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Backstory on the Smalls recruitment

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,692 Founders Club
    Canadawg said:

    Not going to find this on bd2w

    Rent free
    Well played
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,670 Swaye's Wigwam
    dflea said:

    Baseman said:

    chuck said:

    Tequilla said:

    Not going to find this on bd2w

    Not trying to take away from my buddy Baseman who has some really good nuggets here ... but the tea leaves for Smalls were out there for a while

    I had also heard from someone inside the program that the feeling was that Smalls was in the bag
    Yes, Teq, everyone notices you.

    I had a feeling this would go this way for the same reasons Baseman described beginning when he and Huard became public BFFs. It wasnt tea leaves or inside info. It was just optimism spurred by the changed situation.

    Big fucking deal. I didn't feel it strongly enough to say so here. I didn't show up after a long absence and downplay/diminish a great, informative post. I'm not a attention whoring fuck bag though.
    SAY IT. Say it often and say it proud.

    Yeah, a lot of what I posted if you have followed Smalls recruitment—and it’s hard not to with the great work the TBSs have done staying on top of things—aren’t earth shattering revelations.

    The biggest key for Smalls signing is when he called UW and apologized for handled himself, not something you’d expect from a 5 star rated teenager every program nationally has slobbered over at one point or another.

    Despite what Joey Thomas might say, he despises UW for what “happened to him” twenty years ago. he’s pissed Pete dropped T. Harrison, he advanced the narrative the OKG moniker was elitist and non-inclusive.
    He sounds like a good kid with good parents that have raised him up to be a man. The more I hear about this kid, the more I like him.
    I was unimpressed when he dropped UW, but the truth is I didn't know the first thing about him, his personality, who was influencing him, or anything else. I rushed to judgement a bit, but not harshly. I'm thankful for that. Seems to be a cool kid who readily learns lessons from his own actions. That's not common in this generation (see my young friend BTP's recent behavior as an example).
  • sonics1993
    sonics1993 Member Posts: 1,460
    Baseman said:

    animate said:

    Joey Thomas and UW have a good relationship. Don't understand where this narrative is coming from.

    oooh, interesting!

    so, was Joey Thomas supportive or not?

    Is this just an easy narrative to blame someone then?
    Joey Thomas was supportive of Smalls if he wanted to go to UW and it some false rumor that the dawgman staff spreads. Joey was just on UW campus talking with the coaches this past spring.
    Joey did meet with the staff and probably told Smalls he'd support him if he picked UW. I also know he frowned on the OKG label, described it as elitist, and encouraged Smalls to take a hard look at FSU and I didn't get it from Dawgman
    He told him to review his options which is what he should say, he didn't tell him to go a certain school and he didn't bad mouth Washington and tell him not to go there.
  • longduckdong
    longduckdong Member Posts: 1,056

    Not going to find this on bd2w

    What the hell is bd2w?

    Does he post here ?
  • Emoterman
    Emoterman Member Posts: 3,333

    Not going to find this on bd2w

    What the hell is bd2w?

    Does he post here ?
    https://bd2w.com/
  • longduckdong
    longduckdong Member Posts: 1,056
    Baseman said:

    Baseman said:

    animate said:

    Joey Thomas and UW have a good relationship. Don't understand where this narrative is coming from.

    oooh, interesting!

    so, was Joey Thomas supportive or not?

    Is this just an easy narrative to blame someone then?
    Joey Thomas was supportive of Smalls if he wanted to go to UW and it some false rumor that the dawgman staff spreads. Joey was just on UW campus talking with the coaches this past spring.
    Joey did meet with the staff and probably told Smalls he'd support him if he picked UW. I also know he frowned on the OKG label, described it as elitist, and encouraged Smalls to take a hard look at FSU and I didn't get it from Dawgman
    He told him to review his options which is what he should say, he didn't tell him to go a certain school and he didn't bad mouth Washington and tell him not to go there.
    Clearly, you've proven you know a lot of the inner happenings of the recruiting office, I find it strange, though, that you know each side of the conversations between the coaches and Smalls, Smalls and Thomas, opposing coaches and Smalls, and opposing coaches and Thomas. Who said what, and when.

    I heard different about Thomas. It may be wrong. I don't think so. I don't care. I don't get paid for this and have better things to do then debate TBS stories.

    I made the mistake of dropping something earlier today followed by messages from upset TBS folks who claimed they had it first, last night, last week, two months ago. Cool.
    For someone that doesn't get paid about TBS....you spend a lot of time talking about it

    Borderline jock sniffer
  • HuskyHalfBrain
    HuskyHalfBrain Member Posts: 1,311
    The same.

    My source about a month or two ago said Smalls might actually commit to Washington.

    Prior to that, he was all but Florida State's to lose if not to another out of state program.

    @Baseman's accurate with his posting.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,006
    Baseman said:

    Props to Pete K. He started working Smalls 3+ years ago then pulled back when Smalls went big shot punk under the spell of was Joey Thomas who initially soured Smalls on UW.

    PK and Pete at that point walked away. Internally, they decided if Smalls became a Husky he would have to initiate the contact. They were done.

    One time this summer, PK and Smalls ended up at the same event. PK passed right by Smalls and said hello. It was cordial, professional. PK kept walking

    A few weeks later a contrite Smalls called PK and Pete and apologized for publicly dropping UW. He expressed he still had serious interest in Washington if they still had interest in him. PK and Pete re-engaged Smalls and teamed up with Huard for a full court press on Savell.

    It helped by this time that Joey Thomas had packed up his shit and moved away. Savell's one time mentor, it was Thomas who had perpetuated the OKG anti-African American schtick.

    Away from Thomas now, Smalls started listening to his parents. They wanted him to stay home; they believed in Pete's Built for Life spiel. Smalls FSU visit turned him solidly back towards home when he got an inside look at the Taggart shit show that his one time "mentor" Joey,T. tried pushing him to. Clemson by this time had filled up, Bama had 4 elite OLB commitments. The stars began aligning in UWs favor.

    Sam and Savell became close. About six weeks ago, the winds began blowing heavily in UW's favor. I began hearing UW believed they'd probably get Smalls but that it would go all the way to signing day. In my gut, I thought if Smalls was going to UW, he'd follow Sam's lead, announce early and help recruit the final spots in the class...

    So there you are.

    You could have saved a lot of characters and just said Joey Thomas is a punk ass bitch.

    But it all ends cool.

  • Gwad
    Gwad Member Posts: 2,855
    I believe sonics the rest is just hyperbole!
  • DoogWhisperer
    DoogWhisperer Member Posts: 1,035
    I'm glad Huard's check cleared.
  • bananasnblondes
    bananasnblondes Member Posts: 15,501
    Beno4Life said:

    From @Baseman’s account, how is no one giving props to Kwat?

    He did it, he actually did it: He recruited an elite dude, peas and carrots and all!

    If we're going based on assisstants/position coaches, he also beat out ND and Oregon for Trice and Bama/everybody for Latu last year
  • rustysavage
    rustysavage Member Posts: 942
    Tequilla said:

    Not going to find this on bd2w

    Not trying to take away from my buddy Baseman who has some really good nuggets here ... but the tea leaves for Smalls were out there for a while

    I had also heard from someone inside the program that the feeling was that Smalls was in the bag
    HA! Such fag
  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    MisterEm said:

    Tequilla said:

    Some of you get butthurt for very small reasons

    My point was simply that the Smalls news today has been trending this way for a while ... this shouldn’t be a surprise.

    As for the comment of “wanting to be noticed” that’s funny ... I don’t claim to be a recruiting expert in any way, shape, or form ... I have far bigger things going on in life right now to even consider thinking in those terms

    The idea of Smalls waiting until closer to the first Signing Day always seemed like the most logical ... happy it’s done with early

    I logged in just to reply to the original "look-at-me I play zone at the IMA" blowhard.

    JFC @Tequilla. Have you no self-awareness? Nothing worse than a know it all narcissicist blowhard.

    You ruin the TSIO pod. Dennis, Coker and Wilbur should be the lineup. They are worth a listen.

    You contribute nothing here or on the Pod but more autism awareness donations. Killer strength coach imitation tho 👍🏽👍🏽

    Make like @HeretoBeatmyChest and beat it already. At least he can contribute (or carry?) his pod.

    😘😘
    Now, now. Teq contributes, differently then Dennis and Coker, sure. I'd miss him if he left.
  • NoWarningJustDawg
    NoWarningJustDawg Member Posts: 1,000
    Baseman said:

    MisterEm said:

    Tequilla said:

    Some of you get butthurt for very small reasons

    My point was simply that the Smalls news today has been trending this way for a while ... this shouldn’t be a surprise.

    As for the comment of “wanting to be noticed” that’s funny ... I don’t claim to be a recruiting expert in any way, shape, or form ... I have far bigger things going on in life right now to even consider thinking in those terms

    The idea of Smalls waiting until closer to the first Signing Day always seemed like the most logical ... happy it’s done with early

    I logged in just to reply to the original "look-at-me I play zone at the IMA" blowhard.

    JFC @Tequilla. Have you no self-awareness? Nothing worse than a know it all narcissicist blowhard.

    You ruin the TSIO pod. Dennis, Coker and Wilbur should be the lineup. They are worth a listen.

    You contribute nothing here or on the Pod but more autism awareness donations. Killer strength coach imitation tho 👍🏽👍🏽

    Make like @HeretoBeatmyChest and beat it already. At least he can contribute (or carry?) his pod.

    😘😘
    Now, now. Teq contributes, differently then Dennis and Coker, sure. I'd miss him if he left.
    Practice, and aim more carefully. Perhaps you're leading him too much? He's not in his 20's anymore.