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Julien Simon, 4* 2021 ATH, Tacoma (Lincoln), WA (Offered 6/22)

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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,232
    So 8 of 22 offers have been in Texas ... that’s great and understand the points made

    Who have they not offered in 2021 that they should have at this point?
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  • TrumpsWall
    TrumpsWall Member Posts: 486
    Just read an article about how tackle football numbers are down drastically in California. This info couldn’t be whyCP and staff are starting to emphasize Texas more and more each year could it? That’d definitely be progressive and unlike the boards view of how the U W currently operates in recruiting
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,232
    RaceBannon said:

    TrumpsWall said:

    Just read an article about how tackle football numbers are down drastically in California. This info couldn’t be whyCP and staff are starting to emphasize Texas more and more each year could it? That’d definitely be progressive and unlike the boards view of how the U W currently operates in recruiting

    High school football is moving east to the IE Corona, Temecula, Riverside, and north to the high desert - Palmdale, Lancaster in California.

    Definitely changing
    As with most things, adapt or die on the vine
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  • AtomicDawg
    AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,359
    LaMichael_Corleone said:

    Tequilla said:

    So 8 of 22 offers have been in Texas ... that’s great and understand the points made

    Who have they not offered in 2021 that they should have at this point?

    Troy Franklin #1 recruit in California, out of the same HS as Danny Hammer and played with FSP. The Wide Receiver numbers are really weird right now, thanks Brent Pease.


    Quinton Somerville the #1 recruit in AZ is a BUCK.


    Steven Ortiz #1 CB on west coast, AZ but played at FSP


    Jermaine Terry #1 TE in California, family friends with Darrell Daniels



    The offers in Texas aren’t the issue, it’s the time allocation. Will Harris recruiting Texas and Georgia (lol in Georgia they see a black dood from LA the same as a white dood) instead of building off LA/USC ties and after having a good relationship with Snoop Dogg’s league to the point he remembers meeting a young JT Tuimoloau. Look how fast we offered, home visited, and visited Sunday compared to Bijan. Look at our time wasted on Jake Majors when I told @Domicillo way back that there was a kid in Colorado named Roger Rosengarten who’s better than Majors let alone isn’t already committed to Texas.



    I’m gonna be stoked once we win a big nationally relevant bowl game and we actually start hitting on these Texas kids. I’m happy we’re getting down there. I just want to see us make life a lot easier on ourselves because that’s the whole point of recruiting Texas early is that you assume the closer to home you get the easier the recruiting will be. But that just isn’t reality right now.

    1. WA
    2. LA
    3. NorCal/The Bay➡️Fresno
    4. AZ
    5. Texas, Hawaii, Vegas
    They made Utah a priority since mallow came on and that seems to have been worth the effort. Getting players in that state that are highly recruited as well as some less heralded.

    Texas has definitely not paid off for how much effort we have put down there (curne, rice, Fuller, Sunday? And Levi) which is head scratching. I would have thought we’d do better but two things haunting us, We don’t pay and Maybe teams down there are more likely to match a uw offer than they would be when Boise st would offer an unheralded recruit but it’s been discouraging. With the population down there you would think we could get some legit pass rushers to sign up.
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  • vadawg
    vadawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 467 Swaye's Wigwam
    Tequilla said:

    vadawg said:

    Just watched his film...not overly impressed. He's a very slow twitch guy with little explosion that I could see. It's only 3 1/2 minutes but from what I saw, I can understand why he's not being offered yet.

    Normally when I watch film of guys that we are after I see something that makes me go “wow” ... it’s obvious and jumps off the page

    With Simon, I definitely don’t see that offensively

    Defensively, there’s a little more natural fluidity there but he’s super raw ... he doesn’t seem quick twitch enough to stay at DB compared to the typical player that we recruit.

    His best spot is LB in college most likely ... but this would be where I’d challenge people to look at the film and when you watch Simon’s film vs a Calvert, Heimuli, or even Tafisi’s ... all of our recent LBs I can watch the film and absolutely see it. I suspect Simon will get there at some point, but he’s not there right now.

    He’s still obviously young and I suspect we want to see his progress either this summer and/or his junior year prior to offering.
    I understand he's young, but he's not going to get more explosive or fast twitch over time...and he's really quite a slow twitch dude. Look at how long it takes him to get up to speed (he sort of lumbers). Plus when playing DB, he shows very little explosion in his hits, or his movement toward the ball carrier. Some of that is youth and not being coached well, but he's still very slow twitch....We'll see.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,232
    Sunday is an example of where we can be successful in Texas

    There’s an extreme bias in Texas HS that the players play 6A and to a lesser degree 5A ... guys in 4A like Sunday tend to be overlooked

    4A in Texas is still a fairly large school and from a size standpoint it’s probably comparable to 2A or 3A in Washington

    On top of that, coming from an area like Waco, you’re going to be looking at a higher end of 4A as well.
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