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2021 Signing Day Thread
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The walk-aims we suspect might be good never are and the ones that we know nothing about sometimes are.
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Is it though? Raw athletes with very similar frames. Tryon's best offer until after his senior year was WSU. You saying given a few games in his senior season at DE Hopkins couldn't have gotten an offer from WSU? He already has Fresno/San Jose St/Nevada offers despite never taking a snap after his junior season and basically only ever playing QB.NorwegianHusky said:
He's good for a PWO, but that's a big stretch.dnc said:Joe Tryon 2.0.
Heck of a PWOOF.
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Probably some truth to this but which walk ons have we? ever really gotten excited about? Fowler and Kinchen are the only ones I can think of and it's way too soon to say they aren't any good. Who am I forgetting that was here long enough to write off?RoadDawg55 said:The walk-aims we suspect might be good never are and the ones that we know nothing about sometimes are.
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Miles Bryant?dnc said:
Probably some truth to this but which walk ons have we? ever really gotten excited about? Fowler and Kinchen are the only ones I can think of and it's way too soon to say they aren't any good. Who am I forgetting that was here long enough to write off?RoadDawg55 said:The walk-aims we suspect might be good never are and the ones that we know nothing about sometimes are.
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I had no clue who he was before he took the field for us. I'm sure others who followed more closely were aware of him.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Miles Bryant?dnc said:
Probably some truth to this but which walk ons have we? ever really gotten excited about? Fowler and Kinchen are the only ones I can think of and it's way too soon to say they aren't any good. Who am I forgetting that was here long enough to write off?RoadDawg55 said:The walk-aims we suspect might be good never are and the ones that we know nothing about sometimes are.
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Since I started really paying attention to recruiting (recent relative to y'all), I've had the opposite experience. I was really excited by Ulofoshio, mostly because I thought he flew under the radar up in Alaska and was under-recruited. Didn't realize he had been at Gorman for two or three years until after he signed, but by then I was invested and not backing down from the theory that he'd be good and play. The athleticism, measureables, and film sure looked legit.RoadDawg55 said:The walk-aims we suspect might be good never are and the ones that we know nothing about sometimes are.
I was really excited about Myles Bryant because of the "this guy had P5 offers" angle. He was billed as stealing an extra scholarship commit and lived up to that billing.
To a lesser extent, I was excited about Ryan Bowman because he was local and the brother of a player who did earn a scholarship on the team. I didn't expect nearly the production we've seen, but I was excited for a good practice player who would help the team. He WAY exceeded my expectation, but I liked him as a pick-up.
Bronson was another one who was exciting because he was a starting college defensive lineman and that position group was thin.
I can't think of any other walk-ons I was really excited about. Did I miss any who have played/had an impact? With walk-ons, I get excited if I think of some kind of justification for why they may have been underrated. Great measureables paired with playing in the middle of nowhere and not going to camps? D1 athlete who missed the boat on signing day? Could have gone elsewhere but shits gold and pisses purple? High school injury prevented a proper evaluation? It's not an exact science, but it's been surprisingly good since Petersen was hired.
I think this year it's going to be way easier than normal for one to talk themselves into walk-on fever due to the lost high school season and all the uncertainty it created. Hell, a couple of years from now, you may see some unusual teams in the top-25 due to getting lucky with underrated recruits. Way more of a crapshoot than most years. -
Jimmy likes to talk about his superior evaluating skills, but the Bryant example definitely is a puzzler. Credit to getting him as a PWO, but other PAC 12s were able to tell he was worth a scholarship.
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Should have a decent chance at a scholarship since we will likely only have like 80Neighbor2972 said:
We recruited him hard and offered him and then we were full. Cocky sob thought so highly of himself he chose to walk on at uw rather than take a schollie at a lesser program. But many thought he was pretty good.dnc said:
I had no clue who he was before he took the field for us. I'm sure others who followed more closely were aware of him.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Miles Bryant?dnc said:
Probably some truth to this but which walk ons have we? ever really gotten excited about? Fowler and Kinchen are the only ones I can think of and it's way too soon to say they aren't any good. Who am I forgetting that was here long enough to write off?RoadDawg55 said:The walk-aims we suspect might be good never are and the ones that we know nothing about sometimes are.
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We? Initially offered Bryant a schollie but filled up before he made his decision. At the end it was UCLA and I think Colorado still holding scholarships for him but he came to UW as a PWO instead.doogville said:Jimmy likes to talk about his superior evaluating skills, but the Bryant example definitely is a puzzler. Credit to getting him as a PWO, but other PAC 12s were able to tell he was worth a scholarship.
