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Jon Wilner Hates Your Coaching Hire
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http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/20/college-hotline-pac-12-history-suggests-washington-made-a-risky-hire-with-mike-hopkins/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/20/college-hotline-pac-12-history-suggests-washington-made-a-risky-hire-with-mike-hopkins/
We’ll assume the Huskies, like the Hotline, researched the history of the external hire/career assistant model in the Pac-12 — and that they determined the data wasn’t applicable.
Obviously, UW athletic director Jen Cohen, on the job for less than one year, spotted something she liked in Hopkins’ background.
He’s a California guy (Mater Dei), has recruiting connections across the country and learned from a Hall of Famer.
But because his only coaching experience is two decades as an assistant at a program 3,000 miles away — with little in common with Washington, by the way — it seems like wait-and-see is the wise response to the hire.
It doesn’t mean Hopkins is doomed to fail, not at all.
But it means UW fans should steel themselves for a few hiccups as Hopkins navigates his learning curve … and that he would be the first of this model to succeed in the conference in a not-insignificant period of time.
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That is the laziest article I've seen in some time.
But it means UW fans should steel themselves for a few hiccups as Hopkins navigates his learning curve … and that he would be the first of this model to succeed in the conference in a not-insignificant period of time.
So the Dawgs shouldn't expect to win 3 conference games next Season??? -
This is fantastic news.
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Jon Wilner liked the fucking Pac 12 Network originally too.
Fuck that guy.
Hi, Jon!
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Things are looking up
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ill bet sven's (rip) twenty bucks that he can deep throat that entire cigar.
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I remember Emmert lashing out at his critics around the Sark hire by saying that he too was once a first-time president and that you "got to learn somewhere". Of course he missed the point entirely as he cut his teeth at academic creampuff LSU before going to UW.
Edit: people forget Nick Saban mostly sucked at Michigan State. People forget that. -
People also forget that Michigan State wasn't Saban's first rodeo. People also forget that.Gladstone said:I remember Emmert lashing out at his critics around the Sark hire by saying that he too was once a first-time president and that you "got to learn somewhere". Of course he missed the point entirely as he cut his teeth at academic creampuff LSU before going to UW.
Edit: people forget Nick Saban mostly sucked at Michigan State. People forget that. -
1 year at Toledo =! cutting teeth, MSU was part of that as well duh
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Well you've got one coach from another sport who kind of maybe learned on the job, guess you've proven your point. We're fucked.Gladstone said:1 year at Toledo =! cutting teeth, MSU was part of that as well duh
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If I have to argue hiring proven winners vs taking a chance on random assistant then I've already committed seppuku and died. RIP.
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I'll admit I had a "What the fuck" moment when hearing news of his hiring but after a little research it sounds like he was the life blood of a national power program.
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I 100% agree that's exactly what they did, and if you're against this move that's the argument you have. It has shit to do with a learning curve or learning on the job or cutting teeth. It's that he's unproven and we don't know what he is.Gladstone said:If I have to argue hiring proven winners vs taking a chance on random assistant then I've already committed seppuku and died. RIP.
On that I completely agree. He hasn't proven he can do it, and that's extremely risky. -
Holds that cigar like a Mandingo plantation penis - bet he would love the bus station bathroom in Lagos, Nigeria
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Suddenly, I am all in for the Coach Hop era.
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I'm not dooging over this hire by any means but using a blanket statement about all assistants is FS. They have to come from somewhere, obviously. And there are plenty of coaches I would much rather have gone after. But as usual, Wilner takes a slam dunk argument and gets rejected by the rim
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Wilner hates life.
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2001400ex said:
Wilner hates life.
And should not be alive
