Pete Kwiatkowski..Texas New DC from Huskies

orngblud said:
Is it just me or... if you've got a coach that constantly makes "great half-time adjustments", then what you've really got is a coach that doesn't gameplan well for your opponents the whole week prior to the game??
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It has to be both, but if your opponent all of the sudden starts doing things they haven't done all season then you have to make adjustments. And we've had coaches that not only didn't game plan well, but didn't make halftime adjustments to what the other team was doing all first half.
 
Sometimes what you encounter in the game is a little different than what you saw on film or practiced against. Sometimes
n opponent has unexpected abilities that are hard to see on film or practice against. Sometimes an "adjustment" is helping players finally understand what you had been telling them for the last 3 practices.
 
I don't post much, but I can offer first hand insight on coach K. He came up with Coach Pete, and ultimately became Defensive Coordinator in 2010. In his first year if memory serves me his defense was ranked 2nd nationally. When people think Boise State, they usually think gimmicky offense. The thing that has struck me is the defense. Each and every year the defense is salty, and never gets pushed around. This guy is a hard nose bring your lunch pail kind of guy. His defense was known as a hard hitting, disciplined brand of football. If you don't lay it on the line, you will not see the field period. It's a culture thing, so we will have to see how long it takes players to buy in. IMO, he could easily be the best D coordinator we've seen in many years. Coach Pete thought enough of him to take him to UW when he left..
 
idahohorn said:
I don't post much, but I can offer first hand insight on coach K. He came up with Coach Pete, and ultimately became Defensive Coordinator in 2010. In his first year if memory serves me his defense was ranked 2nd nationally. When people think Boise State, they usually think gimmicky offense. The thing that has struck me is the defense. Each and every year the defense is salty, and never gets pushed around. This guy is a hard nose bring your lunch pail kind of guy. His defense was known as a hard hitting, disciplined brand of football. If you don't lay it on the line, you will not see the field period. It's a culture thing, so we will have to see how long it takes players to buy in. IMO, he could easily be the best D coordinator we've seen in many years. Coach Pete thought enough of him to take him to UW when he left..
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That's great, but it could lead to a lot more players hitting the portal. And maybe that's a good thing. At least we won't have a kissing culture because you showed up for the game anymore.
 
According to some Washington Huskies fans the name is pronounced ...

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Chop said:
In the first bit of the video below, the reporter gives the pronunciation of his name:

Kwy (rhymes with "why") - at - cow - ski

It's pretty close to "Quiet - cow - ski"




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This cow is being very quiet as it skis down the slope...
(remember that and you can say his name right)
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More people are now saying it like Quit-Cow-Ski. So, still think of the cow on skis. She needs to quit skiing as a cow snow skiing is udderly ridiculous as pointed out upthread.

Quit - Cow - Ski.
 
The last UW video I saw of Coach K had his d front running a looping stunt on both the left and the right sides, with a feigned MLB blitz to keep the center from helping the Gs and Ts handle the stunt. Until late in the year, in the last year of Tom’s regime, it didn’t seem like we were stunting much.
 
If our tackling is consistently good, that alone will be a big improvement over most years of the following regimes: (1) Tom Herman, (2) Charlie Strong, (3) Mack Brown, (4) John Mackovic, and (5) David McWilliams.*



*there are some obvious exceptions, including some very good tacklers from those teams; just talking overall here...
 
Nice article from the Football Scoop, naming Pete Kwiatkowski the #1 most important assistant coaching hire of 2021.

The 15 most important assistant coaching hires of 2021 -- No. 1: Pete Kwiatkowski, Texas

“We’re a big believer in, football’s not that complicated,” Kwiatkowski said told the Seattle Times in 2017. “There’s a lot of nuance and detail that goes into what we do, but at the end of the day it’s about striking blocks, getting off blocks, tackling, covering. We try to keep it that simple with our guys so they can play fast."

The nifty chart below shows Pete Kwiatkowski Defenses vs. Mike Leach Offenses. PK repeatedly shut down Leach's vaunted high-scoring spread O.

Pete Kwiatkowski Defenses vs. Mike Leach Offenses, 2015-19.
Note, Leach's teams averaged just 13.8 points per game against Kwiatkowski's Defenses.

Year-----Passing Yards---Yards/Attempt-----TD/INT------Result
2015.............288.....................5.0....................1/2.......UW, 45-10

2016.............269.....................5.4....................1/3.......UW, 45-17

2017.............369.....................6.7....................1/3.......UW, 41-14

2018.............152.....................4.3....................0/2.......UW, 28-15

2019.............308.....................5.0....................0/2.......UW, 31-13
 
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