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Brock Huard statement about DeBoer
DerekJohnson
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He predicts that recruiting will be the biggest shortcoming for DeBoer in the coming years. But that there are other things DeBoer can do to compensate.
This was told to me by an acquaintance of mine and I didn't hear the actual interview. But it doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.
This was told to me by an acquaintance of mine and I didn't hear the actual interview. But it doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.
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TL;DR: Boner is a one armed man in a paperhanging contest without NIL.
That said, our AD sucks and does not do everything they can to help us win. If DeBoer is good he will win the PAC 12 in the next 3-4 years. I might give him some slight leeway next year, but with the portal, he should win. The players he needs to win with are already on the team.
This staff has obviously is working hard so I have to come to the conclusion that any deficiencies in recruiting, relative to what UW should be able to do (no worse than too 20 National, 3rd in conference), is related to NIL.
Jen Cohen is public enemy number 1.
If you can’t get to that Top 25 range with your first full class it’s hard to expect you ever will
On field performance follows player acquisition
So we'll see. I anticipate a mid-20s recruiting class in '23, which anyone with a pulse should be able to do at UW. Any higher than that would be a pleasant surprise based on what we've seen so far.
So SEC and a few choice other schools, with their network of bagmen and/or billionaire beneficiaries, pretty much walked into NIL ready to go. What has seemingly changed under NIL is that other schools now have a quicker and more direct path to the second tier if they choose to take it. UW seems to have chosen a quasi-status-quo approach of just selling the opportunity and location and development and education, etc. That was a good second tier recruiting strategy pre-NIL, but it's third tier at best now, when clearly even a school like Arizona is throwing around cash.
Long story short, I think the mistake people keep making around here is that now it's no longer about "sales." I've been beating the drum forever that--at the pointy end, at least--it never was. It's about money and, to a lesser extent, winning. Always has been. Thinking that UW could have prevented Ohio State from taking their lunch money if they just had better salesmen on staff was as naive as believing that Jedd fucking Fisch just went to a sales seminar or something and suddenly learned how to reel 'em in to a one-win team.
I know it’s a basketball school, but that’s kind of the point. No one really got in trouble after Louisville and some recruits got fucked, Sean Miller was on his way out anyway. Just another example of how you can do whatever the hell you want and this is enforcement now: