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• ToddTurnerLIVES Member Posts: 438

  May 2015

  “You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"
  
  I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.
  
  The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

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• Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754

  May 2015 edited May 2015

  ToddTurnerLIVES said:

  “You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"
  
  I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.
  
  The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

  
  
  Also: fuck Sark and fuck anyone that thinks playing linemen early is a good idea. RS-Soph should be a rare starter who is insanely talented. RS-Junior should be the first year of 70% of linemen's careers.

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• HFNY Member Posts: 4,599

  May 2015

  If Sarkisian skipped the Rose Bowl, he probably would've been able to snag an OL or two in the 2009 class. They would've redshirted and then been a heckuva lot more prepared to play in 2010 than two true frosh.

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• TTJ Member Posts: 4,797

  May 2015

  Why do you hate free pub?

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• BabsGilbyTawdTy Member Posts: 1,058

  May 2015 edited May 2015

  Ken Griswold is adamant: You do not want to see Dan Cozzetto when he's mad.
  
  Chris Fetters said Cozz was a candidate for the ASU vacancy right up until Todd Graham was hired.
  
  Just because UW's pass protection was comically inept every season Cozz was coaching the OL doesn't mean he did a bad job.
  
  Again, you people have no idea how bad things were when Tyrone left.
  
  

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• BabsGilbyTawdTy Member Posts: 1,058

  May 2015

  HFNY said:

  If Sarkisian skipped the Rose Bowl, he probably would've been able to snag an OL or two in the 2009 class

  He also would've fucked two less 6's and three less 4's.
  
  Tough call.

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• RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123

  May 2015

  Dennis_DeYoung said:

  ToddTurnerLIVES said:

  “You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"
  
  I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.
  
  The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

  
  
  Also: fuck Sark and fuck anyone that thinks playing linemen early is a good idea. RS-Soph should be a rare starter who is insanely talented. RS-Junior should be the first year of 70% of linemen's careers.</p>

  The sad thing is that the OL has been so shitty that if a guy on UW can't sniff the field by his RS-JR year, we think he sucks. See: Tufunga, Eldenkamp

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• Dennis_DeYoung Member Posts: 14,754

  March 2016

  Dennis_DeYoung said:

  ToddTurnerLIVES said:

  “You look at Ohio State and any other of these prominent programs and most of the linemen they have playing are juniors or seniors, or they’re one of those genetic freaks"
  
  I'm not going to go back and do the analysis but from what I remember the above situation hasn't applied at UW since the 90s. Kohler, Porter and Riva were all big kids, definitely not genetic freaks, coming out of high school but all of them were riddled with injuries their entire UW careers and two of them retired early because of it.
  
  The worst thing you can do to a kid is to get him seriously injured his freshman year so that he misses practice reps/conditioning and just generally "moving forward" with their career. Hard to become a better football player when you are on the sideline with your leg in a cast.

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