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Not Adams and Huff’s Fault
RoadDawg55
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But if Jimmy mandated keeping them for recruiting purposes, he didn’t do himself any favors.
Still just can’t fathom how this guy was hired other than Jimmy doing his agent or someone in their industry a solid.
Still just can’t fathom how this guy was hired other than Jimmy doing his agent or someone in their industry a solid.
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I would argue coaching is more important if you aren’t getting the best, elite players because you have to turn guys that have roughly the same talent into winners.
If axing Huff and Adams would have gotten us a better OC it should have been done. They aren’t the only good recruiters either.
We lost to Cal two years in a row. Coaching is way the fuck more important than 25%
We aren’t better than 2016 even tho we have recruited better on paper.
There is so much more nuance to football than just getting the best players in the recruiting rankings. The rankings get skewed by coaching, who has offered, a team’s recent success, camps, the camps the recruits go to, and their initial rankings as sophomores.
It would be interesting to see how Biggins and the others would rank players if they had no information but what their eyes were telling them. No awareness of who had offered, who was a priority to teams, etc.
Orgeron's always been able to recruit at an insane level but this is his first year of elite results...when he hired an elite X's and O's guy.
It's not coaching or recruiting, it's both/and.
Do you see him as someone that is going to get the most out of Adams and Huff. I would doubt it. This hire smells of jimmy thinking he is smarter than everyone else and zigging when they zag. I hope this is the case, but i wouldn’t bet on it.
I’ll say it again. This guy was hired IN SPITE of his track record. This would mean he is hired based off of an idea that lake thinks will work.
I want to be wrong.
In order to our recruit the big boys, you need great recruiters. That said, half of our classes are guys that come to UW because that is their best offer and the most prestigious school after them. Not all players come to a school because of their position coach. It plays a role. It’s not the only role. Very far from it actually.
ergo, therefore, ipso fatso...
1) coaching
2) recruiting
but you still need both.
As far as value... there are far fewer great coaches/developers than there are guys that can slide coffee cups to high schoolers.