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Get out the rye bread and mustard Grandma, it's DeBoer grand salami!! My oh my!!
DerekJohnson
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She’s pretty darn good, can’t wait for her to transfer to Alabama after the season. Better conference, better facilities, currently a better program, better/more rabid fans, less travel, get paid more money and access to immediate family. Would be crazy not to go if she’s good enough and it looks like she probably is.
Great hitter
on her fourth dropped flyball she got benched down in Arizona
Yeah, but still …
Or her dad could have put his daughter’s dream of playing for Washington ahead of his own ego/dreams considering he was guaranteed $10+ million without knowing the total compensation package UW had on the table. I’m not litigating UW low balling him or not making him a top 5 paid coach.
She (Miss DeBoer) seemed pretty stoked about committing to UW and Tarr in his first year here and during her two years of high school. And with all the previous relocations and uprooting of his wife and two daughter’s it seems he was in a pretty great place to put his teenage children and wife first and living on Lake Washington or whatever doesn’t seem so bad from my view.
It was ultimately a business decision and striking when the fire was hot never could have been better I suppose. 2024 wasn’t about reloading, it was a rebuild and that rebuild cratered after he walked. I still believe a few guys with a year left bolt for cash with all the firepower graduating or getting drafted. I also believe he saw Alabama as easier to recruit because he seemed very average in that regard or that was my take.
Can’t take anything away from his coaching but he absolutely caught lightning in a bottle with a combination of Penix and a solid core of upperclassmen when he arrived. I’ll forever be bitter because I will NEVER believe he wasn’t distracted during his last 6 weeks at UW beginning with how we? played against WSU and he wasn’t ALL IN once he was hand picked to succeed Saban in late November or early December once Saban and Sexton hand picked DeBoer.
I would have picked my daughter’s dream over my own at 50 (49?)and since she stayed committed it was absolutely her dream.
Nah. You go to Bama. The bluest of the blue bloods. Bama, Ohio State, maybe Texas. You take that job.
It’s not always about $, atleast for some. F’ those fly-over states
If you have a second family you say DeBoer should have left
if you’re going to heaven, and have never lied to God. You say DeBoer stays at Washington.
His daughter is an adult. It's not like he left his family and 3 year old daughter behind to chase his dream. While I was rooting for him to fail last year, I don't blame him for going to Bama.
Thanks Taft!
If I’m making 8mil a year on the west coast, I am not leaving for more money to live in Alabama, fuck no
I get many including yourself might disagree with me and that’s fine. I would choose my kids 10 out of 10 times especially after uprooting them their entire lives. His life, his decision but having a wife and kids these career decisions affect everyone. When he made that decision to leave late in 2023, both daughters were in high school. She made her commitment at 16/17 years of age and seemed really excited especially considering UW softball was a premier program and an excellent university. Image changing schools and friends every 2-3 years your entire life from day 1 and again in the middle of her senior year of high school. Yes she stayed but her family was still uprooted and separated. 18 isn’t a great argument in terms of decision making and technically becoming an actual adult.
This isn’t a criticism of your personal decision and maybe it’s a bad assumption on my part but I don’t believe you have children. Obviously you can have an opinion but unless you’re a father you can’t really relate. He’s not making a choice between $500k vs $10 million/year.
I’m conflicted pressing “post comment” because I don’t want to be insensitive or come across as an asshole about having/not having children. I’m very protective of my family especially my kids and grandchildren. I can’t relate to DeBoer from a career standpoint but as a father myself the decision would be VERY EASY.
There's nothing wrong with your comment. And an argument can be made that my opinion is hampered by not having kids. But I remember reading Chuck Knox's autobiography about when he left Buffalo and came to Seattle in January 1983. His 17-year old son wanted to stay behind in Buffalo for his upcoming senior year of high school and his close-knit friends and teammates. He begged and pleaded his dad. Chuck Knox thought it over but then said no, he's still a minor and we are keeping the family together and that's the way life is sometimes. In the book, Chuck Jr described how furious he was at first to leave his friends and teammates in Buffalo. But then he ended up playing for the state champs at Juanita High School and also learned that when it feels like when you encounter a new environment and feel lost, you can regroup and make your way again and forge a new path. He said it made him tougher, and looking back he appreciated his dad's decision and the impact it made upon his life.
So there are multiple ways to view that kind of scenario.
every 3-5 years I’m making a business decision for the family. I’m not leaving water front views or anything special but climbing that corporate ladder of death requires transferring. Kids hate it, wife hates it, and I’m starting to haie it but paying for a family in this tariff economy requires more and more money.
My kids have been resilient for the most part. This next move is going to be tough though.
But does she want this horse?
Daddy's girl is a winner
Chip off the ol' block