Chris Petersen Talks Recruiting Strategy and How he Hates it
I love his approach. No BS, straight forward and basically making sure the player fits your coaches and culture is one of the most important things for them. This will lead to less flips, less roster turnover and better buy-in.
I'm sure Kim will point out to him, this isn't the Whack Peterman!!!1
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That is some great free pub. Now just freaking win.
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I think he's coming off a little whiny in this piece. Recruiting is gross, but it's always been gross. I also disagree that this stuff he complains about is new. It's been this way for awhile.
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BallSacked said:
I think he's coming off a little whiny in this piece. Recruiting is gross, but it's always been gross. I also disagree that this stuff he complains about is new. It's been this way for awhile.
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Slightly agree in the sense that the stresses of 24/7/365 recruiting is something you sign up for when you cash your million dollar checks.BallSacked said:I think he's coming off a little whiny in this piece. Recruiting is gross, but it's always been gross. I also disagree that this stuff he complains about is new. It's been this way for awhile.
I think at the heart of what he is saying is more the twitter baloney and false promises that are flooding social media has increased to the nth degree. Impressionable kids at camps and shady dealings are just that much easier to exploit in the modern era.
Maybe 20 years ago a guy gave you a tip about a kid in an obscure location and you handed him a mug of cash. Now, hungover sark checks twitter and proposes to a 16 year old before popping a xanax to sleep it off. The effort to corrupt is comparatively minimal to the past and leaves a lot of kids down the wrong path in what should be the most important decision of their lives. -
You mean it having 11 out of 25 players wash-out like Stevie's 2012 class did shouldn't be the norm and that it really doesn't have to be that way?!?
CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/pac12/2015/06/05/chris-petersen-washington-football-recruiting/28550819/
I love his approach. No BS, straight forward and basically making sure the player fits your coaches and culture is one of the most important things for them. This will lead to less flips, less roster turnover and better buy-in.
I'm sure Kim will point out to him, this isn't the Whack Peterman!!!1 -
Yeah, but Petersen has to deal with the LPT, so I'd be complaining about recruiting, too.BallSacked said:I think he's coming off a little whiny in this piece. Recruiting is gross, but it's always been gross. I also disagree that this stuff he complains about is new. It's been this way for awhile.
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Eason?
"It makes it harder on us the way the nature of recruiting is going, because everyone is rushing and offering guys that they don't know anything about," said Petersen. "Now it's like a kid has 20 offers and he's like, 'Well, where have you been? You haven't been here.' Well, sometimes it takes a minute or two to figure these things out.
"Our way maybe hurts us in some ways because we're so late on certain kids. I don't have a problem offering early. But we need to know something more than just seeing the kid on tape. That's easy. Anyone can figure that out. But there's a lot more to it." -
Hope Eason and family read the last part of that article.
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Yep.RoadDawg55 said:Eason?
"It makes it harder on us the way the nature of recruiting is going, because everyone is rushing and offering guys that they don't know anything about," said Petersen. "Now it's like a kid has 20 offers and he's like, 'Well, where have you been? You haven't been here.' Well, sometimes it takes a minute or two to figure these things out.
"Our way maybe hurts us in some ways because we're so late on certain kids. I don't have a problem offering early. But we need to know something more than just seeing the kid on tape. That's easy. Anyone can figure that out. But there's a lot more to it." -
The way I look at it, the kids that get pissed off about whether or not they've been showed the love early on (and particularly the parents that bitch and moan about that stuff) aren't focused on the right things and will almost assuredly be at a higher risk for either flipping schools later in the process and be at a higher risk of transferring once in the program if not vaulted towards the top of the depth chart earlier than later.
We can all bitch and whine about it, but what Petersen really does is make sure that he's going after the kids that WANT to be part of his program. It's really the quintessential making sure that they bleed purple and gold.
