re: If Auburn had Peterson and UW had Malzahn,

So lets view this situation now that the season is over and we know how they ended


Washington Season

Pac12 Champs (10-4)

Games against Ranked Teams

Auburn(9) - L
BYU(20) - W
Oregon(17) - L
Washington St(8) - W
Ohio State(6) - L

Quality Wins

BYU
Washington ST?

Bad Loses

Cal (7-6)


Auburn Season

Games against Ranked Teams

Washington(6) - W
LSU(6) - L
Texas AM (20) - W
Georgia (5)- L
Alabama(1) - L


Quality Wins

Texas AM
Washington

Bad Loses

Tennessee - (5-7)



Strength of schedule

Auburn - 6
Washington - 18





A lot of meh in this thread. Very little difference between these two seasons. In really, Petterson accomplished more by winning his conference but lets face it, that was not big deal. He lost every big game he played in except Washington St.

Gus did not win anything for the trophy case but played a much harder schedule and all the loses other than the Vols was against a ranked team. Plus won head to head

Yep

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A lot of meh. . .

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So what does those 2 turnovers for Washington (1 fumble - 1 interception) mean in a 5 point game?

eta: Interesting 5 points total in their other two regular season losses and also 5 points in their bowl game. Seems like (on surface) far fewer what if's for Peterson than Gus. (just at a quick glance).

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So what does those 2 turnovers for Washington (1 fumble - 1 interception) mean in a 5 point game

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Not a road we should go down in this type of discussion. We would then have to bring up our games agains LSU, Vols and Miss St. All were winnable if the players didnt make shitty mistakes.

This is about what happened. Not what could have happened

You don't pay much attention to recruiting rankings. Oregon doesn't recruit highly. Sure, they get a few top players, but not many

Washington was a joke this year. Gus would win the league and Rose Bowl in that league. Certainly would do better than Helton at USC, who people on this board tried to tell me last year was a better coach

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Washington was a joke this year. Gus would win the league and Rose Bowl in that league. Certainly would do better than Helton at USC, who people on this board tried to tell me last year was a better coach

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Im just looking at the two coaches performance this year and trying to figure out why Petterson would be such a great improvement as so many here tried to say. The ones who were being real. He does well but honestly, he has not really achieved anything great at Washington and has pretty much lost most of his big games since he has been there.

I bet Peterson would not have lost to Tennessee, Miss St. and LSU.

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According to your sig, he doesn’t recruit the inner cities enough.

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Finally a proper response.

Nope. But Lanier and the GusShortBus suckers will defend to the end.

As far as my OP: I said GusShortBus needed to take the next step in 2018. Instead, he fell back into his mediocre 8-5 self. But at least he had the team ready for the bowl game this time, so I will give him credit for that improvement.

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USC and Oregon doenst seem to have any problems recruiting and building big programs out west. Why should Washington if Petterson is that kind of coach?

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You are comparing Washington to two of the most funded athletic programs in the country. I could be wrong on this but I think UW had like one 10 win season since 2000 before Peterson and he already has like 3 in five years.

My problem with Gus is that he wastes years that could be good we should have made the playoffs last year but choked against LSU and Georgia. We never have a complete team where offense and defense is good except last year which was probably our most balanced year.

You can blame our struggles on a QB who doesn’t fit our system and that’s fine. However that still falls on Gus imo. It’s not like Stidham was some walk on forced to play by injuries. We wanted him. I could probably forgive it if he hadn’t failed with Sean White and Jeremy Johnson the years before. I know he did well with Nick but we can’t sit here and pretend he is a good evaluator because he hit on one dude.

I don’t hate Gus and I would love to keep him because I do think he is a good HC in terms of getting staff, staying clean, etc however I’m just not sure he is going to be able to stay out of his own way in regards to the offense. The formula for success is literally there but it’s like he wants to prove he isn’t a one trick pony. That’s what he is, however that one trick is really good