Chris Petersen to Washington

I want Chris Peterson in Ann Arbor.Damn!

This makes Kalen Ballage to MSU likely.  Ugh.

washington has coach poached, gets better coach.

 

Whoa. Did not see that one coming.

Wonder if he'll try to poach any of Hoke's westcoast-native staff, specifically Funk.

Hear me out, the places that came calling, for the most part, were programs with extremely high expectations that often required rebuilding (not necessarily USC, but still) where at the first signs of everything not coming up Milhouse you get canned.

At Washington he has a decent base left from the previous staff, but still has time to build his program the way he wants and isn't required to get 9-10 wins every year. It's a step up where the program has pretty damn good potential, he knows how to recruit to that area in general, but is also quite safe. So it kind of gives him the best of all worlds.

Watch out, Pac 12. That north division is wide open with Oregon and Stanford having peaked.

I compare Pedersen's career progression to John Belein's. Steady progression combined with a reasonable sense of loyalty. If Pedersen is successful at UW he still has a chance to go to a truly elite job some day but can still live and work within reasonably boundaries on his own terms. Commend him on his choice if it involves a combination of meeting career and family needs.

Remember when Dirk Koetter was all the rage after his stint at Boise? And Dan Hawkins? And Brent Pease was supposed to take all that Boise magic with him to Florida?

I'm going to let this one play out before I call it a home run hire.

Really? After all of the A-list jobs he has been offered over the last few years, he finally settles for Washington?

Hopefully this means no more Blue Turf on my teevee.  Hurts my eyes.  My perfectly manicured lawn is green not blue.

 

I guess now we just have Jon Gruden as the coach rumor board now. To be honest though i thought he was never leave Boise but it seems like a good fit for Washington its not a win now school and they will let him do build it his way doesnt have to feel like he was going to be micromanage. Now I wonder if Sark will try to poach Nussmeier from Bama to USC.

I was in Chicago the weekend that Washington played Illinois at Soldier Field.  I was amazed at how the Washington faithful turned out.   There were more of them running around than Illini "fans".    Must be a great job on the west coast.

Peterson recruits that area and seems to be well respected there. Good fit for him and the school.

I actually think Washington is getting an upgrade.

#narduzzitoboise

Every single team has a good coach now. Or, at least, has a coach considered to be a good up and comer. If the Big Ten is going to compete they need to start having their middling teams hire good coaches, hopefully it started with Minnesota and Kill. (It also needs Michigan to have a top staff, but that's for a different post).

 

I also don't get the shock over him leaving for Washington. Washington has great facilities, one of the loudest stadiums in the country, has tradition (second most PAC 12 Rose Bowls after USC), and good recruiting. It's also in a pretty cool city. It's not like he went to Oregon State or Wazzu.

Color me shocked.  I live in Seattle right now and can't wait to get out.  The main reasons for me are the weather, the traffic and the depressed people.  Other than that it's a cool city.

I don't understand the people saying You-Dub is a bad move...it's a good school w/ better facilities than most, an historically successful program with a MNC within the last 25 years, and it's located in a beautiful city.  If a guy can recruit reasonably well and coach AT ALL (and Petersen can seemingly do both) there's no reason he shouldn't do well there.

2014 at Hawaii, then home to Eastern Washington, Illinois, Georgia State.

He'll be all the rage with a 4-0 start, then it gets serious.

I think that Washington being a decent program without necessarily being a top tier one actually helped it land Peterson ... There are people who would rather start off-broadway than getting pushed into the bright lights of broadway right away.

Narduzzi to Boise. Calling it now

Now Colin Cowherd has his doppelgänger coaching his favorite team...besides USC.

I guess I have two big questions here: Where does Boise go from here? And after all the jobs that have courted/been rumored to have courted Petersen, why this one, and why now?

I mean, I like it. Washington is a great program that could probably be quite easily resurrected into a power in a conference verging on being the SEC West. The ceiling was probably hit at BSU like four years ago, and you can only recruit on the SmurfTurf Effect for so long before you want something more. But what made Petersen pick this moment?

People who are downplaying Petersen's success at Boise because they play in a weak conference or comparing him to Dan Hawkins are not accounting for how Boise performed against BCS schools. Here's a list of who Boise beat under Petersen: Washington, Georgia, Arizona State, Virginia Tech, Oregon State (twice), Oregon (twice), and Oklahoma (who can forget that one). Dan Hawkins' resume at Boise was not nearly as impressive.

Dude is legitimately one of the best coaches in the game. If I was a Washington fan, I would be having a party right now.

A very good situation for Peterson to walk into.  Sark has recruited very well, and UW is in better shape now than at any time in the last 10 years.  I think he would have left earlier, had his predecessor at Boise, Hawkins, not flamed out at Colorado. 

It always seemed like CP would either wait it out for a big, big job or stay at Boise. Washington seems like he's settling. They used to be good?