Was Jimmy just lazy?

I’m trying to figure out why he turned out to be such a shit show. Ever since he was hired the football teams social media presence and recruiting fell off a Cliff. Pete was good at keeping the pipeline prettt full and getting commits somewhat regularly. Lake just seemed like he didn’t want to try. I knew we were fucked when he called Cade Otton a 5 star recruit when he decided to come back.

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Blayen

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?

FireCohen

Heard a rumor that he thought they were cake walk their schedule and that his agent was already throwing his name out there in NFL circles as early as June.

If this is true. Got to love they way god can really humble a person. Dude got handed a Top 25 program HC job and he just pissed it away.

Kingdome_Urinals

Personnel decisions were terrible. He has no eye for talent, at all.

insinceredawg

Lazy, arrogant, delusional, stubborn. It's actually very impressive how CP was able to keep him in check and get so much out of him.

sonics1993

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

GrundleStiltzkin

Heard a rumor that he thought they were cake walk their schedule and that his agent was already throwing his name out there in NFL circles as early as June.
This explains a lot, if true. Sauce?
Acrop said it for one

Fuckin nfl shit. Jimmy’s nfl fixation always bugged hell outta me.

GrundleStiltzkin

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

PGOS.

dtd

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

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

Detlef

Tequilla

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

Kingdome_Urinals

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.

The bulk of his career has come under one of the great program leaders/administrators of the last 20 years. Who gives a shit about Raheem Morris.

College coaching careers are a crapshoot, he won the lottery by latching on with Pete in Boise. Just like Sark with Carroll.

He had no clue what it took his bosses to get the job done.

Canadawg

Isnt a HC in cfb more like a GM than a traditional HC at the NFL or HS level? Like most of your work isn't related to the actual coaching and gamecalling. Seems like they are different skillsets in alot of ways and why hiring a career coordinator to HC will always be a gamble

2girls1applecup

Heard a rumor that he thought they were cake walk their schedule and that his agent was already throwing his name out there in NFL circles as early as June.
If this is true. Got to love they way god can really humble a person. Dude got handed a Top 25 program HC job and he just pissed it away.

Montana = God

NeGgaPlEaSe

Sounds like is he is a smug asshole who didn’t want to keep the program Pete set up even in terms of recruiting. Sounds like he was a lazy fuck who didn’t take responsibility

Goduckies

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 thought he was Mario... he isn't even a mini me version of him

Goduckies

No, Jimmy wasn't lazy, something that could have racist connotations when used in a questionable conjunction with an African American, far from it. If anything Jimmy was overzealous in his coaching approach leading the program. The social media presence doesn't fall directly on him but the UW athletic department as well since they manage a lot of the social media accounts and media relations as we saw with all of the negative Jimmy Lake stories that kept on coming out in the recent days.

Jimmy made a very bad decision by hiring the secretarial assistant to the assistant RB coach from Jacksonville in Jon Donovan, a person no one was looking to hire as an OC at any level, as his OC on UW TE coach Derham Cato's recommendation. Then his seemingly refusal to fire him made a lot of people question his leadership abilities aloud.

Jimmy was one of a very few African American coaches to have a college football head coaching job at the NCAA D1 level and at a power 5 university at that which is a even rarer sight in the NCAA in 2021 https://theundefeated.com/features/even-with-the-recent-push-for-diversity-fewer-black-coaches-getting-top-fbs-head-coaching-jobs/ .

Jimmy should have surrounded himself with a better qualified staff and that is all on him no one else as he had the power to select his staff. Jimmy may well be very well off financially now but he will most likely never be a NCAA D1 head coach again.

Stop with the racial BS

Goduckies

Heard a rumor that he thought they were cake walk their schedule and that his agent was already throwing his name out there in NFL circles as early as June.
If this is true. Got to love they way god can really humble a person. Dude got handed a Top 25 program HC job and he just pissed it away.

Crazy if true, I hope he wasn't that dumb. Plus how disrespectful to CP!

NeGgaPlEaSe

Does that make Jimmy the only Coach to be fired twice by Washington?

TXDawg

Jimmy is probably just like guys we've all worked for before. They're more interested in being the guy in charge than they are of actually doing the work of the guy in charge.

PurpleThrobber

Jimmy is like your classical millennial with two years of work experience that has mastered their specific job. Thinks because they know how to do the job that they should be running the department and managing people.

Jimmy doesn’t know how to grind or face adversity. We all saw what happened when he lost his shit on national TV. So yes, he’s entitled, delusional and lazy

The Throbber is not the most woke person on the boards - but 'lazy' implies some kind of racial overtone in today's world.

Complacent, lackadaisical, inattentive - probably more socially acceptable. All stemming from the aforementioned arrogance.

Somehow it seems Jimmy bided his time like Eddie Haskell ingratiating himself into the Peterman pysche - all the while with the mindset of "When I'm the head guy, all this bullshit is out the window".

It's hard to fathom otherwise.