I would take Pete. Recycling would be kind of a UW thing, but we have maybe a 5% chance of hiring a better coach. Pete needs to be the CEO of the program and stay the fuck outta the offense tho. I’m not sure he would be able to do that because he’s a control freak.
Jettison the whole staff if needed. Hope that Wilcox gets fired and he’s available to be DC. In the likely case that isn’t possible, get top notch coordinators, a couple recruiters, and get to work.
I'm in the camp that Wilcox's problem is more Cal than him. Maybe it's only because I watch him against the top schools though.
He has beaten SC, UW twice, Oregon almost twice, and Stanford. He does have a cuoglet problem though.
But he probably hates UW for passing him over back in 2013.
Pete as a CEO could hire Wilcox as his defensive coordinator and Head Coach in waiting.
I will never, ever, want Pete back nor think that he was great for UW and not the other way around. Pete coaching tree hires fail for a reason. Conservative, no balls football isn't elite.
All other candidates for his services in 2013 weren't going to give him the same control, and look what that got us.
A fucking overpaid staff that he bailed on so he go could on Fox sports and dick around.
The Saban guys are mostly unsuccessful head coaches. Same with Meyer, same with Carroll. It’s not a valid reason to judge a coach.
8-5 is. The shitty offenses are another reason. Pete’s a top 10 coach tho. We aren’t hiring someone better. If he came in motivated to spend 5-6 years as head coach and turn this thing around, we would be much better off. I would take him over whoever we are going to hire.
And most likely a top 3 CEO which is what UW needs from him. He obviously is upset at how things are falling to shit. Get the right assistants in place. Let friendships and loyalties go… bye Lake go run that shit defense at Bama and see how long you last in the SEC
How do you know he's upset? He fucking bailed on UW in the first place.
Admitted he wasn't fired up to bring home the first

in twenty fucking years.
He wants to come out and say "I'm recharged, ready to recruit for Washington and right the ship and shut the 'lunatic fringe' the fuck up" and starts winning big bowls? Great. I'd be first in line to blow.
But he was an 8 win coach in the mountain west when we hired him. Honestly poaching whittingham or smith is a more intelligent move. They're probably tired of coaching in povertyville.