HuskyFanPodcast: Post Press Conference

Wanted to make sure people were listening:) ^

Poor Lambright...... opening his mouth again in public with the truth when the subject and timing was either inconvenient or inappropriate. I still remember driving home from work listening to the radio when in response to something the KJR shock-jocks asked about USC, Lambo blurted out: "You mean that school in the ghetto?" The guy was just never suave about his PR after he became Husky head coach, a job he probably never really wanted except for the coaching part.

While we welcome the first real head football coach I believe we've had in 20 years, it will be good for all of us to remember that coaches with Petersen's methods and abilities, especially as far too often pertains to their relations with local media, will be subjected to mostly unwarranted criticisms or inconsequential negatives in the local media as soon as success arrives in abundance on the field of play. If we've learned anything over the past 10 years, it's that good coaching of Husky Football is not a priority for those non-fans who must have access to report on it.

I would never want to wish him trouble or discomfort in his working conditions at Montlake, but if Petersen gets as much of the kind of negative press that Don James was subjected to at the height of the Dawgfather's success at UW, then I'll know we have for the long run the coach Husky Football needs and deserves. It's sad for an old alum to look at the UW's public relations in such a negative light, but such is the reality.