He is a quirky guy that does nothing but win. With everything there is out there about Leach you would think they knew this already…oh no Leach is weird!!! what a shocker! If they have a chance at Leach and take Hill I might cry…if Leach doesnt want the job (i dont think thats the case) and they go with Hill, than it is what it is. But please do not, not hire him because of what we already knew.

being from Seattle doesn’t it stand to reason that if UW is his dream college football job that the Seahawks would be his dream pro fotball job? If he was about to take over the Houstan Texans or someone like that then I could see him trying to get out of it to come back home.

My guess is that UW will spend the rest of this week putting the full court press on Chris Petersen. If they can’t get him to come after what happened yesterday at Oregon then I suspect they will choose this weekend between Leach & Hill.

…I’ve heard TT is talking more money now and it will be up to UW to come up with the big bucks. Wouldn’t it make just as much sense to go as hard after Petersen and Whittingham? Is Leach the one they want?

Do we have any idea who that is? Is that guy out of the running now?

The guy may be a solid coach but I think the program needs a booster right now and he doesn’t have that kind of pop. I think any of those other guys, Leach, Whitingham or Petersen will get Husky fans fired up.

The guy could be more available now. Talks broke off about a contract extention/raise and the Oregon job appears to be closed at this point.

Whittingham 36-14
Petersen 35-3

Maybe I’m jaded from the Willingham era but I’d take Leach Whittingham or Petersen and feel extremely happy to have any of them!

what are their most impressive wins this year?
Wittingham – home wins against TCU, BYU & Oregon State or
Petersen – on the road against Oregon.

Personally I’d say on the road against Oregon is the better win but Utah absolutly plays a tougher overall schedule .

among the remaining candidates is fine with me. Leach, Hill, Petersen, Whittingham are all proven HCs. What I am most interested in is who and what does the staff look like (Coords, position coaches) . My fear is that we go bankrupt hring a name HC and not have the $$ left to keep a great staff together. At one time, the UW led in paying top dollar for assts, thus keeping good ones from jumping for a lateral move that paid more. That $$ bar has been raised and set by Muschamp and Texas. I think a great staff that we paid well would offset any perceived lack of star power, thus I am not in the “jump off the bridge” category if we hire Hill. Hill has a good record of hiring assistants, he just couldn’t keep them due to lack of cash. I remember when Hawkins jumped to Colorado, a lot of people said Petersen was the brains behind the operation anyway. Lets also look at who in the past we coveted as coordinators: Banker OSU, Gregory Cal, Walker & Chow UCLA, Sarkisian USC, Tedford at Ore then, Petersen at BSU. My whole point is the next HC must be a good judge of coaching development and we need to have the bucks to keep the good ones. I doubt we are going to get many 5 stars until we prove we can win with our recruited 3 stars.

those guys know what they are talking about and the fact that they ALL agreed makes it all the more worth while…thanks for passing along.

If you get the “WOW” factor with one of those hires, it pays for itself. 5000 more butts in Husky Stadium nets almost 2 million clams and that doesn’t include concessions and parking. Why quibble over $500,000?