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I'm curious what others think and also wonder how many players Elliot analyzed (at least 50 on each side of the ball would be the bare minimum for statistically significant):
"Defensive performance is much more highly correlated with star ratings than offensive performance is… it’s the same thing year after year,” said Elliot. “Star ratings are much better on defensive players than they are offensive players and — defensive coaches cover your ears real quick because you’re going to hate to hear this — but that means you can do more like controlling your own destiny on the offensive side of the ball with coaching. Mike Leach’s offenses outperform their recruiting ranking, his defenses do not. We see this pretty consistently across the sport.
“I think DeBoer is a really, really good offensive coach. I think he’s going to bring some excitement into that program, I think his quarterback development will help them be competitive in that division year after year. If they are able to recruit better on the defensive side of the ball maybe they’ll even be able to make some noise there in that division and win the thing.”
https://247sports.com/college/washington/Article/Washington-football-coach-Kalen-DeBoer-gets-grade-from-Cover-3-Podcast-182926063/
"Defensive performance is much more highly correlated with star ratings than offensive performance is… it’s the same thing year after year,” said Elliot. “Star ratings are much better on defensive players than they are offensive players and — defensive coaches cover your ears real quick because you’re going to hate to hear this — but that means you can do more like controlling your own destiny on the offensive side of the ball with coaching. Mike Leach’s offenses outperform their recruiting ranking, his defenses do not. We see this pretty consistently across the sport.
“I think DeBoer is a really, really good offensive coach. I think he’s going to bring some excitement into that program, I think his quarterback development will help them be competitive in that division year after year. If they are able to recruit better on the defensive side of the ball maybe they’ll even be able to make some noise there in that division and win the thing.”
https://247sports.com/college/washington/Article/Washington-football-coach-Kalen-DeBoer-gets-grade-from-Cover-3-Podcast-182926063/
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Pretty sure we all predicted Jimmy would suck after hiring Donovan and his repeated inexcusable failures in recruiting.
Yeah, I didn't read that much into his comments. He basically said the focus is keeping Washington kids home and dominating California. He noted that the 5-star kids that USC wants will stay home. So what. How many five-star players does UW ever get from anywhere, let alone Southern California. Yet even still, there is so much talent there that UW should be able to stock its program with great players (a lot of them need a year or two in the program to develop -- that's going to be where DeBoner earns his keep).
He didn't really say anything that was surprising or worrisome, imho. It was basically a story about how he's gotten to where he is and why he's at Washington. The dude is confident. And the article noted the staff booted Glenn down to director of player development while making the Oregon guy (Henkle?) director of recruiting and a former Michigan guy as director of scouting. Bruce Harrell's daughter is director of on-campus recruiting.
So it sounds like the grown ups are in charge. (Except in the AD's chair, and until that changes, I'm not going to get my hopes up even though I'm doogin more than I have since Peterman first came on board.)
Low scoring affair with 2 safeties.