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Has Ken Griswold admitted he underestimated Petermen as a recruiter?
Eklund freely admits he was dead wrong about this staff's ability to land highly ranked classes.
Will Guzzler do the same?
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Comes to a traditional Pac power school as a sleeping giant program, works his method and it's getting great results in only the third year.
And people doubt that recruiting won't follow? Are people that stupid? Oops...
Relative to most other football coaches, disagree.
Bill Belichick's a great gameday coach (though he wasn't on Sunday). Nick Saban's a great gameday coach. Urban Meyer's a great gameday coach.
Pretty much everybody else is some degree of meh to dumbfuck.
It's not microwave popcorn.
Any idiot (okay, maybe not Eklund) can identify raw athletic talent. But Petersen seems to be very good at figuring out which guys are going to be able to translate that talent into becoming superior football players. And most of that has to be about attitude and coachability. Which is where the OKG thing comes in.
OKG never meant diamond-in-the-rough, white guy, or 2-star recruit. It means guys who give a shit and want to get better. Guys who really love football and not just being recruited. And guess what, there are 4-star and even 5-star OKGs. Boise State just had no shot at landing them. Washington does.
The funny part to me is that Sark had no idea to either look for this or what to look for and recruiting was the 2nd most important part of being on the road recruiting...second to partying in hotels on someone else's dime.