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Is Petersen the perfect coach for Washington?
whlinder
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Warning: TL, DR
Something kind of hit me after watching some of the Penn St dreckfest Saturday night and then arguing CFB with a PSU fan and a Pitt fan on Sunday while golfing.
Based on the actions post-Sandusky/Paterno, PSU clearly cares about winning at football. From the top of the institution on down. Things that get in the way of that - like a lack of institutional control to stop child rape - are just bumps in the road to a winning football program.
Washington, going back to Don James, isn't at the same level of all-importance of winning. DJ (I like to call him that) won too much and overshadowed upper campus so no fight was put up when our boosters were misbehaving. We hired Babs who put a focus on winning at non-football sports and did things like have meetings with all her head coaches where they had to say one positive thing accomplished by that team each week. And then all the things we did to fire Rick, "clean up" the program with savior Ty, and not investing in a real coach when it came to Sark. Victory and Ruins, yada yada, the institutional view is football has to do well enough to support all the other sports, and a good football team is nice, but don't want it to detract from the academics & other great things about UW.
Enter Petersen.
He has all of his points of emphasis and building blocks and philosophies and foundational principles for the team. He's got a thousand things he wants hisstudent athletes players to do. He's actually trying to make them better people. It never says win at all costs.
That's something upper campus can get completely behind.
It just so happens that all of his foundational principles lead to winning. A lot of fucking winning. But only as a byproduct of a process and philosophy that Upper Campus can love. There is no other coach I can think of which would be able to come in and win to the degree we expect him to while also not making the academics all ticked off. Saban, Meyer, etc? Can you imagine the outcry?
I know the season hasn't started yet and we have to LIFPO. But Poolboy is so fucking lucky that C. Pete decided he needed a change and wanted this job.
Something kind of hit me after watching some of the Penn St dreckfest Saturday night and then arguing CFB with a PSU fan and a Pitt fan on Sunday while golfing.
Based on the actions post-Sandusky/Paterno, PSU clearly cares about winning at football. From the top of the institution on down. Things that get in the way of that - like a lack of institutional control to stop child rape - are just bumps in the road to a winning football program.
Washington, going back to Don James, isn't at the same level of all-importance of winning. DJ (I like to call him that) won too much and overshadowed upper campus so no fight was put up when our boosters were misbehaving. We hired Babs who put a focus on winning at non-football sports and did things like have meetings with all her head coaches where they had to say one positive thing accomplished by that team each week. And then all the things we did to fire Rick, "clean up" the program with savior Ty, and not investing in a real coach when it came to Sark. Victory and Ruins, yada yada, the institutional view is football has to do well enough to support all the other sports, and a good football team is nice, but don't want it to detract from the academics & other great things about UW.
Enter Petersen.
He has all of his points of emphasis and building blocks and philosophies and foundational principles for the team. He's got a thousand things he wants his
That's something upper campus can get completely behind.
It just so happens that all of his foundational principles lead to winning. A lot of fucking winning. But only as a byproduct of a process and philosophy that Upper Campus can love. There is no other coach I can think of which would be able to come in and win to the degree we expect him to while also not making the academics all ticked off. Saban, Meyer, etc? Can you imagine the outcry?
I know the season hasn't started yet and we have to LIFPO. But Poolboy is so fucking lucky that C. Pete decided he needed a change and wanted this job.
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Never really thought of it from that standpoint. I read it, and I agree with you 100%.
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POTW
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It depends if he wins a Rose Bowl sooner rather than the 5 year plan.
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I like this logic. If I only I could find a fucking insightful button somewhere.
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I will also say thank you to harbaugh and stanford for showing the academics you can play tough fucking football and still be nerds.
For the first time UW athletics and academics all want to be stanford. -
Pulsing agreement.
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That is a very salient point. The Harbaugh (and Shaw to a lesser extent) Stanford teams have completely shattered that myth. Forever. Another doogFS myth that has been dismissed as wholy wrong.brchco12 said:I will also say thank you to harbaugh and stanford for showing the academics you can play tough fucking football and still be nerds.
For the first time UW athletics and academics all want to be stanford.
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Yep. The doog myths will always fall.Gladstone said:
That is a very salient point. The Harbaugh (and Shaw to a lesser extent) Stanford teams have completely shattered that myth. Forever. Another doogFS myth that has been dismissed as wholy wrong.brchco12 said:I will also say thank you to harbaugh and stanford for showing the academics you can play tough fucking football and still be nerds.
For the first time UW athletics and academics all want to be stanford. -
What's the Rose Bowl equivalent now? Win the Pac-12? Win a New Years bowl from the big 6 or however many bowls there are? Make the playoff?79smoothdawg said:It depends if he wins a Rose Bowl sooner rather than the 5 year plan.
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Win the Pac 12
