Petersen croots
Seem to have a crazy hit rate for not only making it to the league but being a feature player on their teams. Feels like every Sunday McDuffie, Gordon or the Tampa Bay Huskies are balling out. High level assessment and coaching I would think.
In some ways I look back on his program building as being a top 5 coach of the past decade and I wonder what it would have looked like if he had let go of the reins for the offense (insert a Deboer type in 2017) and just been a CEO and practice coach.
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the what ifs will make you depressed. Don’t do it to yourself.
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New recruiting bored motto
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I was more applying it to my life but still.
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quitters gonna quit
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Washington should have payed him and he would have stayed
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the Rose Bowl didn’t excite him. It just didn’t. You can’t continue after that. You just can’t.
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It's pretty interesting when you think about it. The part of the job he hated was what he did best and is his lasting legacy at UW. He left a pretty damn talented roster that even two years of Lake couldn't fuck up.
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I can understand being burned out, but your first and only appearance at a Rose Bowl doesn't get you excited? I couldn't understand that.
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Great point and I hereby concede to @Joey and @WoolleyDoog that Pete wasn't just a good recruiter but a great recruiter, except he never got serious about replacing Browning
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That part falls into the "giving up the offense" in my thought experiment. He seemed to be hell bent on playing a constipated style on O that was unnecessary. Almost like he didn't want elite QBs but just safe ones maybe
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Like "what if the Pac-10 didn't try to destroy UW and Don James coached two more years and took the '93 and '94 teams back to the Rose Bowl before retiring?"
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Shoutout to Cooper Petagna for being the architect of those classes. Thin Skin Jimmy immediately let him go when he came in. Oregon smartly pounced.
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I think it was less him not being excited about the Rose Bowl and more about general burnout.
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I still can't believe how quickly Jimmy Lake crashed the program
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Thinking about it now, his biggest miss was never getting an elite QB. Browning was fine, and I'm glad he has surprised and had a career in the NFL and made good money, but Petersen needed a Penix. That's not exactly easy but it's one of the big misses he had.
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To be fair, based off of his status as a back-up NFL QB, he is one of the top best 50-60 quarterbacks on the planet. Eason is on an NFL roster too.
I think what hurt Petersen just as much (if not more so) was the WR recruiting until he hired Junior Adams. After Ross and Pettis left, the WRs were very very pedestrian.
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The TSIO guys hit it well that Petersen kept a couple assistants around for too long who straight up didn't recruit as well - Pease (WRs) and Strausser (OL). Sucks with Strausser because I think he was a good coach who just didn't like or couldn't recruit.
I don't think the offensive system did Browning or Eason any favors either.
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Yes, Pease got lucky because Ross was a Sark holdover and Pettis' brother (Austin) played for Peterson at BSU.
I met Strausser once and while he appeared to be a very good coach, he seemed introverted and not someone who was a good recruiter. After he lost local guy Foster Sarrell to David Shaw, Petersen had seen enough and hired Scott Huff.
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Kind of off topic (but maybe not if we’re talking about recruiting and communicating with TBs) but this thread reminded me of what a boring studio guy Peterson is.
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He’s a relic of a bygone era. It’s boring but probably plays to the wistful sentimentality of some.
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I agree; he is boring. But I grew up watching the Don James show. Peterman is like a stripper by comparison.
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I get it.
After 5 million in the bank, why the fuck would anyone want to work 18 hours days?
Give me 5 million and I'll never work again. Hell, maybe even 3.
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Humans are built with a need for purpose in life.
Sorry I'll take it to the Christian board
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A W2 or K1 rarely gives someone real purpose.
I'd be out in the woods with the WTA repairing trails when I felt the need for purpose. Smoking weed, talking shit.
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Agreed but coaching ball IS these guys life. Most athletes and coaches have lived for their game since they were 11 and dont know anything else. Pete didn't like the stress and what the job was becoming so he fired himself and needed to do something that can scratch the itch in between whatever seminars he does at UW or whatever
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I get that. If you love your job and it is actually your passion, great for you.
Peterlips thought the juice wasn't worth the squeeze and I can relate to that to some extent. If he didn't like it, then retire if you have the money.
And his retirement gig is getting paid millions by Fox.
Fy, fm, fe
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*lives
Pete read the tea leaves and made his exit at the perfect time. He was smart enough to recognize he wasn’t truly happy with his job anymore after 30 plus years. Taking that home every night became more a burden each and ever day. He sucked up to cashing the bag at UW hopeful it would rejuvenate him but it didn’t and he held on as long as he could. I have the upmost respect for the young man!
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I remember when this place was optimistically dooging about Jimmy Lake.
Covid weirdness allowed the dooging to continue until Montana
Petersen making Lake the heir instead of Kwat was a big mistake. I think Kwat might still be coaching here if he made a good OC hire. It doesn't seem like he wants to be a HC though.
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The Lake dooging left pretty quick I think. First drop was hiring Donovan. Then Kwit leaving and being replaced with fucking Bob Gregory and recruiting was as bad as it has maybe ever been in program history by the time we got to Montana.
The AD should have known to not let Petersen pick his successor and recognize the program wasn't in a place where you could hand it over to a caretaker type. It wasn't where Stanford was when it went from Harbaugh to Shaw or Oregon when Chipper to Helfrich happened. They had just went 8-5 and lost to Colorado and other crap teams.
The irony is it's likely 2022-23 aren't as good as they were if we don't promote Lake and keep the entire 2020 class.
