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Recruiting is about 3-4 years in the future. Let me illustrate...

Dennis_DeYoung
Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
in The Fisching Hole (Recruiting)
One of the things that annoys the fuck out of me with Doogs when it comes to recruiting is the idea of NEED. Every year you need everything and tons of talent everywhere. Okay. That's the only need and you need that every. fucking. year.

But - specific to this year, why are we not dominating up front you say? Well...

Feeling like our front 7 is lagging? Do you think we might need an upgrade?

Too bad it's not the NFL and we can't just sign free agents! Anyone got a time machine in this bitch?

The time to complain about this was 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Here's what we signed on the DL (which we knew at the time we were rotating 6 guys every game)...

2015: Jason Scrempos, Ricky McCoy
2016: Levi Onwuzurike
2017: No one.

Hmmm... so we signed 3 DTs in 3 years. Great call guys!! I guess when you rotate 6 DTs every year and your stupid fucking head coach says DT recruiting is the most important thing there is... you should probably just recruit 3 DTs in 3 years and have only 1 of them be a blue chip kid.

On the lines, as we all know, unless we get those tier I players who are injury free, (like Togiai) who we have yet to really land (Tuli was injured)... no one is going to come and play that early. And if they play early they probably won't be very effective. Remember Vita in '15? That guy ended up being a beast. In year 1 he was an out of shape guy who was massively inconsistent.

How about Outside Linebacker? Well, this KEY POSITION in our defense has been recruited mostly by taking shit-tier players that no one else wanted, local guys with some potential etc.

2015: Benning, Myles Rice, Bryce Sterk, Jusstis Warren (Jesus fucking Christ: shit olympics!)
2016: Amandre
2017: Ngata, Tryon

So, basically the talented players have developed about as predicted. Amandre is a RS-Soph, Ngata and Tryon RS-Frosh... basically what you would expect out of DDY2s

How about ILB!?! These are always the easiest body types to recruit. How'd we do in those same years?

Well, we decided to stock up on lower tier players! How's that worked out? Well, medium.

2015: Tevis, BBK, DJ Beavers, Kyler Manu
2016: Eifer, Wellington (pretty good, but Eifler left and Welly can't stay healthy and we didn't redshirt him)
2017: No one.

IN SUM:

-Pretty much the spot we recruited the best during those 3 awkward years was OLB.

-We took 2 front 7 players in 2017. Two. On a team that constantly rotates 2-3 groups of players.

-This is why we should not be in any power rankings above 10th and we will be lucky to get into the Rose Bowl.

We have one of the best coaches in the country, but...

CONCLUSION:

Recruiting is about 3-4 years down the road. Every class you need to fill every position with talented players. Players get hurt (Scrempos, Ngata, Beavers, Welly), leave (McCoy, Sterk, Eifler), switch positions (Warren), don't develop (Rice, Manu) or develop slowly unless they are top-100 type players (Levi, Benning).

It's never about one player. It's always about taking classes that cover all positions and getting a ton of talent. You never know who is going to do what, but if you get a bunch of top-300 guys and guys that Notre Dame, USC and Bama are offering you will probably be fine. We are just paying this year for our negligence in 2015-17.
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  • animate
    animate Member Posts: 4,245
    Did you cc this to Petersen?
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  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    godawgst said:

    Funny for a team that LOVES to get their back-ups plenty of reps, Lake/Kwat are essentially stuck playing Levi/Greg/Jaylon along with BBK/Tevis the whole game b/c they don't have the talent behind them to rotate other guys in without the drop off being Stevie Wonder obvious.

    Why I am really surprised (and mildly concerned) that none of our true freshman inside lb's and interior guys haven't played more. Obviously we don't want to play them if we don't have to, but you'd hope at least one of them would pop and be on par with the jags we have behind the starters.

    Reinforcements are coming, but it's another two years (2020) before we are going to really see it. How fucked will Levi feel next year being the only guy with any real experience on the interior.

    One thing the TSIO guys are extremely good at is seeing who we are recruiting and how important roster management is.

    I think Pete decided to preserve the rs for the inside LB. they most likely to play in November
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  • Dennis_DeYoung
    Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754
    By the way - as an addendum, I want to remind everyone that the players we are mostly getting are the Benning/Levi types. Guys who are likely to be really good, but are going to take a while to develop.

    I don't think we've gotten more than 3-5 guys under Pete who we expect to be big time in big games early in their careers (top-100 types or special athletes)... Budda, Trey, Taylor, Myles come to mind. That might be it. Maybe Dom Hampton.

    That's why I don't expect us to be REALLY good until 2020 or 2021. Because even though I'm psyched on our 2018 class, guys like Austin Osborne and Taki Taimani are going to take 3-4 years to hit All-American levels.
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    Dennis_DeYoung said:

    By the way - as an addendum, I want to remind everyone that the players we are mostly getting are the Benning/Levi types. Guys who are likely to be really good, but are going to take a while to develop.

    I don't think we've gotten more than 3-5 guys under Pete who we expect to be big time in big games early in their careers (top-100 types or special athletes)... Budda, Trey, Taylor, Myles come to mind. That might be it. Maybe Dom Hampton.

    That's why I don't expect us to be REALLY good until 2020 or 2021. Because even though I'm psyched on our 2018 class, guys like Austin Osborne and Taki Taimani are going to take 3-4 years to hit All-American levels.

    Kaho!








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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,606 Swaye's Wigwam
    WeakarmCobra said:

    godawgst said:

    Funny for a team that LOVES to get their back-ups plenty of reps, Lake/Kwat are essentially stuck playing Levi/Greg/Jaylon along with BBK/Tevis the whole game b/c they don't have the talent behind them to rotate other guys in without the drop off being Stevie Wonder obvious.

    Why I am really surprised (and mildly concerned) that none of our true freshman inside lb's and interior guys haven't played more. Obviously we don't want to play them if we don't have to, but you'd hope at least one of them would pop and be on par with the jags we have behind the starters.

    Reinforcements are coming, but it's another two years (2020) before we are going to really see it. How fucked will Levi feel next year being the only guy with any real experience on the interior.

    One thing the TSIO guys are extremely good at is seeing who we are recruiting and how important roster management is.

    I think Pete decided to preserve the rs for the inside LB. they most likely to play in November
    At the start of the year Pete thought 6-8 guys might play enough to burn their redshirts. We're two weeks away from none of them doing that.

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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,457 Founders Club
    Yeah but how many white DL's with a last name like skaarsgaard were there in WA/OR/ID in 2015-17?
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  • SarkFanSixtyNine
    SarkFanSixtyNine Member Posts: 373
    save it for the pod please nobody gona read all this bullshit
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