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