CC: Who Does Washington Hire?
With Kalen DeBoer all but signed in Tuscaloosa...who does Washington hire to replace him?
(FYI - I've already looked at their roster and their commitments...no one stands out as an obvious transfer candidate. Alabama seems to have more guys that Michigan has or would target.)
January 12th, 2024 at 2:57 PM ^
Johnathan smith?
January 12th, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^
John L Smith???
January 12th, 2024 at 9:25 PM ^
That would be a slap in the face.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:37 PM ^
That was my first thought. I'll bet he regrets accepting a lateral move to MSU now, considering he could have moved up to Washington.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:22 PM ^
lateral move........maybe they coax Pete Carroll back to the college ranks since he's already in Seattle (I know it won't happen but still)
January 12th, 2024 at 4:23 PM ^
I agree he didn’t let it play out and jumped at the first bag could’ve been in a much better situation than he is.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:00 PM ^
God, the hilarity of the situation alone makes me want that so damn bad.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:46 PM ^
His buyout is only $7M.
January 12th, 2024 at 6:36 PM ^
He’s getting $7 million w a $7 million buyout on a 7 year deal.
Washington was offering deboer $9 million so they have the $$$
this would be awesome.
January 12th, 2024 at 7:36 PM ^
Steve Sarkisian
January 12th, 2024 at 2:58 PM ^
I'm sad. I started this thread with "OT - CC: Who..."
But it's not OT anymore. 🥹
College football season is over.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:07 PM ^
Opponent for next season (and in-conference). Not OT.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:05 PM ^
Right, it's not like we're talking about Purdue here.
*gets a whisper in the ear*
They're a conference opponent? But we've played them like 3 times in 15 years it feels like. Haven't we played Western Michigan more than that?
January 12th, 2024 at 4:26 PM ^
... Purdue plays football?
January 12th, 2024 at 4:48 PM ^
*shrugs*
I think so?
January 12th, 2024 at 8:34 PM ^
I went to the game against Purdue, but honestly it looked more like UM was playing the Ypsilanti YMCA...
January 12th, 2024 at 2:58 PM ^
Ryan Grubb
January 13th, 2024 at 1:47 PM ^
Johnny Grubb
January 12th, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^
Jake Dickert
This is actually a legit suggestion. Dickert's the Wazzu HC whose team nearly knocked off UW in the Apple Cup, if not for the Odunze end-around on 4th and 1:
January 12th, 2024 at 3:10 PM ^
Dan Dickau
January 12th, 2024 at 3:29 PM ^
Dickon Dickau
January 12th, 2024 at 3:51 PM ^
I might apply for it.
January 12th, 2024 at 5:46 PM ^
Tricky, Dick
January 12th, 2024 at 4:07 PM ^
Obligatory: Dirk Diggler
January 12th, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^
Either promote Ryan Grubb or hire Jedd Fisch from Arizona.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:00 PM ^
Jedd would be a fantasic choice...
January 12th, 2024 at 4:05 PM ^
Good shit Jedd
January 12th, 2024 at 3:04 PM ^
UW would be a lateral move for Jedd, and I don't think the program can afford to out-bid Arizona. His extension isn't done because he's waiting on Harbaugh's decision.
Edit: I don't know Jedd.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:06 PM ^
I don’t think it’s at all a lateral move. Washington is a much bigger job with a history of success that Arizona has never had. And they’re going to be in a much better conference. I imagine Washington will still be making more money from their partial Big Ten share compared to what Arizona is getting from the Big 12.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^
Exactly, no longer a lateral move (if it ever was, which I don't agree with given Washington's history) now that Washington's in the Big Ten and Arizona's in the Big 12.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:22 PM ^
Plus, the University of Arizona has a massive budget shortfall that probably prevents them from matching any offer Fisch would receive.
https://kjzz.org/content/1867904/university-arizonas-budget-crisis-just-got-more-controversial-tucson#:~:text=It%20wasn't%20too%20long,he%20attributed%20to%20financial%20miscalculation.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:07 PM ^
I think going from a mid-level Big 12 program to Washington - a team that just went 14-1 and is moving into the Big Ten - is a clear step up, not lateral move.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:16 PM ^
Jedd's returning a strong team that will compete to win the new Big-12. He would have to completely start over at UW, which will be an average team in the new B1G.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:36 PM ^
Yeah but he'd be going to a place with a much higher ceiling in a significantly better conference and who is going to have a much bigger budget over time.
Washington is head and shoulders a much better job compared to Arizona. And I don't think it's at all clear Washington is going to be an average team next year.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:18 PM ^
UW's ceiling in the B1G next year is probably seventh (behind Michigan, OSU, PSU, Oregon, USC, and UCLA), and even that will be tough.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:26 PM ^
Their entire offense is going to NFL and the defense was mid and losing a guy like trice. That is a complete rebuild for next season. Got to think Deboer will transfer anyone that can play too. Washington about to go to the dark ages
January 13th, 2024 at 11:39 AM ^
You do have a point there - the Big 12 is weakened without Texas and Oklahoma and Jedd has a veteran team returning.
UW is a better job longer term IMO with B10 backing now but for the next 12 months might be in for some struggles and Jedd has a pretty good gig.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:09 PM ^
Washington was willing to pay DeBoer $9 million a year to keep him which was essentially doubling his salary so… I don’t think Zona could do that.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:14 PM ^
Even assuming that's legit (doubtful!), there's no way they could get that deal approved for somebody who's not DeBoer.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:11 PM ^
Arizona is a basketball school. They have little football tradition except here and there. And you can say that about PHX in general too. UW is defined a football school w proud and deep tradition, a Natty, and Seattle loves the gridiron generally. Then on top of that factor Big Ten/Eighteen >> Big 12/16.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^
Seattle is an NFL town. Folks rallied around the UW football team the last two years, but the vast majority of that team's production is going to the NFL.
January 12th, 2024 at 3:42 PM ^
Truth
January 12th, 2024 at 3:50 PM ^
^ This
UW, even at their peak, will always be a distant, distant second place to the Seahawks (i.e. the opposite of Michigan, where UM & MSU have much more dedicated fanbases than the Lions).
Washington is a solid program with a history to be sure, but living in Seattle, their fanbase is much weaker than most in the Big Ten (even if their program is better).
The only West Coast schools with good football fanbases (i.e. on the level of the Midwest/South) are Oregon and USC (and USC's are extremely fair-weathered compared to average). Utah does as well but they aren't really fully West Coast.
January 12th, 2024 at 5:21 PM ^
MSU has a more dedicated fanbase than the Lions? Strong disagreement there. The Lions have an insanely loyal fanbase given all the decades of futility they’ve experienced.
If they ever make a Super Bowl it will be absolutely nuts.
January 13th, 2024 at 11:41 AM ^
Lions and Wolverines both have effin dedicated fanbases. Even in RR year there were 100K in the stadium. Yes here or there Lions fans didn't fill the stadium but fergodsakes it's the worst franchise in sports last 6 decades up there with the LA Clippers. What the Lions have done to their fanbase is abuse for decades. And yet still top of mind for every sports fan here even when Pistons and Red Wings reigned supreme.
MSU football is an after thought - they can't even get 70K to show up some games.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:18 PM ^
U of Arizona is in Tucson. ASU is in Phoenix(Tempe)
January 12th, 2024 at 4:38 PM ^
How is it a lateral move? Washington is a much better job and is in the B1G.
Arizona is not even in a P2 conference.
January 12th, 2024 at 4:48 PM ^
It's a lateral move for Jedd. Neither UW nor Arizona is a premier program. His best chance to take one of those jobs is to continue to succeed with the program that he's already built, not start from scratch in the shadow of a magical two-year run that's about to end abruptly.
January 12th, 2024 at 5:23 PM ^
Washington has made the CFP twice, with two different coaches. Arizona has never come close. And now UW is joining the Big Ten.