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Erik Kohler, a two-year starter on Washington’s offensive line, has taken a medical retirement.
“My body just couldn’t do it any more,” Kohler told The Seattle Times on Thursday.
As a redshirt junior, Kohler appeared in five games for UW in 2013, including two starts at left guard. He started five games as a true freshman for the Huskies in 2010 and had a streak of 20 consecutive starts from 2010 to 2012, mostly at right tackle, before a series of injuries derailed his career.
He will remain on scholarship and plans to finish his UW undergraduate degree later this year, but he won’t count against the NCAA limit of 85 scholarships.
“My body is definitely happier (now),” he said. “But I’ve been playing football since my freshman year in high school, and I’ve been an athlete all my life, and there isn’t really anything that can prepare you for this.”
Kohler, listed at 6-feet-4, 294 pounds, was considered one of the nation’s top five high school guards coming out of Oaks Christian High (Calif.) in the Class of 2010. He chose UW over Notre Dame, arriving in Seattle — along with touted quarterback Nick Montana, an Oaks Christian teammate — with much fanfare.
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/01/09/uw-offensive-lineman-erik-kohler-takes-medical-retirement/
“My body just couldn’t do it any more,” Kohler told The Seattle Times on Thursday.
As a redshirt junior, Kohler appeared in five games for UW in 2013, including two starts at left guard. He started five games as a true freshman for the Huskies in 2010 and had a streak of 20 consecutive starts from 2010 to 2012, mostly at right tackle, before a series of injuries derailed his career.
He will remain on scholarship and plans to finish his UW undergraduate degree later this year, but he won’t count against the NCAA limit of 85 scholarships.
“My body is definitely happier (now),” he said. “But I’ve been playing football since my freshman year in high school, and I’ve been an athlete all my life, and there isn’t really anything that can prepare you for this.”
Kohler, listed at 6-feet-4, 294 pounds, was considered one of the nation’s top five high school guards coming out of Oaks Christian High (Calif.) in the Class of 2010. He chose UW over Notre Dame, arriving in Seattle — along with touted quarterback Nick Montana, an Oaks Christian teammate — with much fanfare.
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/01/09/uw-offensive-lineman-erik-kohler-takes-medical-retirement/
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Great player development as always, Sark
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T's & P's scout.com ranking of Christan Oaks players
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Montana and Kohler might have been the greatest recruiting package for UW ever.
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He'll be fine. I'm sure he has a nice, cushy job waiting in his dad's faucet company.
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Good luck to ye, Erik. I'm sure you'll find yourself a happy and healthy career of letting people go past you. A traffic cop or a wal mart greeter would be ideal.
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Colin Porter approves this thread about Sark and player development as well as the recruiting promise "come with us and you'll play early."
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medical retirement? Does he get a full pension?
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Another winner of the SarkNeedlesslyWastedMyRedshirtAndAllIGotWasThis
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Erik Kohler got worse every year he was here. It didn't help that he started out looking like a kid who probably plays magic cards and wears an oversized T-shirt when he goes swimming. My friend had the same haircut as him in 7th grade in 1993
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Kohler was as bad as any 2008 lineman when he played RT in 2011. As Bananasnblondes noted, Kohler looked like a fat, middle school skater douche, not an offensive lineman. Sark's player development has been suspect, but like Potato'e, I'm not sure Kohler was any good to begin with.
