My Thoughts On The State of The 2015 Team
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I guess you never watch teams at least a few times, notice their OL, and then determine who their OL coaches are? That's how I found out about Strausser 7 or 8 years ago.
Michalczik was actually a very good hire by Sarkisian when he became HC at UW but then Michalczik got a better offer and bolted. Dick Rod hired him in 2013 and he's done a solid job at Arizona. Cozzetto ended up being Sarkisian's 2nd choice (whose best days were in the late 80's and 90's) and people weren't thrilled about that hire...turned out they were right and after Sarkisian left, he didn't bring Cozzetto to USC, nor did Cozzetto get any other offers that I know of so he retired. Is that surprising after watching Cozzetto's OLs for 5 seasons?
Steve Greatwood at Oregon is also a good one. His rep may take a hit because he went from coaching under Bellotti and Kelly to coaching under SlingBlade.
Pat Ruel was also widely recognized as a very good OL coach in his days at USC. Carroll isn't a dummy and brought him to Seattle (though IMHO, Schneider / Carroll are aren't giving him and Cable that much to work with lately, perhaps because their faith in them are very strong).
Are we done here?RoadDawg55 said:
He's an unknown than. Not the best teacher in the biz, which is a FS comment because nobody here actually knows who 95% of the OL coaches are.AEB said:
"Doing" - solid recruiting, getting true and redshirt frosh up to speed enough to start. Results aren't topend yet, but I think "what has he done..." is too harsh 15 games in. He needs more time. Smiff? Well....RoadDawg55 said:Why so high on Strausser? What has he done at UW?
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You couldn't name 10 OL coaches without looking it up, but okay.HFNY said:I guess you never watch teams at least a few times, notice their OL, and then determine who their OL coaches are? That's how I found out about Strausser 7 or 8 years ago.
Michalczik was actually a very good hire by Sarkisian when he became HC at UW but then Michalczik got a better offer and bolted. Dick Rod hired him in 2013 and he's done a solid job at Arizona. Cozzetto ended up being Sarkisian's 2nd choice (whose best days were in the late 80's and 90's) and people weren't thrilled about that hire...turned out they were right and after Sarkisian left, he didn't bring Cozzetto to USC, nor did Cozzetto get any other offers that I know of so he retired. Is that surprising after watching Cozzetto's OLs for 5 seasons?
Steve Greatwood at Oregon is also a good one. His rep may take a hit because he went from coaching under Bellotti and Kelly to coaching under SlingBlade.
Pat Ruel was also widely recognized as a very good OL coach in his days at USC. Carroll isn't a dummy and brought him to Seattle (though IMHO, Schneider / Carroll are aren't giving him and Cable that much to work with lately, perhaps because their faith in them are very strong).
Are we done here?RoadDawg55 said:
He's an unknown than. Not the best teacher in the biz, which is a FS comment because nobody here actually knows who 95% of the OL coaches are.AEB said:
"Doing" - solid recruiting, getting true and redshirt frosh up to speed enough to start. Results aren't topend yet, but I think "what has he done..." is too harsh 15 games in. He needs more time. Smiff? Well....RoadDawg55 said:Why so high on Strausser? What has he done at UW?
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Mike Cavanaugh at OSU was good, he owned Cozz in recruiting when he was with Riley, and Riley made sure to bring him to Nebraska with him.
Strausser has recruited better than any UW OL coach I can remember and his track record at Boise is pretty impressive too. I'm good with Straus, everyone else on the offensive staff makes me sad.
Quite honestly, position coaches are for recruiting. OL coach is the most important one on the field because his unit is so important, but RB coach, WR coach, TE coach, etc. Just recruit well and be an average coach and I'll be happy.
Pease is the guy that is driving me nuts, he isn't recruiting well and his group is playing AWFUL. -
I love the "win or GTFO" crowd. WTF do you all expect with 3 FR and 1 SO starting on the OL, combined with a FR QB and 2 average (at best) SO WRs. Show me one P5 team that has that amount of youth. And if one exists/existed, I pretty certain the results of that offense sucked balls.
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Well it was a back and forth conversation so I posted with both of our thoughts mixed in....and since I greatly respect this person's football mind / experience, I agreed with some of his thoughts and they became might thoughts as well due to his involvement with the program.LawDawg1 said:
This reads less of "your thoughts" and more of "thoughts of an unknown alleged insider." Except for your last sentence.
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I expect to beat Cal at home.HuskyInAZ said:I love the "win or GTFO" crowd. WTF do you all expect with 3 FR and 1 SO starting on the OL, combined with a FR QB and 2 average (at best) SO WRs. Show me one P5 team that has that amount of youth. And if one exists/existed, I pretty certain the results of that offense sucked balls.
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Youth does not excuse the poor play-calling, time management, knowing when to throw the challenge flag, @TheChart , etc.HuskyInAZ said:I love the "win or GTFO" crowd. WTF do you all expect with 3 FR and 1 SO starting on the OL, combined with a FR QB and 2 average (at best) SO WRs. Show me one P5 team that has that amount of youth. And if one exists/existed, I pretty certain the results of that offense sucked balls.
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Even Petersen acknowledged that the future is NOW. UW had a chance to be 4-0 with just average offensive play and couldn't do it.
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That's Slander, Damn Slander!!!!11!!!@!!!!!
Even though you cut me deep, yeah I don't know every OL coach by name but I know a decent amount on the West Coast since that's who I watch more.
Coke mentioned Cavanaugh and he was a good one at Oregon State. Off the top of my head, he got Grant Enger of O'Dea to commit there (solid player for OSU) and Cozzetto couldn't sway him even though we badly needed OL in the 2009 class.
Cavanaugh also got Harlow to flip to OSU and generally did a good job at OSU in his time there despite not having much to work with.RoadDawg55 said:
You couldn't name 10 OL coaches without looking it up, but okay.HFNY said:I guess you never watch teams at least a few times, notice their OL, and then determine who their OL coaches are? That's how I found out about Strausser 7 or 8 years ago.
Michalczik was actually a very good hire by Sarkisian when he became HC at UW but then Michalczik got a better offer and bolted. Dick Rod hired him in 2013 and he's done a solid job at Arizona. Cozzetto ended up being Sarkisian's 2nd choice (whose best days were in the late 80's and 90's) and people weren't thrilled about that hire...turned out they were right and after Sarkisian left, he didn't bring Cozzetto to USC, nor did Cozzetto get any other offers that I know of so he retired. Is that surprising after watching Cozzetto's OLs for 5 seasons?
Steve Greatwood at Oregon is also a good one. His rep may take a hit because he went from coaching under Bellotti and Kelly to coaching under SlingBlade.
Pat Ruel was also widely recognized as a very good OL coach in his days at USC. Carroll isn't a dummy and brought him to Seattle (though IMHO, Schneider / Carroll are aren't giving him and Cable that much to work with lately, perhaps because their faith in them are very strong).
Are we done here?RoadDawg55 said:
He's an unknown than. Not the best teacher in the biz, which is a FS comment because nobody here actually knows who 95% of the OL coaches are.AEB said:
"Doing" - solid recruiting, getting true and redshirt frosh up to speed enough to start. Results aren't topend yet, but I think "what has he done..." is too harsh 15 games in. He needs more time. Smiff? Well....RoadDawg55 said:Why so high on Strausser? What has he done at UW?
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I was looking at Pac12 OL stats today, UWs stats season to date are pretty bad. Worst YPC in the conference and 120th nationally. Then they are95th nationally 10th p12 in sack rate.RoadDawg55 said:
I do agree that Strausser wasn't dealt a great hand and deserves more time. That said, the OL last year was pretty disappointing and while they are young this year, they still suck.HFNY said:Based off his body of work at BSU and then knowing him as a coach at UW.
The problem that has been haunting UW since the end of Neuheisel's days is that OL is hardest to rebuild. What you see on the field usually happened 3-4 years ago in terms of high school recruiting / player scouting, redshirts, S&C, and getting coached up. All of the starters last year had 3-4 years under Sarkisian, Tuff Guy Cozz, and Ivan and then they were gone. Strausser had to restart everything in 2015 (especially with no Charles) and hasn't had any of them for more than a year or two.
Keep in mind that the two players who have started every game that aren't Strausser recruits are RS-SR Tufunga (no offers except for UW) and RS-Soph Coleman Shelton (late offer by the previous regime and whose best offer at the time was lowly Colorado). Compare that to McGary, Adams, and James' offers. Sosebee's best offer was BSU but Strausser recruited him to BSU and clearly felt he was good enough to play Pac-12 ball so he offered him again at UW. Ideally he wouldn't have to play until he was a RS-Soph instead of a RS-Frosh but it is what it is.RoadDawg55 said:Why so high on Strausser? What has he done at UW?
SC actually is giving up a lot of sacks, and they couldn't run the ball vs ASU.
