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Released texts from yesterday's article in The Athletic on final days of Jimmy Lake at UW
DerekJohnson
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The whole article is broken down in Swaye's Wigwam. But here was a telling text exchange between Cohen and Cauce four days after the Oregon sideline incident with Jimmy Lake and Hardcore Husky Player of the Year, Ruperake Fuavai
Ahead of a scheduled Thursday meeting that week between Cohen and Lake, Cauce and Cohen each expressed hope the coach would show some willingness to alter his approach — and communicated in a way that left open the possibility he might return to coach the team following his suspension.
“Hoping this can be an opportunity for growth,” Cauce wrote in a text message. “If not… well….”
Cohen replied: “I’m so hoping he can see he needs to make changes. This will be a very telling moment.”
In reading between the lines, Cauce knew all along Lake was terrible at his job and had to go. And once again, Cohen sounds like an overweening mom praying for her wayward son to be contrite and not get fired.
Ahead of a scheduled Thursday meeting that week between Cohen and Lake, Cauce and Cohen each expressed hope the coach would show some willingness to alter his approach — and communicated in a way that left open the possibility he might return to coach the team following his suspension.
“Hoping this can be an opportunity for growth,” Cauce wrote in a text message. “If not… well….”
Cohen replied: “I’m so hoping he can see he needs to make changes. This will be a very telling moment.”
In reading between the lines, Cauce knew all along Lake was terrible at his job and had to go. And once again, Cohen sounds like an overweening mom praying for her wayward son to be contrite and not get fired.
Comments
Cohen loved Jimmy
Cauce had doubts
Right
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time
Does she have other comments that support this interpretation?
I appreciate your humility BTW.
If you’re taking anything away from Cauce it’s that she’s willing to stay out of the picture unless it becomes clear that there is (or will be) too much damage to the UW name and reputation
As I’ve said elsewhere, she’s probably as good as it gets for an AD at UW in that she’s supportive and will allow you as the AD to do your job …
As for Jen, just another example of this job being too big for her skills
You made a rational point using the proper number of words.
TLDR. I agree.
The school and image take a hit when something like this goes down, as well as the egos of those up the food chain who signed off on the hire(s). A lot of us thought Jen was a wizard for CP / Hop / Yimmy early on in each hire. She is either really good at her job and was just unlucky twice, horrible at it, or somewhere in between...I don't fault her for CP, speaking as a currently burned-out coach...
But she knew there’d be peace when he was gone🤷♂️
At least former Husky Bruce Harrell is now Mayor after the massive disappointments of Durkan and Murray.