I sploog 4 ploog. Someone make the t-shirt!
Is old what’s his ass able to recruit? That would be encouraging.
I don’t think Ploog had any intention of flipping when he committed to us. I’ve heard he really likes UW and he understands that we have a great track record of getting TEs to the league. But at the end of the day Oregon’s staff is relentless (overzealous) and don’t respect boundaries. That, plus it’s hard to get kids to ignore the media hype. Did anyone else expect Oregon to be #1 at this point in the season? I sure as hell didn’t. A high schooler is going to choose to go to#1 team with $ over a multi year rebuild. Here’s to hoping for an upset in the big house or some other thing that crashes momentum and expectations.
Are they suppose to respect our commits boundaries and stop recruiting them? That is pretty funny. It is where we are. We don't have money like the top tier schools. Probably not changing unless a billionaire husky fan manifests themself from the heavens. Those that think revenue sharing will solve this are stuck on wishful thinking. That would only limit what the school can pay. Boosters and fans paying players are here to stay and that part is never going back.
yeah I do miss the good old days when a commitment was a commitment and it seemed like schools backed off but livelihoods are on the line with coaches and I don’t think they’re gonna stop out of like respect or something like that. It’s the same shit as having to now hire coaches and hope they can poach their former players to replace the ones you lost when your coach left.
Uw has to go take someone committed to like Arizona or Cal or Minnesota and convince them it makes sense to flip to the school who had you third or fourth on their board. Super cool.
and unfortunately this might be why DeBoer took so many layups in recruiting so he wouldn’t be spending months sucking up to some kid and he just goes somewhere else anyways.
I think the Ducks expect him to flip this weekend, but I just got a text confident that the Ploog dawg commitment will survive through the weekend. Oregon is courting a kid committed to K state (Kure), so we may be able to hang on here if the cards fall right
Oregon has been after a couple of national recruits for a while at the TE position and not landed them. Ploog is their fallback plan it appears.
so you’re telling me our options are Oregon gets a 5 star recruit or they steal one of our best recruits? Color me excited. The kid from Kansas should just go to his instate school. Be a man.
the ducks are heavily pursuing Ploog, Olesh, and Cure. they will take the first two that commit.
I've tried to tell yous, oh how I've tried.
Sounds like you're just here to beat your chest.
PLOOG!
I’m kinda disappointed that he’s officially decommitted and I haven’t seen people here telling him to LEAVE or to FUCK OFF
This place is getting soft
Can I tell PooPoo to LEAVE and FUCK OFF? Between a long history of shitty out of state recruiting and his abortion of a job on special teams I’m over his second chance at UW.
Fisch is a great recruiter
Do you really think we lost Ploog because PaoPao can’t recruit?
I’ll give you two far better and more realistic reasons we lost him:
If Fisch is set on rebuilding through HS recruiting then UW’s NIL approach needs to be amended to support it. When UW is poised to lose its top 2 offensive recruits and both of them are at positions of need … that would tell me that UW’s NIL approach may not be adjusting sufficiently enough
So it goes…
Can you help explain what recruiting means anymore?
I guarantee whatever you come up with makes more sense than your arguments of how UW dropped the ball on DeBoer
UW dropped the ball, fumbled it, and kicked it.
This is what you get
Enjoy
As usual … pointing the finger without substance
There is literally zero indication that DeBoer was open to staying or signing an extension
That's on UW
You'll never get it. Neither will UW
I completely get it
You’re operating under assumptions that aren’t in play
Pay DeBoer more … sure that sounds great
Was the money there to do that?
UW doesn’t have unlimited resources
Even if UW offered $11 million or $12 million, Alabama would have matched it. And you don't hire SEC super agent Jimmy Sexton to sign an extension and stay in the PNW.
Just shocked. I'm stunned that Fisch blew this. Good thing I'm sitting down.
Can't wait to hear more excuses about it UW's NIL in the next press conference.
Probably gotta win some recruiting battles you're not supposed to if you're going to take it to the next level and build through high school.
Which means you're going to have to prioritize some NIL dollars for players that have yet to prove it through production
That's something that to my best knowledge UW has yet to do as of yet
Ploog is too young for Fisch. And too small.
Do we know if UW is low in NIL in this particular situation? There's a lot of reasons for a recruit like Ploog to take the Oregon route here so I would think you would have to be willing to outbid them significantly (not easy) here. Being part of a rebuild has always been a bit of a tougher sell and now you throw in another program can pay you more or even the same and it makes that an almost impossible sell unless the guy has some connection to the program.
It's still the wild west and Phil Knight is willing to outspend anyone. IIRC, the House settlement doesn't come into play until next year and part of that is a 3rd party commission to analyze / vet NIL deals to see if they are actually what the market will actually play. Until the new rules come into place, Knight can pay recruits as much as he wants. Even if UW was willing to pay him, say, $500k as soon as he signed a deal, Knight would beat it by 50-100%.
If there's a silver lining, it's that this is as bad as NIL will get since there aren't rules yet. We can only hope that the new rules will not allow them to pay top dollar for so many portal players and recruits.
there is no clearing house for a professional athlete to justify their nil. this seems destined for further litigation.