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Trav said:
Him and Mario have bad blood.
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Yeah, Mario was flat-out kicking Lake's *** in recruiting the past two years and when the media questioned Jimmy about it the week of the Huskies-Ducks game, he deflected with some BS about Washington's recruiting rivals being Stanford, Notre Dame and academic-type schools — and not Oregon.

It was made-up garbage (Ducks-Huskies is like a JV version of Buckeyes-Wolverines for the West Coast - they go at it 24/7 in everything) and Mario deservedly backhanded Lake after the game.

Bottom-line, though: Lake was a very good DB coach, an average-ish DC and an absolutely incompetent HFC. His focus and effort in recruiting got worse and worse to where eventually he stopped caring about it altogether.

Lake is not even close to good enough as a coordinator to work for a balls to the wall recruiting savage like Mario.

We can and will do much better then hiring a position coach who got badly exposed when he moved up the ladder.
 
Jimmy Lake is who I hope we get for DC. His defenses are fundamentally sound, play hard and can tackle. Plus I like his gameplans and adjustments especially against air raid. He owned Leach when Leach was at WSU.
 
JayCane20 said:
Another guy that loves upperclassman and fans complained he didn’t play the young guys… and has a complex defensive scheme making it hard for young guys to play.

Do what you want with that information.
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Hard Pass
 
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SayWhat said:
Not my style, but the fact that some have a problem with that says more about them than it does him. Society is going so **** soft.
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Lake was less than two full seasons in. a young black head coach who had been successful as an assistant/DC and considered a rising star. He was hand picked by Chris Peterson at a progressive institution in an uber liberal part of the world. Firing him because they sucked at that point would have been very difficult optics wise. If they had a winning record or were trending up this would have been a non issue. The reality is UW was looking terrible and this was a convenient excuse. He was losing his base and it was pretty evident what was doing wasn’t working. Lake had already fired his OC and they simply refused to make adjustments.
 
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although firing seemed to be for the smallest reason ever... it was pretty telling that not many people in the university, fanbase, and team fought back at the decision
 
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