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Bar raised for recruiting also needs to happen
godawgst
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After the Bama game, Pete referenced the bar has been raised, and we're seeing it being played out in recruiting as well.
Here's the skinny: In 2018 our roster will be 50% 4 star (and hopefully one day 5) recruits. These are anywhere in America kids, meaning they can pick up the phone and at 55(+) of the 60 Power 5 schools have a scholarship available at any point including signing day. This puts us in the deep end of the pool swimming with the really big sharks of CFB, so the Ty Jones/Ohio State and Marlon/USC saga's are going to be part of this going forward.
Here's how the last 7 player's kids "transactions" have/are going to play out as I see it
Weddington (Plan A/Plan
gone, Marlon (Plan A) gone, Tryon (Plan , Norgaard (Plan , Ford (Plan , Gaye (Plan , and I think we take one more but don't know who.
Obviously we are going out on a whimper. As the saying goes "coffee is for closers", Two months ago here were our final 5-7 targets. Guys we would all call Plan A types: Foster/AVT/IPM/Johnson/Chaz/missing last couple (Coker/DDY could add the other names I'm sure), and it looks like we will miss on all of them.
The day our classes FINISH with guys like that, is the day we don't have to play perfect versus anyone in America to beat them which was the case versus Alabama.
And to those that say we can't do that up here, look at the class allready. Of the current 15, 10 are 4 stars, and one is a punter so it's really 10 of 14 which is Awesome and Amazing so yes it can be done.
Once this class is in the books, I believe Pete and his coaching staff will self-evaluate like they always do, and see what/where they have to make changes in philosophy/approach/style/etc in their recruiting so they do finish strong.
As he said, the bar has been raised. You always have to have Plan B, just in case, but to get over the new height on the bar, you can't miss on the Plan A kids.
Here's the skinny: In 2018 our roster will be 50% 4 star (and hopefully one day 5) recruits. These are anywhere in America kids, meaning they can pick up the phone and at 55(+) of the 60 Power 5 schools have a scholarship available at any point including signing day. This puts us in the deep end of the pool swimming with the really big sharks of CFB, so the Ty Jones/Ohio State and Marlon/USC saga's are going to be part of this going forward.
Here's how the last 7 player's kids "transactions" have/are going to play out as I see it
Weddington (Plan A/Plan
gone, Marlon (Plan A) gone, Tryon (Plan , Norgaard (Plan , Ford (Plan , Gaye (Plan , and I think we take one more but don't know who.Obviously we are going out on a whimper. As the saying goes "coffee is for closers", Two months ago here were our final 5-7 targets. Guys we would all call Plan A types: Foster/AVT/IPM/Johnson/Chaz/missing last couple (Coker/DDY could add the other names I'm sure), and it looks like we will miss on all of them.
The day our classes FINISH with guys like that, is the day we don't have to play perfect versus anyone in America to beat them which was the case versus Alabama.
And to those that say we can't do that up here, look at the class allready. Of the current 15, 10 are 4 stars, and one is a punter so it's really 10 of 14 which is Awesome and Amazing so yes it can be done.
Once this class is in the books, I believe Pete and his coaching staff will self-evaluate like they always do, and see what/where they have to make changes in philosophy/approach/style/etc in their recruiting so they do finish strong.
As he said, the bar has been raised. You always have to have Plan B, just in case, but to get over the new height on the bar, you can't miss on the Plan A kids.
Comments
Can we COOK IT?
Unacceptable.
This will be a very solid class for where the program is at this point in time. The bar will continue to be raised as the program is built.
Fuck Weddingtion. He won't even be remembered. The Marlon thing isn't clear and appears to be shady. Nansen a snake oil pig drunkard. Who the fucks knows what he is saying. Plus nothing is official yet on his apparent flip to USC.
Fozzy dreamt of the Stanford classroom since middle school. Whatever, the fucker has no lateral quickness and stiff as a board. Walker Little is the gem for Stanford, he looks incredible. Get Nick Ford and see what he looks like in three years.
Roadie on the FB Bored: Opinions!!!!
Great stuff!
Tequila, maybe you can tweet Pete and offer to coach him to sniff out a 17 year old bullshitter when you can take some time from running your multi million dollar company.
You are all busted up about Weddington? Seriously? Holy fuck dude.
You two whiny bitches were droning on and on about how fozzy was never coming to Washington.
And fuck talking about what he can do BESIDES firing Straußer. Losing AVT and Fozzy is a complete disaster. We are already coming to Straußer's aid in recruiting because he's so incompetent and we obviously know it's a big problem.
Losing back to back 5-star players in state is a total disaster... and it wasn't mitigated by hitting on a guy like Wyatt Davis or AVT.
But what's worse is that you are just Seattle-ing out... "we'll be FINE!!!" "Fozzy grew up loving Stanford, there was NOTHING ANYONE could do!!" "Blame no one! Everything is inevitable!!"
It's just bullshit. High standards go for both on-field performance and recruiting.
The difference between us and USC/Alabama is recruiting. We have a way better coach than USC, so for us to raise ourselves to elite, the reality is we have to hit on better kids.
Getting kids like Gaye, Tryon, Ford, and Norgaard (physically rare underrecruited guys) is also important, but our #1 position of need this year is OL and we missed on 6 out of our realistic top 7. That is a fucking disaster.
This recruiting season is a lot like our on-field season: it's really good, but in the end we aren't very close to the top.
So, yeah, it's a pretty good class and all that, but can we quit with the fucking Doog 'everything will be fine' bullshit?