap while his ship is sinking and on fire. -
The Dawgman and 247 guys are not holding any punches back now that Jimmy is gone. @sonics1993 was first and right on all these points when it came to his recruiting approach and why it failed so spectacularly.
-Huff quoted an anonymous in state recruit that said other schools made him feel like a priority while Jimmy made recruits feel like they should be grateful UW is even considering them
-Jimmy basically ghosted CP after he took over and scrapped his entire recruiting infrastructure. The firing of Cooper Petagna and promotion of Justin Glenn was just the beginning, a lot of mechanisms and processes in the back end were replaced for no apparent reason.
-Even before covid hit Jimmy was already lagging in recruiting. Huff said even Cal had 60+ kids on campus for their Junior day in early 2020 while UW had a small group. Once covid hit they just gave up.
-CP was great at pushing the OKG/Built for Life message with class and respect without coming across as elitist or arrogant. Jimmy not so much. -
Something to remember is that the margin for error in football is very small. Every coach of every program was successful at some level but most have to fail in order that a few can succeed.
If Jimmy just had hired an average/normal offensive coordinator then UW would likely be humming along at a decently good clip of 10-3 or so every year and the discussion of Jimmy’s faults would be why can’t he get us to the next level.
The lack of any recruiting success is probably more bizarre than the on field failures since pretty much any new coach can generate excitement initially with promises of their future vision. Jimmy didn’t even get a honeymoon class.
Surely the lack of strong recruiters on staff had something to do with that. At some point this last year I think the rot within the program became obvious to potential recruits sinking them even further.
