Former Washington coach Chris Petersen opens up in hour of power
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FTG. Dude is getting paid millions but he wants to enjoy life too. Just was no longer interested in competing, which reflected in his winning record
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Hats off to him. He was rich and miserable and decided to be rich and happy instead. We should all be so lucky to get there some day.FireCohen said:FTG. Dude is getting paid millions but he wants to enjoy life too. Just was no longer interested in competing, which reflected in his winning record
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Didn't read - was there hawt bubble screen talk?
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This stung a bit:
Petersen even admitted that going to Seattle to take the Washington job was — in hindsight — not an enlightened move. He doesn’t necessarily regret going to Washington, but he does say that he was living in a different mindset when he was an active coach, and he is glad he no longer inhabits that thought world now.
I get that hindsight is 20/20, but honestly, keep these comments to yourself Chris. It’s disrespectful to the players, fans, etc. who were excited to have you here. -
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Sounds like he isn’t #built4life
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Didn’t read it. I’ll save you the time:
M-A-R-I-O
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Ban the motherfucker from campus.
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Christ. At a loss for words after that.
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I'm really close to agreeing with you here, but I continue to value his openness about why he left the job. I genuinely appreciate that he recognized he's no longer enough of a sociopath to be the successful head football coach I want and need and got the fuck out rather than milking his contract for another decade, which is what literally every other burnt out coach has done.Doog_de_Jour said:This stung a bit:
Petersen even admitted that going to Seattle to take the Washington job was — in hindsight — not an enlightened move. He doesn’t necessarily regret going to Washington, but he does say that he was living in a different mindset when he was an active coach, and he is glad he no longer inhabits that thought world now.
I get that hindsight is 20/20, but honestly, keep these comments to yourself Chris. It’s disrespectful to the players, fans, etc. who were excited to have you here.
I really hope he charges his batteries and ends up at UC Davis or Weber State or some shit. He seems to be a genuinely good and decent person who likes to teach and coach and help kids rise up.
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It seems like it mildly upsets him that he’s just a football coach. He’s never going to be an inspirational intellect.
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I get it. Becoming a Washington fan, with hindsight, was not an enlightened move
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Multiple articles and people around Boise said Pete was burnt out at the end over there and imo did what many people do in that situation, believe a change of scenery will fix the problem with new challenges, which it did until b4 the Rose Bowl.Doog_de_Jour said:This stung a bit:
Petersen even admitted that going to Seattle to take the Washington job was — in hindsight — not an enlightened move. He doesn’t necessarily regret going to Washington, but he does say that he was living in a different mindset when he was an active coach, and he is glad he no longer inhabits that thought world now.
I get that hindsight is 20/20, but honestly, keep these comments to yourself Chris. It’s disrespectful to the players, fans, etc. who were excited to have you here.
At that point, I think he felt he had climbed to the top of his mountain and didn't have it in him to do it anymore.
I give him credit for not going thru the motions and just cashing checks which he could have done here for multiple years.
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We all know what happened.
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I give him credit for that. Nobody realizes they don't have the zeal for something until they realize it.godawgst said:
Multiple articles and people around Boise said Pete was burnt out at the end over there and imo did what many people do in that situation, believe a change of scenery will fix the problem with new challenges, which it did until b4 the Rose Bowl.Doog_de_Jour said:This stung a bit:
Petersen even admitted that going to Seattle to take the Washington job was — in hindsight — not an enlightened move. He doesn’t necessarily regret going to Washington, but he does say that he was living in a different mindset when he was an active coach, and he is glad he no longer inhabits that thought world now.
I get that hindsight is 20/20, but honestly, keep these comments to yourself Chris. It’s disrespectful to the players, fans, etc. who were excited to have you here.
At that point, I think he felt he had climbed to the top of his mountain and didn't have it in him to do it anymore.
I give him credit for not going thru the motions and just cashing checks which he could have done here for multiple years.
He managed to put together a big, fast team by successfully recruiting players who good programs actually wanted, which is something nobody has managed at UW since RNs first couple of classes. Sark, Ty, Gilby, and yes, RN turned UW into a midget program. Ty and Gilby told us that's as good as we could expect. RN and Sark said it could be done but mostly failed.
Petersen wasn't great, which is a disappointment, but he was good and nobody else has been good at program building UW since James, a couple of close teases by Lambo, and one good year surrounded by shit with Neuheisel.
I can give him credit and still recognize the failings. It's not hard. -
I wonder if he knows what makes him happy or knows what he wants out of life.
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Do any of us?whlinder said:I wonder if he knows what makes him happy or knows what he wants out of life.
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POTW.Neighbor2972 said:I get it. Becoming a Washington fan, with hindsight, was not an enlightened move
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whatshouldicareabout said:
Do any of us?whlinder said:I wonder if he knows what makes him happy or knows what he wants out of life.
Money. Liquor. Pussy. Drugs.
In that order on a normal day. I'm good with that. -
new motto for website?Neighbor2972 said:I get it. Becoming a Washington fan, with hindsight, was not an enlightened move
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Brock Huard, whom you know as a football commentator and television analyst, and former Ohio State football player Ben Hartsock, co-host the College Sports Today program on Sirius XM Radio. Earlier this week, they welcomed former Washington Huskies head football coach Chris Petersen for a one-hour conversation.
So Brock wasn't a former player? -
Maybe he wouldn't have been so burned out if he would have changed his crappy offense and not dropped just about every ASU, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, and January bowl game.
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Winning cures burnouts, he was not winninghaie said:Maybe he wouldn't have been so burned out if he would have changed his crappy offense and not dropped just about every ASU, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, and January bowl game.
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He was the final nail in the coffin for my enthusiasm for Husky football.
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My reaction is that he already said all of this, i'm not sure there is an a hah moment here and saying it now really does kind of disrespect his primary message of the built for life program and the people that invested their next 4-5 years into that thought process. Reminds me of the deep mystery i felt about the 5 girls that all gave me a copy of the "be here now" book when I was 22 and super hot as a dating prospect.
Plus I also think that if you really do have PTSD like symptoms, you quietly and elegantly deal with it, not dress it up like a drama induced drag queen by adding this sincerity level of drama to what we all face ~ which is to be the beast and the best you have to actually pay for it with over arcing ethic and intention ~ the very message he was pitching ~ and which is fking true by the way. -
A simple life for a simple manTommySQC said:whatshouldicareabout said:
Do any of us?whlinder said:I wonder if he knows what makes him happy or knows what he wants out of life.
Money. Liquor. Pussy. Drugs.
In that order on a normal day. I'm good with that.
