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Where does UW get the best coaches

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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    Seems like Don James was the best on that list. We got him because Colorado passed on him the year before we hired him (James had been a DC there prior to the HC gig at Kent State and was their #2 choice behind some other guy Colorado hired that didn't turn out to be very good).

    So... if we are going to replicate that search we should wait until Colorado hires their next HC, and hire the guy that was #2 on their list... as long as that guy had worked at Colorado at some prior time as a DC.

    Good thinking!
  • StLouisDawg
    StLouisDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 564 Founders Club
    I’ve always felt coaches are half like a technology investment and half like looking for a preacher.

    On the tech side, looking at what you did before to be successful is a path to nowhere. Always a new landscape. Chip is the perfect example of that. He worked at Oregon because he was offensively original. The past is a bucket of warm shit. Best head coaches are OCD with a vision. If anything we should be looking for the next Don Coryell. Vision.

    Preacher side is the marketing, really. Gotta have what fits the product. Joel Osteen ain’t fitting in right at an AME church in north st. Lou. Just like Purvis Washington Carver Lee won’t last a year in Dexter, Missouri. They still have a sundown law and seems to be enforced.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,242 Founders Club
    UW went from southern ball to the heartland of Ohio

    Still a decent bet

    Urban and Nick are Ohio Boys

    I agree you need the right guy to make the right hire based on today

    Kind of my point at how bad we are at it

    Lots of schools are
  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,382

    Baseman said:

    I don't see Hill boating to work unless he rowed across Lake Washington in the predawn hours with the crew team ( @YellowSnow )

    Hill would have rowed a pine canoe that he carved himself using nothing more than a 3" knife.
    He didn't need a knife. He'd have carved that bitch with his teeth.
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    Baseman said:

    Baseman said:

    I don't see Hill boating to work unless he rowed across Lake Washington in the predawn hours with the crew team ( @YellowSnow )

    Hill would have rowed a pine canoe that he carved himself using nothing more than a 3" knife.
    He didn't need a knife. He'd have carved that bitch with his teeth the glass shards still in his nut sack from the trip here.
    Fixes.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,605 Swaye's Wigwam

    UW football will never be the same. UW has enjoyed great success and some lows prior to and during the Don James era. Even during the lows, I think everyone felt getting back on top was possible and likely. Since then it’s been low to average with a glimpse of former glory that faded quickly. Let’s face it, the UW has changed and so has college football.

    We are winning the PAC this year Mikey. Good shot next year too.