I heard that.
– Undefeated.
– Favored to win the conference
– Could very well be in the playoffs
– Fruits of his labor now finally showing
What does he do? He solicits a job interview elsewhere in the middle of a championship season while under contract with UW.
Doesn't make much sense to me. But maybe its just over my head. lol
It doesn't make sense to you because you misrepresented what he said. I know you read the 24/7 board all the time. It's fine if you want to disagree with someone on their inside sources and your inside sources. I myself have none. However, don't change what he said to make your argument better. As the British would say that's not cricket. He didn't say that Peterson solicited an interview with us. These things are done through an agent, so Peterson can say that he has not talked to Texas. Peterson said he will talk to us after the season which makes sense to me. Were going to hear a lot of rumors about the UT coaching job in the next couple of months and I try to apply some common sense when I hear them. It makes sense that Peterson would talk to us after the season. .
You point out that it would be absurb for Peterson to start talking to Texas during the season with so much on the line with his team and I agree with that. However it looks like that's just what Herman and his agent has done. Houston's performance has gone down ever since the rumors of him going to LSU started to surface. Herman would have shown better judgment if he had told his agent that he's interested in the LSU job and would be glad to talk to them after the season.
I've read plenty of articles from when Mack Brown was here that Peterson would love the Texas job and the Austin environment is similar to Boise. He told Harsin that Texas is a job you can't turn down. It makes sense that he would want to talk to us after the season since he can always turn us down. It also makes sense for any coach that Texas shows an interest in for them to talk to us because that means a bigger bump in pay
One factor in UT's favor is Peterson had a better record at Washington than CS had at UT for his first two seasons, however UT finished 7th in recruiting and Washington finished 29th. If Peterson is going to have to go against Urban Meyer and Nick Saban in the playoffs then it helps to have just as many top recruits as they do. He can win a NC at Washington, however he can do it on a more consistent basis at UT.
On the other hand I can understand why Chris would want to stay at UW, Washington is a good place to live if you don't mind the rain and I'm sure there's less stress and pressure coaching there.
I doubt that Chris Peterson will be the next UT coach especially if Washington makes the playoffs. If Peterson is the top choice then it would be better for UW to lose a couple of games so they don't make the playoffs. UT would have to wait until January if they do make the playoffs and I'm not sure they would want to wait that long with the chance that Peterson will turn us down.
