When did you get hooked on crootin’?
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Most of the leaders on James first Rose Bowl team were Owens recruits but we weren't retarded back then. Everyone knew Owens couldn't win with them so no one cared
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Does anyone remember Craig Ochs?
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Agree with most of what you say or write but why do you discount the argument that many of Rick’s Rose Bowl players were recruited and developed initially by the previous staff that played a significant role (foundation) in winning the conference and RB. Obviously Rick gets a ton of credit coaching the team and he was able to motivate his team. I wouldn’t call Rick a great recruiter although recruiting was exciting because he brought a lot of sizzle.
The program began to go downhill after the previous staff players cycled through and the team became soft. Obviously firing Rick was a bad move but I highly doubt he would have taken another team to a RB appearance. We wouldn’t have gone 1-10 or 0-12 either but most of us were not surprised how things went at UCLA. Even his success at Colorado was much of Barnett’s guys.
It’s a fact Boner was/is a great coach and he recruited his best player during his time here. Can you not admit that the Big Penix years had a great or significant contribution from Petersen’s recruiting and evaluation including Lake where Coach Pete ran the program although burnt out. Not taking away from DeBoer’s coaching but he benefited greatly having a solid foundation. Our former center and the wr he took to Bama originally were recruited by Lake although I imagine Pete had them on his board early on. The only player Boner recruited to Alabama and UW was their TE Josh C.The fact is DeBoer hasn’t built a D-1 program from the foundation and he has definitely underperformed at Alabama with team full of high blue chip players. Alabama fans are nuts if they want him gone and if he does move on to Penn State bama will sink to pre Saban years.
Not trying to be argumentative, I give Petersen a nice tip of the cap to Boners great 2 years at UW and he gets most all of the credit. I’d give Pete 15-20% credit for Kalen’s success and I would bet he would acknowledge Petersen’s foundation as significant. Starting to ramble 🤦♂️
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Derek “you guys follow recruiting more than me” Johnson
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if they were South Koreans you’d follow them.
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J.R. Hasty’s commitment really got me hooked. If I was smart I also would have been like J.R. Hasty and quit, but that didn’t happen. Don’t follow it nearly as much these days as NIL has essentially turned it into yearly free agency.
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When I need the inside scoop on recruiting, I always turn to @Joey!
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before internet recruiting sites, on Saturdays the question was who was going where on the Long Beach best in the west rankings ~ real catnip to read with avid interest back in the day.. that was the origins of recruiting buzz for me, then it was dos based recruiting chat rooms ~ let the hilarity ensue
