Lake Puts His Career on the Line With Em

Living rooms acro s America tuned in to Saturday night's Washington-Oregon football game saw Husky special-teams player Ruperake Fuavai lose control, then coach Jimmy Lake embarra singly do the same.In the first half, Fuavai got into a sideline shoving match and traded insults with the Ducks' Jaylon Redd.What Lake did was worse.The second-year Husky coach reacted by sprinting down the UW sideline, practically running over an official on his way and wildly striking out at his offending player before giving him a forceful shove.Fuavai, a walk-on freshman from Seattle, likely will lose the limited playing time he'd been afforded on the Wade Boggs Jersey kickoff team for his mi step.Lake very well could be out of a job for losing his cool; if not now, maybe in three weeks following the Apple Cup.For certain, the coach's actions currently are under review by the athletic department.Within a few hours of the game ending, UW athletic director Jen Cohen felt the need to release a statement regarding the incident."We are aware of an interaction between head coach Jimmy Lake and a student-athlete during the first half of Saturdays game," Cohen Mookie Betts Jersey said. "We have high expectations of the conduct of our coaches and we are working to gather more information on this matter.This season, Power 5 schools impatiently have fired coaches at USC, LSU, Texas Tech and TCU for failing to win enough.Lake is guilty of the same, with his team falling to 4-5, plus now he's given the UW a black eye for his heavy-handed actions with his player.Don't be surprised if the school parts ways with him over this serious offense. After all, Don James or Chris Petersen never lost control like this. No Husky coach over the past 50 years has been accused of something like this.However, it's much more likely that Lake Eduardo Rodriguez Jersey comes out on Sunday and offers a public apology for what he did, though following the 26-16 defeat to Oregon he strongly denied that he had accosted Fuavai."I separated them," he insisted defiantly. "I didn't strike him."Yet the video footage does not lie.Lake won't get fired right away because there's no one on his staff even remotely qualified to be an interim coach.Scroll to ContinueThat doesn't mean he'll survive the month.Lake simply hasn'tworked out since he was promoted as the UW defensive coordinator to replace the retiring Petersen following the 2019 Apple Cup.He made bad hires, foremost offensive coordinator John Donovan, who's failed to supply the Huskies with any extended offensive succe s at all. Donovan won't be back next season.Lake leads by emotion rather than discipline and it Jackie Bradley Jr Jersey shows in his team. The small details escape him.The Huskies drew a delay-of-game penalty on the first play against Michigan. They had a punt blocked on the first series at Oregon State. Within three first-quarter plays against Oregon, safety Dominique Hampton and edge rusher Jordan Lolohea drew late-hit penalties. Even following Saturday's game, his players were squabbling with Ducks players during what should have been handshakes and well wishes, and had to be separated by security personnel.Don't forget, the Huskies opened the season by losing to Montana, an FCS school, po sibly the worst defeat in UW football annals. It's an outcome that has helped ruin this season.Lake's week didn't end any better than it began when on Monday he disparaged Oregon's academic reputation and didn't really realize it. He certainly didn't apologize for what he said.Our battles are really, the schools that we go against are way more, have academic prowe s, like the University of Washington Luis Tiant Jersey Notre Dame, Stanford, USC," Lake said at last Monday's media briefing. "We go with a lot of battles toe-to-toe all the way to the end with those schools. So I think thats made up in your media world. In our world, we battle more academically prowe s teams.His comment inflamed Oregon enough that school president Michael Schill offered an expedient public rebuke.Quiet all week, Ducks football coach Mario Cristobal waited until the game was over before he provided his own sarcastic response to Lake."Proud of the way our guys came over," he said in his postgame interview se sion, "and showed their prowe s in the inclement weather."No, it has not been a good week for Jimmy Lake. And there's still Sunday to go.