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Why Signing Day Was Important To These Five Schools
DoogCourics
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From the Athletic, UW made the list, here you go:
Washington
The 20 players Washington added during the early signing period — including 12 four-star recruits and a particularly star-studded group of defensive linemen — already qualified as a significant haul.
The Huskies’ two additions on National Signing Day only bolstered the reputation of what appears to be Chris Petersen’s best class yet.
The signings of Heimuli and Turner give the Huskies almost as many four-star recruits (14) in this year’s class as it had in Petersen’s first three UW classes combined (16). Both could be instant-impact players. The Huskies lost both of their starting safeties from last season, and Turner, listed at 6 feet 2 and 199 pounds, has the kind of size and athleticism necessary to compete for a job right away. Likewise, Heimuli steps into an inside linebacker room that just lost seniors Ben Burr-Kirven and Tevis Bartlett, and he should have every chance to crack the rotation as a true freshman.
If he can win 2 Pac-12 titles with 16 Blue Chips over his first 3 years, I wonder what he can do with 33 over his last 3 years.
Washington
The 20 players Washington added during the early signing period — including 12 four-star recruits and a particularly star-studded group of defensive linemen — already qualified as a significant haul.
The Huskies’ two additions on National Signing Day only bolstered the reputation of what appears to be Chris Petersen’s best class yet.
The signings of Heimuli and Turner give the Huskies almost as many four-star recruits (14) in this year’s class as it had in Petersen’s first three UW classes combined (16). Both could be instant-impact players. The Huskies lost both of their starting safeties from last season, and Turner, listed at 6 feet 2 and 199 pounds, has the kind of size and athleticism necessary to compete for a job right away. Likewise, Heimuli steps into an inside linebacker room that just lost seniors Ben Burr-Kirven and Tevis Bartlett, and he should have every chance to crack the rotation as a true freshman.
If he can win 2 Pac-12 titles with 16 Blue Chips over his first 3 years, I wonder what he can do with 33 over his last 3 years.
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1. WR Dante Pettis, 2014 (3-star, 0.8452)
2. CB Sidney Jones, 2014 (3-star, 0.8355)
3. RB Myles Gaskin, 2015 (3-star, 0.8791)
4. LB Ben Burr-Kirven, 2015 (3-star, 0.8569)
5. DT Greg Gaines, 2014 (3-star, 0.8550)
6. DT Vita Vea, 2014 (3-star, 0.8621)
7. S Taylor Rapp, 2016 (3-star, 0.8722)
8. C Nick Harris, 2016 (3-star, 0.8319)
9. CB Myles Bryant, 2016 (3-star, 0.8321)
10. TE Will Dissly, 2014 (2-star, 0.7824)
In this year's class, the players that would fit in with this list are:
Luciano - 0.8765
Ngalu - 0.8714
Ah You - 0.8693
Tuputala - 0.8519
Horn - 0.8223
Those 10 players listed would have all been rated worse than the top 17 players in this class.
I know I know, stars.gif
But if Pete can develop all of those players into All-Conference, All-American, and NFL type players.... I wonder what he could do in developing players with a higher base level of talent.
Just to add.
It's an interesting concept except for the idea that 3 stars developing into elite college players like pettis or vea also have to compete against 4/5 stars "ahead" of them on the roster.
That's pretty exciting as I've been fond of saying that iron sharpens iron.
Give the next two years and the. 2-3 years after that... Holy shit.
When you look at how well Pete’s recruits do, it is VERY HIGHLY correlated with their ranking. This is the narrative that needs to be emphasized- not the stupid “we turn 2 stars into first rounders!” Bullshit.
When Pete has gotten highly rated players they’ve out-performed his low rated recruits.
By a lot!
The problem is everyone is a retard and thinks of the exceptions and highlight surprises.
As a simple test, the top half of his classes MASSIVELY out-perform the bottom halves.
So - the narrative need not be “what if he gets good players!! Imagine!!”
We’ve had them! Byron Murphy, Budda Baker, Kaleb McGary won the Morris trophy. Trey Adams has been a stud.
It’s fucking silly to look at it any other way.
You should post here more often.
How did they do?
Guess how Trent McDuffie is going to do.
*i don’t count QBs. Their ratings are really weird and inflated.