Tough Hawkins Critique
I kept reading the Sac State article down below, even Gipson said the replay showed him "clearly" out of bounds on that pivotal late pass play vs. Montana.
When you get wins stacked up and have it going, it's amazing the breaks that come your way.
As for the criticism on Hawk, yeah, it's all absolutely true in terms of winning these games with highly ranked opponents.
However, while the article eludes to the roster building and recruiting by the Gould regime, it doesn't mention the fact that in Year 1, Plough and Hawk went down south and found QB1 Jake Maier at Long Beach City College. He also has found players who have played huge, Buchanan, Perryman - who transferred to Washington and was starting, Castles who transferred in from Cal, good number of 3 star guys on this season's class...among others...so Hawk has found plenty of talent, and has demonstrated an ability to win more games than Gould so I think that's a dumb argument as to the 2018 season. However, let's be clear, Gould's staff went and found Doss, and he was huge in 2018.