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Sa'Vell Smalls, 6* 2020 BUCK, Seattle (Kennedy), WA (SIGNED)
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Why would a kid from Texas who won’t even be in college when Smalls enrolls be tweeting about a 2020 recruit from Seattle who plays on the other side of the ball?Tequilla said:
Fuller's tweet came out about 20 minutes after Smalls articleCallMeBigErn said:
I'm pretty sure that Fuller's "So wishy washy" tweet was in reference to Sirmon. I didn't know about the Wellington and Levi tweets.Tequilla said:
If I recall correctly after his piece with Huffman putting UW on blast there were some Twitter comments from Fuller, Wellington, and Levi just off the top of my headCallMeBigErn said:
UW upperclassmen called him out?Tequilla said:
There's nothing to this story that makes sense at all ...bananasnblondes said:
I always thought the Oregon negative recruiting thing was overblown and felt it seemed more likely that Savell had/has beef with some UW players. The way he out of the blue "called a press conference" to make it known that he would not be including UW in his top 6 seemed more of a "get back" at someone. Then of course, he takes a long break from social media, quits his 7 on7 team, and comes back to social media to get into it with another players dad, it's just weird and suggests hes going through some shit. I dont think he ever even released his much publicized top 6. A few things I've seen posted various places do paint an interesting pictureDawgFader said:Smalls loves the Dawgs and has issues with a couple of guys. It’s not over for him unless the staff has made that declaration. As far as I know that hasn’t happened as of yet.
1- his junior year performance at Garfield was not to the level many expected.
2- Hes an amazing talent but it has been suggested on some 247 sites that he is overrated. Not saying he sucks but he hasn't reached the level people thought he would when he was a 5* 8th grader.
3- he tried to transfer to Eastside Catholic and they wouldn't take him.
4- Kenedy was reluctant to take him but ultimately had a meeting and decided that he could transfer because he went there as a freshman.
Anyways, whether or not all this is 100% true, it's being talked about out there. That stuff can fuck with a kid's mind.
I think UW can get back into it if Pete reaches out to him, and he responds. Not sure if either of those things are likely to happen.
I think he's always felt like he wanted to go play "big boy football" and wanted to leave the area ...
But then he bought into all the love that #HometownHero was and realized he backed himself into the corner and lashed out ...
At best right now, he's coming off as extremely flaky and players on the UW team have called him on it (notably upperclassmen) ...
My biggest fear with Smalls at this point is that he's going to turn out to be more of a hype than reality player. It seems like he's bought into his press clippings at this point and there's just too much smoke right now that is throwing off red flags.
I understand why he's such a major recruit for UW to go get in this class ... but at the same time, I'm not entirely sure that I'm going to lose too much sleep if he decides to head somewhere to the South.
What will be really interesting to me is where he ends up if not UW. If it's Alabama/Clemson then that is all about the "big boy football." If it's a Florida/Tennessee level school then you're looking at "wanting to play big boy football but the big boys didn't want him." If he ends up at Florida St then LOL and I'd be buying stock in the bust potential. And if at Oregon, then whatever.
Use your head. He was tweeting about his teammate who plays the same side as him who he just found out was entering the portal. It makes way more sense than him gaf about Smalls. -
Correct. The beef was and always has been with Van Soderberg. They just don't get along.CallMeBigErn said:
I'm pretty sure that Fuller's "So wishy washy" tweet was in reference to Sirmon. I didn't know about the Wellington and Levi tweets.Tequilla said:
If I recall correctly after his piece with Huffman putting UW on blast there were some Twitter comments from Fuller, Wellington, and Levi just off the top of my headCallMeBigErn said:
UW upperclassmen called him out?Tequilla said:
There's nothing to this story that makes sense at all ...bananasnblondes said:
I always thought the Oregon negative recruiting thing was overblown and felt it seemed more likely that Savell had/has beef with some UW players. The way he out of the blue "called a press conference" to make it known that he would not be including UW in his top 6 seemed more of a "get back" at someone. Then of course, he takes a long break from social media, quits his 7 on7 team, and comes back to social media to get into it with another players dad, it's just weird and suggests hes going through some shit. I dont think he ever even released his much publicized top 6. A few things I've seen posted various places do paint an interesting pictureDawgFader said:Smalls loves the Dawgs and has issues with a couple of guys. It’s not over for him unless the staff has made that declaration. As far as I know that hasn’t happened as of yet.
1- his junior year performance at Garfield was not to the level many expected.
2- Hes an amazing talent but it has been suggested on some 247 sites that he is overrated. Not saying he sucks but he hasn't reached the level people thought he would when he was a 5* 8th grader.
3- he tried to transfer to Eastside Catholic and they wouldn't take him.
4- Kenedy was reluctant to take him but ultimately had a meeting and decided that he could transfer because he went there as a freshman.
Anyways, whether or not all this is 100% true, it's being talked about out there. That stuff can fuck with a kid's mind.
I think UW can get back into it if Pete reaches out to him, and he responds. Not sure if either of those things are likely to happen.
I think he's always felt like he wanted to go play "big boy football" and wanted to leave the area ...
But then he bought into all the love that #HometownHero was and realized he backed himself into the corner and lashed out ...
At best right now, he's coming off as extremely flaky and players on the UW team have called him on it (notably upperclassmen) ...
My biggest fear with Smalls at this point is that he's going to turn out to be more of a hype than reality player. It seems like he's bought into his press clippings at this point and there's just too much smoke right now that is throwing off red flags.
I understand why he's such a major recruit for UW to go get in this class ... but at the same time, I'm not entirely sure that I'm going to lose too much sleep if he decides to head somewhere to the South.
What will be really interesting to me is where he ends up if not UW. If it's Alabama/Clemson then that is all about the "big boy football." If it's a Florida/Tennessee level school then you're looking at "wanting to play big boy football but the big boys didn't want him." If he ends up at Florida St then LOL and I'd be buying stock in the bust potential. And if at Oregon, then whatever.
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Joey Thomas tweeted out that the disrespect was unreal because Smalls was ranked #4 or something instead of #1. He has and likely still has the wrong people around him.DawgFader said:He’s a talented local kid and has a lot of people with their own interest, way up in his ear. If I remember correctly high school was hard enough without being a blue chip prospect, he’s getting daily calls from the the best persuaders in college football.
Teen confusion gets labeled as flaky. He’s 17/18 years old give the kid a break. He seems like a solid kid that quietly bleeds purple and gold. It’s tough to please everyone all the time.
He’s great, but he was certainly way too into the hype. Pete hates that stuff and something happened. We want him badly. I’m not as sure about Pete. He’s stubborn and does shit his way, 5 star or not. -
And this is done. He’s not coming. I can’t see Pete allowing any recruit to bad mouth UW and let it slide.
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Smalls was spending a lot of time around the program ... then trashed the program
Why would 3 players talk shit publicly about a player staying with the program? Talk about not being OKG -
- Just wish him the best
- keep hoping that he represents Seattle in the way that makes us all proud no matter where he goes cuz we always need positive role models in the community
- keep recruiting the best class outside of him with the thought in your heart that he’s not coming so you don’t get your hopes up
- recruit Jordan Banks every single day with the same intensity as you did with Smalls
- let Smalls’ mom know about Chris Steele’s combative experience FLA where even as the top recruit he had a target in his back for being from the west coast
- let his mom know about Skinny’s UGA experience and how fast he was kicked to the curb
- watch Oregon fail to develop talent at his own position like Jalen Jelks, Winston, and Cunningham
- let his mom know how shady Sark is at Bama
- get Sam Adams, Jalen McMillan, Esteen, Covington ASAP (not take their time bullshit so you can actually have buzz around your movement that people wanna be a part of)
- keep wishing him the best elsewhere while flourishing in recruiting the 2020-21 in-state guys and California so your name keeps being brought up as the top destination for big time talent instead of fracturing between west coast talent looking at UGA, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Florida
- then he realizes it’s just UDUB and Clemson and why would you go all the way to SC to be behind a hometown hero kid from SC when you can be the hometown hero in an actual big city and market at Clemson-West -
There are two types of teams in the world.
Those that get Savvy Smalls, and those that want to get Savvy Smalls.
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LaMichael_Corleone said:
recruit Jordan Banks every single day with the same intensity as you did with Smalls
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Some you won't admit it but you really do want to go back to the Sark era and want coach K to get on his knees and bark in front of savells house.
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This.haie said:Some you won't admit it but you really do want to go back to the Sark era and want coach K to get on his knees and bark in front of savells house.
Fuck all of you.
Those who chase the prom queen never fuck her after buying her gifts, paying for her meals and always being there when she's in distress.
Instead she fucks their cuter best friend (Oregon) or the blue-blood rich kid in town who DGAF about her (Bama), and if not that, some KU or Cal undergrad during Spring Break in Mexico or South Padre Island.
The potential for Locker Room Cancer is over-the-top on this one. Time to move on.
