Our? LB corch sure did suck

HFNY

Gregory stepping into where Kawasaki was adds 2 years (Gregory is 57 and Kawasaki is 55) but Rip Rowan is only 29 and Malloe is what, 45 or 46?

All in all, the Defensive staff lost a 55 year old coach and gained a 29 year old coach. I just hope the new energy leads to more recruiting juice in the front 7.

YellowSnow

insinceredawg said:

YellowSnow said:

https://twitter.com/WestCoastCFB/status/1356692263150051335

Half of those LBs were OLBs and not in BG's position group. The ILBs who were drafted were Azeem, Keishawn, and BBK. So only 1 player BG recruited has gotten drafted.

Putting BBK and soon to be Ulofoshio in the league ain’t nothing too poo poo.

Look I don’t know if Gregory is gonna suck or not as DC, but this place sure gets in a funk at the hires which lack sizzle.

Tequilla

Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options

AtomicDawg

Tequilla said:

Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options

We have one inside linebacker that we know is good. The rest could suck for all we know. Not impressed with sirmon and everyone else gave up 4 TD’s in one quarter vs Arizona’s starters. That’s all we know.

dtd

"developing talent" has got to be one the single fakest things in all of sports. #1: recruit pay for it. #2: don't fuck it up. You taught a huge, quick twitch, smart, hard working dude who only played 1 year of sportsball to be elite? Shocking!

chuck

AtomicDawg said:

Tequilla said:

Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options

We have one inside linebacker that we know is good. The rest could suck for all we know. Not impressed with sirmon and everyone else gave up 4 TD’s in one quarter vs Arizona’s starters. That’s all we know.

I also have high expectations. I like the depth better now than at any time in memory. You're totally correct though. They haven't shown shit so far. The short season probably robbed us of seeing some good play out of them to go along with quite a bit more bad play.

FireCohen

Eddie walked on here guys. Let’s not pretend bob knew wtf he was doing

Tequilla

AtomicDawg said:

Tequilla said:

Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options

We have one inside linebacker that we know is good. The rest could suck for all we know. Not impressed with sirmon and everyone else gave up 4 TD’s in one quarter vs Arizona’s starters. That’s all we know.

I'll just put it this way ... one of the big things that was talked about often back in the days when we gave enough of a shit about UW football to try to podcast was how it's not about the names but about getting enough talented people in a room and letting them figure out who is going to play (cream rising to the top).

There's talented guys in that room right now ...

I wouldn't put a ton of stock in 2020 results for young backups because they didn't get the development time during the Spring and likely the Fall that is really needed to dramatically get better. I suspect that we'll see that happen in the 2021 offseason. Also important to remember that Calvert had a significant injury so the loss of the 2020 rep building period definitely didn't help him.

As crazy as it sounds this is one of the better areas of our defensive roster in terms of depth going forward.

GreenRiverGatorz

dtd said:

"developing talent" has got to be one the single fakest things in all of sports. #1: recruit pay for it. #2: don't fuck it up. You taught a huge, quick twitch, smart, hard working dude who only played 1 year of sportsball to be elite? Shocking!

It's not fake, it's just incredibly difficult to discern. There's no way to know how much of a role a coach played with one single player. You have to look at the entire body of work and evaluate that.

RatherBeBrewing

GreenRiverGatorz said:

dtd said:

"developing talent" has got to be one the single fakest things in all of sports. #1: recruit pay for it. #2: don't fuck it up. You taught a huge, quick twitch, smart, hard working dude who only played 1 year of sportsball to be elite? Shocking!

It's not fake, it's just incredibly difficult to discern. There's no way to know how much of a role a coach played with one single player. You have to look at the entire body of work and evaluate that.

^ agreed.

Some coaches are better than others at coaching. That should be a no shit statement.

There’s also a lot of shit that assistants do for their position group that people never see. It’s not just limited to football. Think of how dumb most 18-23 year old dudes are. Then imagine those 18-23 year olds are giants full of testosterone and rhino cum in a fish bowl where they’re mini celebrities.