As of today, Jimmy Lake is the University of Washington’s head football coach.
The office awaits.
A mountainous to-do list awaits.
Immense challenges and distractions await.
What should Lake do?
He should make sure to go home tonight, based on the experience of someone who made the identical move from coordinator to corner office.
“I slept in my office once,” Stanford coach David Shaw recalled of his early weeks on the job.
“I slept on the floor. And then I said, ‘I don’t want to live this way. It’s not a long-term solution.