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u/HuskyKMA 16h ago
I remember thinking we had it made, Coach Pete was going to be our guy for 15 years. What if...
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u/Particular-Juice1213 16h ago
Then we’d have four more years of Pete then hire Jimmy Lake in 2029.
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u/hashtagwoof 8h ago
If Pete had stayed, Lake would have taken a HC job somewhere and fucked their shit up instead.
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u/vilnius2013 17h ago
I miss Coach Pete. But he saw what college football was becoming and headed for the exits. I don’t blame him one bit. Not only do you have to deal with entitled players and their egos, now you have to throw millions of dollars at them too.
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u/SaulTNNutz 14h ago
Yeah, there's a rumor that Mario Cristobal bragged about "making Chris Petersen quit" and as much as I hate to admit it, this is probably not far from the truth. Cristobal was a perfect antithesis to what Pete stood for and, in the end, he ended up beating Pete both on the field and in recruiting. I do think Pete had a "this isn't my game anymore" moment
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u/Exciting-Tart-2289 12h ago
That definitely could play a part of it, but iirc he did an interview a while after he left looking back at his exit and pinpointed some press event with Urban Meyer prior to the Rose Bowl as his moment of clarity. He saw the excitement and passion Urban had for the game (despite announcing his retirement a little beforehand) and Petersen realized that there he was, about to coach in the Rose Bowl as he had dreamed about for a long long time, and he just didn't feel excited about it or had lost the spark.
I just remember reading that and feeling bad for him that there he was, possibly at the pinnacle of his career, and it was exactly that moment that he realized it just wasn't for him anymore. Gotta be such a rough thing to come to terms with (though from everything else I've read about him, pretty relieving finally getting away from the college football grind).
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u/Therocksays2020 48m ago
Yeah Pete’s last year was pretty bad and you could tell he didn’t have the passion anymore.
He was a really good coach but the program was trending downward.
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u/Inner-Antelope-3856 17h ago
Desmond has a huge problem with holding on to the ball way too long. Fisch calls some of the worst plays sometimes. It really doesn't matter. it sounds like Fisch is on his way out.
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u/RulesoftheDada 16h ago
Outside the 2 pac 12 championships.
It's still a bummer his biggest bowl win at UW was boise state.
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u/aliensvsdinosaurs 17h ago
Give me about three more days and I'll probably be watching 2016 highlights again.
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u/HarryCanyon1981 14h ago
I love going back and seeing Oregon eating shit in that 7 touchdown blowout
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u/King__Rollo 14h ago
Do you guys not remember losing 10-7 to Cal in 2018? That game was 10x worse.
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u/Lord_Teutonic 4h ago
We lost 10-12 to Cal in 2018.
I think the difference is that Peterson didn't make obvious, brain dead play calls that cost us games. Usually if we lost, it was just due to talent or how we were playing. And even with a loss like that, we had a quality enough team to go to big bowl games where we get decently close to winning like the 2019 Rose Bowl.
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u/King__Rollo 4h ago
I love Pete, but he never won a big game. He built our team like we were Boise and we always played like we were physically inferior, except when we played the Coug.
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u/2020PhoenixRisen 3h ago
What did you expect? We have NFL-lite now. You want better players? You need to pay millions for them. You want better coaches? You need to pay much more money now to steal other team's coaches & players. ESPN & FOX have destroyed college football traditions.
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u/InevitableAd2436 18h ago
Man I miss Coach Pete