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  • HFNY
    HFNY Member Posts: 5,657
    Gregory stepping into where Kawasaki was adds 2 years (Gregory is 57 and Kawasaki is 55) but Rip Rowan is only 29 and Malloe is what, 45 or 46?

    All in all, the Defensive staff lost a 55 year old coach and gained a 29 year old coach. I just hope the new energy leads to more recruiting juice in the front 7.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,274
    Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

    Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options
  • dtd
    dtd Member Posts: 5,801 Standard Supporter
    "developing talent" has got to be one the single fakest things in all of sports. #1: recruit pay for it. #2: don't fuck it up. You taught a huge, quick twitch, smart, hard working dude who only played 1 year of sportsball to be elite? Shocking!
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,865 Swaye's Wigwam

    Tequilla said:

    Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

    Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options

    We have one inside linebacker that we know is good. The rest could suck for all we know. Not impressed with sirmon and everyone else gave up 4 TD’s in one quarter vs Arizona’s starters. That’s all we know.
    I also have high expectations. I like the depth better now than at any time in memory. You're totally correct though. They haven't shown shit so far. The short season probably robbed us of seeing some good play out of them to go along with quite a bit more bad play.
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    edited February 2021
    Eddie walked on here guys. Let’s not pretend bob knew wtf he was doing
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,274

    Tequilla said:

    Bob’s cardinal sin is that there were a couple of lean years in recruiting that were back to back and compounded

    Reality is that the depth in the ILB room right now is pretty good ... we have options

    We have one inside linebacker that we know is good. The rest could suck for all we know. Not impressed with sirmon and everyone else gave up 4 TD’s in one quarter vs Arizona’s starters. That’s all we know.
    I'll just put it this way ... one of the big things that was talked about often back in the days when we gave enough of a shit about UW football to try to podcast was how it's not about the names but about getting enough talented people in a room and letting them figure out who is going to play (cream rising to the top).

    There's talented guys in that room right now ...

    I wouldn't put a ton of stock in 2020 results for young backups because they didn't get the development time during the Spring and likely the Fall that is really needed to dramatically get better. I suspect that we'll see that happen in the 2021 offseason. Also important to remember that Calvert had a significant injury so the loss of the 2020 rep building period definitely didn't help him.

    As crazy as it sounds this is one of the better areas of our defensive roster in terms of depth going forward.