This is the last game I will be traveling to for a long time.
At this point lose to AK state and blow this shit up. I still just can’t fathom how Jimmy thought Jon Don was a good idea, it’s fucking crazy.
I don't know if he thought it was a good idea, but he clearly didn't know what else to do.
My prediction is Lake and Donovan have the same agent or some other business partner. The other is that Jimmy was so enamored with the NFL that he talked to Nathaniel Hacket or whoever was Jacksonville‘s OC and they said Donovan was great at watching film and was a great asset to their shitty teams and Jimmy bought it.
Lake botched the hire, but he’s been coaching for 20+ years. He knows a lot of other coaches. In hindsight, Kellen Moore as our OC would have been a great get [/b]and even better, we wouldn’t even know the John Donovan existed.
I'm not convinced he would've looked that much better if Jimmy's mandate is to run HB dive on every first and second down. Donovan is terrible, don't twist, but I think he's severely handicapped by Jimmy's demands for his offense.
And here's the canary in the coal mine. We went all in on Moore as OC and when he turned us down along with the switch from Pete to Jimmy had no plan B. Lake also decided he wanted to run Stanford Offense and if you came here, that was what you are going to run.
After there were no takers, he was left to go after the Asst Running Back Coach from Jacksonville who for $500k-$550k MORE MORE MORE than he was making (and with a additional year extra on the contract) said hell yeah I will call 3 kneel downs and punt for you coach if you want me to.
And here we are.