Hardcore Husky Podcast: When your head coach is the team's weakest link
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Obviously DeBoer worked out but we're on our second straight staff where our weather doesn't work to our advantage - heavy pass and bringing in a ton of players from Arizona. It's not the biggest deal (see how it worked under DeBoer), but it's a thing. Jimmy actually had the right idea to build around a tough defense and run game. He was just an idiot who didn't recruit.
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DeBoer made his bones in South Dakota
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Jimmy’s deficiencies went way beyond recruiting. He was never qualified for the job and hired John Donovan to be his OC.
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I'd file those things under the "idiot" part of my assessment. It's really shocking no one saw through Jimmy as being the guy. He truly was good at almost nothing as a head coach or coordinator.
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It may be the biggest disappointment I have in Peterman. For him to pass the baton to Lake was mismanagement of the highest order. And if he really thought Lake would be a good head coach, then Peterman wasn't the high-integrity CEO many thought he was.
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Always pick a successor who will fuck things up. Cements the legacy
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From what I've gathered, no one saw it coming. Apparently, Lake talked a good game and had been a very good recruiter so he had everyone fooled. He and Petersen were supposed to have weekly meetings and after the 1st meeting, Lake never went back. Petersen was shocked.
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If that meeting thing is real that's hilarious and dumb of him. Like obviously the university cared about CPs views so why would you want to piss your boss off as a first time HC at big time school
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and Jen wanted to keep him
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Lake just kind of reminds me of companies where I've worked in industries no one gives a fuck about where the system and program set up people who were eager to take credit for shit to seem great but who were really nothing special. People like Petersen who created or are at the top of said systems tend to have blinders on and promote those people and tie them to success that was going to happen either way but then when they need to put up or shut up they're mostly just gas and fizzle out.
The difference is usually those people usually just become regional president of Howard Trunk & Trundle Bed, Northwest Region for 6 months before shriveling instead of an industry where 70,000 people put butts in seats 7 times a year.
