Wokeness more important than winning

Sonny6Killer said:

A diversity hire President hires a diversity hire AD who hires a diversity hire Head Football Coach, who then hires an assistant RB Coach to be the OC (not sure how that fits in except to say he won’t take the spotlight off the defense. I’m sure they are all great people. Cohen’s background is in fundraising. Jimmy’s in coaching DB’s. They were both hired to do a job that is completely different than what they have any experience for. All three should have cut their teeth at a smaller school before taking on a job like the UW.

But then again, if we are diverse and inclusive than we can just call ourselves winners. At the UW, wokeness is more important than winning.

Sounds like the last decade at USC.

In hindsight maybe hiring someone who's been a head coach before would have been smart

DerekJohnson said:

RoadDawg55 said:

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RaceBannon said:

Jimmy wasn't a diversity hire

But he was a panic hire I believe. UW knew Jimmy had talent and lacked a Rolodex and resume but lacked confidence they could ever get him back once he took a big time coordinator job

He didn’t really need a rolodex. Besides OC, the staff was in place. This was supposed to be a plug in and go situation.

Get Pete and his bullshit offense our, keep the D the same, and profit. Instead we hired John Donovan and Jimmy can’t coach or organize even close to what Pete could.

I don’t think we have an assistant coach problem. It’s the head coach. It almost always is. Jimmy isn’t gonna be the guy. The guy wouldn’t ever lose to Montana.

The only way a loss to Montana would be even remotely forgivable is if the Huskies fumbled four times inside Montana's red zone and lost 31-30 in a blizzard on a day when 17 Huskies were in street clothes due to Covid.

But 7 points and 64 yards rushing? A day that will live in infamy.

Final nail in the program, back to being mediocre to irrelevant

RaceBannon said:

Lake is Colonel Kurtz

He was groomed for a seat at the big table.

Then he volunteered to go to Montana and something changed

He was given a lot of credit for our alleged great recruiting

He was hand picked by Petersen and Jenni

Everyone knew it was coming and 81% were ok with it

disagree. kurtz was actually extremely effective at what he did (i.e. leading an army, executions, etc).




mods/devs - please note this is not a direct call for genocide, just sayin that kurtz was good at it. jimmy lake couldnt lead a genocide of coffee cups.

I didn't like it at the time. It just wreaked of laziness. You at least take some time and evaluate options. Now quiet cow is gone and there's a mess.

Fire everyone as always. I miss Mike Lude. He got it.

Swaye said:

RaceBannon said:

Lake is Colonel Kurtz

He was groomed for a seat at the big table.

Then he volunteered to go to Montana and something changed

He was given a lot of credit for our alleged great recruiting

He was hand picked by Petersen and Jenni

Everyone knew it was coming and 81% were ok with it

Let the record reflect I was in the 19% that did not think it was a good idea to annoint him without a search, but even I had no idea it would actually be a disaster. I thought recruiting would be nailz. I also didn't realize Jimmy didn't know ANY other coaches so nobody would come here but a janitors assistant from the NFL who couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel.

I thought it was fine but got ripped a decent amount for saying Lake should not fire several of the mediocre position coaches because he didn’t have enough connections to replace them properly and needed to demonstrate to other coaches he understood the good ole boys retard incest network that is football coaching.

I don’t think anyone on the staff thinks that Lake will fall on the sword and he clearly isn’t the type of guy that is going to develop position coaches into a healthy coaching tree. Young coaches need mentorship and direction and experienced coaches need space and loyalty. My hope was that lake could get out of the way of competent coaches and do the shit everyone else hates, like recruiting and interviews. He doesn’t appear to be able to do either.

I suppose a better AD that knew what they were doing would have required Lake convince Kwat to stay or have a silent commit from a legitimate OC before inking in the HC contract.