TSIO Episode #29: Coaching Changes and 2018 Recruiting Preview
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Okay, but you won't feel a thing.Dennis_DeYoung said:
He's going to play DE with Penei Sewell who Scott Huff followed today. It's the only guy he's followed since coming to UW.Woof said:Great pod.
USC is going to clean up the top kids, but I think we'll be able to do well with the kids who have a great summer and are a little bit underrated at the moment. Alex Cook didn't have an offer at this time last year and ended up a borderline 4 star (depending on the site). Fingers crossed that a few of the kids that have a great spring and summer are 6'4 and 275.
Only question is for Dennis. Do you think we have a shot with Isaac Taylor-Stuart? I think he would be a great fit at DE.
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Dennis first needs to shoot himself in both knee caps on principal to heighten the pain and suffering
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That was the moment you could really see his genius autism come out and shine, he could not let it go.Edwin_Bambino said:Great pood thanks for the free pub. I wanted my plane to crash when DDY took a minute to figure out the movie he was referring to was Westside Story. Other than that electric as always.
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If it took him an hour to come up with it we would have had an hour of dead airCokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
That was the moment you could really see his genius autism come out and shine, he could not let it go.Edwin_Bambino said:Great pood thanks for the free pub. I wanted my plane to crash when DDY took a minute to figure out the movie he was referring to was Westside Story. Other than that electric as always.
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I was shocked he struggled with a show tune.CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
That was the moment you could really see his genius autism come out and shine, he could not let it go.Edwin_Bambino said:Great pood thanks for the free pub. I wanted my plane to crash when DDY took a minute to figure out the movie he was referring to was Westside Story. Other than that electric as always.
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68:00 "All of our listeners are white"
I don't know how I can make it anymore clear that I am red *and* I hate white people. Fuck. -
You don't count as a listener. You are the spirit animal... horse, perhaps.Swaye said:68:00 "All of our listeners are white"
I don't know how I can make it anymore clear that I am red *and* I hate white people. Fuck. -
The issue is availability. It's not like there are equal 4-star guys at every position every year in every state.FKA_Mousecop said:5 or 6 4*? I get having a slight downturn, but that still seems unrealistic.
Jack Sirmon probably ends up a 4*, so we already have 3 committed. Tre'Shaun and one of the other receivers (Spiker) put us at 5. You don't think we'll get 2 more on top of that? Not everyone can go to USC even if they all want to.
This year is a shit year in-state and we may lose Kyler Gordon. I think Lake is going to have a harder time recruiting this year than last because everyone will use it against him that he thought seriously about leaving.
I'm also aware of guys who 'became' 4-star guys last year, but just from watching film, I don't see a lot of guys who we are naturally in line to get that fit that mold.
If Oregon hadn't flipped their staff and we had a decent recruiter in Oregon instead of @Babushka - we would have a real shot to make some hay there (Winston, Lowe, Jaramillo, Hufanga, Bynum, Quitoriano), but as it is I don't think we will get any of those kids. Utah the same way - we got destroyed in Utah last year. Can we elevate this year with the top guys? I doubt it. Kids there either go to USC or to a home school.
Can these patterns change? Of course they can. That's the big curiosity this year - did last year buy us enough to change patterns?
So, right now, I think we will struggle to pull the top 4 kids out of WA (Sirmon, Harrison, Culp, Gordon) and you look at Oregon, probably no one from there is realistic (mmmmmmaybe Lowe), Togiai we will lose to USC and we won't hit on any big time Utah kids (unless Malloe ups his game considerably - don't forget we didn't even get a VISIT from Tufele), then it's all about California.
This year Cali has a million WRs and we can max take 3. So, add that to 3 4-star kids from WA and you have 6, so that's good. But beyond that, we are going to need some upsets (and that's our point).
It's a down year on OL and we have a coach who has no established relationships or track record recruiting: Sewell will literally never happen, they should stop recruiting him. Dedich, Jones and Murray are guys he could get if he were an A+ recruiter. Jaramillo is a kid he can get if he's an A- recruiter. Anything below that and we are going to end up with Ale, Cindric and a scrub from Cali.
Pete Kwiatkowski is trying to 'go national' in search for BUCKs, but I doubt that works and he's whiffed on big time kids on the WC (except for kids from WA - how bow dah?).
Bob Gregory has only been effective in NorCal and at home. There aren't a ton of guys right now who are obvious there.
Lake should get a boost from the combine and we'll see if he can do what he did the last two years again. My hope is he can, but we shall see.
We need a lot of things to break right for us to get to 9-10 again. A class of 10+ 4-star kids this year would be an A+ whereas last year it was more a B+ because of our natural advantages on kids last year. -
Some random thoughts from Listener #9...
First, given @Dennis_DeYoung 's recent penchant for analogies to the Third Reich - e.g., "midnight train to Auschwitz (Peach Bowl)" - I wonder if you guys realize how perfect the Hitler's "Night of the Long Knives" one is. Consider: One of the factions of the Nazi party that Hitler was aiming to purge in that action, were the "Strasserists" (named for Gregor and Otto Strasser). Strasserism was the more left wing, anti capitalist, world view in the early days of the Nazi party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasserism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Second, confound your "fishing looking motherfucker" white guy stereotypes! My first summer job in college was as a fly fishing guide, and I don't look a god damned thing like Scott Huff.
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This is why we have the best group of 10-15 listeners in the biz. Seriously.YellowSnow said:Some random thoughts from Listener #9...
First, given @Dennis_DeYoung 's recent penchant for analogies to the Third Reich - e.g., "midnight train to Auschwitz (Peach Bowl)" - I wonder if you guys realize how perfect the Hitler's "Night of the Long Knives" one is. Consider: One of the factions of the Nazi party that Hitler was aiming to purge in that action, were the "Strasserists" (named for Gregor and Otto Strasser). Strasserism was the more left wing, anti capitalist, world view in the early days of the Nazi party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasserism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Second, confound your "fishing looking motherfucker" white guy stereotypes! My first summer job in college was as a fly fishing guide, and I don't look a god damned thing like Scott Huff.
If you look at this bored and then the dm.c boreds it's basically the difference between UW grads who actually know things and a bunch of doofy doogs who can't reason their way out of a paper bag.
Scott Huff is from fucking Arizona, and as such his 'slogan' is 'Ride The Lightning'.
I assume his main recruiting pitch is going to be about how Chelan is like Havasu in the summer and that he can get everyone free 'RTL' koozies.
