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Petersen croots
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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.
New recruiting bored motto
I was more applying it to my life but still.
quitters gonna quit
Washington should have payed him and he would have stayed
the Rose Bowl didn’t excite him. It just didn’t. You can’t continue after that. You just can’t.
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.
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.
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
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
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?"
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.
I think it was less him not being excited about the Rose Bowl and more about general burnout.
wanted to be on the boat with a chai double foam late.
I still can't believe how quickly Jimmy Lake crashed the program
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing he says ever resonates or sticks to the bone. He’s stealing a living right now.
He’s a relic of a bygone era. It’s boring but probably plays to the wistful sentimentality of some.