When did you know the Huskies were in deep trouble under Lake?

When did you know the Huskies were in deep trouble under Lake?

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Don't make me dig back and find my arguments with posters here dooging out over the "big dick quarterback" Utah comeback and how Petersen would have never had a comeback win like that (ironically, Utah was also the only team Petersen was able to pull the same feat off against, Wittingham going full retard on both occasions), so Lake was clearly an upgrade over Petersen.

"Chris Petersen doesn't get down 17 points at half to Utah, so that's a stupid comparison" is how I'll paraphrase my response. "Chris Petersen doesn't get down three touchdowns in the first half to homeless Stanford" the following week.

Hell, I was pissed after the OSU game, as they should have lost that, too. I was WAY more concerned with what I saw on[/i] the field than everyone's much bigger concerns off of it. Which reminds me: Poll options should be added for the Donovan hire and Kwiatkowski leaving to join Sark. The latter, in particular, pretty much proved the ship was sinking.
 
Honestly, it was some interview he gave after he was first hired. So many of his answers were stuff that Sark would say.

The Donovan hire cemented my misgivings.
 
Here are the three things, in order, that let me know this would eventually end in failure (I just didn't think it would be so soon).

1) Hiring Jon Don
2) Recruiting collapse
3) Losing Kwat, then upping the humiliation by replacing him with Gregory

The first two were huge harbingers. but number 3 is when I knew without question that this was a train wreck that was going to happen, the only question was when. Then the when question was answered during the 3rd quarter of the Montana game.
 
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watching this team line up in the fucking I formation.

watching no NFL teams use a fullback.

'we' want to have an nfl offense!
 
Recruiting collapse.
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If it's true that Jimmy was being lazy about recruiting because he was so sure that we would win on the field and make up for it then it's a crime against college football that he gets to coach a conference game.

He can have this micky mouse ass weekend and then him and Don Jon are gone and Malloe can finish out the year with Adams as OC, and then the fucking Pete Squad is done after a miserable apple cup.

If/When he makes it to conference play and gets his shit pushed in by Cal running Michigan's game plan, I hope that is enough to finally convince the druid President.
 
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It's been "likely a disaster but we'll LIPO" since the initial struggle finding an OC, at which point I remember posting my favorite gif.

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I don't know when it went from "maybe 1% chance this works out" to the current "welp, we fucked"
I'm not sure it matters. We fucked. OC, other head-scratching assistant coach decisions, recruiting shit-show, a general slowly increasing feeling of alarm, shitty Oregon state game, shittier Utah start, shittier Stanford game, bunch of alarming transfers...nothing has been good.

OK, his QB lead one of the 5 great 4th quarter comebacks in Greatest Setting history. But hey, even Pete had (1) 4th quarter comeback, also against Whittingham. And they shouldn't have been in that position in the first place. Just sayin'

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Honestly, it was some interview he gave after he was first hired. So many of his answers were stuff that Sark would say.

The Donovan hire cemented my misgivings.
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Well, I asked when you knew he was in "deep" trouble. I had some misgivings when he was hired. But I saw an upside too.
 
Donovan hire was it for me. Didn't think it would automatically mean going from 8 wins to 0 under real season circumstances. Thought the death would be prolonged over a few years, but it was inevitable.
 
Donovan hire for me as well. I really tried hard to find any glimmer of hope or silver lining with the hire but it was tough to find anything. The only thing I could try to cling to was that he hired Joe Brady and appeared to still have a relationship with him but that was a stretch. From the jump I thought the way Jimmy described what his offense would be sounded fucktarded. "Aggressive, bruising, attack style offense". Who the fuck talks like that?

But even with his terrible hires and shitty recruiting I didn't think the bottom would fall out so quick. Relative to the talent on the roster, this team is on pace to be the most disappointing and underachieving UW team in modern history.
 
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Montana looked like they weren’t expecting to win till late in the 3rd quarter when they figured out we? literally didn’t want to win. Jerry Jensens disgusted look as the third quarter legend said it all for me.
 
It's pretty impressive how quickly everyone went back to hating the program. Frustration followed by apathy for UW athletics is like riding a bike
 
The final coffin nail for me was the absolute crap recruiting in 2020 followed by our two most experienced WR's deciding that it was time to move on to other programs for 2021, which told everyone what these guys expected out of the offense for 2021.

When Puka, Calvert and Garbers left, and then Coach K mailed it in ~ like a lot of people, I realized that this was the front wave of everyone of value in the program heading out the door ASAP ~ to be replaced by nobody in the continuation of our wretchedly miserable recruiting.

The collapse of what has happened since has been nothing short of a seismic collapse ~ I have never seen anything like it over such a short timeframe.

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I was LIPO because I watched other good teams start slow earlier in the day/week only to blow them out in the second half. No adjustments made by the coaches and no life in the team brought it back to reality
 
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