TSiO Episode #47: The Barber >>>>

Dennis_DeYoung

The return of @Tequilla marks a special occasion, it's the Signing Day Pod! We dig into the Washington recruiting class by looking at how the UW staff changed their strategies in recruiting, the redemption of Malloe, and why can't we get a BUCK to save our lives... We discuss the one major issue that needs to be addressed immediately, and then wrap it up with a two year class overview and hint at the 2019 class.

We hope you enjoy, minus @SpoonieLuv, fuck that guy!

Website: SIGNING DAY POD

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Swaye

My dong feels tingly.

UW_Doog_Bot

I was still hoping for the pre- signing day pod released post signing day.

Swaye

I missed @Tequilla

Swaye

Can we not make "Let our light shine" become part of the lexicon here?

YellowSnow

I'm going to go take a walk here on an Oregon beach for perspective in a moment. Will listen in a bit after I go find some tube socks.

GrundleStiltzkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMplIrSlg8E

UW_Doog_Bot

AAAAAnnnnnnnnnndddd my project I was having to leg hump at work just got cancelled. Guess who's spending their morning listening to the pood now.

UW_Doog_Bot

God fucking damn it on having Coker get drunk. Fuck you Martin! Fuck you dry in the @backthepack!

Who has to sign in 2019 for this to happen?

theknowledge

Let our light shine! Our coaches are like the losing presidential candidates showing up on SNL. Halfway through the skit you wonder why they always looked like buttoned up assholes on the campaign trail. If they had just lightened up maybe they would have stood a chance. Bob Dole and John Mccain actually showed a sense of humor. I remember thinking 'I actually like these guys', Who'd of thunk it.

GrundleStiltzkin

dnc said:

dnc said:

The esteemed TSIO hosts postulated early in this recruiting season that this could be a disappointing class for us thanks to the strengths of the class not lining up with our strengths (geographic and recruiters). 17 commits in, this might not be a monster class, but it is looking likely very good, with a shot at better if a few notables hop on bored down the stretch.

Obviously, some things have changed since their warning, perhaps most notably the hires of Matt Lubick and Scott Huff, who between them have brought in almost half of the real BRB, YO caliber talent in this class.

But the other chinteresting development, and the one I want to dig into just a bit here, is where this class is coming from. OTOH, traditionally Washington (like everyone else in the conference) has gotten at least 60% of its kids from California, roughly 30% from Washington and filled in 10% from Hawaii, Oregon, and the occasional kid from somewhere else.

This class looks different. A lot different. Of the 17 commits, here's where they come from:

Washington - 4 (Sirmon, Culp, Ale, Liu)
California - 3 (Newton, Osborne, Spiker)
Oregon - 2 (Bynum, Lowe)
Utah - 2 (Taimani, Tafisi)
Arizona - 2 (Mele, Hampton)
Hawaii - 1 (Zion)
Idaho - 1 Yankoff
Tennessee - 1 (Sirmon 2)
Texas - 1 (Curne)

As it currently stands, Washington recruits account for 23.5% of the class and California recruits account for only 17.6% (!). Combined, our two primary states make up 40.1% of the class.

81% of the time (probably more) that would be a death sentence for UW. But somehow we? have successfully expanded the footprint to put together a strong class despite a below average year for us in state and a WAY below average year for us in California. With no research to back this up I'd venture this is by far the fewest kids we've ever pulled from Cali, even if we finish with Tremblay, Irving and Tuliapupu (we won't).

While I would expect us? to do much better in Cali moving forward, the rise of the WAC states in UW recruiting is really fascinating, and seems to be more likely a trend than a blip. Arizona has become a state we consistently pluck a kid from under Pete, Utah had a historic class this year but we've now gotten 3 kids from there in 2 years, and Hawaii appears to be a priority state next class.

I don't know how much of this has to do with increasing talent from those states (particularly Utah and Arizona) and how much has to do with Petersen prioritizing them more/better than previous UW coaches, but it appears our recruiting footprint is expanding, and not just into the much discussed Texas.

Maybe hiring a coach who knew the WAC recruiting base wasn't so bad after all.

Fupdate

Washington - 4 (Sirmon, Culp, Ale, Liu)
California - 3 (Newton, Osborne, Spiker)
Oregon - 2 (Bynum, Lowe)
Utah - 2 (Taimani, Tafisi)
Arizona - 2 (Mele, Hampton)
Hawaii - 1 (Zion)
Idaho - 1 Yankoff
Tennessee - 1 (Sirmon 2)
Texas - 1 (Curne)
Nevada - 1 (Kaho)

Washington at 22.2%, Cali at 16.7%

Final fupdate:

Washington - 5 (Sirmon, Culp, Ale, Liu, Gordon)
California - 5 (Newton, Osborne, Spiker, Irvin, Tuli)
Oregon - 2 (Bynum, Lowe)
Utah - 2 (Taimani, Tafisi)
Arizona - 2 (Mele, Hampton)
Hawaii - 1 (Zion)
Idaho - 1 Yankoff
Tennessee - 1 (Sirmon 2)
Texas - 1 (Curne)
Nevada - 1 (Kaho)

Washington and Cali both at 23.8%, for a total of 47.6% of the class from our two core states.

I highly doubt we've ever gone below 50% aggregate from those two states before. Chinteresting shit.

Notable - our first three commits for 2019 are all Washington (2) and Cali (1), and it appears we have a strong start on a number of other Cali kids (Ngata, Criddel, Austin Jones, Sean Dollars). We also seem to be hitting Hawaii a lot harder for 2019 than ever in the Pete era.

This next class could look a lot more like a DJ or even RN class geographically.