Emeka Egbuka, 2021 5* WR, Steilacoom (Steilacoom HS), WA (Offered 10/20/18)
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The 05 class is most similar to this one. Elite QB who bleeds purple (Locker), arguably best defensive recruit in state history (Mays) and another five star offensive recruit who picked a Big Ten power (Schilling).bananasnblondes said:I'm honestly surprised by how little losing this kid affected me. In the time since I've been following recruiting, this is probably the 10th or 11th "cant miss, program changer, local kid that we HAVE to get".
Let's see, before Emeka there was Smalls, before Smalls there was Eason, before Eason there was Fozzy, before Fozzy there was Kasen/ASJ, before Kasen/ASJ there was Garnett/Banner. Before Garnett/Banner there was Heaps/Brown, before them there was Jonathon Stewart, and way back there was Reggie.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some in there and there are also guys like Joe Ngata that werent in state but had a connection to the program. We went through this same thing with all those guys.
Emeka and JTT may end up being better than all those guys but I'm more worried about the relative shittiness of the REST of our class than those 2 guys. Not getting a blue chip db, taking another lay-up RB recruit, taking only 2 linemen (one of which is a project), taking 2 guys that are walk-on level, taking an edge rusher who has never played varsity football, taking only 1 ILB that can't keep his grades up or weight down. Those are all way bigger to me than not getting this years "local program changer"
We went one for three that year too and it cost us dearly.
Yes the rest of the class is a big issue but we have plenty of four star depth. We had a shot to get the elite playmakers we have long needed and failed.
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Sobering as hell.bananasnblondes said:I'm honestly surprised by how little losing this kid affected me. In the time since I've been following recruiting, this is probably the 10th or 11th "cant miss, program changer, local kid that we HAVE to get".
Let's see, before Emeka there was Smalls, before Smalls there was Eason, before Eason there was Fozzy, before Fozzy there was Kasen/ASJ, before Kasen/ASJ there was Garnett/Banner. Before Garnett/Banner there was Heaps/Brown, before them there was Jonathon Stewart, and way back there was Reggie.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some in there and there are also guys like Joe Ngata that werent in state but had a connection to the program. We went through this same thing with all those guys.
Emeka and JTT may end up being better than all those guys but I'm more worried about the relative shittiness of the REST of our class than those 2 guys. Not getting a blue chip db, taking another lay-up RB recruit, taking only 2 linemen (one of which is a project), taking 2 guys that are walk-on level, taking an edge rusher who has never played varsity football, taking only 1 ILB that can't keep his grades up or weight down. Those are all way bigger to me than not getting this years "local program changer"
What really concerns me is that getting the "splashy" signee was something I thought we could take for granted. Any shit talking up and comer with charisma like Lake can land a handful of blue chippers. But could he sustain the incredible evaluation and development apparatus that Pete built? Could he consistently reach that 65-80% hit rate that was such a marker of Pete's success?
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Taylor Mays.Beno4Life said:Add Myles Jack and DeCastro to that list...and great post.
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What's funny or frustrating is that there's barely a peep from all the usual recruiting outlets plus comments from the (lack of) recruiting staff as far as I can see.
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And we? Lose to the crew to make matters worse
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I still don’t think Ektard has shown his face on the Doogman boards since Emeka announced his impending commitment the day after Ektard said “he’s a long way from announcing.”animate said:What's funny or frustrating is that there's barely a peep from all the usual recruiting outlets plus comments from the (lack of) recruiting staff as far as I can see.
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Im old enough to remember when Bama used to big dick everybody on NSD with the number 1s at half the positions.
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Ohio St and Alabama care about football.
Washington pretends to care about football on the surface, but really if the team is semi competitive in the P12 N and exchange students can sing along while the band plays Pharrel - Happy in the 3rd Q with the Dawgs down 10pts to Utah or Stanford, that’s probably good enough for the AD. 8 wins/yr with a 10 win season every 4 or 5 will keep Jimmy boating over from Bellevue as long as he wants to. -
Bama is doing fine down south. Probably #1 againSwaye said:Im old enough to remember when Bama used to big dick everybody on NSD with the number 1s at half the positions.
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I assume an Ohio kid. A real Chris Speielman type
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Just one among many at tOSU. Here we? would be lining up to bleaux him
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The only silver lining in all of this is Gee Scott Jr goes farther down the depth chart. Hope he ends up transferring to a MAC school.
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I have to think Ngata at Clemson is looking at the Portal as well. Both are loaded at wide out already with a fresh batch coming inEdwin_Bambino said:The only silver lining in all of this is Gee Scott Jr goes farther down the depth chart. Hope he ends up transferring to a MAC school.
I like to think I could make a killer sales pitch out of all this to the local stars but I'm no recruiting expert -
Whatever Sawyer Racenelli is gonna be the next Cooper Kupp once he gets his ACL right you heard it here first!!!!!!!!!
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Another ngata, another disappointment.
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Isn't there a younger brother too. They could go for the overrated TBS trifectabiak1 said:Another ngata, another disappointment.
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@MikeDamone sources were rightMikeDamone said:He’s not coming to UW. That’s a fact.
Take note of who else was in the know...
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As we know you can take the negative on UW football and win 81% of the time which is better than that bettor that was here a while back who won 70% of his bets
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Have the coaches told him we have an open spot now that Sirmon transferring?
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Ngata=nada.biak1 said:Another ngata, another disappointment.
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He’s not wrong. Just not sure he needs to put it out there like that.Motrboatnsob said: -
Remember, its really important to shower the local kids with love on Twitter. If you got negative shit to say then keep it to yourself.dirtysouwfdawg said:
He’s not wrong. Just not sure he needs to put it out there like that.Motrboatnsob said:
I'm pretty sure thats about the gist of what that guy preaches
