insinceredawg
New Fish
Starting a new thread to consolidate all the panic and Lake shit talking since it's spread across multiple threads.
Let's back track 6 months ago. The overall sentiment from the board was that Petersen didn't take recruiting seriously enough and it's a positive that he's stepping down and and getting replaced by a young, hot shot recruiter. The Lake era started off reasonably well - he brought Covington back into the fold, held onto the entire '20 class, and sent Pete off with a win in the Vegas bowl. What's happened since then?
-He hires Terrence Brown as assistant DB coach and promotes Will Harris to primary DB coach. Both have very little prior success in recruiting.
-Fires Bush and replaces him with an assistant RB coach
-Doesn't renew Paopao's contract and promotes Derham Cato, who spent the last 3 years as an analyst on the staff after getting fired from the OC job for a Davidson team that averaged 12ppg
-Strikes out on adding anyone to the class in the Feb signing period. This should have been the first red flag, Petersen added Irvin, Tuli, and Puka the last couple classes in Feb.
-Not only retains Gregory and KB but extends them a year and gives them raises
-Hosts a ton of '21 recruits and makes a halftime speech during the UW/UO bball game to pump up recruiting, UW then proceeds to blow a double digit lead and lose at home. Rumors are players felt Lake was doing a lame impersonation of the Ducks' recruiting strategies.
-Gets shit pushed in by Oregon on every single recruit they went head to head with. Bram Walden, Jonah Miller, Moliki Matavao, Darren Barkins, Troy Franklin, Xavier Worthy, Terrence Ferguson, Jaylin Davies. Basically all of these losses are attributed to the staff decisions he made.
The good news is we're over 6 months from signing day and still got a season to play. A lot of kids have committed to schools without setting foot on campus so an unprecedented wave of decommits is expected this fall. Still, it's a lot easier to hold onto commits than flipping kids from other schools and Lake sabotaged this class by the uninspired and lazy hires he made. I'll LIPO but Lake has set the margin for error this season to close to 0 if he wants to salvage what was supposed to be the best class in school history.
Let's back track 6 months ago. The overall sentiment from the board was that Petersen didn't take recruiting seriously enough and it's a positive that he's stepping down and and getting replaced by a young, hot shot recruiter. The Lake era started off reasonably well - he brought Covington back into the fold, held onto the entire '20 class, and sent Pete off with a win in the Vegas bowl. What's happened since then?
-He hires Terrence Brown as assistant DB coach and promotes Will Harris to primary DB coach. Both have very little prior success in recruiting.
-Fires Bush and replaces him with an assistant RB coach
-Doesn't renew Paopao's contract and promotes Derham Cato, who spent the last 3 years as an analyst on the staff after getting fired from the OC job for a Davidson team that averaged 12ppg
-Strikes out on adding anyone to the class in the Feb signing period. This should have been the first red flag, Petersen added Irvin, Tuli, and Puka the last couple classes in Feb.
-Not only retains Gregory and KB but extends them a year and gives them raises
-Hosts a ton of '21 recruits and makes a halftime speech during the UW/UO bball game to pump up recruiting, UW then proceeds to blow a double digit lead and lose at home. Rumors are players felt Lake was doing a lame impersonation of the Ducks' recruiting strategies.
-Gets shit pushed in by Oregon on every single recruit they went head to head with. Bram Walden, Jonah Miller, Moliki Matavao, Darren Barkins, Troy Franklin, Xavier Worthy, Terrence Ferguson, Jaylin Davies. Basically all of these losses are attributed to the staff decisions he made.
The good news is we're over 6 months from signing day and still got a season to play. A lot of kids have committed to schools without setting foot on campus so an unprecedented wave of decommits is expected this fall. Still, it's a lot easier to hold onto commits than flipping kids from other schools and Lake sabotaged this class by the uninspired and lazy hires he made. I'll LIPO but Lake has set the margin for error this season to close to 0 if he wants to salvage what was supposed to be the best class in school history.
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