Pac12‘s not invited to the dance, makes sense why legit homegrown talent goes elsewhere. Shit, I’m a homer ass Doog and I’d would leave.
If someone is serious about football I agree. These top level kids that are actually recruited by the blue bloods are going to have a hard time staying unless uw is dominating the conference. I don’t blame them. The pac 12 sucks. Everyone knows it.
Did Pete fuck the pooch on Gee Jr and not fully comprehend how much Gee Sr was going to actively try to fuck the UW program? Yep
Did Jimmy fuck up with his staff hires full of non-recruiters? Absolutely.
But the reality also is that if you are an ELITE player on the West Coast there is a giant perception that you can’t play in the biggest games and for national championships on the West Coast. If you aren’t the SEC, Clemson, or Ohio St good fucking luck. And this isn’t a unique problem to UW ... it’s happening to the entire West Coast footprint.
Until the P12/UW is able to clean up their act and put themselves on far more equal footing this type of shit with ELITE recruits leaving the West Coast is going to continue.
Excuses.
With a staff that can recruit and an offense that is attractive Egbuka is a dawg. Those other things are factors but they were could have been overcome.
Truth is Jimmy lost Egbuka the day he hired John Donovan.
You mean running Bo Schembechler's offense isn't going to attract top-shelf WR talent? Do tell....
I’ll say the same as I say for all the highly rated kids that leave the state, I hope they have a good life, I hope they need to use their degrees and take their education seriously, and I hope they never accomplish shit on the football field.
I’ll say the same as I say for all the highly rated kids that leave the state, I hope they have a good life, I hope they need to use their degrees and take their education seriously, and I hope they never accomplish shit on the football field.
I'm jussayin, he grew up a Dawg fan with parents that are big Dawg fans (and UW athletics grads) and grandparents who are big Dawg fans. It would be very strange to commit to another school today, his grandparent's 50th anniversary, as opposed to, you know, tomorrow. Nevertheless, I'm prepared for it.
Throw this in the classics. "IT'S GRANDMA AND GRANDPA'S 50TH" is going to have a long run here.
I'm honestly surprised by how little losing this kid affected me. In the time since I've been following recruiting, this is probably the 10th or 11th "cant miss, program changer, local kid that we HAVE to get".
Let's see, before Emeka there was Smalls, before Smalls there was Eason, before Eason there was Fozzy, before Fozzy there was Kasen/ASJ, before Kasen/ASJ there was Garnett/Banner. Before Garnett/Banner there was Heaps/Brown, before them there was Jonathon Stewart, and way back there was Reggie.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some in there and there are also guys like Joe Ngata that werent in state but had a connection to the program. We went through this same thing with all those guys.
Emeka and JTT may end up being better than all those guys but I'm more worried about the relative shittiness of the REST of our class than those 2 guys. Not getting a blue chip db, taking another lay-up RB recruit, taking only 2 linemen (one of which is a project), taking 2 guys that are walk-on level, taking an edge rusher who has never played varsity football, taking only 1 ILB that can't keep his grades up or weight down. Those are all way bigger to me than not getting this years "local program changer"
I'm honestly surprised by how little losing this kid affected me. In the time since I've been following recruiting, this is probably the 10th or 11th "cant miss, program changer, local kid that we HAVE to get".
Let's see, before Emeka there was Smalls, before Smalls there was Eason, before Eason there was Fozzy, before Fozzy there was Kasen/ASJ, before Kasen/ASJ there was Garnett/Banner. Before Garnett/Banner there was Heaps/Brown, before them there was Jonathon Stewart, and way back there was Reggie.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some in there and there are also guys like Joe Ngata that werent in state but had a connection to the program. We went through this same thing with all those guys.
Emeka and JTT may end up being better than all those guys but I'm more worried about the relative shittiness of the REST of our class than those 2 guys. Not getting a blue chip db, taking another lay-up RB recruit, taking only 2 linemen (one of which is a project), taking 2 guys that are walk-on level, taking an edge rusher who has never played varsity football, taking only 1 ILB that can't keep his grades up or weight down. Those are all way bigger to me than not getting this years "local program changer"
See this above until cows come home.
There are songs written about how bad this class is. You can figure 50% attrition rate for any freshman grop that comes in by time they are seniors (start with 20 ten will be left). Of those 70-80% will be starters. I will go with 80% here b/c of the value Pete and Lake puts on them = 8
This class is going to end with 16 which means 8 will be still be around so his margin for error before they even walk in the door as a group on day 1 is 0.0000000%. Factor in how poor, and how many reaches there appear to be, and Jimmy better hit a grand slam in the next two classes.
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First half game planning is a disaster. Coaching hires were a disaster. Recruiting is a disaster.
Sounds more like three, minimum.
Let's see, before Emeka there was Smalls, before Smalls there was Eason, before Eason there was Fozzy, before Fozzy there was Kasen/ASJ, before Kasen/ASJ there was Garnett/Banner. Before Garnett/Banner there was Heaps/Brown, before them there was Jonathon Stewart, and way back there was Reggie.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some in there and there are also guys like Joe Ngata that werent in state but had a connection to the program. We went through this same thing with all those guys.
Emeka and JTT may end up being better than all those guys but I'm more worried about the relative shittiness of the REST of our class than those 2 guys. Not getting a blue chip db, taking another lay-up RB recruit, taking only 2 linemen (one of which is a project), taking 2 guys that are walk-on level, taking an edge rusher who has never played varsity football, taking only 1 ILB that can't keep his grades up or weight down. Those are all way bigger to me than not getting this years "local program changer"
There are songs written about how bad this class is. You can figure 50% attrition rate for any freshman grop that comes in by time they are seniors (start with 20 ten will be left). Of those 70-80% will be starters. I will go with 80% here b/c of the value Pete and Lake puts on them = 8
This class is going to end with 16 which means 8 will be still be around so his margin for error before they even walk in the door as a group on day 1 is 0.0000000%. Factor in how poor, and how many reaches there appear to be, and Jimmy better hit a grand slam in the next two classes.