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Lathan Ransom, 2020 4* DB, Tucson (Salpointe Catholic), AZ (Offered 5/14/18)

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  • BallzBallz Member Posts: 4,735

    So kids that we offered but were never that interested in us don't count as misses? Police departments everywhere must envy your ability to massage stats.
    Yep. There has to be mutual interest for it to be a miss. It also can't be a kid UW offered and then passed on for whatever reason.
  • BallzBallz Member Posts: 4,735
    edited June 2019

    We should probably also remove situations where the kid visited and it was raining from the stats. Also, if the other school lied to the recruit in order to steal a commitment from us then that doesn't count as a loss.

    With rules like these we're gonna be batting 1.000 in no time!
    I think we're doing pretty damn good with DB recruiting. But feel free to keep bitching about the wrong things if you feel inclined to do so.
  • dirtysouwfdawgdirtysouwfdawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,782 Swaye's Wigwam
    Swaye said:

    I agree. And I say that as a pretty well known hardcore "results" guy.

    I think I get his (SAC) meaning, though it is a bit strong for me. If we offer some kid and he is just not down at all from the start, then I kind of get the "no whiff" thing. Some kids just don't want UW at all ever. Ok fine. It does beg the question of why we would extend an offer to a kid with zero interest, but whatever, it happens I guess?

    The part I diverge from SAC is the coaches cooled part. There is no way, knowing how our coaching staff so thoroughly vets these kids before an offer (see Latu, Simon), that our staff cools on them for reasons related to personality. Maybe very occasionally if some major red flag comes up, but our staff is known for their due diligence. If our staff is cooling on them I think it is usually because they are giving up when they see the winds directly against them, or whatever.

    TL;DR: Not all whiffs are created equally, but most whiffs are on the coaches not selling a kid properly, and occasionally due to kids just not being interested at all.
    I don’t know swaye, this feels like justification for poor results. I get the whole cooling thing but the fact that such a vetting process occurs to get the offer, I can’t comprehend why they would cool on any offered croot. (One offs and unforeseen circumstances aside).

    As far as the logic I feel like I was hitting on a 10 at the bar. She wasn’t giving me the fuck me now vibes but I knew if I saw this one through she’d be making me breakfast. Out of the corner of my eye I see a 7 doing the Sharon stone crossed/uncrossed leg thing towards me. At the end of the night I’m not going home alone but do I pick the 10 that will require some work to close but will get there or the lie down sale (pun intended) not wearing any pantys? I decide to turn my attention to the 7 as I’m pretty sure I can nail her in the bathroom. My justification for passing on the 10, she had on 3 inch stilettos and I prefer 4.

    WTF?

    Whatever our reason for lack of results are, we can always justify why it didn’t work out, how it wasn’t our fault and how this other option or prospect is much better! Feels like Human nature as confident people can’t always internally analyze things to make improvements because that would require admitting they made a mistake this harming an already fragile psyche. Not going to name names...
  • SwayeSwaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,678 Founders Club

    I don’t know swaye, this feels like justification for poor results. I get the whole cooling thing but the fact that such a vetting process occurs to get the offer, I can’t comprehend why they would cool on any offered croot. (One offs and unforeseen circumstances aside).

    As far as the logic I feel like I was hitting on a 10 at the bar. She wasn’t giving me the fuck me now vibes but I knew if I saw this one through she’d be making me breakfast. Out of the corner of my eye I see a 7 doing the Sharon stone crossed/uncrossed leg thing towards me. At the end of the night I’m not going home alone but do I pick the 10 that will require some work to close but will get there or the lie down sale (pun intended) not wearing any pantys? I decide to turn my attention to the 7 as I’m pretty sure I can nail her in the bathroom. My justification for passing on the 10, she had on 3 inch stilettos and I prefer 4.

    WTF?

    Whatever our reason for lack of results are, we can always justify why it didn’t work out, how it wasn’t our fault and how this other option or prospect is much better! Feels like Human nature as confident people can’t always internally analyze things to make improvements because that would require admitting they made a mistake this harming an already fragile psyche. Not going to name names...
    Don't get me wrong, I am totally a results guy. I have been beating the "we fucking suck" drum all spring. I'm just saying I can see SACs point, but in a much more limited fashion than he is implying it happens. I can see there being cases, maybe one or two a year where we offer some kid we think we have a shot with only to find out two weeks later he was basically blowing smoke and was never going to go here but just coveted the UW offer kind of thing. Limited set of circumstances. I bet SAC is right when he says that does happen. I just don;t think it happens often.

    And I clearly stated that I think usually the issue is our staff not selling us properly.
  • dirtysouwfdawgdirtysouwfdawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,782 Swaye's Wigwam

    What's your development like? Can you fuck the seven into a ten before the night is over? Does she understand how hard this will be?
    I gave up a number of years ago after my development skills developed multiple children.

    I did once fuck an 8 into my gf then she realized she didn’t want to be with a guy with a child from another women so I went back to that 3 and kept pro-creating.

    fMl
  • SwayeSwaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,678 Founders Club

    I gave up a number of years ago after my development skills developed multiple children.

    I did once fuck an 8 into my gf then she realized she didn’t want to be with a guy with a child from another women so I went back to that 3 and kept pro-creating.

    fMl
    YBFE
  • dirtysouwfdawgdirtysouwfdawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,782 Swaye's Wigwam
    Swaye said:

    YBFE
    She was hot.
  • BallzBallz Member Posts: 4,735
    edited June 2019
    vadawg said:

    Here's a quote from an interview with the OL from TN:

    "They haven't offered yet, but they did say they were interested and now that they know how interested I am, that was something they were sorta waiting for,"

    Proves my point on who and when we offer.....SAC, you're an idiot.
    Who the fuck didn't know that? I already knew that you fucktard. There are differing levels of interest you idiot. A kid could say "oh yes sir, I'd be very interested in an offer from the University of Washington" because that's what most kids fucking do to be respectful or get more offers. Actions speak louder than words. If we offer two Texas DB's and one commits to Oklahoma soon after and the other never cares enough to visit UW, do you think either was really all that interested in coming here? Fuck no.

    To count Ryan Watts and Xavion Alford as misses is fucking retarded. They are from Texas for fuck sake. They had their dream school or dream schools growing up and UW wasn't one of them. They were never coming here no matter what. We offer kids like that all the fucking time so don't give me this bullshit about Petersen only offering kids who are interested in coming to UW. Half of our fucking offer sheet are kids who aren't actually interested, will never visit UW, and are never fucking coming here in a million years.
  • BallzBallz Member Posts: 4,735

    So what I’m hearing is that we really need to be more selective... chinteresting.
    No we don't. The point is, not everybody that UW offers and doesn't get is a miss. Each recruitment is different and has it's own context. You have to follow recruiting closely to know who UW actually wants and who actually reciprocates that interest. When those two things are combined, it leads to an actual recruiting battle with other schools. When UW loses those actual recruiting battles, then that's a miss. But you can't lose if you're never even in the race.
  • BallzBallz Member Posts: 4,735
    edited June 2019

    "They're from Texas, so we can't count them as losses, even though the staff is making a very concerted effort to recruit Texas harder."

    You take moving the goalposts to astronomical new heights.
    It's not moving the goal posts you idiot. This is the way it's always been, even with UW being selective with who they offer. Some guys they offer are never coming here and their recruitment by UW never develops into real recruiting battles. Obviously you don't follow recruiting closely enough to know that. Maybe if you did you wouldn't view every recruit that UW offers and doesn't get as a miss. Some schools offer 200+ kids. When they don't get 180 of them, are those all misses? Obviously not you retard. It's the same thing with UW, just on a smaller scale.
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