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An Open Letter to Scott Eklund
CheersWestDawg
Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,480 
Hello Scott,
I used to be a Doogman.com subscriber but quit once it became apparent that Kim Grinolds made the site a wing of the UW Athletic Dept. You seemed to be the most even keeled member of the staff until you started getting every prediction incorrect. Then once members called you out on your poor sources, poor intuition, or both you became very defensive and now you are easily lumped in with the rest of the staff as being dishonest, overreactive, and poorly prepared in everything that you do.
I guess what I'm wondering is do you ever feel dirty for calling 17 year old boys, their families, friends, coaches, and others over and over again trying to get some sort of bullshit "inside scoop" on where they're going to go to school and play football? I know 2 current college players (neither of whom decided to go to UW) who said you called way to much. One of them said, "That guy calls more often than an aggressive sophomore girl." The other told me, "I could show you the call history on my phone and Scott Eklund's number would be more than half of all the incoming calls. I finally had to ask my dad to tell him to stop calling me."
Your worst moment came on signing day in 2012 when you got on the air at KJR and started to interview Shaq Thompson. You started the interview by crying like a bitch to Shaq that he never returned your calls. I would have felt embarrassed for you if I didn't know how much you bothered these kids. Instead, you came off as a whiney little bitch.
Now what I am hearing is that you're bothering friends, associates, acquaintances, and probably the nurse that helped deliver Budda Baker to find out where he's going to go to college. My money is on somewhere other than UW. Want to know why? Because you're going to call him and those who know him a thousand times more than all the other jack offs who run fanboy websites. You keep failing to understand that you are actually part of the problem. The sooner you recognize that, put your cell phone down, and stop bothering these kids, the sooner you'll see some of them start to sign with UW. Lots of them don't know the difference between you, Ruth, and the athletic dept. So take the advice that Kim gives to his customers - Just stop.
Sincerely,
CheersWestDawg
I used to be a Doogman.com subscriber but quit once it became apparent that Kim Grinolds made the site a wing of the UW Athletic Dept. You seemed to be the most even keeled member of the staff until you started getting every prediction incorrect. Then once members called you out on your poor sources, poor intuition, or both you became very defensive and now you are easily lumped in with the rest of the staff as being dishonest, overreactive, and poorly prepared in everything that you do.
I guess what I'm wondering is do you ever feel dirty for calling 17 year old boys, their families, friends, coaches, and others over and over again trying to get some sort of bullshit "inside scoop" on where they're going to go to school and play football? I know 2 current college players (neither of whom decided to go to UW) who said you called way to much. One of them said, "That guy calls more often than an aggressive sophomore girl." The other told me, "I could show you the call history on my phone and Scott Eklund's number would be more than half of all the incoming calls. I finally had to ask my dad to tell him to stop calling me."
Your worst moment came on signing day in 2012 when you got on the air at KJR and started to interview Shaq Thompson. You started the interview by crying like a bitch to Shaq that he never returned your calls. I would have felt embarrassed for you if I didn't know how much you bothered these kids. Instead, you came off as a whiney little bitch.
Now what I am hearing is that you're bothering friends, associates, acquaintances, and probably the nurse that helped deliver Budda Baker to find out where he's going to go to college. My money is on somewhere other than UW. Want to know why? Because you're going to call him and those who know him a thousand times more than all the other jack offs who run fanboy websites. You keep failing to understand that you are actually part of the problem. The sooner you recognize that, put your cell phone down, and stop bothering these kids, the sooner you'll see some of them start to sign with UW. Lots of them don't know the difference between you, Ruth, and the athletic dept. So take the advice that Kim gives to his customers - Just stop.
Sincerely,
CheersWestDawg
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Way beyond awesome
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the most pathetic part is he's not even the worst of the 3. Watching and evaluating kids at camps as well as getting them noticed is one thing, but continuously calling them as well as people close to them is just wrong for lack of a better word.
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I'm hearing that he's secretly a member of nambla
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Eklund's reporting during the last recruiting cycle was absolutely awful, and showed that he has no journalistic integrity (if you can call him a journalist). In some cases, I believe he was simply making things up to make Husky fans happy. Let's take a trip back down memory lane, shall we:
Myles Jack: probably his biggest fuck up. Though Jack made it clear to everyone in the media that he was going to UCLA and was not looking around, Scott insisted in blog after blog not to believe what you hear, that he knew about the "inside goings on" of the situation and that he would switch to UW
Mattingly and the other kid they called "idiot": By far the low point of Dawgman. Again, Scott insisted for weeks that both of these kids were going to switch to UW and that they were essentiall "in the bag". When it didn't happen, Kim started calling them idiots and dragging them and their families through the mud publicly.
Nico Falah: Committed to USC early. Publicly claimed to be solid to USC. Scott says he was in the bag for UW. No dice.
Vanderdoes: Out of nowhere, Scott claimed him to be a UW lean a week before signing day. All other media said that UW was running a distant 4th or 5th.
Patrick Enewally: In a rare reverse-Eklund, Scott reported that Enewally had some "idiot-tendencies" and had burned all his bridges at UW. Magically, he ended up signing with UW on signing day.
One other thing about Eklund is that he is also a huge fan of the delete button any time someone questions where he is getting his information. While Kim at least engages and argues his side (as stupid as it usually is), Scott simply deletes the thread so no one else sees it. -
The problem with the Dm.c staff is a complete and utter lack of any sense of what's appropriate and what's not. IMO this happens in large part because they really overvalue their own opinions, in short they're pretty arrogant. They have become an embarrassment to the UW in much the same way that KJR and the "Husky Honks" are an embarrassment. Completely unprofessional.
An example?
Kim's interview and attempt to be funny with Jo Mathis a month or so ago. . .Kim's first question:
"So JoJo, what's the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? Head to the refrigerator, or the shower?"
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What did he say? Fridge or shower?tracker said:
The problem with the Dm.c staff is a complete and utter lack of any sense of what's appropriate and what's not. IMO this happens in large part because they really overvalue their own opinions, in short they're pretty arrogant. They have become an embarrassment to the UW in much the same way that KJR and the "Husky Honks" are an embarrassment. Completely unprofessional.
An example?
Kim's interview and attempt to be funny with Jo Mathis a month or so ago. . .Kim's first question:
"So JoJo, what's the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? Head to the refrigerator, or the shower?"
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I give this post a 81%
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This pales in comparison to everything else they do, but they are also pretty poor writers.
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Huh? Bill Fleenor told me on Facebook that Scott Eklund was a much better writer than myself.Mad_Son said:This pales in comparison to everything else they do, but they are also pretty poor writers.
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I gave up on Doogman with the Jo Mathis crap they put out. It was clear he was not going to sign with UW. Someone asked where he stood with his recruitment and he said something to the affect of right now I am still going to UW. I called BS and Fetters called me on it saying he chooses to believe what the kid says. Fine, that is what he said. It's what they all say. But, it didn't take much to understand he was really saying bye bye.
