in the Big 10 champ game.
Thanks dick licker.
it’s a miracle we played in the natty last year after his two year failure as HC with shit recruiting.
Jimmy and Huff dropped the basket of apples and Boner and Huff weren’t able to salvage a single one. Agbo had a false start that cost Texas a FG today too. Narboe was starting for aTm until he got hurt earlier in the year. Not a single one.
We probably win the National Title if there was the proper amount of depth on the roster from those classes
Connerly was going to go to UW until Phil Knight bought him. Sad but true.
Send your $$ to the NIL fund
I've heard that coaching matters
But just give Fisch some time money and an easy schedule and a few other things and 2026 could be special
Exactly. That is why DeBoner is flacid without Grub (or Penix).
Don't be stupid
The state of Washington must be better at producing OL than any other position and rather impressive on the national scale. It's never ok to have a bad OL when it's the one position they can stay home with and win
proof?
Someone who knows him / his family.
And one report has him getting paid $385,000 this year.
So what?
Is no one at montlake familiar with the concept of a counter offer or negotiating?
You should donate $385,000 to help them counter, or better yet, how about helping UW find a massive donor?
How about you quit whining and making excuses and we'll see
Build a fence around it.
Not having Ioane hurts the most. He committed pretty early and he might be the best of the bunch. From what I remember, he quietly Decommitted and then quietly committed to Penn State and it seemed odd they were even recruiting out here. Seems like a lot of those schools stopped btw.
Conerly seemed very interested in UW until Jimmy tanked the program. Then it seemed like he wanted to go to Michigan (which would have made sense), then it seemed like USC was used to drive up Oregon's price. I don't blame someone for tanking their interest during Jimmy and can't say that Oregon isn't working out this year, but still 1-3 against UW.
Iuli it seemed like there was never much connection and UW had the Jimmy turmoil then hired a new coach and he looked like he was in really bad shape so no one seemed to care.
I'm not whining, telling it like it is. UW needs more money if it wants to get back to the playoffs.
You make demands yet as far as I can tell, you don't do anything to make anything happen. Are you a member of Montlake Futures? Do you have Tyee tickets?
There are a lot of people in here who have given thousands and thousands of dollars over the past 30-40 years. What has it gotten them? The sporadic and fortunate set of bounces that occasionally got UW in the top 5. But most of it has gone to shit. Until the UW administration decides that football is an important aspect of the overall university's function (not holding my breath), why pour thousands and thousands more into the program. It will just be wasted, like it always has.
And the song remains the same.
Outside of 2021, UW had a good run from the decade of Chris Petersen through Kalen DeBoer and despite the steaming pile DeBoer left after the NC game, UW still did ok and things are pointed in the right direction with Fisch's recruiting.
And I think it is misplaced anger to blame upper campus for DeBoer leaving. Once Alabama came calling, he was going to leave no matter what.
Long story short, I poasted something not long ago UW really fucked up building around what looks like a legit run of instant lineman at a time where it looks like top instate talent has fallen off. Especially since other than Conerly none of them were guys who I assume big schools were throwing bags at we couldn't match. But I don't know. It seemed like someone poisoned the well locally against UW like 20 years ago and it's never consistently recovered and everyone wants to "put on for Seattle" somewhere else and be forgotten, or at best, hated.
UW needs more NIL donations, simple as that. Chris Petersen was a great coach and recruited very well but that was before NIL.
Blaming upper campus for DeBoer leaving is just the tip of the iceberg.
I think sark’s drunken douche-baggery broke a lot of local relationships and poisoned the well. As much as we hate Ty, he got Kearse, Kavario, etc. in the boat.
My sources, which are little better than Kim's blonde intern, tell me that Lake fucked up his recruiting. Apparently, Lake and his ego liked turning the table on recruits and, instead of selling his program, tried to make recruits justify why they should be on the roster. From everything I've heard about Lake, that tracks. People have said his ego takes up two zip codes.
From the SI article (I can't find the other one I read that had more detail):
Though he was just down the street, Conerly was never going to play for the Huskies. Take your pick for the reason: 1) Oregon presented a much more attractive NIL offer that dwarfed the one in Montlake; 2) then-Husky coach Jimmy Lake had a weird way of making recruits sell him on them, not the other way around; 3) the UW program became an unforgivable mess; or 4) all of the above.
If I recall the timeframe correctly, #3 could be a big one. That happens. Miami just lost a highly regarded safety - actually their highest rated recruit - to hated Florida. Unlike other recruits, has been pretty open about why he left and flipped to hated Florida (from the Miami Herald):
And Stubbs didn’t hold back when explaining his reasoning, citing concerns he has for the Hurricanes’ future with the defense struggling in conference play this season and the nation’s top-ranked offense set to lose most of its key contributors from this year’s team. “It was looking like it was a player thing and a coaching thing, and that’s most likely a coaching thing,” Stubbs said on Stadium and Gale, a UF-centric podcast. “I think I didn’t want to go into a bad situation, and it’s a way better situation at Florida on defense right now. And offense, but defense, too.”
Basically, he's saying he saw the G Tech and Syracuse games and came to the conclusion the guys recruiting him can't coach on gameday. So, it's not always 100% about money. Recruits today expect to come in and play and get the college think wrapped up in a couple of years. Few want to sign up for a project.
To be fair, Cristobal left Oregon after the 2021 season and hired a young guy (Lanning) who was unproven and had never been a head coach before. So sure, Lake was a total douche and DeBoer wasn't DeBoer yet but Oregon offered Connerly (who intermittently homeless) basically a 3 year, $1 million+ deal. Plus DeBoer retained Huff (who had been recruiting Connerly) while Cristobal's OL coach went with him to Miami so a new one had to come in. Money was by far the #1 motivating factor.
That's what I heard about Lake too. That's why people compared him to Ty. Nothing to do with ethnicity. It was because Ty had that kind of attitude as well. He thought recruits should beg him for a spot.
Sure sounds a lot like whining.
