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CGP might seem he’s worn out his welcome...

Mean Purple

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wife is from washington, multiple udub alums in family, two brother-in-laws are dawg alums and ticket holders.

one of petersen's sons did have i believe cancer when young, but i was under the impression that right now isn't an issue

petersen does not seek the media spot light and this came up when he talked with usc about their job when still at boise. additionally, he didn't like to have to continually beat the drum for the huskies and why they belonged in the cfp.

he is a bit of a purist in believing this all should be decided on the field and not a hotel conference room.

petersen and his staff had a great deal of work to do behind the scenes when they came to seattle because of some big character issues they inherited from sarkisian.

one big example is marcus peters who was a straight running thug at washington and didn't finish 2014 season. apparently on more than one occasion peters and jimmy lake had to be separated in practice and team class rooms.

additionally, petersen is a very straight error in recruiting and the thought that he has grown tired of some of the crap that has happened in recent years. an example is a highly regarded linebacker from washington who needed to take an additional high school class to be admitted in uw and ends up at alabama or some rumblings about some crap pulled by cristobol at oregon.

finally, petersen has a different set of priorities than most head football coaches. he wants to win, he is highly competitive, but talking to families we know who had sons that left the houston area to go play for him at boise, petersen doesn't want to be known primarily as a great football coach.

both sets of parents had no qualms having their sons go to school that farm from home based upon the impression petersen made on them as a person.

so, thought in seattle is he came to this decision not based on one thing, but multiples. very possible he might never return as they can see him finding other things to challenge himself outside of football

he also left huskie football to one of his guys. lake has been with him a very long time, their defense has actually been the bedrock of the program, and they have a solid young team and a great recruiting class on paper.
I would consider Petersen one of the top 5 coaches currently out there. And, yeah, that dude is ultra competitive. but he seems to do it in the right way.
 
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