Haener sells the couch

RoadDawg55 said:

Haener’s free to do what is best for him. Just don’t expect big TYFYS type stuff from us fans.

I’ll be pretty fucking pissed he’s gone if/when Sirmon comes in and costs us a game.

You are assuming that Haener would not costs "us" the game. Which he would have as we have already seen. Might as well toss the younger, higher touted guy in to the fire if things come to that. Haener staying would not have mitigated the impact of Eason sucking or getting hurt any more than giving Sirmon his shot, IMO.

GreenRiverGatorz said:

Mad_Son said:

RealRhino said:

Not that it matters, but here's where I stand. I'm not going to say good for the kid, do what's best for you. That kind of bullshit is partly what's wrong with society. Oh, and Gee's bullshit doesn't help, either. "first they love you, then they turn on you."

Yeah, no shit, fucktard! That shit makes no sense. "Oh, they loved me when I was trying to help the team, but suddenly, when I'm screwing the team just to help myself, they turn on me!" That's like some coke addict girlfriend who steals from you and cheats on you with every guy who will get her some rock saying you didn't love me when I did that, so now you don't deserve me when I'm getting clean (the first time). If somebody screws you over, they DESERVE for you to turn on them. They deserve for you to kick them out of a moving car.

You sign on the dotted line you make a goddamn commitment. There needs to be a matching of the levels. If I get dumped by a 10, I just shrug and figure it was bound to happen someday once she figured out how full of shit I am.

Three levels, and they gotta match up. Level 1, Sam Huard. Chance to play at high D1. Level 2, Lindquist. Outside chance of starting at high D1, but might lose the job to a better recruit. Level 3, Haener. Miracle if he starts at high D1, you should know when you take the job you are going to get recruited over, so you better make your peace with being a backup on a kickass team and going to kickass bowls for the experience rather than starting for the Southern Illinois Salukis and going to weedeater bowls.

So, if you are level 1, you can transfer if you get beat out. You should be starting somewhere good, just wasn't in the cards. No hard feelings. Level 2, you had to know this could happen, you should have picked somewhere like Louisville or Northwestern to begin with, so it's on you. You should stay. Level 3, if you go to UW or Bama or Clemson or Ohio State, you ARE going to get beat out. Take your Rose Bowl watch and Peach Bowl ring and be fucking happy you get a ticket to the games.

The fundamental fallacy here is that there is no place for your level 3s on UW's roster.

It's not a fallacy at all. Rhino's point is that if you're a level 3 guy you need to reconcile the very real fact that you will probably never start here. If you do, great. If you don't, then deal with life as backup talent, that's what you signed up for. If you're not okay with that outcome then you shouldn't have come here in the first place.

He signed before we leveled up in recruiting. Tier 3 guys fit in on the roster then. There is no place for them here now though.