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Looking Like Recruiting Class is 100% Gone ...
Tequilla
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If a leading Scout recruiting analyst (Josh Gershon) is to be believed from what I've heard through the grapevine ... both Davis and Nowell are out ...
Looks like the Seattle hoops community is flexing its muscle and protesting the Romar firing by giving Hopkins absolutely no chance out of the gate ...
Also an example of what happens when you let someone stay in a position too long and poison the waters ...
Also an example that things are going to be a challenge at least in the short term ...
Even more kudos IMO to Cohen for making this call knowing that regardless of when she pulled the plug on Romar that it was going to be ugly so might as well start it immediately and get the pain started ...
Looks like the Seattle hoops community is flexing its muscle and protesting the Romar firing by giving Hopkins absolutely no chance out of the gate ...
Also an example of what happens when you let someone stay in a position too long and poison the waters ...
Also an example that things are going to be a challenge at least in the short term ...
Even more kudos IMO to Cohen for making this call knowing that regardless of when she pulled the plug on Romar that it was going to be ugly so might as well start it immediately and get the pain started ...
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Behind closed doors ... does not appear to be the case
Fuck it.
Gonzaga is 20 minutes away from the Final Four and they have exactly one player from the state of Washington on the roster - and the only reason he's on the squad is his dad was Tommy Lloyd's high school coach.
Go find fucking good to great players. There's a whole world to recruit. The Seattle AAU people can come back and beg for access later.
SAD.
Lots of schools win without access to local talent. Sean Elliott is about the only 'great' I've ever heard come out of Tucson.
The fact that they are local should make the sales job that much easier, especially for an alleged great recruiter.
If he pulls talent from the other side of the country or some foreigner, fine. But he just lost 2 top guys from our back yard. Unless he has a replacement lined up, this is a fail.
I'd prefer to have Nowell in the program than not ... but he's far from irreplaceable
UW lost Trier and Cunnliffe too before that. Big deal.
What else you got?
At this point way more important that any recruit that joins buys in than anything else ...
The culture change needs to happen before anything else
Losing Davis is not a big deal. There are dozens like him.
Newsflash: those kids don't give a fuck about washington. So fuck them. Get some guys in there who are committed to the school, not some loser head coach who loses to yale.
What I'm saying is that if we learned anything from the Sark to Pete transition it is that a culture change can take up to 2 full seasons ... we were slightly helped here in that there were a number of our top players that bought in pretty quickly because they saw Sark for what he was ...
The problem with Romar is that so many think that he walked in water (insanely stupid) ... so I am not losing sleep by anybody leaving or not wanting to show up because they don't want to buy in ...
We will have short-term problems next year from a depleted roster and TBD challenges from recruiting locally ... we may have some opportunities in having a large recruiting class in 2018 and/or 2019 full of people that buy into what we are selling