Either the Washington coaches are crazy or are geniuses

sonics1993

Talked to a couple different guys on the staff and neither of them are concerned about recruiting, in fact they like where they stand in recruiting. I made one of them repeat it because I couldn't believe it. They both told me that when things open back up, it's going to be insane and Washington will be in a very good place to deal with it. Both told me recruiting is a marathon not a sprint and believe come fall, they will flip a lot of these guys including Troy who they are still confident in. I want to believe but all my neutral sources aren't as optimistic so I got no clue how this ends.

UDubHusky23

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

sonics1993

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

backthepack

Damage control

UDubHusky23

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

sonics1993

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

And yet I kinda believe them. I'm such a SIMP.

UDubHusky23

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

And yet I kinda believe them. I'm such a SIMP.

No worries. Thank-You for the insight @sonics1993 I appreciate your honesty and willingness to give us a peak inside the gates. I fully prepared for UW to sign a class like USC did last year. In the 40-50s for rank hahah

godawgst

What % of kids decommit in a normal year do you know? 1 in 5, 1 in 10, etc?

Even with the Virus and so many kids committing without visiting the schools, It's not a stretch that many of them will have been so romanticized by the coaches about how amazing the school is b4 they ever see it, that they are allready sold on it, and the visit showing all the best attributes just confirms their dreams.

If that is their plan, talk about having to thread the needle.

Thanks for the update Sonics.

Domicillo

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

Exactly, what else are they going to say. “Things are bad, and we have no plan”

bananasnblondes

Interesting. They are probably just trying to remain positive despite things going down the shitter in recruiting.

That being said, if they win in the fall this will be a very good class. I dont put a ton of stock in the commits that are happening right now. There are twice as many committed players right now as there were at this time last year and most of these kids havent even visited the school they have committed to and almost all are saying in interviews that they plan on taking their visits. These are 18 year old kids who are bored as shit. They arent getting the attention they usually get at school and football camps. They gotta do all their top school edits, announce their commitment date, make their commitment, etc.

Anyways, a ton of these guys are going to decommit from the school they are currently at. If UW finds their qb and their defense reaches its potential, they will win a lot of games. If they win a lot of games, they will finish very strong in recruiting. If they don't, at least being a good recruiter wont help Jimmy keep his job longer than he should have it.

sonics1993

Domicillo said:

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

Exactly, what else are they going to say. “Things are bad, and we have no plan”

Please don't bring common sense in this conversation. I need this false hope

Neighbor2972

we are so fucked

Tequilla

sonics1993 said:

Domicillo said:

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

Exactly, what else are they going to say. “Things are bad, and we have no plan”

Please don't bring common sense in this conversation. I need this false hope

I’m assuming the false hope comes from the fact that the people you talked to aren’t complete idiots at recruiting (i.e. Bob Gregory) so there’s at least some reason to think they aren’t blowing complete smoke up your ass

sonics1993

Tequilla said:

sonics1993 said:

Domicillo said:

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

Exactly, what else are they going to say. “Things are bad, and we have no plan”

Please don't bring common sense in this conversation. I need this false hope

I’m assuming the false hope comes from the fact that the people you talked to aren’t complete idiots at recruiting (i.e. Bob Gregory) so there’s at least some reason to think they aren’t blowing complete smoke up your ass

Yes. And let's be clear, you couldn't pay me enough to talk to Bob Gregory.

Domicillo

sonics1993 said:

Domicillo said:

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

Exactly, what else are they going to say. “Things are bad, and we have no plan”

Please don't bring common sense in this conversation. I need this false hope

Even if they are right and somehow they come out of this flipping guys back and getting most of their top targets, it’s an absolutely terrible process. Frankly it reeks of the same shit when we’d stop recruiting in the spring and we’d we lose guys like Ngata, Charbonnet, Jones, etc, we didn’t get those kids back later in the ‘marathon’.

UDubHusky23

Domicillo said:

sonics1993 said:

Domicillo said:

UDubHusky23 said:

sonics1993 said:

UDubHusky23 said:

@sonics1993 please don't do this. Are these guys on staff actual coaches or support staff. Im going to take a cleanse from uw football. This is too stressful with oregon pushing our shit in

One position coach and one person heavily involved with recruiting. I have absolutely no read on this.

Sounds like spin, spin, spin.

Exactly, what else are they going to say. “Things are bad, and we have no plan”

Please don't bring common sense in this conversation. I need this false hope

Even if they are right and somehow they come out of this flipping guys back and getting most of their top targets, it’s an absolutely terrible process. Frankly it reeks of the same shit when we’d stop recruiting in the spring and we’d we lose guys like Ngata, Charbonnet, Jones, etc, we didn’t get those kids back later in the ‘marathon’.

exactly! thought lake would fix this quite honestly where we would just take the spring off basically

DoogWhisperer

At least they're all drinking the kool aid together (or are yes men).

Tequilla

DoogWhisperer said:

At least they're all drinking the kool aid together (or are yes men).

One thing I’ve learned is that it’s not uncommon to see successful people or companies go rudderless because they believe that they are disproportionately responsible for the success and essentially get lazy and passed by

It’s one reason why change can be a really good thing because without it you are very much at risk of getting stale, comfortable and over-confident

GaryFromTeenMom

I’m gonna go with “they all fucking suck and should be fired immediately”.

Hopefully someone murders me soon and I don’t have to worry about this shit staff in real life anymore.

BleachedAnusDawg

COVID shutting down sports has somehow had the opposite effect of what I expected re: sports. Thought I'd miss them, but really I've just had more time to think about how shitty my teams are and that they have no hope of ever being legitimately good. No games, practices, etc now means nothing to get my hopes up and carry me thru to the opening game loss to Michigan. This could be my last year of closely following the program.

Yes, I am a big, faggy pussy.

lawsandl

godawgst said:

What % of kids decommit in a normal year do you know? 1 in 5, 1 in 10, etc?

Even with the Virus and so many kids committing without visiting the schools, It's not a stretch that many of them will have been so romanticized by the coaches about how amazing the school is b4 they ever see it, that they are allready sold on it, and the visit showing all the best attributes just confirms their dreams.

If that is their plan, talk about having to thread the needle.

Thanks for the update Sonics.

The flip side of this is that the kids have a lot of time on their hands to talk to coaches and research. Oregon coaches say they’re working harder because it’s back to back zoom meetings and no travel, etc.