Did the Donovan hire alter your faith in Jimmy Lake?

YellowSnow said:

I try to remain agnostic about almost any corching hire. I don't believe in magic and purple unicorns. Other than Urbs or Saban, there's no suck thing as slam dunk hires. Even 2 time Bear Bryant Coach of the Year, Pete, underachieved at UW. No one at USC wanted Carroll. USC passed on Ogeron. Many here except me and @creepycoug made fun of Oregon for the Meat hire.

I still think Jimmy was the best choice at the time and I think he has a decent shot at being a good coach for us. But he better be smarter than the rest of all of us internet half brains on the Donovan hire. If the offense is garbage in 2020 - regardless of new QB - then he's on the hot seat. No 2 to 3 year break in period.

Per usual @YellowSnow, our slow strategy white man brains have synced up like a sorority house menstrual cycle.

I haven’t yet expressed my feelings on the Donovan on the bored until now. I’ve been traveling a lot and haven’t been poasting much, but I’ve read the bored and all it’s thoughts.

Typically I’m pretty even keeled compared to this community and lack the extreme hot takes, but everything about this hire screams what the fuck to me.

Other valued poasters have already deep dived into how bad Donovan’s offenses have been and how his resume is a heaping pile of flaming dog shit. Every candidate has question marks, but fuck me, this guy is red flag central.

I’m confused because Lake said he wanted to go with an offense that he would hate to defend himself. He wanted an offense that would be aggressive, attacking, physical, and dominating. Donovan’s offenses haven’t been that previously.

Lake took 3 weeks to make this hire. He didn’t pick any of the seemingly well valued candidates that were available and the entire country is dumbfounded and making fun of UW. It’s a universally lambasted hire.

And the only thing I have going for me is that LSU fans were apoplectic when Orgeron was hired because he was a retread who failed at Ole Miss. literally that’s the only thing.

Everything about this hire (and the TE hire) screams massive mistake that is underwhelming. But Lake has succeeded at everything he’s done.

Talent evaluation: check

Player development: check

Recruiting wins head-to-head against big programs: check

Top 10 defense in up year and top 25 defense in down year: check

Lake mocks spread offenses and shits on the Air Raid and the Run / Shoot. He finds them easy to defend. The fans hate it but keep everything in front and don’t give up big plays and bend all over the field but give up sub 20 points a game. It’s exactly what the Titans just did to the best offense in the NFL with Jackson racking up yards but not scoring.

So while everything in me is screaming NowthwesternKidOhMyGod.gif, I’m trying my best to believe Lake believe his own shit too much and didn’t try to outsmart the room on this one. It feels like he did, but he has always had exotic schemes and formations that is the opposite of what everyone else does.

The doog in me says Lake truly believes Donovan learned from his time in the NFL. That there will be a power run scheme with play action that will control the clock, beat down the opposing defense, and keep Lake’s defense fresh. Zig will everyone else is zagging. Play defense and power run while everyone else is playing spread and gassing their own defenses with 90 plays a game.

I want to die, but I’m forcing myself to believe no matter how bad I want to fight it. I’m officially on the @Woof and @GreenRiverGatorz train. Lake knows something the rest of us don’t, and we are all idiots who think they know everything when we actually know nothing. Everyone hates this hire, which means it’s likely going to work out.

Fuck me, it’s hard to stay optimistic but it’s in my nature.



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RoadDawg55 said:

We aren’t even ranked in the initial top 25’s for next year. Nobody is expecting much from us.

Nor should they(?).