Do you think this just happens by accident?
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People forget Ohio State (#41) and UW (#42) are in a dead heat in Academis per the UW News National University Rankings.
Always got a chuckle out the Big Seattle Money caring about other things besides football. Multiple generations of Nordstom yoots rowed for UW and thus gave a boat loads of money to the program. Those guys should have played football!!
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Gates cares about Tennis. He's been around that sport at the highest levels (Federer) in exhibitions.
OH MY GOD THAT'S LARRY SCOTTFS MUSIC
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There's not that many coaches that could have feasibly won a natty in the past decade and Washington has had 2 of them. Petersen got burned out sure but that gets brought up an unfair amount considering what he did for the program.
And I'm not sure what you mean by 4 of the 5 being the best that would come here. That's a good thing?
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I don't think it's really a good or a bad thing. I just don't think the hires specifically show the school is mega invested in winning or anything. Sark, DeBoer, and Fisch were all guys any fan (me and Joey actually first called for DeBoer and Fisch on the pod I believe) could have just identified and hired.
Petersen was the only hire that would suggest that was a coup and he basically just called up the school out of the blue from what I remember.
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Again that sounds like a good thing that there were obvious good choices and they got them. Where do you think those coaches the up if they don't go to UW? I'd think similar level of school
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I don't think it was a common perception for two years that Pete was burning out. When I speculated that he was burning out in 2018 I was met with numerous hostile or irritated posts/PMs.
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It seems incredible to me that you only have 5,420 posts.
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Especially with all the typing in the pod background
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I don't think with fans but I assume internally it had to be known or felt at least almost a year ahead. Didn't Jen have to beg him not to retire at the end of 2018?
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Is that a good or a bad thing. I didn't actually start poasting until I got divorced.
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Agree.
Time flies when you're having fun. Or something like that.
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I would have guessed 15,000+ posts
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Sending irritated PMs is pretty gay.
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It's worth mentioning that in the apple cup preview show last year, Petersen specifically said he was 'slipping' or using a word to imply that he was just simply not as good of a coach anymore and wasn't going to be happy to continue to win 7/8 games. Burnout is probably a hug contributor to that, but he never explicitly said he was tired of coaching or UW or anything. He was simply not as good at his job and had the ability to step away which most people don't, is what I took from that interview.
