Story time: How UW fucked up the 2021 class (Long)
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I think this is right. Trying to make sense of JTT's supposed very serious with Oregon, I think them signing such a highly-rated class around him should he sign has to make a difference when explaining away why a team that lost to the Beav, got choked out by Cal, and got body slammed off the top rope by Iowa State is a national title contender in reasoning that they will be a better team when this Top 5 class is on the field while UW's 13-man low-rated class is a major question mark. My thing with that though is if either of those guys are the level of recruit they are projected to be the three classes signed ahead of them are probably more important to them than the class they sign in since those are the guys they will actually be playing with outside of any other player on their level that signs in their class, which I don't think any Pac-12 team other than USC with Foreman, signed this year.insinceredawg said:
The disorganized mess of the recruiting operation may have not had a direct impact on the JTT and EE recruitments but I'm sure the overall lack of buzz around recruiting and the underwhelming class was turned them off. If UW entered December with 10-12 4*s committed I think JTT and EE would have had a completely different perspective about UW. Recruiting is all about perception and sales.WoolleyDoog said:Seems like this could be what was the difference between UW having a fine class, borderline Top 20 class, and what it became. Being able to bring in JTT and/or Emeka with Huard was really what the class was all about and I just don't think this affected that - though I'm sure it didn't help. What it did seem to affect were those high/mid-four-star type guys they needed to fill out the class who they had been getting in recent cycles. Worse yet, most of those guys signed with Oregon.
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So how many people saw the warning in the subject line that this was a "long" thread, and clicked it anticipating that there would be one sentence or a stupid gif?
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DerekJohnson said:
So how many people saw the warning in the subject line that this was a "long" thread, and clicked it anticipating that there would be one sentence or a stupid gif?
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While I have no doubt this info was fed to someone. What a bunch of fucking loser excuse load of shit this was. There was plenty of time to solve problems this past recruiting cycle. They started in the lead for plenty of 4 star guys they got blown out for. Fucking loser program.
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Eli Mandel. I went to UW with him, hung out with him a bunch in the freshman dorms. He was a diehard UW fan and helped get me into following recruiting. The fact that he went to go work at Oregon was a major red flag for me, because I knew he was a big UW fan.insinceredawg said:
Apparently the recruiting assistant he took with him to Oregon just got poached by Avalos to be the director of recruiting for Boise. We? might start losing recruiting battles to G5 schools if Lake doesn't turn things around.GreenRiverGatorz said:Yet another entry on a long list of evidence of Jimmy being a shitty CEO.
As for Petagna, I suppose we should be thankful that he recently left Oregon.
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Red flag? Maybe, when you pair his move with UW’s recruiting performance this year but If you make college football your career, whatever the position, I think you take whatever job comes up. Oregon has sizzle so even a die hard UW fan/alumnus has to realize taking that job is an opportunity for career advancement. Now your friend has indeed advanced his career and taken a promotion at Boise. Does this mean Oregon is sinking? No. Absolutely not. You gotta go where the jobs are. Good on him for making savvy career moves and getting a pretty dang good job at Boise.NEsnake12 said:
Eli Mandel. I went to UW with him, hung out with him a bunch in the freshman dorms. He was a diehard UW fan and helped get me into following recruiting. The fact that he went to go work at Oregon was a major red flag for me, because I knew he was a big UW fan.insinceredawg said:
Apparently the recruiting assistant he took with him to Oregon just got poached by Avalos to be the director of recruiting for Boise. We? might start losing recruiting battles to G5 schools if Lake doesn't turn things around.GreenRiverGatorz said:Yet another entry on a long list of evidence of Jimmy being a shitty CEO.
As for Petagna, I suppose we should be thankful that he recently left Oregon.
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The last few years, recruiting buzz around UW has always at least been, well, a "buzz", a constant noise of something happening, and of exciting prospects showing interest and taking visits. Even last year, we had Jalen and co. making noise on the recruiting trail, reaching out quite visibly to fellow recruits.
It's all fallen flat in recent months. It feels like the level of excitement just isn't the same. I don't get the impression that prospects are actually all that interested in coming to play for Jimmy. You'd think his reputation for pumping out NFL-caliber DBs would at least sell that position to high-level recruits, but even there it feels like we got a base hit or two, when we should be hitting home runs.
Hopefully the on-field product improves. That's the only thing I can think of that will improve our recruiting at this point, since nothing else seems to be heading that way programmatically. -
This makes sense though I guess if there was ever a class to have misses, it was 2021 since the roster was mostly full anyway. Polk helps the Emeka miss some but Martin doesn't really help the JTT miss.
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#GoDawgs #ScoDucks #WarEagleBCoveysLifeInsPolicy said:The last few years, recruiting buzz around UW has always at least been, well, a "buzz", a constant noise of something happening, and of exciting prospects showing interest and taking visits. Even last year, we had Jalen and co. making noise on the recruiting trail, reaching out quite visibly to fellow recruits.
It's all fallen flat in recent months. It feels like the level of excitement just isn't the same. I don't get the impression that prospects are actually all that interested in coming to play for Jimmy. You'd think his reputation for pumping out NFL-caliber DBs would at least sell that position to high-level recruits, but even there it feels like we got a base hit or two, when we should be hitting home runs.
Hopefully the on-field product improves. That's the only thing I can think of that will improve our recruiting at this point, since nothing else seems to be heading that way programmatically. -
We beat exactly one P12 North team...barely.HuskyJW said:Pac 12 North Champs
