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    QuietcowskeeQuietcowskee Member Posts: 3,147
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    LongDukDongLongDukDong Member Posts: 1,210
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    Doog legend extraordinaire Nathan Rhodes.

    Also Donny Mateaki-anybody have that picture of him from high school? Looked like a 18 year old man child
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    WoolleyDoogWoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,706
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    I remember showing people Mateaki's picture and being like this guy is going to be a monster and then he showed up and was a tweeter who wasn't really a DE or a DT and really just a Sione Potoa'e. The average fan had about 5% of the information on recruits we have now so the recruits got built up a lot more. Now all of of us weirdos on the TBS board would have been talking about how Mateaki wasn't a DT or a DE for years before he even enrolled.
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    KrunkJuiceKrunkJuice Member Posts: 2,046
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    Doog legend extraordinaire Nathan Rhodes.

    Also Donny Mateaki-anybody have that picture of him from high school? Looked like a 18 year old man child

    Lifted next to him when there was only 1 weight room back in the day. One of the most shredded 275 lb guys I have ever seen.
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    JoeEDangerouslyJoeEDangerously Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,208
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    Mateaki was a five star Cameron Elisara
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    RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 102,077
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    booker14booker14 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 148
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    I always thought that Kim was truly sexually attracted to Donny by his effusive praise of Donny's physique. For awhile I actually believed he was going to become "an animal" on the D-line. (I hadn't figured out the DM bullshit yet).
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    KimsCopperPennyKimsCopperPenny Member Posts: 221
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    booker14 said:

    I always thought that Kim was truly sexually attracted to Donny by his effusive praise of Donny's physique. For awhile I actually believed he was going to become "an animal" on the D-line. (I hadn't figured out the DM bullshit yet).

    Sounds like you can’t handle the ups and downs
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    RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,123
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    Was going back through old classes before our recruiting pod and was shocked at how bad the 2001 class was. Has to be the worst when compared to expectations. It's basically Reggie Williams and a bunch of garbage. I remember the San Francisco JC trio of Taylor Barton, Kai Ellis and Tipoti was supposed to be this massive get and then all it ended up being was Ellis was like a 5.1/10 player. If I remember correctly, Ellis said he went to Washington because he fell in love with a girl he met on his recruiting trip to Seattle.

    Ellis was far from the Jevon Kearse type DE he as hyped to be, but he wasn’t bad. The rest of the SF guys were bad.

    Wasn’t 2001 considered a top 5-10 class. It’s the first one I remember getting that completely let us down. We really didn’t have any top 10ish classes again til the later Pete years and those have also let us down.
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    RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,123
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    Mateaki was a five star Cameron Elisara

    I’ll admit that if you saw Makeaki’s photo, it was hard not to be excited. I could get duped by a guy like that again. He looked like a fucking monster.

    I also remember Mateaki having one big game against Oregon State. He had at least two sacks and that was supposed to be when the light turned on.
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    RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 102,077
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    You can say the same thing about the 2001 class that you say about Pete's 4 stars

    Rick recruited them and they got Gilby and Ty
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    WoolleyDoogWoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,706
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    Was going back through old classes before our recruiting pod and was shocked at how bad the 2001 class was. Has to be the worst when compared to expectations. It's basically Reggie Williams and a bunch of garbage. I remember the San Francisco JC trio of Taylor Barton, Kai Ellis and Tipoti was supposed to be this massive get and then all it ended up being was Ellis was like a 5.1/10 player. If I remember correctly, Ellis said he went to Washington because he fell in love with a girl he met on his recruiting trip to Seattle.

    Ellis was far from the Jevon Kearse type DE he as hyped to be, but he wasn’t bad. The rest of the SF guys were bad.

    Wasn’t 2001 considered a top 5-10 class. It’s the first one I remember getting that completely let us down. We really didn’t have any top 10ish classes again til the later Pete years and those have also let us down.
    Yeah, Ellis was a solid player but don't think he was even a second-team All-Pac-10 guy. I thought that class was a Top 10 class but 247 now has it as like 17, which seems way lower. The local hype was big though. It definitely was the highest-rated class until the later Pete classes, which eerily did play out similar.

    I really wish there had been a better system you could see for the James/Lambo classes. I feel like most were probably in that #10-20 range.

    For some reason I can talk about recruiting failures forever, but can't string together more than two sentences talking about my actual job.
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    1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,338
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    I laughed during the last pod when you guys talked about Jermaine Kelly. I, too, thought his film was insane (not a decades-long TBSer like some here, but it was easily in the top-three that I've seen).

    To be fair to him, he was getting reps as a freshman, IIRC, and living up to the hype when he broke his leg. Never recovered fully from that. Just reading his Wikipedia page, he was drafted in the seventh, almost immediately placed on IR, was picked up by another team's practice squad, then almost immediately placed on IR again. I don't think his film was a mirage at all. I think he was more of a Deonte Cooper unlucky-with-injuries sad story, and I think I'd be just as excited today by another commit with film that freakishly good. I never learn.
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    RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 102,077
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    Was going back through old classes before our recruiting pod and was shocked at how bad the 2001 class was. Has to be the worst when compared to expectations. It's basically Reggie Williams and a bunch of garbage. I remember the San Francisco JC trio of Taylor Barton, Kai Ellis and Tipoti was supposed to be this massive get and then all it ended up being was Ellis was like a 5.1/10 player. If I remember correctly, Ellis said he went to Washington because he fell in love with a girl he met on his recruiting trip to Seattle.

    Ellis was far from the Jevon Kearse type DE he as hyped to be, but he wasn’t bad. The rest of the SF guys were bad.

    Wasn’t 2001 considered a top 5-10 class. It’s the first one I remember getting that completely let us down. We really didn’t have any top 10ish classes again til the later Pete years and those have also let us down.
    Yeah, Ellis was a solid player but don't think he was even a second-team All-Pac-10 guy. I thought that class was a Top 10 class but 247 now has it as like 17, which seems way lower. The local hype was big though. It definitely was the highest-rated class until the later Pete classes, which eerily did play out similar.

    I really wish there had been a better system you could see for the James/Lambo classes. I feel like most were probably in that #10-20 range.

    For some reason I can talk about recruiting failures forever, but can't string together more than two sentences talking about my actual job.
    The Long Beach paper did a annual recruiting ranking pre Heckman

    My first recall of hearing much about recruiting was when James said he wanted his coaches on site with stop watches because he was tired of fast guys that were slow

    After the 88 and 89 classes recruiting became a much bigger deal but not really the kind of national rankings we have now

    Sports Washington begat Dawgman which begat Dennis and the rest is history
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