I lived in Eugene and worked at the University of Oregon for 8 years before moving back east for family reasons about 9 months ago. That area of the country is gorgeous.
what is washington selling?
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I have always been a Kentucky guy. Moved to Wisconsin for about a year. Thought of moving to the east coast and still may if I ever grow up. But since traveling to Seattle and the area for work, I could see making that my home.
I was born in Kentucky and grew up in Ohio. I would love to get back to Kentucky at some point in the near future if an opportunity came about. I've lived in DC, Philly (then off to Oregon for 8 years) and now Baltimore on the east coast.
Yep...he's a Pacific NW guy through and through. still, if I were an AD, I would make him tell me no before I ever called anyone else. He proved at Boise that money doesn't mean that much to him.
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His older son Jack is now in college. His younger son Sam, whose health issues as a small boy helped keep Petersen in Boise, not only fully recovered, but will start high school next year. It's a good time to make the transition.
Not sure about his son but I have heard Peterson talk about going to Washington when he did an interview on SiriusXM. Altogether he was at Boise for 13 years and was happy there but when the Washington job came open he felt it was time for him to take on a new challenge. He also spoke about always being a west coast guy and that he could never see himself coaching anywhere but the west coast. He talked about how the west coast was his comfort zone and about how he understands the recruiting footprint out west. Said he has no idea about the Midwest or East Coast recruiting footprint and how those areas work.
Not to nitpick but Mt. Hood is in Oregon west of Portland. In the Seattle area you may be thinking about Mt. Rainier which is the tallest volcano in the U.S. at 14,000ft.
The bolded text is not to be discounted. I got out of coaching about 15 years ago at the AAU level but already these kids were in love with the tree. It was quickly becoming that generations "beer". Factor in all the other things such as oceans, mountains, weather, women and large recruiting base and you can see how a coach might build something special out that way. Theyve been successful before.
Absolutely beautiful country, the green reminded me a lot of Kentucky, but with Puget Sound and the mountains nearby. I rode a Greyhound for three days, three nights, and three hours because my brother (played football for Ft Lewis and had a scholarship at UW but got married instead) said I could get a job there, while there was a mini recession going on, worked for Boeing for about a year. But the rain in Seattle is no joke, misty drizzle a lot of the time, pretty warm though, one snow of about five inches the winter I was there (1959) that all melted by the next afternoon. I was amazed later on to find out my part of Kentucky actually has more rainfall than there, something like 45 inches to 44 inches per year. I lived about a block from Lake Washington in Bellevue, when I went to our family reunion at my brother's in 06 that area was covered by skyscrapers, computer boom. Hitchhiked down through California and across Route 66 to Chatanooga and back home to join the Army, I was young and foolish I guess.
Rainier is something else. And is still alive.
Fun fact: at 28 miles in length, the cleverly named Long Beach on the southern coast is the longest continuous sand beach in the United States. But it's about 3 hours from Seattle.
I am talking region. It amazes me that when I look at the mountains, they are 3 or 4 hour drives away.
For every time I have been there, it stayed dry except for 1 day. Add to that the locals will tell you they do not get much snow.
Seattle may not get much snow but go about 40 miles east on I-90 thru Snoqualmie Pass and all bets are off. I have sat there a couple days at a time waiting for that pass to open back up.
About once a year we get a good snow in the lowlands. It almost never rains during the summer. Mid 80s and sunshine. During the winter, it can get oppressive with the constant cloud cover and not really rain but kind of a drizzle. Last couple years though, that's changing. Seems to be raining less. Although as i write that, it's raining right now.
I love the area. Every time I go there, I head to Mukilteo and Ivars or the market and Athenian Inn.
You werent crazy. Back in our day hitchhiking was a normal occurrence. I did my share a time or ten in the 60's. Nowadays they are likely to find you in small pieces or buried in the woods due to hitching,lol. Not back then unless you ran into one of the handful of freaks like the Green River or Hillside misfits. Odds are a lot greater you run into one of those freaks nowadays. Also on the downside in relation to what you said (dreary there) I think at one time they had a high suicide rate.
I would give all the posts about Seattle a high grade for accuracy, the snow was a rare happening per locals, melted by noon, Rainier is amazing, over 14,000 feet and you crane your neck from sea level, thought it was only about 60 miles away. but I can only remember seeing the full view of it ONE day in the nine months I was there, close another day, both unbelievable sights. Got stuck in the snow at Snoqualme Pass also, beautiful huge trees. I was there from fall to late May, the rainy season, the reunion was in the summer and they actually were having a drought of sorts in the summer of 06, some water usage cutbacks. Leon must have visited mostly in the summer or he was lucky. I used to return to Kentucky every summer most of my first ten years I was away, always thought I just picked the rainy season until I finally realized it rains a lot there also, I live in the desert now. Still miss the trees and green, grew up around Cumberland Falls and my daughter and her two small sons were there for the family reunion this summer, VERY hard to beat Kentucky also. And yeah, different world we live in today, although I think a lot of it is that all the bad news is a lot more publicized than it was in our day.
It's so nice to see people in this board talking about how nice the Northwest is.
Only problem with it is (and it really gets into you once you live here for a while) is the fact that there's absolutely no sunlight from late November to late March. Just grey clouds and rain
Only problem with it is (and it really gets into you once you live here for a while) is the fact that there's absolutely no sunlight from late November to late March. Just grey clouds and rain
it was quite a while ago but that was definitely the impression i got, but then my brother told me plenty of sunshine in the summer time. Still firmly believe i only got a great picture of Mt Rainier twice in 8 or 9 months.
Weed! I don't know what they used to sale, but I would say that's a big deal to some players during off season... Maybe in season, who knows...
Actually it was really no safer then than now. The difference now is that we know of every bad thing that happens regardless of where it happens because we have a 24/7 news cycle. Whereas 50 yrs ago the news of a hitchhiker being killed/killing someone would only be reported in a local newspaper and never be known beyond the reach of that newspaper. Today that news would go nation wide.