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Do you really think we lost Ploog because PaoPao can’t recruit?

I’ll give you two far better and more realistic reasons we lost him:

1. Ploog views Oregon as a program that will be in the CFP each year that he’s there and will be joining the favorite to win this year versus joining UW where the earliest we’ll be a CFP program is 2026 … said differently it’s easier being a front runner than being a leader in a rebuild (not uncommon for this era of CFB player)
2. UW has a history of paying well in NIL for established players but to date has yet to show the ability to pay well for HS recruits … I can dive deeper on this but there’s tons of evidence to support this

If Fisch is set on rebuilding through HS recruiting then UW’s NIL approach needs to be amended to support it. When UW is poised to lose its top 2 offensive recruits and both of them are at positions of need … that would tell me that UW’s NIL approach may not be adjusting sufficiently enough