Washington hires Jedd Fisch

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What is Washington like in terms of groups that will try to interfere with Campbell (e.g. powerful booster clubs, over-the-top academic leaders)? I don't think Campbell would like a situation like that. Pollard gives him a ton of independence here.
 
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If Campbell went higher than 7-6 with the roster this year, then I'd be more worried. Also if Washington wasn't located in Seattle, I'd be more worried.

His performance this year isn't what will hurt him for jobs like that. 4th place in the big 12 after everything that happened in the offseason is a stellar performance there. In a vacuum I think this year could be sold to a fanbase pretty easily.

If i'm a washington fan, 2021 is what takes him off that list for me. It'd be easy to sell the "yeah he was 7-6 at iowa state, but its iowa state, he would do better with our talent pool" angle. But harder to sell that when the team with the most talent and expectations underperformed. And then there's the angle that he's like 1-6 against the big 10.
 

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The team loses everything from the Natty team this year. It's going to be ******* BRUTAL for the next coach to live up to the fans expectations, especially since they won't be playing cupcakes week in and week out like they did in the PAC 12

The Washington schools have always had the worst travel among P5/P6 but their road trips are going to be next level brutal now. It’ll affect bball worse than fb but it’s not going to help.
 
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His performance this year isn't what will hurt him for jobs like that. 4th place in the big 12 after everything that happened in the offseason is a stellar performance there. In a vacuum I think this year could be sold to a fanbase pretty easily.

If i'm a washington fan, 2021 is what takes him off that list for me. It'd be easy to sell the "yeah he was 7-6 at iowa state, but its iowa state, he would do better with our talent pool" angle. But harder to sell that when the team with the most talent and expectations underperformed. And then there's the angle that he's like 1-6 against the big 10.

I doubt we’ll ever have a combo like Purdy Hall Kolar X again and the offense still had brutal games that year. It’s an incredibly fair criticism.
 
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As always, despite what our fans think, he’s on a lot of coaching lists. He turned it down 2 years ago. Could he be interested this time? Sure. But it seems less likely.
I actually think Campbell would be more willing to move this time around, but I don’t think he’s nearly as desired.

Reading sentiment from Husky fans on Twitter and message boards, they want Grubb or Fisch. I didn’t see Campbell (or frankly many others from Thamel’s list) mentioned once.

Granted that is just fan sentiment, but it’s a good place to start to gauge how serious of a contender he’d be.
 

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Seattle’s a nice town if you go in reality and don’t watch Fox News.

I wouldn’t want to live there for a lot of reasons, but not one of them is related to politics or some perceived urban danger. It’s expensive, crowded, and the climate is awful (for what I want).

Campbell’s family loves Ames. Living in Seattle would be wildly different.
 

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The team loses everything from the Natty team this year. It's going to be ******* BRUTAL for the next coach to live up to the fans expectations, especially since they won't be playing cupcakes week in and week out like they did in the PAC 12
The Pac-12 was stronger top to bottom than the Big 10 this year. Washington had one of the toughest schedules in college football and still went 14-0.
 

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Seattle’s a nice town if you go in reality and don’t watch Fox News.

I wouldn’t want to live there for a lot of reasons, but not one of them is related to politics or some perceived urban danger. It’s expensive, crowded, and the climate is awful (for what I want).

Campbell’s family loves Ames. Living in Seattle would be wildly different.
Seattle is very nice, but it does have a homeless problem, like most cities in the Western US (including my beloved Denver)

Doesn’t necessarily make it a bad place to live. Everyone’s tolerance for that is different.
 
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Here we go :rolleyes: have you?
No, but he's "heard" things on his tv, I'm sure.

Seattle is absolutely awesome. It's been probably 5-6 years since I've been. I used to really like the EMP (Experience the Music Project) which was rebranded as the Museum of Pop Culture. They used to have a ton of exhibits about the creation of grunge music, old Jimi memorabilia, ton's of Nirvana stuff, and a level where you could create as well.

The UW campus is immaculate and their stadium/location is unmatched.
 
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