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“I think it’s a big win because you’re getting a good player, good kid, all those things. I just think recruiting’s so different. I know people say things about the old staff, about they’ve got to keep the guys at home. Well, I know they were trying to. It’s hard! Everybody, the best of the best, is coming into Seattle trying to get those guys. The world has shrunk and everybody knows about them. So you can’t hide guys like you could way back when and all those things. It’s completely different. But you’d hope a guy like Budda, some other young guy a year or two out – ‘Budda Baker went there and he’s doing good things, shoot, I’m gonna go there.’ Hope so.”
blog.thenewstribune.com/uwsports/2014/07/25/more-thoughts-from-chris-petersen-on-players-getting-in-trouble-recruiting-jonathan-smith-budda-baker-and-sleep-schedules/#more-31127
Q. Have you found recruiting to be different going through it the first time at Washington where it's been different schools and players? Instead of going down and getting the fourth or fifth best player? Now you've got to compete against UCLA, SC, Stanford, those schools. How does that make you guys as a staff work harder and change things? Seems like a big difference.
COACH PETERSEN: Yeah, I think the process for the most part is the same. We have a pretty specific process in terms of how we look at kids and vet them and all those things. But you're right. It is harder. You’re always trying to compete to get to the next level. Certainly the same thing here. Trying to get the best players to come up there. So it's a fine balance. One, they have an interest in us and to get them, and is he good enough and all those type of things. Then there is a guy down here that may not be recruited as heavily. The one thing we've never cared about is whoever -- well, I shouldn't say that. But I'll go back and process this. We really never cared.
Q. Now you're saying,f is he good enough to play at this level that we're now going to?
COACH PETERSEN: Yeah, so the best process for me to say when I said is we didn't care who offered them. And they don't really have a strong interest in us. They have to like you too. Do we really have a good shot at getting this guy? I don't want to recruit a guy for eight months in third place. That's a lot of wasted time and money. So tell us early. Are you sincerely interested? Then we'll charge hard.
scribd.com/doc/235007314/Chris-Petersen-at-Pac-12-media-days
blog.thenewstribune.com/uwsports/2014/07/25/more-thoughts-from-chris-petersen-on-players-getting-in-trouble-recruiting-jonathan-smith-budda-baker-and-sleep-schedules/#more-31127
Q. Have you found recruiting to be different going through it the first time at Washington where it's been different schools and players? Instead of going down and getting the fourth or fifth best player? Now you've got to compete against UCLA, SC, Stanford, those schools. How does that make you guys as a staff work harder and change things? Seems like a big difference.
COACH PETERSEN: Yeah, I think the process for the most part is the same. We have a pretty specific process in terms of how we look at kids and vet them and all those things. But you're right. It is harder. You’re always trying to compete to get to the next level. Certainly the same thing here. Trying to get the best players to come up there. So it's a fine balance. One, they have an interest in us and to get them, and is he good enough and all those type of things. Then there is a guy down here that may not be recruited as heavily. The one thing we've never cared about is whoever -- well, I shouldn't say that. But I'll go back and process this. We really never cared.
Q. Now you're saying,f is he good enough to play at this level that we're now going to?
COACH PETERSEN: Yeah, so the best process for me to say when I said is we didn't care who offered them. And they don't really have a strong interest in us. They have to like you too. Do we really have a good shot at getting this guy? I don't want to recruit a guy for eight months in third place. That's a lot of wasted time and money. So tell us early. Are you sincerely interested? Then we'll charge hard.
scribd.com/doc/235007314/Chris-Petersen-at-Pac-12-media-days