At this point it might be time to stop dooging about Savell and wish him luck wherever he goes. Unless of course he chooses Oregon at which point it's ok to hope he gets 4 years of high ankle sprains and then heals up before the NFL draft. Of course I hold out 5% hope that he changes his mind but the dream of a Hometown Hero seems faded. As an alternative I'm changing my definition of Hometown Hero to players that are willing and excited to represent my hometown. My nominee for new definition Hometown Hero is Jalen McMillan. While we are disappointed by Savell a lot of that disappointment is eased by the committment of Jalen. His efforts in recruiting other players to play with him shows a level of leadership and maturity that I haven't seen in Savell. We got a total winner in JM and the other players that want to win with him is gonna ease a ton of the Savell disappointment.
At this point it might be time to stop dooging about Savell and wish him luck wherever he goes. Unless of course he chooses Oregon at which point it's ok to hope he gets 4 years of high ankle sprains and then heals up before the NFL draft. Of course I hold out 5% hope that he changes his mind but the dream of a Hometown Hero seems faded. As an alternative I'm changing my definition of Hometown Hero to players that are willing and excited to represent my hometown. My nominee for new definition Hometown Hero is Jalen McMillan. While we are disappointed by Savell a lot of that disappointment is eased by the committment of Jalen. His efforts in recruiting other players to play with him shows a level of leadership and maturity that I haven't seen in Savell. We got a total winner in JM and the other players that want to win with him is gonna ease a ton of the Savell disappointment.
You can't start your post with that sentence and then run the oldest play in the doog playbook.
I do agree in the sense of JM being a guy so talented he has gravity to bring talent with him, and gives the effort to actively recruit. That's something that's becoming super value with Twitter and ig playing such a big role in the whole process now.
Smalls is a monster at a position we desperately need and getting Jalen McMillan doesn't lessen that need, but a big part of SS being "THE MOST IMPORTANT RECRUIT IN SCHOOL HISTORY" was /is the expectation that he would open the floodgates on top tier in-state. Huard, McMillan (by way of Huard,) and Garbers have all mitigated that to an extent, and I'm not sure Smalls has as much influence on other recruits as we thought a year ago.
The recruit gravity or pull idea is interesting and tough to quantify. Those three above have it in differing amounts, Kalepo had it, even Miki Ah You and Mosiah Liu in a little different way with the poly movement. Coaches have offered guys for a better chance with a brother or teammate forever, but I'm curious how much attention they pay to a recruit's social web since it can be much bigger today.
Smalls in tallatrashy right now. Weather is too hot.
yep...making his 2nd visit to see Slick Willy this summer to attend their Saturday Night Live event (what a coincidence it's the same name for an event on the same day as Oregon).
At this point it might be time to stop dooging about Savell and wish him luck wherever he goes. Unless of course he chooses Oregon at which point it's ok to hope he gets 4 years of high ankle sprains and then heals up before the NFL draft. Of course I hold out 5% hope that he changes his mind but the dream of a Hometown Hero seems faded. As an alternative I'm changing my definition of Hometown Hero to players that are willing and excited to represent my hometown. My nominee for new definition Hometown Hero is Jalen McMillan. While we are disappointed by Savell a lot of that disappointment is eased by the committment of Jalen. His efforts in recruiting other players to play with him shows a level of leadership and maturity that I haven't seen in Savell. We got a total winner in JM and the other players that want to win with him is gonna ease a ton of the Savell disappointment.
You can't start your post with that sentence and then run the oldest play in the doog playbook.
I do agree in the sense of JM being a guy so talented he has gravity to bring talent with him, and gives the effort to actively recruit. That's something that's becoming super value with Twitter and ig playing such a big role in the whole process now.
Smalls is a monster at a position we desperately need and getting Jalen McMillan doesn't lessen that need, but a big part of SS being "THE MOST IMPORTANT RECRUIT IN SCHOOL HISTORY" was /is the expectation that he would open the floodgates on top tier in-state. Huard, McMillan (by way of Huard,) and Garbers have all mitigated that to an extent, and I'm not sure Smalls has as much influence on other recruits as we thought a year ago.
The recruit gravity or pull idea is interesting and tough to quantify. Those three above have it in differing amounts, Kalepo had it, even Miki Ah You and Mosiah Liu in a little different way with the poly movement. Coaches have offered guys for a better chance with a brother or teammate forever, but I'm curious how much attention they pay to a recruit's social web since it can be much bigger today.
This is a really good post ... so much of the the focus on the the in-state class has been in making sure that we're locking up all of those guys with the idea that momentum comes with one after the other
At this point, the trending in-state is really good with 2021 being a situation where everything looks like it's moving in the right direction
I've said this before, but if the 2020 class is telling us anything it is that there are good players that are lining up to play for Washington. If you don't want to be part of that, there's somebody else that is right there waiting.
2-3 months ago the momentum had everybody going down the path of "what in the world is going on here," "the sky is falling," and all types of negative opinions. Now, we've got threads where people are debating on whether we're going to get between 11-14 blue chip recruits (4 stars or better) in this class and the overall numbers that we'll be looking at pushing the program into the ~ 50 range such that we're going to be in the Top 6-8 range of talent for programs in the nation.
It's never about any single player ... football requires all 11 players on the field doing their job at any given time. The reason you want your roster stacked with talented players is because the competition from within raises the bar for the collective whole. This isn't basketball where the elite players that are coming in today will be leaving in 12 months. The gap between a HS football player and what it takes to be high-end successful in college and ultimately transition to the NFL is vast.
Petersen and his staff have proven that they can develop players and get them to the NFL while winning at a high level in college. If that appeals to a potential recruit, then that's awesome. If it doesn't, there's others that it will absolutely appeal to.
Just have to say that we cannot take all high end recruits.
We have to take 3 star croots with high ceilings but with significant flaws. Kids know this, understand that they need coaching and development over 2-3 years before even seeing the field. These kids are less likely to transfer, less likely to cause trouble, less management concerns.
Allows the coaching staff to use resources positively rather than burning it up.
Yeah, levelling up talent is great and necessary but when I look at rosters and recruiting classes like Alabama you'll see super high end croots littered with high ceiling 3 stars making up the roster balance.
@animate, that's not true at all. Alabama's 2019 recruiting class had one 3*, twenty-three 4*, and three 5*. They are not getting three stars on purpose, they are taking the best talent they can get at all times.
@animate, that's not true at all. Alabama's 2019 recruiting class had one 3*, twenty-three 4*, and three 5*. They are not getting three stars on purpose, they are taking the best talent they can get at all times.
I think the point he's trying to make is that there are challenges that come with landing classes that have full on blue chip talent ... it's also a first world problem to have.
The reality is that we're always going to have some amount of highly projectable guys in our recruiting classes.
Close the best possible class ASAP. Get Sam Adams, Covington, Esteen, and Jordan Muhfuccin Banks ASAP. Get him on campus for a big game where he “just wanted to watch a good game”. And move onto BIG 2021 fish either way.
It's such a shame, he could be an absolute legend at UW.
Under Jimbo FSU had it's flaws (lots of them) but they were an elite program. Now under Taggart all of the bullshit that was happening under Jimbo remains and they can't even win anymore (year 1 I don't care that kind of talent should never finish 5-7 in the acc).
With that said they are completely antithetical to UW under Pete so if he's not fond of OKG it makes sense he would like them. That's why I chose them in the poll the other day for savell's CB.
Just a massive bummer.
Jimbo gave up on his guys years before he left. It was apparent in comparing previous years coaches shows. He was sick of fighting with upper akademees (sp?) about facilities and other stuff needed to keep up in the arms race. He also had a very public divorce that involves his wife cheating on him with a local trainer (not CSB #1 guy) as this trainer was actually a former gator 🤣. Rumors of Jimbos infidelity also surfaced but nothing solid every materialized. In the process his son became very sick, cancer or something horrible.
He was just done with tallatrashy and done with FSU. He had actually quit 2-3 yrs before he went to tamu.
Problem is these boys trusted him so slick Willie walked into a complete shit show. Talent was/is there but these young boys aren’t fools and they trusted jimbo and he did them dirty.
Willie has an uphill battle for many reasons. What jimbo built, he also tore down and it will take longer to get it built back then the time they will give him.
Some of this is hearsay, some is factual, take it all with a grain of salt.
Sounds like you care about FSU football
It’s my job... knew here?
Are you FSU's Rachel Marie Doyle? #ScoDawgs #WarDubs?
Just keep getting commits ASAP. The more In-State guys that commit and steal Smalls’ Hometown hero gloss just a lil bit is good for us. We all need to hit up Will Latu and let him know he doesn’t have to delay his announcement to make it special. Time to close Esteen and Banks. If we can get to one more big 2021 in state name, Smalls will feel compelled to reclaim our attention.
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I do agree in the sense of JM being a guy so talented he has gravity to bring talent with him, and gives the effort to actively recruit. That's something that's becoming super value with Twitter and ig playing such a big role in the whole process now.
Smalls is a monster at a position we desperately need and getting Jalen McMillan doesn't lessen that need, but a big part of SS being "THE MOST IMPORTANT RECRUIT IN SCHOOL HISTORY" was /is the expectation that he would open the floodgates on top tier in-state. Huard, McMillan (by way of Huard,) and Garbers have all mitigated that to an extent, and I'm not sure Smalls has as much influence on other recruits as we thought a year ago.
The recruit gravity or pull idea is interesting and tough to quantify. Those three above have it in differing amounts, Kalepo had it, even Miki Ah You and Mosiah Liu in a little different way with the poly movement. Coaches have offered guys for a better chance with a brother or teammate forever, but I'm curious how much attention they pay to a recruit's social web since it can be much bigger today.
At this point, the trending in-state is really good with 2021 being a situation where everything looks like it's moving in the right direction
I've said this before, but if the 2020 class is telling us anything it is that there are good players that are lining up to play for Washington. If you don't want to be part of that, there's somebody else that is right there waiting.
2-3 months ago the momentum had everybody going down the path of "what in the world is going on here," "the sky is falling," and all types of negative opinions. Now, we've got threads where people are debating on whether we're going to get between 11-14 blue chip recruits (4 stars or better) in this class and the overall numbers that we'll be looking at pushing the program into the ~ 50 range such that we're going to be in the Top 6-8 range of talent for programs in the nation.
It's never about any single player ... football requires all 11 players on the field doing their job at any given time. The reason you want your roster stacked with talented players is because the competition from within raises the bar for the collective whole. This isn't basketball where the elite players that are coming in today will be leaving in 12 months. The gap between a HS football player and what it takes to be high-end successful in college and ultimately transition to the NFL is vast.
Petersen and his staff have proven that they can develop players and get them to the NFL while winning at a high level in college. If that appeals to a potential recruit, then that's awesome. If it doesn't, there's others that it will absolutely appeal to.
We have to take 3 star croots with high ceilings but with significant flaws. Kids know this, understand that they need coaching and development over 2-3 years before even seeing the field. These kids are less likely to transfer, less likely to cause trouble, less management concerns.
Allows the coaching staff to use resources positively rather than burning it up.
Yeah, levelling up talent is great and necessary but when I look at rosters and recruiting classes like Alabama you'll see super high end croots littered with high ceiling 3 stars making up the roster balance.
The reality is that we're always going to have some amount of highly projectable guys in our recruiting classes.
...after we win the natty
If Pete can't beat Oregon, he doesn't deserve Smalls.
Now back to the WAM to look at tits!