HOLLYWOOD -- Jake Browning is a Husky. So, it should go without saying, but he's not wild about the Oregon Ducks.

But there's a caveat.

In the offseason, Huskies coach Chris Petersen hired former Ducks receivers coach and offensive coordinator Matt Lubick to coach receivers and act as a co-coordinator. Lubick, a Duck since he joined UO as receivers coach in 2013, was welcomed into the purple-and-gold fold. And as much as Browning doesn't like UO on principle, he certainly appreciates some of the ideas that helped UO become one of the leading offenses in the country in the past decade -- wrinkles that Lubick has brought with him to Seattle since the Ducks staff was let go in November.

"I mean, I hate Oregon just as much as everybody else at UW, but you can't deny they've been good on offense," Browning said Wednesday at the Pac-12's football media days. "He just brings some new stuff to the table. A lot of coaches we had were all Boise guys from the Coach Petersen coaching tree, so he just brings obviously some ideas. Oregon's been really good on offense."

In his first year as UO offensive coordinator, Lubick had a front-row seat last season at witnessing just how good Washington's offense has become, in its own right, when UW scored 70 points against Oregon in October, the most allowed by UO since 1941.

The unit is headlined by Browning, a junior who's part of the Heisman Trophy discussion, and running back Myles Gaskin, who has rushed for 1,000 yards in each of his first two seasons. They helped UW rank eighth last season nationally, scoring 41.8 point per game. Oregon ranked 27th, scoring 35.4 amid an offensive line with four freshman starters, a quarterback change midyear and a banged-up corps of running backs.

Like Petersen, a former UO assistant under Mike Bellotti, Lubick made a stop in Eugene before arriving in Seattle. But he took a circuitous route to his new job, after bouncing from UO to Ole Miss to Baylor to Washington within a two-month span last winter.

Petersen knew of Lubick, given their mutual connections such as Mark Helfrich, and "always thought he did a really, really nice job." But would he fit in with the rival Huskies?

"That's the trick is like, do you fit that crew?" Petersen said.

Offensive coordinator Jonathan Smith, an Oregon State quarterback while Lubick coached OSU defensive backs in the late 1990s, gave the proverbial thumbs up. He and Lubick now are co-coordinators and will collaborate on game plans during the season.

"The people he coached with that we knew thought the fit would be really good," Petersen said. "We are looking for this like, really elite coach that can coach them on the field and is tactical, all those things, we're also looking for a guy who can think like a coordinator," Petersen said. "And maybe the most important piece is a really good recruiter. It's easy to find pieces of that but to really have the whole, I think those guys are fewer and farther between."

Lubick isn't the only coach from UO's 2016 staff who will spend this season on the sideline of another Pac-12 staff. At Cal, first-time coach Justin Wilcox hired Steve Greatwood to coach the offensive line. Greatwood wasn't at Oregon when Wilcox was a UO defensive back from 1996-99, but he'd known him as a teenager when Greatwood coached his older brother, Josh, at UO.

It hasn't been weird, Wilcox said, to be the boss of someone he's known so well for so long.

"I think the world of Steve Greatwood," Wilcox said Wednesday.

-- Andrew Greif