One of my favorite quotes from Petersen's presser today.

Passion

On interior DL Greg Gaines: "Some of these guys, I gotta back up. Coming over here, everyone is into this star-rating thing. And I'm blown away. I don't know how you give these kids stars, and some of these other kids not stars. But I know Greg Gaines is one of those guys that shut down his recruiting extremely early when we got him at boise. Then he decided to come here, and he had everyone in the country calling him. Had he taken a few of these visits his stars would've changed. He's tough, he's over 300 pounds. They played him at running back."

MikeDamone

Sounds kick ass

LawDawg1

I like his quote about developing the guys. Haven't seen that in awhile.

RaceBannon

That sounds like a good DL to me

allpurpleallgold

Can he play receiver?

PurpleJ

Think he can get some push up the middle?

puppylove_sugarsteel

RaceBannon said:

That sounds like a good DL to me

Sounds like a good pulling guard to me

chuck

I gotta admit I've watched highlight videos of most of the recruits. I thought this guy's was the best out of the whole class. He's badass...big, quick and a wrecking ball. He's gonna be good.

DugtheDoog

If you notice in that quote, he didn't mention his hips. Very concerning.

DerekJohnson

allpurpleallgold said:

Can he play receiver?

this is why you flirted with the top 5 poasters' list

Passion

PurpleJ said:

Think he can get some push up the middle?

Praying. I'd settle for "clogging the middle." Me thinks Danny Shelton has a protege.

topdawgnc

What about heat from the edge?

Passion

topdawgnc said:

What about heat from the edge?

The kid is already 300 pounds. He won't be bringing any heat from the edge.

whlinder

Passion said:

Coming over here, everyone is into this star-rating thing. And I'm blown away. I don't know how you give these kids stars, and some of these other kids not stars.

I love a coach who gives the finger to Doogman in such fashion.

creepycoug

Fuck Peterman. I want stars.

It's a proven formula: more stars = more wins.

Yeah, you have to develop them and call a good game and get some good game strategery but overall, the regression line shows a tight fit between stars and titles.

Let the Mountain West take the OKGs. I want killers.

RaceBannon

creepycoug said:

Fuck Peterman. I want stars.

It's a proven formula: more stars = more wins.

Yeah, you have to develop them and call a good game and get some good game strategery but overall, the regression line shows a tight fit between stars and titles.

Let the Mountain West take the OKGs. I want killers.

He didn't say he would not take star laden recruits

RoadDawg55

creepycoug said:

Fuck Peterman. I want stars.

It's a proven formula: more stars = more wins.

Yeah, you have to develop them and call a good game and get some good game strategery but overall, the regression line shows a tight fit between stars and titles.

Let the Mountain West take the OKGs. I want killers.

This class has some killers. The average star ranking was higher than some of Sark's and really not much lower than Sark's best. He also filled in needs beautifully by stocking up on lineman and DB's. I don't know how many more could be expected. This class will be better than some of Sark's. There are some lower ranked guys sprinkled in, but almost every player had other Pac 12 offers. Don't buy into the Doogman bullshit.

Next year's class will be loaded with killers, and Peterman is going to kill it in state. All the idiot doog myths about the fence not being important, discipline, continuity with average coaches are all going to be exposed this year. It's fun to be right.

section8

As with any class the true value/ranking won't really be known for a couple years when we see how they actually develop them. I'd guess that in 2-3 years this class probably ends up being of more value on the field than any of Sarks did.

dnc

creepycoug said:

Fuck Peterman. I want stars.

It's a proven formula: more stars = more wins.

Yeah, you have to develop them and call a good game and get some good game strategery but overall, the regression line shows a tight fit between stars and titles.

Let the Mountain West take the OKGs. I want killers.

Nice false dichotomy you have there.

Given like 6 weeks to work with Petersen pulled in a much better class than he ever had at Boise. He had way more 4 stars than he ever had, fewer 2 stars, and pulled easily his highest rated recruit ever. The idea that he's going to recruit the same caliber of athlete he did at Boise was debunked in the time it takes Vanilla to implement next day site changes.

Yes, classes full of stars are usually better than classes that aren't. But there's also lowly rated guys who have plenty of talent. The Seahawks just finished loudly proclaiming what happens when you can outscout and outdevelop everybody else, and wouldn't you know it, Petersen has consistently displayed the ability to both scout well and develop well. Now he's at a place where he's already displayed the ability to beat other schools out for guys he couldn't get at Boise. UW may never have top 10 classes under Petersen (though I'm not convinced this is true), but we should always have above average classes that play way up thanks to superior scouting and development.

chuck

creepycoug said:

Fuck Peterman. I want stars.

It's a proven formula: more stars = more wins.

Yeah, you have to develop them and call a good game and get some good game strategery but overall, the regression line shows a tight fit between stars and titles.

Let the Mountain West take the OKGs. I want killers.

Fucking sodbuster.

creepycoug

chuck said:

creepycoug said:

Fuck Peterman. I want stars.

It's a proven formula: more stars = more wins.

Yeah, you have to develop them and call a good game and get some good game strategery but overall, the regression line shows a tight fit between stars and titles.

Let the Mountain West take the OKGs. I want killers.

Fucking sodbuster.

now I know you're a fag.