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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,033 Founders Club
    Stanback to me seems like era and coaching. He would be big time now.

    Kasen Williams should have been a RB or LB.

    I thought Greyson Gunheim was gonna be like the best football player ever.
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  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    creepycoug said:

    BeerThirty said:

    Many are recent QBs. Casey Paus, Nick Montana, Cyler Miles, Yankoff, Huard. Lots of misses there

    You almost have to eliminate the QB position, which by its very nature disappoints and succeeds like a MLB batting avg. If you get 3 of 10 to work out, you are fucking killing it.
    I was still excited about them and they never panned out. They fit this thread topic to a tee
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  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    ntxduck said:

    I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have

    Stanback paid the bills with NFL money for a few years. More than most college football players can say
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  • ntxduck
    ntxduck Member Posts: 6,102
    BeerThirty said:

    ntxduck said:

    I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have

    Stanback paid the bills with NFL money for a few years. More than most college football players can say
    As WR though, not qb. Shows how freaky of an athlete he was, however
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  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    ntxduck said:

    BeerThirty said:

    ntxduck said:

    I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have

    Stanback paid the bills with NFL money for a few years. More than most college football players can say
    As WR though, not qb. Shows how freaky of an athlete he was, however
    Jacksonville even moved him to TE for a couple games
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  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    Recency bias aside, Myles Murao
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Baseman said:

    Recency bias aside, Myles Murao

    Dane Crane.
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  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    Saama Paamama or whatever his name was. The DT from Hawaii who quit before he started. The TBS'ers were acting like he was the 2nd coming of Emtman.

    Tuitele is headed down this path too. Kid still has time though
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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,033 Founders Club
    Local kids who didn’t qualify could be a category. Andrew Basham, Ali Gaye and Keauntea Bankhead.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam
    1to392831weretaken said:

    Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...

    Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though
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  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    Ted buddy - he just needed more time
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,229 Founders Club
    WoolleyDoog said:

    Stanback to me seems like era and coaching. He would be big time now.

    Kasen Williams should have been a RB or LB.

    I thought Greyson Gunheim was gonna be like the best football player ever.

    Gunheim at least made a training camp or 2. With real coaching, he might’ve done something.
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,229 Founders Club
    Something made me go back and look up something in the 2018 class.

    Ranked 16th overall with 20 commits, 8 of the top 10 sucked or were hurt.

    The 2 that panned out were Tuli and Kyler Gordon.

    The rest of that top 10:

    Spiker
    Yank off
    Sirmon (QB)
    Door dash Taimani
    Osborne
    Irvin
    Bynum

    From the other 10 in the class,

    6 starters/contributors:

    Mele
    Culp
    ZTF
    Ale
    Newton
    Hampton

    The other 4:

    Tafisi - Utah St
    Sirmon the LB - 1st team all Pac12 at Cal
    Curne - Oklahoma
    Nasili-Kite - he’s at Auburn according to 24/7

    12/20 were misses.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    chuck said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...

    Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though
    Yeah they were, he just broke his leg or something. He was going to start as soon as a coupl NFLers got out of the way.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam
    1to392831weretaken said:

    chuck said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...

    Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though
    Yeah they were, he just broke his leg or something. He was going to start as soon as a coupl NFLers got out of the way.
    Wow that's not how I remember it at all. That doesn't really surprise me though. The way I remembered it he was squeezed out because he sucked and we ended up with John Ross at corner. It's all pretty hazy now though.

    Either way he was a good mention. I was excited about him and he didn't pan out.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    chuck said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    chuck said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    Jermaine Kelly. God, his film...

    Yeah that was a weird one. He was pretty much sold as a sure thing that UW was really lucky to hang onto. Petersen's guys weren't impressed at all though
    Yeah they were, he just broke his leg or something. He was going to start as soon as a coupl NFLers got out of the way.
    Wow that's not how I remember it at all. That doesn't really surprise me though. The way I remembered it he was squeezed out because he sucked and we ended up with John Ross at corner. It's all pretty hazy now though.

    Either way he was a good mention. I was excited about him and he didn't pan out.
    We both remembered it wrong. For some reason I thought he came after Sidney Jones, but he came before. He beat out Naijiel Hale, Travell Dixon, and Sidney Jones to start across from Marcus Peters as a redshirt freshman. He started the first two games, broke his ankle, never played as a Husky again. Jones took over for him as a true freshman starter and never looked back.

    Kelly ended up transferring to SJSU because of injuries and family obligations and played well there. Got drafted in the seventh round, but injuries kept him from doing anything in the NFL. Bounced around the CFL and is now in the USFL. I don't think the high school film necessarily lied, he just couldn't stay healthy.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,782 Swaye's Wigwam
    Would all of them between 2003 and 2009 be too much of a generalization?
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,229 Founders Club
    TheHB said:

    chuck said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    dtd said:

    Budda Baker.

    solid post
    I thought it was funny enough.
    I chortled.
    I guffawed

    @GrundleStiltzkin
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,016
    edited July 2023
    ntxduck said:

    I thought stanback had serious nfl potential. And under competent coaching, he may have

    Arguably the best pure athlete to ever play for UW.
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,664 Founders Club
    WoolleyDoog said:

    Stanback to me seems like era and coaching. He would be big time now.

    Kasen Williams should have been a RB or LB.

    I thought Greyson Gunheim was gonna be like the best football player ever.

    Meeting Stanback one was one of the highlights of the Alamo. Seems like he has 10 kids but then again I was blacked out. csb.
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