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Rainier Beach / Garfield fallout poses threat to UW future
Rainier Beach / Garfield fallout poses threat to UW future
Like it or not, Coach Pete needs to contain this brush fire, writes Dennis DeYoung
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People forget that Jawann Oldhamm, carl Ervin and Eli carter committed to Seattle U from Cleveland HS. People forget that.
Just because a couple inner-city diva HS coaches are bent out of shape is of no real consequence. Parents have more pull than coaches in the recruiting process anyway, and as long as local parents want their sons to play at a world class University in their backyard, for a respected and renowned Coach, and program that wins big; we WILL be just fine.
Playing at the UW is an exclusive deal. End of story.
is Ingraham still open?
At the end of the year the coach gets to put how many different total scholarship offers his team had, total dollar worth of the scholarships and if he loses some games can still point to how many players are playing in college or received div 1 offers.
It’s fucked and meaningless and stupid but coaches and athletic directors use “I had 5 players with SEC offers” to protect themselves from parents and school admin that don’t understand what is actually going on.
Those positions are just as much political as they are competency driven, and a local school offering “your” players scholarships is just another round coaches use to promote and protect themselves.
Example; Under Sark or Ty they could say “I have 7-10 players with offers to UW” now they say they have 2-3... idiot parents and admin see the decrease and assume the coach must be doing something wrong.
Not a lot of Seattle public school talent (excluding O’dea, Blanchet and Seattle Prep) that I’m aware of has made its way to UW football, although there were some really good players in the group. In addition to the Allen brothers from Garfield:
Roosevelt — mark Pattison, tom turnure and Hugh Millen (transfer after Lincoln HS closed)
Ingraham— James Clifford and Greg Lewis.
Franklin— Corey Dillon (I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting)
RB — Nate Robinson
Ballard — a TE in the 1990s whose name I forget.
Probably more but hardly a hotbed of talent historically but maybe that’s changed.
Just win. That overrides every perceived slight.