I don't think it was a totally unreasonable take at the time, especially because Peterson had promoted Jimmy Lake to Co-DC so that he could be the head guy somewhere. It's pretty clear Pete Kwiatkowski never wanted to be a Head Coach while JL had been yearning for it for some years.
In other words, hindsight is 20-20 but as other poasters have said, doubling down rather than admitting being wrong is the worst (I was one of the ones who thought Lake would do well enough as the HC while getting rid of the dead wood assistants while amping up recruiting).
So now that it's obvious Lake isn't the guy, it's up to Jen Cohen not to double down and add terrible insult to injury by keeping him in 2022. In a dollar terms a cost / benefit analysis:
1. Keep Lake in 2022, save about $5.5 million on his salary and the assistant, and hope he can staunch the bleeding in recruiting (say goodbye to Josh Conerly though) and guilt trip the guys considering the transfer portal with big tears and sad faces.
2. Pay Lake $9.9 million and $4 million to $5 million to most / all of the assistants to go away. Pricey but a new / competent coach with previous HC experience and a better network for assistants would preserve (or even boost) 2022 and beyond ticket sales, concession sales, merchandise, and all of the other wonderful things that come from excitement. What do Tyee people pay, about $1,500 per season ticket? So if you lose 2,000 Tyee accounts with 2 tickets each, that is 4,000 tickets / donations at $3,000 a pop which equals $12 million dollars annually.
A more intangible value / asset would be boosting recruiting (I have heard at least two stories of bad recruiting by this current staff, one in-state PSA and one out of state PSA), especially considering how many WA State players in the 2021 and 2022 classes have spurned the Huskies for other programs. I'm sure one of you degenerates has calculated how much a Top 10 Class is worth vs. a Top 25 class vs. a Top 35 vs. a Top 50.
In terms of class rankings on 247, UW was 16th in 2020, was 36th in 2021, and is #53 in 2022.
Now that I think of it, has anything actually progressed with Jimmy Lake as the HC besides anger?
The AD will not work this hard on the cost/benefit analysis. They will work harder than ever to give away as many tickets as possible to make the UCLA game look half way attended.
I for one will be at a division 3 football game that will cost more than the shit show that will be happening at the greatest setting.
Fuck you lil Jimmie and fuck you non tit showen Cohen.
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Fuck you lil Jimmie and fuck you non tit showen Cohen.