Woodward technically hired Pete
She wanted to keep Lake as late as mid October 2021[/b]
Touche' on the Campbell comment
She was still giving Lake a chance to stick around around the Oregon game but lucky for us, he didn’t apologize enough.
If we take the pressers at face value, sure. I find it hard to believe that contingency plans weren't being desperately worked out behind the scenes while publicly supporting the then-coach to the press in case you're stuck with him. She was probably trying to scrape together the money and hedging bets in the meantime. I don't believe for a second that Cohen wanted[/i] to keep Lake, hence firing him for what anybody who played football knows was basically a love tap that wouldn't have even raised an eyebrow if Lake had a winning record.