Ben Riva...

insinceredawg

Jude had a couple articles on Riva's post football career

About his future as a stockbroker
http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/ex-husky-ben-riva-moves-on-to-a-new-equally-chaotic-career/

About how Sark and Cozetto fucked the "Cascade Front" over by playing Kohler and Porter early
http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/former-husky-ben-riva-on-injuries-realities-of-being-an-offensive-lineman/

ToddTurnerLIVES

“You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"

I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

Dennis_DeYoung

ToddTurnerLIVES said:

“You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"

I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

Also: fuck Sark and fuck anyone that thinks playing linemen early is a good idea. RS-Soph should be a rare starter who is insanely talented. RS-Junior should be the first year of 70% of linemen's careers.

HFNY

If Sarkisian skipped the Rose Bowl, he probably would've been able to snag an OL or two in the 2009 class. They would've redshirted and then been a heckuva lot more prepared to play in 2010 than two true frosh.

TTJ

Why do you hate free pub?

BabsGilbyTawdTy

Ken Griswold is adamant: You do not want to see Dan Cozzetto when he's mad.

Chris Fetters said Cozz was a candidate for the ASU vacancy right up until Todd Graham was hired.

Just because UW's pass protection was comically inept every season Cozz was coaching the OL doesn't mean he did a bad job.

Again, you people have no idea how bad things were when Tyrone left.

BabsGilbyTawdTy

HFNY said:

If Sarkisian skipped the Rose Bowl, he probably would've been able to snag an OL or two in the 2009 class

He also would've fucked two less 6's and three less 4's.

Tough call.

RoadDawg55

Dennis_DeYoung said:

ToddTurnerLIVES said:

“You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"

I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

Also: fuck Sark and fuck anyone that thinks playing linemen early is a good idea. RS-Soph should be a rare starter who is insanely talented. RS-Junior should be the first year of 70% of linemen's careers.</p>

The sad thing is that the OL has been so shitty that if a guy on UW can't sniff the field by his RS-JR year, we think he sucks. See: Tufunga, Eldenkamp

Dennis_DeYoung

Dennis_DeYoung said:

ToddTurnerLIVES said:

“You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"

I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

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