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  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    HFNY said:

    Actually Kirkland may be visiting UCLA this weekend so he might stick with UCLA.

    I don't see Kirkland being a miss because he committed to UCLA pretty darn early and to uber-recruiter Klemm (was he fired for shady recruiting or not being a good coach?).

    I'm not willing to say Strausser sucks or should be fired, at least yet. The OL has gotten better every year under him and Nick Harris starting at RG as a true frosh is more of an indictment of the previous staff's recruiting (Brostek and Andrew Kirkland weren't able to keep him on the bench redshirting).

    Is he an outstanding coach "on field"? Yes.

    Is he an atrociously bad recruiter? Yes.

    Okay, we all agree.

    Now the cost/benefit can be discussed.
  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754

    HFNY said:

    Actually Kirkland may be visiting UCLA this weekend so he might stick with UCLA.

    I don't see Kirkland being a miss because he committed to UCLA pretty darn early and to uber-recruiter Klemm (was he fired for shady recruiting or not being a good coach?).

    I'm not willing to say Strausser sucks or should be fired, at least yet. The OL has gotten better every year under him and Nick Harris starting at RG as a true frosh is more of an indictment of the previous staff's recruiting (Brostek and Andrew Kirkland weren't able to keep him on the bench redshirting).

    Is he an outstanding coach "on field"? Yes.

    Is he an atrociously bad recruiter? Yes.

    Okay, we all agree.

    Now the cost/benefit can be discussed.
    Don't think the recruiting problem would be as bad if we didn't also have an OC with the personality of dried glue. You could probably get by with one or the other, but both are killing OL recruiting.
    As bad as OL recruiting is - and it's bad - QB recruiting is a lot worse. So I don't want to play namby pamby whack-a-mole on whose fault it is.

    If there were more in state kids, if UW had never hired Gilby... there are a lot of ifs. I know this: Strausser can't recruit his way out of a paper bag.

    I don't think Smith has any fucking thing to do with it as it didn't seem to slow Hamdan down much this year.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,238
    HFNY said:

    Actually Kirkland may be visiting UCLA this weekend so he might stick with UCLA.

    I don't see Kirkland being a miss because he committed to UCLA pretty darn early and to uber-recruiter Klemm (was he fired for shady recruiting or not being a good coach?).

    I'm not willing to say Strausser sucks or should be fired, at least yet. The OL has gotten better every year under him and Nick Harris starting at RG as a true frosh is more of an indictment of the previous staff's recruiting (Brostek and Andrew Kirkland weren't able to keep him on the bench redshirting).

    Disagree
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,238

    HFNY said:

    Actually Kirkland may be visiting UCLA this weekend so he might stick with UCLA.

    I don't see Kirkland being a miss because he committed to UCLA pretty darn early and to uber-recruiter Klemm (was he fired for shady recruiting or not being a good coach?).

    I'm not willing to say Strausser sucks or should be fired, at least yet. The OL has gotten better every year under him and Nick Harris starting at RG as a true frosh is more of an indictment of the previous staff's recruiting (Brostek and Andrew Kirkland weren't able to keep him on the bench redshirting).

    Is he an outstanding coach "on field"? Yes.

    Is he an atrociously bad recruiter? Yes.

    Okay, we all agree.

    Now the cost/benefit can be discussed.
    Don't think the recruiting problem would be as bad if we didn't also have an OC with the personality of dried glue. You could probably get by with one or the other, but both are killing OL recruiting.
    As bad as OL recruiting is - and it's bad - QB recruiting is a lot worse. So I don't want to play namby pamby whack-a-mole on whose fault it is.

    If there were more in state kids, if UW had never hired Gilby... there are a lot of ifs. I know this: Strausser can't recruit his way out of a paper bag.

    I don't think Smith has any fucking thing to do with it as it didn't seem to slow Hamdan down much this year.
    We should be very happy that Sirmon's as much of a UW lock as there can be ... otherwise we'd be literally fucked after Browning graduates.
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    edited January 2017
    Tequilla said:

    HFNY said:

    Actually Kirkland may be visiting UCLA this weekend so he might stick with UCLA.

    I don't see Kirkland being a miss because he committed to UCLA pretty darn early and to uber-recruiter Klemm (was he fired for shady recruiting or not being a good coach?).

    I'm not willing to say Strausser sucks or should be fired, at least yet. The OL has gotten better every year under him and Nick Harris starting at RG as a true frosh is more of an indictment of the previous staff's recruiting (Brostek and Andrew Kirkland weren't able to keep him on the bench redshirting).

    Is he an outstanding coach "on field"? Yes.

    Is he an atrociously bad recruiter? Yes.

    Okay, we all agree.

    Now the cost/benefit can be discussed.
    Don't think the recruiting problem would be as bad if we didn't also have an OC with the personality of dried glue. You could probably get by with one or the other, but both are killing OL recruiting.
    As bad as OL recruiting is - and it's bad - QB recruiting is a lot worse. So I don't want to play namby pamby whack-a-mole on whose fault it is.

    If there were more in state kids, if UW had never hired Gilby... there are a lot of ifs. I know this: Strausser can't recruit his way out of a paper bag.

    I don't think Smith has any fucking thing to do with it as it didn't seem to slow Hamdan down much this year.
    We should be very happy that Sirmon's as much of a UW lock as there can be ... otherwise we'd be literally fucked after Browning graduates.
    He gone. USC is going to make his dad a fucking dean of something and take him too.
  • TommySQC
    TommySQC Member Posts: 5,813
    Tequilla said:

    HFNY said:

    Actually Kirkland may be visiting UCLA this weekend so he might stick with UCLA.

    I don't see Kirkland being a miss because he committed to UCLA pretty darn early and to uber-recruiter Klemm (was he fired for shady recruiting or not being a good coach?).

    I'm not willing to say Strausser sucks or should be fired, at least yet. The OL has gotten better every year under him and Nick Harris starting at RG as a true frosh is more of an indictment of the previous staff's recruiting (Brostek and Andrew Kirkland weren't able to keep him on the bench redshirting).

    Is he an outstanding coach "on field"? Yes.

    Is he an atrociously bad recruiter? Yes.

    Okay, we all agree.

    Now the cost/benefit can be discussed.
    Don't think the recruiting problem would be as bad if we didn't also have an OC with the personality of dried glue. You could probably get by with one or the other, but both are killing OL recruiting.
    As bad as OL recruiting is - and it's bad - QB recruiting is a lot worse. So I don't want to play namby pamby whack-a-mole on whose fault it is.

    If there were more in state kids, if UW had never hired Gilby... there are a lot of ifs. I know this: Strausser can't recruit his way out of a paper bag.

    I don't think Smith has any fucking thing to do with it as it didn't seem to slow Hamdan down much this year.
    We should be very happy that Sirmon's as much of a UW lock as there can be ... otherwise we'd be literally fucked after Browning graduates.
    QBs more than any other position seem to get slotted at school.