Summer recruiting board
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Literally 95% of this bored bought into the narrative that Petersen was a cancer to recruiting and didnt understand it despite the fact that our classes were getting better and better every year.bananasnblondes said:rel="chuck">Petersen was the main draw for elite kids and their families and also the best recruiter/closer. Is this surprising to anyone?
I thought Lake could jeep it going. He blew it. Fire the university.
Someone posted about how this one class of diamonds shouldn't hurt the roster too bad as long as it's a one time thing. I agree, but there are two ways this could turn around before the damage starts:
1) A big 2020 season...this would help for sure but not seal anything in recruiting if these guys are really this bad at it. Plus there wont be a 2020 season.
2) Jimmy gets disgusted enough to clear out his staff and make some flash hires. This isn't happening either. He doesn't seem to have any contacts or pull to make big time hires.
TLDR...FUCK
Ironically, the class we are likely to end up with this year (with an AA head coach, who was supposedly the recruiting juggernaut that Pete's stubbornness was holding back) is the absolute dictionary definition of what everyone thought "the Pete class" was
Yep. All one had to do though was to look at the relative success of Pete in recruiting compared to Sark. Sark surrounded himself with recruiters (Sirmon, Tosh, Heyward) and made a big, public show of his emphasis on it. In five years he never came close to the level that Pete's very different staff achieved with Petersen expressing his disdain for the process the entire time. -
Literally 95% of this bored bought into the narrative that Petersen was a cancer to recruiting and didnt understand it despite the fact that our classes were getting better and better every year.bananasnblondes said:rel="chuck">Petersen was the main draw for elite kids and their families and also the best recruiter/closer. Is this surprising to anyone?
I thought Lake could jeep it going. He blew it. Fire the university.
Someone posted about how this one class of diamonds shouldn't hurt the roster too bad as long as it's a one time thing. I agree, but there are two ways this could turn around before the damage starts:
1) A big 2020 season...this would help for sure but not seal anything in recruiting if these guys are really this bad at it. Plus there wont be a 2020 season.
2) Jimmy gets disgusted enough to clear out his staff and make some flash hires. This isn't happening either. He doesn't seem to have any contacts or pull to make big time hires.
TLDR...FUCK
Ironically, the class we are likely to end up with this year (with an AA head coach, who was supposedly the recruiting juggernaut that Pete's stubbornness was holding back) is the absolute dictionary definition of what everyone thought "the Pete class" was
I think the narrative was more He couldn’t get the fast fast twitch LA type kids. Which was true. Pete was boring white with virtues and vision for life. That was to slow for many.
We figured Jimmy would be just the guy, for obvious reasons, to help land Troy, Denzel, Ortiz, etc. He was going to bring us hype without the faggyness and be able to draw attention of the fan boys loving getting their tip dipped in grellow by cristoballz. The right combo and virtues, vision, fast and slow twitch. We also believed that the DB hires would cement this.
20/20 right.
The same fuckery translated into playing time, game management and wins/loses will have us all ballzing backwards wishing for Pete’s return. Maybe even Race will miss him then...? -
Why would I miss 8 and 5 and losing to Oregon?
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I don't see the issue with firing Gregory today. It's not like he has any recruits that will leave because of it. You reading this, Jimmy? What's the holdup?chuck said:Petersen was the main draw for elite kids and their families and also the best recruiter/closer. Is this surprising to anyone?
I thought Lake could jeep it going. He blew it. Fire the university.
Someone posted about how this one class of diamonds shouldn't hurt the roster too bad as long as it's a one time thing. I agree, but there are two ways this could turn around before the damage starts:
1) A big 2020 season...this would help for sure but not seal anything in recruiting if these guys are really this bad at it. Plus there wont be a 2020 season.
2) Jimmy gets disgusted enough to clear out his staff and make some flash hires. This isn't happening either. He doesn't seem to have any contacts or pull to make big time hires.
TLDR...FUCK -
If jimmy is 8 & 5, loses to Oregon and recruits like a wac team.RaceBannon said:Why would I miss 8 and 5 and losing to Oregon?
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Same number of recruits he had 6 months ago when Lake gave him an extension.CallMeBigErn said:
I don't see the issue with firing Gregory today. It's not like he has any recruits that will leave because of it. You reading this, Jimmy? What's the holdup?chuck said:Petersen was the main draw for elite kids and their families and also the best recruiter/closer. Is this surprising to anyone?
I thought Lake could jeep it going. He blew it. Fire the university.
Someone posted about how this one class of diamonds shouldn't hurt the roster too bad as long as it's a one time thing. I agree, but there are two ways this could turn around before the damage starts:
1) A big 2020 season...this would help for sure but not seal anything in recruiting if these guys are really this bad at it. Plus there wont be a 2020 season.
2) Jimmy gets disgusted enough to clear out his staff and make some flash hires. This isn't happening either. He doesn't seem to have any contacts or pull to make big time hires.
TLDR...FUCK -
Well so far we have the Sherlock Holmes class of undiscovered value... who knew that this would’ve been the direction that we would go... I didn’t guess that our brand would suffer, and I still feel that when kids can get on campus and talk to our team that we will close strong
So far though you need your Sherlock Holmes outfit to find the unseen value in our class of recruits
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Drink bleach.DawgsCanDance said:Well so far we have the Sherlock Holmes class of undiscovered value... who knew that this would’ve been the direction that we would go... I didn’t guess that our brand would suffer, and I still feel that when kids can get on campus and talk to our team that we will close strong
So far though you need your Sherlock Holmes outfit to find the unseen value in our class of recruits -
To quote a racist bigot “winners win and losers talk about recruiting”
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This is a classic bananasnblondes hindsight/straw man post.bananasnblondes said:
Literally 95% of this bored bought into the narrative that Petersen was a cancer to recruiting and didnt understand it despite the fact that our classes were getting better and better every year.
Ironically, the class we are likely to end up with this year (with an AA head coach, who was supposedly the recruiting juggernaut that Pete's stubbornness was holding back) is the absolute dictionary definition of what everyone thought "the Pete class" was
Nobody thought CP was a cancer to recruiting. He was an unreal closer and brought us to a level of recruiting vis a vis UCLA, USC, Notre Dame, etc that most of us had never seen at UW. And after his initial staff of loyalists every subsequent position coach hire was clearly made with recruiting in mind.
At the same time his stubbornness about his process led to some specific critiques about things like taking part of the spring off, not going after more questionable grades/character kids, and retaining a couple coaches that couldn’t or didn’t recruit to the level of the rest of the program.
The framing for that criticism was never that CP couldn’t recruit but always that if two or three things could be changed we could get to even the next level.
Of course CP’s stubbornness about his process is also what brought him a lot of success. Nobody is perfect.
