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Fired Not Quite a Week, Lake's Name Pops Up for Job Opening

Former Husky coach placed on wish list for Pac-12 defensive-coordinator opening.

The Arizona Wildcats need a new defensive coordinator after their current guy, Don Brown, who's known as "Dr. Blitz," on Monday was hired as the head coach at Massachusetts.

A wish list of defensive coordinator candidates popped up almost immediately and no one should have been all that surprised by the first name thrown out there — Jimmy Lake.

While he's been fired as the University of Washington head coach for all of nine days for mismanaging his program in Montlake, Lake still is considered a sound defensive coach, especially in putting together a secondary.

Lake, 44, shouldn't have any trouble at all in finding work on someone else's college or NFL staff, though it might be a while before he's considered head-coaching material again.

He might even be motivated to remain in the Pac-12 and remind people that he was once this rising star in the conference.

As for Arizona, this idea is not all that far-fetched. Longtime UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar made Tucson his first stop after he got fired in 2017 and he used the Wildcats to mend his reputation and return to the head-coaching ranks at Pepperdine.

At the same time, joining the Wildcats football staff might prove a little awkward for Lake. When he replaced Chris Petersen as the Husky coach two years ago, he fired tight-ends coach Jordan Paopao, who coaches in the same role at Arizona.

Lake and Ed Orgeron, who is fired and coaching out the string at LSU, were listed as big-name candidates to pursue.

Others with UW ties who were suggested as possible Arizona DC targets were Donte Williams, currently USC's interim coach and a one-time Husky graduate assistant; and Tosh Lopoi, former UW assistant coach now the defensive-line coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Urban Meyer.
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  • HFNY
    HFNY Member Posts: 5,645
    Hopefully the new Husky Staff looks at Donte Williams and Tosh Lopoi to bring back. Both are ELITE recruiters.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,611 Swaye's Wigwam
    HFNY said:

    Hopefully the new Husky Staff looks at Donte Williams and Tosh Lopoi to bring back. Both are ELITE recruiters.

    I would say there is no chance, but Tosh did marry into Northwest ties.

    Just get good coaches and recruiters. Tosh and Donte are far from the only ones. Not sure Donte can coach at all either.
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  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,387
    RoadDawg55 said:

    HFNY said:

    Hopefully the new Husky Staff looks at Donte Williams and Tosh Lopoi to bring back. Both are ELITE recruiters.

    I would say there is no chance, but Tosh did marry into Northwest ties.

    Just get good coaches and recruiters. Tosh and Donte are far from the only ones. Not sure Donte can coach at all either.
    I doubt the AD wants to bring back a coach that was under investigation for paying a croot.
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  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,387
    coach_pete_JPG said:

    Can’t wait to AZ in 2 high safety struggling to stop the run

    This is so different from what they ran this year. It would be a weird hire.
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  • insinceredawg
    insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
    AtomicDawg said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    HFNY said:

    Hopefully the new Husky Staff looks at Donte Williams and Tosh Lopoi to bring back. Both are ELITE recruiters.

    I would say there is no chance, but Tosh did marry into Northwest ties.

    Just get good coaches and recruiters. Tosh and Donte are far from the only ones. Not sure Donte can coach at all either.
    I doubt the AD wants to bring back a coach that was under investigation for paying a croot.
    Kim is adamant there's 0 chance Tosh ever coaches at UW again. Too bad cause he married into the Pelleur family and probably would love to be back in Seattle.
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  • OneNipple
    OneNipple Member Posts: 186
    AtomicDawg said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    HFNY said:

    Hopefully the new Husky Staff looks at Donte Williams and Tosh Lopoi to bring back. Both are ELITE recruiters.

    I would say there is no chance, but Tosh did marry into Northwest ties.

    Just get good coaches and recruiters. Tosh and Donte are far from the only ones. Not sure Donte can coach at all either.
    I doubt the AD wants to bring back a coach that was under investigation for paying a croot.
    He was ahead of the times......
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,950 Founders Club
    DerekJohnson said:

    insinceredawg said:

    AtomicDawg said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    HFNY said:

    Hopefully the new Husky Staff looks at Donte Williams and Tosh Lopoi to bring back. Both are ELITE recruiters.

    I would say there is no chance, but Tosh did marry into Northwest ties.

    Just get good coaches and recruiters. Tosh and Donte are far from the only ones. Not sure Donte can coach at all either.
    I doubt the AD wants to bring back a coach that was under investigation for paying a croot.
    Kim is adamant there's 0 chance Tosh ever coaches at UW again. Too bad cause he married into the Pelleur family and probably would love to be back in Seattle.

    New UW Coach announced Monday. Tosh announced as staff member on Tuesday confirmed.
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