Lake suspended without pay for the ASU game

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Re: Lake suspended without pay for the ASU game

Post by Michael K. » Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:45 pm

D-train wrote:
Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:12 pm
Sibelius Hindemith wrote:
Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:07 pm
What Jimmy Lake did looked more like what players do to a teammate that just made a great play. Nothing violent about it really. But these are the times we live in.
Yeah I guess he wasn't aware of the times we live in but he should given that is likely one of the main reason he got the job.....
Sorry, it was a nice little excuse to get the ball rolling. What he did, pushing the kid, or what ever, had little to do with his suspension. If he was winning and not fucking up repeatedly? It would have been quickly poo poo'd. How many times do we go over stuff like this? Coaches are no different than players....when you suck you aren't allowed to screw up. Jimmy sucks.

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Re: Lake suspended without pay for the ASU game

Post by D-train » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:21 am

So does he still make the call on the starting QB while suspended???
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Re: Lake suspended without pay for the ASU game

Post by D-train » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:31 am

Caple says he doesn't survive.
SEATTLE — The suspension is for one game, without pay. Jimmy Lake will not be on Washington’s sideline when it hosts Arizona State on Saturday. Bob Gregory, the defensive coordinator, will act as head coach. Lake ostensibly could resume his head coaching duties the very next day; that’s when the suspension is formally lifted, as the school detailed Monday in a release from athletic director Jen Cohen.

Maybe Lake will return to coach against Colorado. Maybe he’ll finish the season. Or maybe the school will decide between now and then that it’s better off cutting ties with its embattled head coach and will formally commence its now inevitable search for his replacement.

“I don’t know,” said Gregory, asked whether he expects Lake to return next week. “That’s up to Jen.”

But you must know where this is headed, whether it’s this week or the next or the next.

UW isn’t going to fire Lake solely because he struck walk-on linebacker Ruperake Fuavai during a sideline altercation in the first half of Saturday’s loss to Oregon, though it is why the school suspended him. No, UW ultimately must move on because Lake struck one of his players in the midst of a 4-5 season wrought by a failed offensive coordinator hire and questionable game management — and punctuated by a series of public comments that suggest he just doesn’t get it.

How can Washington possibly go forward with Lake as its coach? There’s no coming back from this, no potential triumph redeeming enough to justify retaining somebody who has so thoroughly embarrassed the program — and whose boss now has saddled him with a permanent demerit on his resume. Recruiting against UW would have been easy enough based solely on the Huskies’ record and offensive numbers. Imagine what opposing coaches could come up with now that Lake has been suspended for a physical altercation with a player.

Understand: Were this an 8-1 team with Pac-12 championship aspirations, the sideline incident would not have prompted talk of termination. It might not have even led to a suspension. But the Huskies are not 4-5 by accident. Lake’s hire of offensive coordinator John Donovan proved to be a mistake, evidenced by the fact Lake fired him Sunday.

The defense has not improved in the one area (stopping the run) Lake vowed it would. He took an unnecessary — and he says unintentional — shot at Oregon’s academics in the week leading up to Saturday’s game, then oversaw an abysmal performance in which the Huskies managed only seven first downs.

Recruiting is down. Attendance won’t be far behind. Parents have vented their frustrations on social media. And when he was asked Saturday night about the altercation with Fuavai — a young player now thrust into the kind of spotlight nobody asks for — Lake said he didn’t strike him but merely separated him from the opposing player.

Lake was far more contrite in a statement posted to his Twitter account Monday evening, in which he apologized to the team, and more specifically to Fuavai, Cohen and president Ana Mari Cauce. “Our team has the right to expect better than what I displayed on Saturday,” Lake wrote, in part, “and I’m committed to doing just that — being better so our program will reflect all that’s good about being a Washington Husky.”


Examine the sideline incident through the lens of surrounding context, and you see an athletic director who likely feels she is out of options. Whether Lake should be punished for putting hands on a player is one matter. But the lasting image is of somebody who lost control of his temper and his program. It’s one more thing. It’s one more strike against a coach who already has irritated Cohen with flippant public remarks about his team’s struggles, and it happened before a national television audience and received so much attention she had no choice but to act.

The only question now seems to be when Cohen will announce her decision on Lake’s future and what the terms of Lake’s separation might be. Were he fired without cause, the school would owe him all compensation remaining on his contract, which runs through the 2024 season — about $10 million at present. There exists the possibility, though, that in exchange for UW not seeking a for-cause termination, Lake could agree to a separation that would pay him some amount less than his full buyout but significantly more than the zilch UW would owe in the event of a firing for cause.

The language in UW’s news release suggests it won’t seek to sidestep the entirety of Lake’s buyout. Cohen said her executive staff did not believe Lake’s actions were “intentional or deliberate,” and the school did specify his suspension would last precisely one week, with a reinstatement date of Nov. 14 (Sunday). So long as nothing else comes to light, that seemingly is a public acknowledgment that UW is OK with Lake returning to coach the football team — whether he actually does — which is not a course of action that suggests the school plans to play hardball.

In the meantime, UW will press forward with Gregory at the helm and with receivers coach Junior Adams replacing Donovan as the play caller. Gregory and Adams met with the media Monday afternoon, the first time anyone from UW has been made available since Saturday’s game. Both referred to the sideline altercation as “unfortunate” and said their priority is supporting their players and giving them the best possible chance to beat Arizona State.

“They’re kids. They’re college kids. They hear all the outside noise, and they know this is a challenging time for us,” said Gregory, who at 58 is the most veteran member of Lake’s staff. “I’d be lying if I said they didn’t know that. Of course they do. But they also are competitors and they want to go out and practice and win. All that being said, I’m not sure if it matters if I’m the interim guy or whoever it is, these guys are going to compete and play hard.”

They have three more chances to win the two games necessary to qualify for a bowl. There’s no telling who their head coach will be for any of those beyond Saturday.

It seems all but certain, though, that they will be playing for somebody new in 2022. Lake said it himself: The program has a right to expect better, and UW has no choice now but to look elsewhere to fulfill that responsibility.
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Re: Lake suspended without pay for the ASU game

Post by Michael K. » Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:40 pm

D-train wrote:
Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:21 am
So does he still make the call on the starting QB while suspended???
They asked Brock on the radio about the rumor that they are splitting snaps in practice. He basically said that is how it is being reported, but he sure didn't seem to believe it.

Also said he sees no reason they will burn his redshirt, which means he can only play in two more games anyway.

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Re: Lake suspended without pay for the ASU game

Post by Walla Walla Dawg II » Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:06 pm

Strikes against Lake include:
1. Hiring a shitty OC.
2. Losing out on 3-4 prime recruits in the 2021 class (these were local recruits). What will he lose in the 2022 class?
3. Man-Handling a player on the sideline....he should have been called for face-masking.
4. Having a bad rush defense.

Sorry dude, he just wasn't ready for the prime time.

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