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Rick Neuheisal And The Snitch?
RoadDawg55
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I remember when Rick was fired in 2003, there was a lot of talk about the "snitch." Many names were mentioned such as Condotta and Rick Redmond. Did it ever come out who the snitch was?
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Also if anyone knows the answer I'd be interested to hear.
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- "He only won with Lambo's guys" implying that team was so talented that anyone could have won there. Well guess what? Lambo couldn't win with Lambo's guys and had three teams more talented than the 2000 team. Also same doogs who say that never say "Sark only won a bowl game with Ty Willingham's guys" which that team had almost all Ty recruits.
- They refuse to acknowledge what a great coaching job Rick did in 2000. From a talent perspective I'd take the 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002 and 2003 teams over that one in 2000. Plus you add in the midseason tragedy of Curtis Williams and how Rick didn't allow that to be a distraction instead embraced it.
- Refuse to acknowledge that Rick was a great offensive mind unlike Sark. Rick made adjustments which Sark doesn't do. Rick came here trying to run a pro style offense and UW started off 0-2 and he realized after two fucking games that was a bad idea. So he ran the option offense something he had never done before playing to Tui's strength. While Sark faced a similar situation with Locker and refused to change going 12-13 with Jake when he should have gone 16-9 by simply turning Jake into a spread QB.
- They get on Rick for being soft, neglecting the OL, having star players get in trouble, have a bad season(7-6) yet completely ignore/don't care that Sark is doing that.
I don't think Rick is a great coach but he's sure as hell better than Sark is. Sark in every way is a poor version of Rick.
Firing Rick in June of 2003 was the start of many dumb moves that this Administration has made in the past decade.
His teams got worse every year he was here.
And he did create a thug culture in the program. Those Seattle Times stories were accurate and well deserved.
What came after Skippy sucked. That doesn't mean he was the right guy; he wasn't.
Here is the thing...it's not that I think Rick was great and shit. He likely wasn't the right guy long term...the issue I have is with the fans who hated Rick, but defend Sark when Sark does the exact same shit. That's what my point has been for years. No matter who the coach is, he is the man. He gets praised for dumb stuff (kick ass presses) and given a pass when he needs his ass kicked by fans and the media. Gilby was praised (he was a tuff real dawg), Ty was praised (molder of men)...and we all know about Sark. Rick without the rosebowl. Yet they hate Rick and love sark. Lather Rinse Repeat
Also Rick was fired for something stupid that his whole coaching staff including Gilby was also involved in some basketball pool which the whole nation does as well.
His w-l wasn't bad, but that 2002 season was an omen of things to come. Their mistake wasn't Hiring an interim coach, then hiring a real coach like THE OHIO STATE did with Rural Meyer.
Now you are correct they should have fired Gilby after the 6-6 season.
Firing Rick in June started the pattern of making awful decisions that is still present this day.
You don't fire a coach in June without a major scandal Petrino level scandal. Nothing Rick did came close to that, and neither did the sum of his transgressions. If you want to make the decision to let him go after the season, great, that gives you time to get a head start on a replacement list. Firing him in June kicked the team in the nuts. Yeah, Dave's famous 12-0 prediction was crazy but no one had a massive issue with it at the time. That was a good team with a lot of talent. Firing the beloved (by the kids) HC in June and replacing him with TUFF ass Gilby destroyed that season, which destroyed the recruiting class. Firing Gilby after the first year would have helped assuage a lot of that, but 03 was still a lost season that didn't have to be. Every season counts.