I read with amusement when USC was going through their coaching search with Petersen's name was always on the list. I did post a couple of times early that Petersen is done with coaching and relayed the reasons why. It doesn't appear anyone was listening as I kept reading that "Petersen has interest in the job". No, again at USC when they were guaranteeing current assistant coaches a spot on the new coach's staff. His name was on USC's 24/7 'Coaching Hot Board 1.0' but in the next addition (2.0), Petersen was 'Trending Down' as even they admitted that 'it appears Petersen has hung up his headset for good'.
But it is even funnier that some ducks have had him on the list. LA Duck being LA Duck even posted "BTW, intel says both Petersen and Aranda are interested in the job". Just too funny. His "Intel" must be parroting Hopkins and Phrem, to of the worst homers I have ever had the displeasure to read. Besides Petersen is heading up UW's NIL program "Montlake Futures" and is 100% invested in his 'Built for Life' program for all UW athletes, Oregon is that last place he would want to coach. It is no secret that he would never align himself with the culture that UO has become. You think a program like USC could lure Petersen when the AD and boosters are calling shots on his staff and then being told to do by a billionaire douche? That is just an addition to when Oregon coaches called Petersen and his BFL program "Racist" in trying to turn a recruit.
Petersen could simply use Cristo's quote "Those fucking guys right there, they represent everything that’s wrong with football,” towards UO.
I do not know how true that is, but I sincerely hope so. Not enough people in the world doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Petersen moved on from college coaching with class, dignity, and the full support of college football fans everywhere who understood he had other goals in life which would become more important than coaching on the field.
My hat is off to the guy. He was an incredible coach.
Geez you sound like the whining Sooners....Nobody put a limit on when anyone can retire. Seems like after 32 years at a grinding job no one should call a coach that had a record of 147-38 a quitter...
Show me another coach who "retired" at age 57.....and who had as seemingly as bright a future ahead as Petersen did (and who never was able to beat Mario, by the way).
Call it "retired" if you will. But the effect was that he quit on his team and his fans.
I'm not a Petersen fan, anyone who quits on his team is no football coach. But given a choice between him and Kiffin, it's Coach Petey all the way!! lol
BTW mandb, my intel is coming from personal sources beyond Jhop and Prehm (Prehm don't know squat, but Jhop does have channels). I'm not even going to go into the monkeys that run Dawgman....lol!!
Petersen has been contacted, and he did not immediately shut the door to the possibility, that much I do know....
The names we are hearing the most are:
Aranda
Petersen
Kiffin
Chip
But because there has been so little leakage from the powers that be on this, and based on other kernels of intel, there is growing thought that there are some not being mentioned in the media that may be top targets as well.
What I do know is that this hire needs to be made by Friday or we'll have little chance of retaining most of our current recruits.
I also know that Knight is running this, and that is an advantage that shouldn't be overlooked....
Stay tuned, this is just starting to get interesting!!!! 😆
Duck fans are concussed right now. not thinking straight. People acting like coach Pete is urban Meyer.