Wasting redshirts.

TTJ

By my rough tally, seven true frosh have appeared in games so far this year:

Mathis
Farria
Ross
Stringfellow
Daniels
Walker
King

Ross has been worth two wins by himself, obviously. But is there any doubt in anybody's mind that UW would have the exact same record today if the other six had redshirted?

LawDawg1

tl; dr

RoadDawg55

It's been a problem since Sark took over. I have no problem playing true freshmen, but it's pointless to waste redshirts for guys to barely play. None of those guys have had any significant impact, including Ross.

Tokolahi, Ducre, and Kevin Smith are a couple more examples. We could really use Tokalahi this year, and it would be nice to have Ducre and Kevin Smith next year.

greenblood

I think UCLA played like 18 or 19 freshman against Oregon Saturday. But they really had no choice. How good is that team going to be? It is scary that they competed so well defensively against Oregon with a REAL young defense.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Sark knows what he's doing here. If he burns enough red shirts, Doogs will keep chanting "UW is so young"

Dardanus

I would happily burn all of their redshirts if it meant we win more games.

AtomicDawg

I agree with the burning of redshirts but if that is what it took to get them to sign so be it. You would hope that they would have carved out better roles for them though. I called all the ROss bs before this ever happened. Daniels should have been a TIght End at the start of the season. Farria I don't get burning his at all. Mathis has played a little more but you would hope the upper classmen in these situations would play more.

vadawg

The difference is, Mora's actually able to "re-load" his positions of need. Sark on the other hand is only able to "un-load" his bowels when it comes to filling holes with recruiting.

greenblood said:

I think UCLA played like 18 or 19 freshman against Oregon Saturday. But they really had no choice. How good is that team going to be? It is scary that they competed so well defensively against Oregon with a REAL young defense.

TTJ

Every team plays a few true freshmen, which is fine. Some good teams can occasionally get away with playing a bunch of them. (See Alabama, UCLA). But you still shouldn't depart from the default position of RS-ing true frosh without some concrete reason for doing so.

John Ross established himself in camp as one of the team's best return men, and also one of the top four WRs. He also offers a speed dimension that none of the veteran WRs has. He was a no-brainer to play this year.

The other six? The only time they're even seeing the field is in garbage time. They're not helping the team win. So what's the point?

[Deleted User]

Sark has a history of blowing redshirts. Other than Ross the others should be redshirted.

I mean if Stringfellow can't beat out Marvin Hall then he should be redshirted.

sarktastic

the best player plays. Always. IF you've done your job, that player helps you win regardless of position.

If he's good enough to help you win as a freshman, he would not be around for a 5th year anyway... and that's a good thing.

[Deleted User]

sarktastic said:

the best player plays. Always. IF you've done your job, that player helps you win regardless of position.

If he's good enough to help you win as a freshman, he would not be around for a 5th year anyway... and that's a good thing.

Nobody is disagreeing with that but other than Ross those other guys never play in real time.

RaccoonHarry

He_Needs_More_Time said:

Sark has a history of blowing redshirts. Other than Ross the others should be redshirted.

I mean if Stringfellow can't beat out Marvin Hall then he should be redshirted.

Sark blows redshirts? I sense a scandal brewing - might be that final nail we've been looking for.

dnc

sarktastic said:

the best player plays. Always. IF you've done your job, that player helps you win regardless of position.

If he's good enough to help you win as a freshman, he would not be around for a 5th year anyway... and that's a good thing.

Which of them besides Ross is helping us win?

chuck

Five wins and we still have two coming from Ross. House money bitches.

puppylove_sugarsteel

TTJ said:

By my rough tally, seven true frosh have appeared in games so far this year:

Mathis
Farria
Ross
Stringfellow
Daniels
Walker
King

Ross has been worth two wins by himself, obviously. But is there any doubt in anybody's mind that UW would have the exact same record today if the other six had r

Sick of you new fish popping off all the time and without a clue. You have zero idea why any one particular RS is burned. Both parties decide to burn a shirt, unless you're Ty, or an emergency (see Reggie Reser ) But you wouldn't know anything about that as you just received your student tickets for the 1st year.

Learn a little about the game. Try dawgman, get your little feet wet and head on back

[Deleted User]

I love how the biggest Doog in here always tells us how we don't know jack shit about the game, how we should post on Doogman when he was the only one saying Sark should be extended just two weeks ago.

puppylove_sugarsteel

Oh, did you see how well king played before he got dinged up? Did you see the depth at safety? Bend over and kiss your hairless asshole that we have quality redshirts to burn.

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puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Oh, did you see how well king played before he got dinged up? Did you see the depth at safety? Bend over and kiss your hairless asshole that we have quality redshirts to burn.

Has King played when the game wasn't up or down by 21 points?

What about Stringfellow? He can't even beat out Hall apparently. Why was his redshirt wasted?

chuck

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Oh, did you see how well king played before he got dinged up? Did you see the depth at safety? Bend over and kiss your hairless asshole that we have quality redshirts to burn.

Yeah King was instrumental in that riveting second half against Idaho State.

Just keep being the belligerent village idiot there Bubble Boy. Every village needs one.

Meek

freshmen get dinged up because they're too small and weak. where the fuck are Dixon from the SEC and Brandon Beaver?