I have some news for you. The UW has never been a blue blood football program. NEVER. It only has won one or two National Titles in its history. Bama has won EIGHTEEN of those! UM has won ten of them. Etc., etc. The UW is at a level well below that of the true blue blood college football schools. It has had relatively short flashes of gr…
I have some news for you. The UW has never been a blue blood football program. NEVER. It only has won one or two National Titles in its history. Bama has won EIGHTEEN of those! UM has won ten of them. Etc., etc. The UW is at a level well below that of the true blue blood college football schools. It has had relatively short flashes of greatness, but that is not even remotely the same as being in serious contention for a National Title year after year. This year was a flash in the pan, which happened in large part with players recruited by Petersen and then mostly developed by KDB and his staff. But guess what? KDB and his staff did very poorly in recruiting high school talent! They did pretty well in portal recruiting, but that is a very temporary fix. The only thing that KDB did for the UW that has some staying power - maybe - is that he put the program in the national spotlight for one year. He raised its national profile for ONE year. But now he is nothing but history at the UW. It will be entirely up to some other coach now to build a sustainable program that can win a lot over a significant period of time. KDB really did not leave a whole lot in the football cupboards at the UW! He knew that next season was going to be a very, very challenging one because so many players were leaving after this year. He much preferred heading to Bama where there is tons of talent on the roster than staying at the UW and having to actually build a sustainable program. That is the truly hard thing to do. KDB has not done that anywhere yet! KDB had no chance at all to do what he did at the UW in his short two year tenure without all of the talent that Coach Pete recruited.
I have some news for you. The UW has never been a blue blood football program. NEVER. It only has won one or two National Titles in its history. Bama has won EIGHTEEN of those! UM has won ten of them. Etc., etc. The UW is at a level well below that of the true blue blood college football schools. It has had relatively short flashes of greatness, but that is not even remotely the same as being in serious contention for a National Title year after year. This year was a flash in the pan, which happened in large part with players recruited by Petersen and then mostly developed by KDB and his staff. But guess what? KDB and his staff did very poorly in recruiting high school talent! They did pretty well in portal recruiting, but that is a very temporary fix. The only thing that KDB did for the UW that has some staying power - maybe - is that he put the program in the national spotlight for one year. He raised its national profile for ONE year. But now he is nothing but history at the UW. It will be entirely up to some other coach now to build a sustainable program that can win a lot over a significant period of time. KDB really did not leave a whole lot in the football cupboards at the UW! He knew that next season was going to be a very, very challenging one because so many players were leaving after this year. He much preferred heading to Bama where there is tons of talent on the roster than staying at the UW and having to actually build a sustainable program. That is the truly hard thing to do. KDB has not done that anywhere yet! KDB had no chance at all to do what he did at the UW in his short two year tenure without all of the talent that Coach Pete recruited.