Tuesday Dots: Bob and a Rip Roarin’ Time

Well as we all know by now, Jimmy Lake made the controversial decision after his DC coaching search to promote Bob Gregory from within. Obviously that has been received with various... enthusiasm... so here’s some dots about that:

• Mike Vorel talks about this move being a huge bet Coach Lake’s putting on himself.

• He also has a transcript of everything Jimmy Lake said at his press conference about the decision.

• Meanwhile Lauren Kirschman goes over the hire decision.

• And Christian Caple has a good take on what this hire (after interviewing multiple college and NFL candidates) really tells us about next year’s defense — namely, that in the end it really is Jimmy’s defense and Bob’s more or less the middle man to keep things chugging.

• Also with the new coaching staff shuffling (shuffle-age?), Malloe’s being moved to OLBs while former defensive analyst Rip Rowan has been promoted to DL coach. Prior to the 2019 season, 247Sports named him one of their 30 Under 30 rising stars (a list which also included former Dawg assistant Terrence Brown and the man who’d just a couple months later revolutionize LSU’s offense, Joe Brady).

And while — excuse the opining — I’ve never been a fan of Bob Gregory and the hire is rather underwhelming from a fan perspective, reading this justification by Coach Lake... actually kinda makes sense:

Oh and before we forget, another football thing:

• In the other football news, the UW men’s soccer team is optimistic despite losing three stars to the MLS.

• And in men’s basketball, Jon Wilner gives the arguments for and against cancelling the Pac-12 tournament.

• And in case you missed it, The Athletic re-ranked the 2017 recruiting classes and had UW at 6th behind some big ol’ blue bloods.

Ending on h i s t o r i c news:

Do good things, don’t do bad things, and bow down to Washington.