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Was Jimmy just lazy?

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  • Blayen
    Blayen Member Posts: 108

    Arrogance seems like the most logical answer.

    I think this is it. I think he really felt that they could recruit just about any player and coach them up and win championships. Why battle the big boys for talent when you can get average guys and make them great?

  • Kingdome_Urinals
    Kingdome_Urinals Member Posts: 2,901
    Personnel decisions were terrible. He has no eye for talent, at all.

  • dtd
    dtd Member Posts: 5,778 Standard Supporter
    edited November 2021

    He thought being the big leader would be easy. He thought he was a living, breathing special sauce. He had no idea what it took to lead a complex organization like a P5 football team.

    He's a guy who had his ass kissed every step of the way and had no drive to be a great HC. Because he already thought he was a great HC, without proving anything.

    He probably actually thought he was bigger than the job, and bigger than UW.

    He is that big of an idiot.

    Trying and competing and accepting "no" from recruits or criticism from outside the program made him triple down on his own decisions in paranoid/deeply insecure fashion.

    He coached with Pete at UW for 6 years, and at BSU for 2. He was DB coach under Raheem Morris in Tampa Bay for 2 years, but he thought it would be easy? He had no idea what he was getting into? Sounds like bullshit. Maybe he just got peter principled.
  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,371

    There was this one guy early on who pointed that out. What was his name?

    Detlef
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,259
    dtd said:

    He thought being the big leader would be easy. He thought he was a living, breathing special sauce. He had no idea what it took to lead a complex organization like a P5 football team.

    He's a guy who had his ass kissed every step of the way and had no drive to be a great HC. Because he already thought he was a great HC, without proving anything.

    He probably actually thought he was bigger than the job, and bigger than UW.

    He is that big of an idiot.

    Trying and competing and accepting "no" from recruits or criticism from outside the program made him triple down on his own decisions in paranoid/deeply insecure fashion.

    He coached with Pete at UW for 6 years, and at BSU for 2. He was DB coach under Raheem Morris in Tampa Bay for 2 years, but he thought it would be easy? He had no idea what he was getting into? Sounds like bullshit. Maybe he just got peter principled.
    Could go either way

    One thing about Jimmy is that he’s never run a large organization on his own prior to being the HC … yes he was DC but I suspect it was more K mentoring Jimmy and Jimmy being the young dumb college grad that thinks he knows everything type situation

    Arrogance is the ultimate downfall … it’s the “I’m Jimmy Lake” and everything will work out

    I have no question that he would have parlayed UW into a NFL job if he could have … everything about his history suggests that he was massively enamored with the NFL

    When your desire to recruit goes away it’s time to head to the NFL