It will take someone like Jon Gruden to keep me on board

CuntWaffle said:

What legit candidates out there would even the biggest negas LIPO for? I am really upset about not getting Mora but if we are willing to throw around 4 million a year (allegedly) then we should be able to bring in someone decent?

DerekJohnson said:

CuntWaffle said:

What legit candidates out there would even the biggest negas LIPO for? I am really upset about not getting Mora but if we are willing to throw around 4 million a year (allegedly) then we should be able to bring in someone decent?

But consider who is doing the hiring. When I interviewed Woodward and Emmert for my Willingham book, they both said they never dreamed of interfering with WIllingham's way of doing things. When asked to elaborate, they both said they didn't know a lot about football and so it wasn't their place.

And yet, they were the ones who hired Sark... And Woodward is the one in charge of the next hire.

That's scary as hell. Honestly, if that's the case and he's aware that he doesn't know much about football, he really should only be looking at existing head coaches. When evaluating HCs at least you can look at their results from an analytical standpoint and judge their impact on their current program. With hiring a coordinator a lot more emphasis has to be placed on figuring out how well that coach knows the game and can transition to the HC gig. If you don't know shit about football, you shouldn't be trying to figure out which coordinator could strike it big. Stick to the HCs where at least you can look at their body of work/results and make a decision w/o having to dissect the x's and o's behind it.

DerekJohnson said:

CuntWaffle said:

What legit candidates out there would even the biggest negas LIPO for? I am really upset about not getting Mora but if we are willing to throw around 4 million a year (allegedly) then we should be able to bring in someone decent?

But consider who is doing the hiring. When I interviewed Woodward and Emmert for my Willingham book, they both said they never dreamed of interfering with WIllingham's way of doing things. When asked to elaborate, they both said they didn't know a lot about football and so it wasn't their place.

And yet, they were the ones who hired Sark... And Woodward is the one in charge of the next hire.

It can't be said enough, pool boy couldn't hire swim coach, let alone a head football coach to shepherd UW athletics' primary and often only paycheck back into elite status. He'll for certain require expert outside help to even compile a list of candidates and if he doesn't get it, expect to be disappointed with his next hiring failure.

There are reasons for the failure of Husky Football to rise above mediocrity over the past ten years and Woodward with his nearly total lack of qualification for the UW athletic directorship is symbolic of and a large part of those reasons. Woodward can have success this time around after he and his two predecessors have screwed the pooch with the last five straight head coaching hires, but he will have to delegate the task by hiring it out to someone or some agency expert in these matters. Perhaps Woodward has already done that.

We should be watchful and very very concerned that Husky football might be saddled with another Sark coordinator type or worse, a return to a Tyrone class over-the-hill fraud. I'm not just concerned that we have nobody known to us in administration at the UW that's capable of avoiding another mistake in hiring the right coach this time, but that the more desirable candidates (Mora, Peterson, etc) know just how fucked-up a workplace Montlake has been and could continue to be.

And on top of everything else, politician types like our homely, semi-retarded poolboy, don't really understand business on any level.

However, they are good at self preservation.

HEY, SARK IS FUCKING GONE!

AzDuck - don't look now, Todd Turner just placed Chuck Martin at Miami of Ohio?