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Mike Martin only has it half right

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  • seatownfunkseatownfunk Member Posts: 806

    @Tequilla still wants to take the gloves off I see

    Sounds like he is still quite happy that he doesn't lead what appears to be such a pathetic life that is faced with looking for the negativity in every situation.
  • AtomicDawgAtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,262 Standard Supporter
    Tequilla said:

    You're talking 2003/2004 to 2007 at that point ... 2008 didn't put the program in substantially more of a hole than it already was
    Just when you think it couldn’t get any lower, it did. It’s a really weird argument to make but par for the course. Not sure what you’re trying to justify.
  • chuckchuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,546 Swaye's Wigwam
    Hh
    dnc said:

    It drastically altered the pool we could realistically hire from.
    That could've/should've been OK though. There are always guys like Deboer out there if one looks hard enough. If big hires were out of reach they still could've made a little hire who was kicking ass at whatever he was doing. Sark was a nobody riding Carrol's coat tails.

    They just didn't put in due diligence, or any diligence, when they chose Sarkisian rather than someone with a track record.
  • dncdnc Member Posts: 56,827
    chuck said:

    Hh

    That could've/should've been OK though. There are always guys like Deboer out there if one looks hard enough. If big hires were out of reach they still could've made a little hire who was kicking ass at whatever he was doing. Sark was a nobody riding Carrol's coat tails.

    They just didn't put in due diligence, or any diligence, when they chose Sarkisian rather than someone with a track record.
    I honestly don't disagree
  • whlinderwhlinder Member Posts: 5,153 Standard Supporter
    edited May 2023
    I mean it was only 10 years earlier that we big dicked Colorado and hired their coach away. Colorado, which at the time was a GOOD program and had natty'd a couple of years before we did.
    Owen-12 meant we had to take an unproven coordinator. We had previously only hired head coaches with success (Tyrone took Stanford to a Rose Bowl!) or promoted our coordinators internally after some serious success.

    At least we got back to hiring good head coaches or promoting coordinators.
  • DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 66,732 Founders Club

    This. We could have had a top tier coach if we we hired correctly after Rick or even one year of gilby. Instead we killed the program and had to take a chance on sark.
    Five years of Sark mediocrity as we put an alcoholic philanderer in charge of Woodward's "orphaned kids", if we're going to be painfully blunt.
  • DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 66,732 Founders Club
    dnc said:

    It drastically altered the pool we could realistically hire from.
    Woodward said that Petersen wouldn't even return his call in late 2008
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 110,927 Founders Club
    Firing Rick in June changed everything for UW

    Not that he would have been great but it set the Gilby Ty disaster in motion

    Consider that Babs did make what looked like a home run hire. Win a Rose Bowl then pop off

    If she fired him after a failure in 03 she could go big game hunting again
  • animateanimate Member Posts: 4,245
    - you can blame Scott, that's easy
    - blame the people that enabled him. The presidents ... they wrote their own demise.
  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 20,014
    dnc said:

    Doesn't sound like you have disdain for Sark.
    I'm far from a fan of Sark ...

    UW covered up a lot of the Sark stuff behind the scenes instead of doing anything about it ...

    I just don't buy that the hiring pool was substantially different after 2007 and 2008 ...

    Here's the thing about Petersen, it's not just that he wouldn't listen to UW then ... he wasn't listening to anybody then
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 110,927 Founders Club

    No such thing as a bad dog, just bad owners
    WOOF
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