The IMPOSSIBLE RISE of WASHINGTON Football (The Complete Kalen Deboer Rebuild) 

I am looking to upload 95 more times in 2023, what other topics should I cover this season?

I think Chris Peterson is one of the most underrated coaches in CFB history. He just always has success and he’s had so many memorable moments as a Cinderella in college football

I put a ton of time and effort into this one Washington fans! Hopefully I got it all right and you enjoy the video! Go Huskies !

Great time to be a football fan in the Seattle area! Both the Huskies and Seahawks are in first place!

Current Huskies TE Coach Nick Sheridan was the hook for Penix at Indiana. Sheridan was a grad assistant at Tennessee and recruited Penix to TN. When Butch Jones was fired at TN, they pulled Penix's offer. By this time, Sheridan moved on to QB coach at Indiana. Penix had no other offers after TN pulled their offer, so Sheridan saw this as an opportunity and recruited Penix to Indiana. First year OC Kalen DeBoer then teamed up with Sheridan as the QB coach to develop Penix and the rest is history. Just wanted to point out for the record that Nick Sheridan was the first to link with Penix.

Never thought UW could get a coach better than Pedersen. Deboer has done a remarkable job in such a short time frame and the players love him. I will say that this team doesn't come to same level as the 91 Huskies...That team was Savage defensively...

When talking about the Oregon game, you said that the missed field goal would have been game winning for Oregon, but it would have only tied things at 36

As someone that played in the Petersen era and graduated his penultimate year … I thought we would continue to roll with Jimmy Lake. He was an awesome guy and coach. No idea when his ego got so big. Also so weird with his offensive strategy. He was young and innovative, made ZERO sense to regress to a slow run heavy offense. I thought we were doomed after his departure but everyone I talk to loves DeBoer. Go Huskies

I wouldn’t describe the Huskies’ loss to Bama as being “dismantled.” If you go back and watch the game, it was a lot closer than the final score shows. The defense played great for most of the game, and the team had a few shots to keep the game close. Bama was the better team, but it was not the worst showing by the dawgs.

Washington was missing 6 starters against UCLA and ASU. If you’re going to point out ASU being beat up then it’s only fair to mention UW’s injuries as well.

Was very sad to see him leave Fresno St. but he was destined for a bigger stage clearly. Very happy for Coach Deboer I can see why Jake Haener wanted to follow him back to UW.

Well… 13-0 and going to playoffs! Let’s go Huskies!

Do not forget Washington once went 59-0 -3 for a 62 game unbeaten streak and their 40 wins in a row is number 2 all time.

I can still remember coach Chris Petersen introducing Jimmy Lake as this next great coach and everyone bought it. Lake didn't belong selling popcorn at a football game let alone anywhere near a sideline. Head case, divisive, stupid, horrible on all front.

Fantastic video! The effort is very obvious. For the ASU, and Stanford game, it sounds like a lot of the team had the flu. Specifically Michael Penix. He looked a lot better versus Stanford, so I’m not worried. I’m really excited for the rest of the season, and I really hope we play Oregon again. I fully believe we could beat them again, and beating your rival twice in the same season would be beautiful

Wow! Great video! You hit all the facts. I can tell you put a lot of effort into this one and as a Husky fan, you did a great job! That period when Jimmy Lake was coach was so bizarre. We were doing ok and you were right, we still had the pieces to be a respectable team. I have some ideas as to why Lake was so bad (terrible Offensive coordinator for starters) but who could have seen such a fall? I will give Jimmy Lake some credit though….UW had a run of some of the best DBs and safety’s in college football for about 6 years. From here till the rest of the season I’m going to be on the edge of my seat. I think I predicted we’d win 8-9 games so I’m already jacked about being ranked #5 in the country (plus beating Oregon was soooo sweet. That was worth 2 wins). I’m sure you’re happy about Mizzou’s great season and I’m rooting for you guys to beat Georgia! Good Luck!

Washington’s schedule for next year in the Big 10 is out and it looks like we have 5 tough games vs Michigan, USC, Penn State, UCLA, and Oregon. We play Iowa also but never sure what to make of them. Plus we have 3 open dates and I’m sure they’ll try to get Washington State on the schedule in one of those. I’m not going to miss playing Utah, Oregon State and going to the damn Arizona desert where we always seem to have trouble.

Caleb Williams, Georgia, Colorado are getting all the attention this year but Washington is going off

Kalen DeBoer was a great coach all the way back as a really really young head coach at Sioux Falls. IYKYK

Great video but you have to mention the rivalry with the Oregon Ducks , as that is a great place to look in regards to the programs progression. The ducks beat us like 14 years in a row before we blasted them 70+ pts in 2016.. since then the rivalry has evened back out and now we are both at the top of the college football rankings respectively..

Scott, thank you !! This was fantastic and the content was fantastic. I hope you get a shot at the big time

Wow! What an informative & interesting summary. You have a gift of going to the true essentials of your story. Thank you. Really loved this fine summary of Washington football history.

Awesome video, Scott; loved it from the beginning.

Great rundown, and appreciate you highlighting our team! Go DAWGS! I cannot for the life of me understand why people think the officials gifted us the game against ASU. We are the 120th team in FBS in terms of penalty yards this season overall and there was an excruciatingly obvious PI on a touchdown pass that was not called on ASU. The same egregious no call PI on Stanford the following week which ended in Penix throwing an "interception." I just get the feeling that nobody actually watched these games... we were just the better team and fought through bad officiating just like those teams did

you hit the main, well-known points, but there are a few big keys you missed: 1) the O-line is one of the best in the country, and has given Penix all kinds of time 2) Grubb only got mentioned once as sort of a side note, but he arguably more responsible for the offensive success than Penix 3) Grubb was offered a job at Alabama and turned it down, Penix and Odunze returned for another year when nobody thought they would - those guys coming back are THE reason 2023 has been successful so far. Without them, the team would probably be closer to .500. 4) nobody on the defense even mentioned? ZTF and Trice are NFL players and although the D has struggled, they continue to come up big when it counts.

I was a student during the Willingham years.... brutal days

I am from South Dakota and went to the same college.....Sioux Falls as Kalen DeBoer. He was an All American wide receiver on an undefeated 1996 national championship team....NAIA. He then won 3 more NAIA national championships as head coach in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Kalen then moved on as Sioux Falls moved up to NCAA Division II.

HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS!!! This is our year!

Great video!

Hey Scott! Love the videos and I was wondering if you could do a video on the rise of Tennessee vols. I live in Knoxville and neyland is in the heart. Keep up the great work and great videos!

Lake punting in the 4th quarter with 2 minutes left, down to Oregon truly sealed his fate.

Bishop Sankey was so damn good, no shot he’s been mentions bye benchwarmerben and here in less then a week😆

Him and Ryan Grubbs are dynamic duo!!

Awesome video! I would have liked to see more about Don James and his connections to Saban and Jack Lambert and some of the other lore around him. He was a very underrated coach.

Great video documentary

Excellent video bro much appreciate it, Washington Huskies are something boi better believe it to , seems God has his way assembling these outstanding coaches and players , just hope they keep winning and building and keep the Winning Tradition of HUSKY Football up to the standard ir is now and has bon years past

Die hard UW fan here, great video!

Great video. You could have also mentioned the Barbara Hedges - Rick Neuheisel years which were also a disaster. Go Dogs!

Those games were weird because Penix was ill

Peterson did a great job also. I was hit by a coach in 7th grade, so I know first hand. Saw Penix play at Indiana as a freshman. Happy for him and U Washington program.

Tyrone Willingham got a 4th year by way of cultural circumstances. There were very few black head coaches at the time and a groundswell of support from the BCA, AACA, etc. along with even some non-sports African American associations basically forced the hand of the AD in keeping him. You were supposed to give coaches at least 4 years to get things done (on a 5 year contract) in that period. Willingham had already been fired after 3 years at Notre Dame and most of the country felt he hadn't been given a fair shot. Washington became the victim of that sentiment.

i live in the seattle area and was recruited by Lake at one point... i dont know how it went so wrong with him tbh but theyre lookin good now much love from WSU football

Could you do a video about how lane kiffin turned ole miss around and btw love the videos

Great breakdown. Gotta give the oline love though for protecting Mike and letting him thrive.

Good stuff! Only the audio track sounds like it was recorded in a tube...

Washington fan here I new we was not beating Bama in 2016 but coach p was good for us but Jimmy Lake was horrfic I was there when we lost Montana and roadgraded by michigan and went 4-8

I'm 19 seconds in and my head exploded. You said the college football playoffs was a huge step for a program like washington. You mean a program with a tradition of winning? If you take away the Tyrone Willingham and Jimmy Lake eras , the huskies are traditionally one of the top teams in the pac. Edit: this is why you watch the full video before you comment lol.

I think Kalen stays with the Huskies especially with their move to the Big 10, there isn’t really many much bigger programs than UW. Tennessee is my most favorite team and their season has kind of gone off the rails a bit but they are still doing alright but Washington is my second most favorite team and I’m pulling for them to defeat Georgia and win the Natty this year!

Don James 5 Rose Bowl wins worthy of note. We shared title with BYU 1991 , 1 st game next year the players held helmets high as they walked out of tunnel, then spoke loud on field. Bywho? Huskies had Mark Brunell (way back when) and he played half of game with another good Qb starting. Other teams had to re-re adjust. This year , note Carson Breuner slipping in as the other team starts to adjust to starter. Strong athletes are part of the tradition here . Warren Moon could bench press 450 , and could match his beefy lineman . Neuhisal in there along the way. Milked us good. East coast bias has been around along time. This year the Huskies took everybody’s best shot , then only rose in poll if someone else lost.

You Should make a video on Michael Penix Jr.

Great article. Hope Coach D stays!

Great video. Hopefully he can recruit to a level just below Oregon. Oregon continues to get 4- and 5-star kids and Washington needs to keep pace with mostly 4 stars like they had with Peterson at the helm. Defense is my worry for them. Deboer can clearly coach offense and made former Husky Jake Haener into an NFL backup. Can he get the right pieces on Defense? That was Peterson's calling card as he was able to get so many NFL caliber players on that side of the ball.

Who's here after the Huskies went 13-0 with a Pac 12 title

If this channel invested in a shure SM7B or a Shure SM58 Its would sky rocket

Washington and Oregon are probably the best schools for a head coach that is interested in both winning and a permanent legacy. Both programs have the sustained resources to compete at the national level but dont have the headaches that come with insane boosters and fans like you'll find elsewhere.

its like its the 80s and 90s again..

Let's not forget the mid-2000s to early 2010s dark years were mostly because of Neuheisel and his dismissal. There was a lot of animosity for Neuheisel for the years following his dismissal.

Only the passing game is better than the 2016 team. 2016 teams defense was amazing and the Oline with Gaskin could run down teams throats. Browning just didn’t have the arm to compete with the big Dogs. 2016 team beats the 2023 team probably by two scores.

Awesome video. I do think the Browning led Huskies were the better team because the defense was so good and they had a far better run game, but I don't generally compare them as much as I do the years. When the Huskies play like they can play, they can beat anyone in 2023. I thought that the Huskies of 2016 were gonna be hard pressed to beat Alabama, even on their best day- hang with them, sure, but not beat.

So thankfull for Kalen Deboer. After that 2021 disaster with Jimmy Lake, where he destroyed what Petersen left him. Its incredible where we are at now. Bow Down

I’m the one hugging Michael penix @12:40

That 91 squad was on another level everyone knew they were better than the Hurricanes but they had to still split the Natty with them.

"that was a huge step for a program like Washington" -guy who clearly wasn't alive for the Tuiasosopo era.

Now we're going to get that natty

Washington should be/is a top tier school. For a top tier school to hold onto a coach like Deboer it takes a combination of money and fit. Washington doesn't currently have the money of an Alabama (though it found enough money to hold onto the OC for now). BUT, in terms of FIT, Washington and Deboer are perfect for each other. Just like Petersen and James, who could have coached anywhere, the culture at Washington gives enough of the small town "feel" (1,000,000 +) and campus cohesion, without the over-obsessive booster pressure, for a guy like Deboer. He and Petersen were looking for a top tier program, in a place they were happy to raise their families. (Lake only got the job because he was "here" when Petersen suddenly, and without warning, hung up the clipboard. I respect why he did it, and he is still a big part of Washington.) If Deboer is not Coach of the Year, then the selection system is broken (he should have gotten it last year). Maybe due a topic on Coach of the Year. Thanks for the really good rehash of the past. GO DAWGS, BEAT UTAH!

Jimmy Lake was NOT always going to be the successor. He got the job to not lose his recruiting chops. None of the alums ever thought he would be the guy. Once he was picked, we supported him, but he was never ready. Too young and egotistical.

It’s a great year to be a Huskies football fan. It’s looking likely that the (9-0) Huskies will be in the PAC 12 Championship game.

Seahawks should hire Kalen in a couple years

The DeBoer era is off to an even better start than the Jim Owens and the Don James ones did, though they both had very successful careers at UDUB, James continuously. The offense is terrific, but we will find out how much that depended on Penix, after he leaves. The defense has great players, but a suspect array, with it being regularly being lit up. That can be fixed with a recalibration of the scheme, or new blood in the D.C's chair. What worries me is that some fine coaches have used their Husky sojourn as merely a stepping stone to a higher calling. I hope that Deboer stays for at least a dozen years to firmly engrain his winning spirit to the program for the long run; unless, of course, he takes over the Seahawks when Pete's patience is finally played out.

“Eventually they missed a game winning field goal” referring to Oregon. Correction: it would have been a game tying field goal.

You really gotta go all way back to the end of the Don James era. Lambright coasted on fumes for a bit, but they have had terrible coaches until Peterson. The blame should extend up to the AD, at least. And then Lake. Those were dark times.

i love the college football lore lol

I was watching the Pat McAfee show and found out that the UW football team has been hit hard with the flu for the last couple weeks, and if you've been wondering why they haven't looked as good since Oregon that's why.

...I went to school during the Willingham years. ☹️

There's no bigger job for DeBoer than staying with the Huskies these next few years when they join a more respected Big 10 conference. Coming from a diehard Husky fan, the Oregon/Washington rivalry is just getting started and I'm so excited to see these two teams dominate the Big 10 for years to come.

I was going to uw during the willinghan era… it was as brutal as the record shows….

Rematch against Texas in the playoff now let’s go Dawgs!!

Commenting on this a few days before the Oregon State game. Crazy how the dogs were able to decisively beat USC and Utah. This looks like a three-headed monster a month ago, That would be very difficult to get through. Somehow they're on the other side. At the same time, WSU has shown to be The worst team in the Pac-12. If the dogs can get through the beavers this weekend, They are essentially a lock to be undefeated in the regular season

I think Jimmy Lake is an excellent position coach but I don’t think he was prepared to handle the task of managing all facets of the game.

Washington is a solid team. If the 12 team playoff was this year they would be a serious contender. This year they would be most likely NY6 bowl unless they remain undefeated and a pac 12 championship win.

Nice recap, but should probably start after Neuheisel was let go for gambling. That's when Udub started going downhill after winning the Rose Bowl in 2000.

I'm going to say it. Jimmy Lake didn't do anything wrong. Up until the last 5 minutes it was normal for football coaches to swipe a facemask and shove a player in their pads when the player was out of control and trying to fight. It shocks the player out of the stupid mental loop of bad decisions. I grew up a Husky fan, then went to college at WSU because that was the best decision for me at the time. I'm not an apologist at all I just thought that situation was blown way out of proportion. We all love the film Remember the Titans, go watch that celebrated film and how he was treating those players before we judge Jimmy Lake for that one incident that the player probably didn't care about one day later.

I think that you should’ve also mentioned the Don James era. The Dogfather put the Huskies as one of the top teams of his time as coach.

Do one about Oregon State University. How are they top 10?!?!?

👍👍. Suggested topic: How many '23 standout Pac-12 coaches & players will be poached by SEC-, B1G & Big12 progrums for 2024? Feels like L.R. isn't staying at USCw after this curr. '23 season.

Go dawgs🐺☔️

They haven’t been as dominant this century but have been in the rose bowl several times and the playoff in 2016 so they ain’t been awful. Could be worse could be Washington state.

After Ross fumbled and Browning thru the pick 6. They never recovered vs. Bama. Browning is doing a decent job for Cincy but still throwing untimely picks.

Why does everyone act like the ducks making that FG would have won them the game? It was 36-39

arguing that this team is better than the 2016 squad is a tall task, that team was stacked on defense and had dudes on offense that could hang with the 2023 team. Plus Pettis was so dynamic as a return man

What this really shows is how low they had inexplicably fallen. The fact they are in the upper tier of the Pac-12 shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who knows college football. You’re tooting your own horn, dude.

you can tell fans of "Team SEC" and ESecPN are getting nervous about the B1G, so hopefully Wash. doesn't miraculously "fall off" as soon as they join the conf. or something

Oregon State is the team that stands in Washington's way to a playoff birth. The other two remaining games not so much as Utah was badly exposed by Oregon and Washington State won't be able to stop Washington's offense from scoring points. Oregon State always plays the Huskies tough and usually gives them fits.

Most important thing Washington did was find odunze,Polk and mcmillian 😂😂😂

"Impossible Rise?" It was a lot of hard work! There was nothing impossible about it...they did it! Jimmy Lake had NOTHING to do with it. His time lasted less than two seasons, and his tenure on Montlake as the head coach was nothing short of a disaster. So it appears that your "Impossible Rise" is riddled with "enough knowledge is a dangerous thing?!

It’s not impossible they’ve been a good program for a long time with a few blips on the radar but they’ve been good.

Yes

3:43 JRIII was actually injured for the entire 2015 season and did not play

Dont think I would say this team is better than 2016. The 2023 offensive scheme is good enough to win any game, but the defense with Vita, Budda, Greg Gaines, Sidney Jones, Kevin King, and more who were better than current D. And theres gaskin ross pettis browning

Go Dawgs!!!