Chris Petersen Talks Recruiting Strategy and How he Hates it
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8/10 would smashHFNY said:You mean it having 11 out of 25 players wash-out like Stevie's 2012 class did shouldn't be the norm and that it really doesn't have to be that way?!?
CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/pac12/2015/06/05/chris-petersen-washington-football-recruiting/28550819/
I love his approach. No BS, straight forward and basically making sure the player fits your coaches and culture is one of the most important things for them. This will lead to less flips, less roster turnover and better buy-in.
I'm sure Kim will point out to him, this isn't the Whack Peterman!!!1 -
Does he ask the tough questions?Tequilla said:The way I look at it, the kids that get pissed off about whether or not they've been showed the love early on (and particularly the parents that bitch and moan about that stuff) aren't focused on the right things and will almost assuredly be at a higher risk for either flipping schools later in the process and be at a higher risk of transferring once in the program if not vaulted towards the top of the depth chart earlier than later.
We can all bitch and whine about it, but what Petersen really does is make sure that he's going after the kids that WANT to be part of his program. It's really the quintessential making sure that they bleed purple and gold.
At uw.
Just try and you will consistently land a top 20 class.
Please recruit some linemen.
You are not going to out recruit the LA schools.
Do it dirty or do church style. I don't care. Just win. Uw has a proud tradition of boosters and coaches offering riches and coffee cups to the young men's lives which they try to enrich. Who cares, just win.
I don't care if it is the right way or the wrong way. Just win before I hate college football from years of watching a shit program.
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AtomicDawg said:
Does he ask the tough questions?Tequilla said:The way I look at it, the kids that get pissed off about whether or not they've been showed the love early on (and particularly the parents that bitch and moan about that stuff) aren't focused on the right things and will almost assuredly be at a higher risk for either flipping schools later in the process and be at a higher risk of transferring once in the program if not vaulted towards the top of the depth chart earlier than later.
We can all bitch and whine about it, but what Petersen really does is make sure that he's going after the kids that WANT to be part of his program. It's really the quintessential making sure that they bleed purple and gold.
At uw.
Just try and you will consistently land a top 20 class. [Teq: He's doing this - right?]
Please recruit some linemen. [Teq: This has been the most impressive parts of his recruiting - the focus on building up not only talent but depth on the OL/DL]
You are not going to out recruit the LA schools. [Teq: has never been the plan at the UW; getting a Top 3-4 SoCal player is the goal as the difference between 1-3 historically hasn't been huge]
Do it dirty or do church style. I don't care. Just win. Uw has a proud tradition of boosters and coaches offering riches and coffee cups to the young men's lives which they try to enrich. Who cares, just win.
I don't care if it is the right way or the wrong way. Just win before I hate college football from years of watching a shit program. -
Exactly. A lot of coaches can do that. He does not deserve praise. He should not be beaten down for how they have recruited neither. It is on par. His strategy of finding the doogs that bleed purple and gold is beside the point.Tequilla said:AtomicDawg said:
Does he ask the tough questions?Tequilla said:The way I look at it, the kids that get pissed off about whether or not they've been showed the love early on (and particularly the parents that bitch and moan about that stuff) aren't focused on the right things and will almost assuredly be at a higher risk for either flipping schools later in the process and be at a higher risk of transferring once in the program if not vaulted towards the top of the depth chart earlier than later.
We can all bitch and whine about it, but what Petersen really does is make sure that he's going after the kids that WANT to be part of his program. It's really the quintessential making sure that they bleed purple and gold.
At uw.
Just try and you will consistently land a top 20 class. [Teq: He's doing this - right?]
Please recruit some linemen. [Teq: This has been the most impressive parts of his recruiting - the focus on building up not only talent but depth on the OL/DL]
You are not going to out recruit the LA schools. [Teq: has never been the plan at the UW; getting a Top 3-4 SoCal player is the goal as the difference between 1-3 historically hasn't been huge]
Do it dirty or do church style. I don't care. Just win. Uw has a proud tradition of boosters and coaches offering riches and coffee cups to the young men's lives which they try to enrich. Who cares, just win.
I don't care if it is the right way or the wrong way. Just win before I hate college football from years of watching a shit program. -
I like his style. I truly believe gone are the days of classes in which 10+ guys totally flame out and contribute zero. Gotta win though or GtFO
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"The whole recruiting process right now is so bizarre, is so absurd, that offering a scholarship to a kid at most places is like sending a letter to him five years ago," he said. "(Schools) don't care. They'll just get out of it. Or if a guy does commit, they'll say, 'Oh, you've got to come to our camp now.' And then if they don't like him, they just kind of, you know … and we're just not into that."
Its true all over, but when I first read it I thought of Sark yanking the scholarship of Isaac Garcia... -
Sounds like he's figuring it outRoadDawg55 said:Eason?
"It makes it harder on us the way the nature of recruiting is going, because everyone is rushing and offering guys that they don't know anything about," said Petersen. "Now it's like a kid has 20 offers and he's like, 'Well, where have you been? You haven't been here.' Well, sometimes it takes a minute or two to figure these things out.
"Our way maybe hurts us in some ways because we're so late on certain kids. I don't have a problem offering early. But we need to know something more than just seeing the kid on tape. That's easy. Anyone can figure that out. But there's a lot more to it."
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I hate that he didn't get Eason way more than he hates strategizing.
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It's awfully warm for February.Dennis_DeYoung said:I hate that he didn't get Eason way more than he hates strategizing.
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We used to have a culture at UW. Not anymore. Petersen is trying to establish (or re-establish) a culture.CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/pac12/2015/06/05/chris-petersen-washington-football-recruiting/28550819/
I love his approach. No BS, straight forward and basically making sure the player fits your coaches and culture is one of the most important things for them. This will lead to less flips, less roster turnover and better buy-in.
I'm sure Kim will point out to him, this isn't the Whack Peterman!!!1
What was our identity under neuheisel? gilbertson? willingham? sark? Pretty tough to sell a culture when you don't really have one.
In short, if you have an identity talented players will come. They will want to be a part of it.
