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Prediction: UW will sign the big DL from Edmonds-Woodway

BabsGilbyTawdTy
BabsGilbyTawdTy Member Posts: 1,058
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Ali Gaye. He was born in west African nation of Gambia before coming to the U.S.

Checks in at 6-6, 260. Looking at his highlights, he's an unpolished, rangy prospect who, with his frame, could easily carry 290 in another year or so.

Similar situation to Jonathan Kongbo from The Congo via British Columbia. Kongbo was an unheralded high school senior in 2014, signed with Wyoming, transferred to Arizona Western and ended up as the No. 1 JuCo recruit in the country last winter. Had offers from UW and just about every other DI program but chose Tennessee.

The recruiting sites have written little about Gaye, but he claims a half-dozen Pac-12 offers (but not UW). Coach K and Malloe went to see him play a couple weeks ago.

I predict he'll commit shortly before signing day. If Gaye doesn't qualify academically as some have speculated, Pete will stash him at CCSF or some other UW-friendly junior college where the Huskies can get him back in a couple years.

"Bringing (Washington) back to a championship level will be dictated by our ability to recruit and to develop defensive linemen."
— Chris Petersen, ESPN, 11-17-2016

"I'm not looking to lay out everything we do here for everybody to see. I think everybody tries to copy us in recruiting anyway. I think if nobody is on a kid and we get on him, then they [start to recruit him, too]. We had that at Boise, too, and it would be frustrating."
— Chris Petersen, ESPN, 11-26-2016
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  • BabsGilbyTawdTy
    BabsGilbyTawdTy Member Posts: 1,058
    That last quote from Petersen is the truth.

    When word got out UW was recruiting an unknown defensive end named Bryce Sterk a couple years, Don Pellum was soon spotted in Lynden trying to get involved in the kid's recruitment for the Ducks.

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  • Passion
    Passion Member Posts: 4,622
    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.
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  • ToddTurnerLIVES
    ToddTurnerLIVES Member Posts: 438
    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    From my glimpse of Burleson at spring ball, I'd suggest he stick with basketball because that's what he physically still looks like.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    BabsGilbyTawdTy said:

    Ali Gaye. He was born in west African nation of Gambia before coming to the U.S.

    Checks in at 6-6, 260. Looking at his highlights, he's an unpolished, rangy prospect who, with his frame, could easily carry 290 in another year or so.

    Similar situation to Jonathan Kongbo from The Congo via British Columbia. Kongbo was an unheralded high school senior in 2014, signed with Wyoming, transferred to Arizona Western and ended up as the No. 1 JuCo recruit in the country last winter. Had offers from UW and just about every other DI program but chose Tennessee.

    The recruiting sites have written little about Gaye, but he claims a half-dozen Pac-12 offers (but not UW). Coach K and Malloe went to see him play a couple weeks ago.

    I predict he'll commit shortly before signing day. If Gaye doesn't qualify academically as some have speculated, Pete will stash him at CCSF or some other UW-friendly junior college where the Huskies can get him back in a couple years.

    "Bringing (Washington) back to a championship level will be dictated by our ability to recruit and to develop defensive linemen."
    — Chris Petersen, ESPN, 11-17-2016

    "I'm not looking to lay out everything we do here for everybody to see. I think everybody tries to copy us in recruiting anyway. I think if nobody is on a kid and we get on him, then they [start to recruit him, too]. We had that at Boise, too, and it would be frustrating."
    — Chris Petersen, ESPN, 11-26-2016

    I saw Gaye play a few weeks back. He looks the part but wasn't dominant against inferior competition.
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  • NEsnake12
    NEsnake12 Member Posts: 3,795
    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    All I see is him being 6'8" and black, and using his size to dominate a bunch of tiny white kids. Nothing super athletic. Trey Adams' high school basketball highlights were much more impressive.
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  • ToddTurnerLIVES
    ToddTurnerLIVES Member Posts: 438
    edited October 2016
    NEsnake12 said:


    All I see is him being 6'8" and black, and using his size to dominate a bunch of tiny white kids. Nothing super athletic. Trey Adams' high school basketball highlights were much more impressive.

    Trey Adams is 6'7" so Burleson is only once inch taller. This is the only basketball highlight I can find of Trey Adams and he does not look appreciably more athletic than Burleson in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERuhLI5stE

    Also, is Trey Adams not playing against tiny white kids out in Wenatchee?

    You're comparing Burleson's athleticism to our best O lineman so if he is even in the realm of Trey Adams then he has potential.
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  • Passion
    Passion Member Posts: 4,622
    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    I don't care what Burleson did on the basketball court. I've watched him in football scrimmages and he looks like he is wearing cement shoes.
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  • AIRWOLF
    AIRWOLF Member Posts: 1,840
    Passion said:

    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    I don't care what Burleson did on the basketball court. I've watched him in football scrimmages and he looks like he is wearing cement shoes.
    Not knowing WTF he is doing could have a lot to do with that. Sometimes guys who are very athletic can look downright clumsy when they are thinking too much rather than just playing.

    Or he could just be a project who will never pan out at all...
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    AIRWOLF said:

    Passion said:

    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    I don't care what Burleson did on the basketball court. I've watched him in football scrimmages and he looks like he is wearing cement shoes.
    Not knowing WTF he is doing could have a lot to do with that. Sometimes guys who are very athletic can look downright clumsy when they are thinking too much rather than just playing.

    Or he could just be a project who will never pan out at all...
    So, either way it will be interesting???
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,703 Founders Club
    Any relation to Marvin?
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  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    This thread is shit and you're all fags.
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  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    edited January 2017
    RaceBannon said:

    Any relation to Marvin?

    Gaye?
    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    He sucks. Stiff. Cant bend at the HIPS. He makes Morgan Roseborough look like Myles Gaskin

    Adams is far more athletic and he can play him some football too
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  • TommySQC
    TommySQC Member Posts: 5,813
    BabsGilbyTawdTy said:

    Called it back in October ...

    I also predicted Foster Sarell to the Dub. Fuck it, though, 1-for-2 is better than what's available across town for $10.95 per month

    If Gaye doesn't qualify, guessing Pete and Coach K might stash him at Santa Barbara CC as payback for Joel Whitford, the punter who saved a year of UW eligibility by redshirting down there this season.

    Wish you were 1-2 but flipped
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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    Baseman said:

    RaceBannon said:

    Any relation to Marvin?

    Gaye?
    ToddTurnerLIVES said:

    Passion said:

    Hopefully he's more athletic than our other project on the OL - Devin Burleson. That guy just doesn't have the lateral movement, quickness and overall athleticism that we need.

    I disagree about Devin Burleson. The guy is really athletic for how big he is. Check out his high school basketball highlights:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MTFXDrVqpc
    He sucks. Stiff. Cant bend at the HIPS. He makes Morgan Roseborough look like Myles Gaskin

    Adams is far more athletic and he can play him some football too
    What are you smoking that is one big athletic fucker?
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  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,045
    PurpleJ said:

    How big is his dick?

    Kreist
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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,551 Swaye's Wigwam
    Bringing (Washington) back to a championship level will be dictated by our ability to recruit and to develop defensive linemen."
    — Chris Petersen, ESPN, 11-17-2016

    Everytime I read that, my sweatpants stretch a couple of inches.

    And more importantly, coach Pete, and coach K back that statement up by recruiting and developing war daddy/difference makers.
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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    Ronnie Fouch is his primary recruiter for Louisville lmfaooo
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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    He reminds me of Tony McDainel or a little bit of Calias Campbell from an athletic standpoint
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