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What program do we most need to up our game against in recruiting?
YellowSnow
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Lots of good posting going on of late about Pete laying out a recruiting footprint that is "sustainable" (footnote for @Tequilla here) and sets us up for long term success. And, of course, there is the we will never beat out USC or UCLA for So Cal kids (unless Jimmy Lake is involved, in which case we might have shot) narrative. That said, if we use our MBAs (or lack thereof) and get all SWOTy, what is the one school that we need to improve against to achieve our goal of being competitive on a national level?
What program do we most need to up our game against in recruiting? 38 votes
The Tree (we're building a huge fence and you're gonna pay assholes)
47%
18 votes
Oregon (keep pulling BC's out of their state)
10%
4 votes
USC (put down the crack pipe - we fucked)
31%
12 votes
UCLA (see above)
5%
2 votes
The Utah Schools (for all that Intermountain West talent)
5%
2 votes
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UCLA (see above)Dawgman and RealDawg
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Oregon (keep pulling BC's out of their state)Please recruit the fuck out of Oregon.
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The Tree (we're building a huge fence and you're gonna pay assholes)never gonna beat USC.
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The Tree (we're building a huge fence and you're gonna pay assholes)
Yes, perhaps poor wording my part. Edit: beat Ducks for occasional BC that comes out of Oregon, and beat them for guys we want in the rest of the western footprint. You can fill Coach T's bus with all the Florida guys who are just dying to be Eugene for 4 years.AZDuck said:Please recruit the fuck out of Oregon.
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UCLA (see above)And honestly, I don't think it really has much to do with stepping our game up against Program X. Our? challenge as the program becomes known as a powerhouse will simply be to do a better job of presenting Washington across positions. I think Tequila and DDY's work outlining our success in different recruiting areas is chinteresting and chinsightful. We? need to get a presence in Hawaii again (come on down Zion!), and otherwise take recruiting of OL, DL, QB and perhaps LB/RB up a notch. I don't think targeting any specific enemy program is the solution, it's simply evaluating and improving from within.
If we can get back into Hawaii, make OL recruiting respectable and get a QB every year we'll be well on our way. I honestly think a lot of this will take care of itself as we keep winning.
We should be at a minimum in the race for the #2 average star rating among P12 programs every year going forward, with at least one of out every 2 or 3 years being the clear #2 program. So that means we need to pass Stanford and Oregon and catch up to UCLA.
That level of recruiting + our coaching = national contender. -
UCLA (see above)Forced to choose, I picked UCLA. We'll never consistently beat USC, and Stanford recruits nationally so it's rare we go head to head with them (though it would be nice to stop losing in state OL to them).
I think UCLA is the biggest target. They recruit areas of SoCal where we "have a shot" at getting kids,they get lots of talent and they consistently underachieve with it. If I were to spend time crafting a strategy to take recruits from one specific school, they would be it. Even so, we'll lose more battles with them in So Cal then we'll win, but if you added even two or three wins vs UCLA a year to where we already are, that's a pretty bad ass caliber of class. -
The Utah Schools (for all that Intermountain West talent)We need the big polys
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UCLA (see above)
I agree, but recruiting Utah is problematic. 1. There are some kids who are just going to go to BYU 2. There are some kids who are just going to take a mission and who knows what happens after that. 3. Of the kids who aren't going to do 1 or 2, a bunch of them are going to be seduced by USC.backthepack said:We need the big polys
There's still a good chunk of talented kids who don't fall in any of those three categories, but we don't have any specific advantage for them other than a winning program. We're not especially Poly on the staff or the team anymore, we're not especially close to Utah.
I'm all for establishing a presence in Utah, but I really see it as Eastern Hawaii (Hi Ruth!). We don't have any built in advantages there anymore, so expecting it to be a serious pipeline is probably unrealistic. If we could pull a kid or two every year that would be awesome. -
The Utah Schools (for all that Intermountain West talent)
Agreeddnc said:
I agree, but recruiting Utah is problematic. 1. There are some kids who are just going to go to BYU 2. There are some kids who are just going to take a mission and who knows what happens after that. 3. Of the kids who aren't going to do 1 or 2, a bunch of them are going to be seduced by USC.backthepack said:We need the big polys
There's still a good chunk of talented kids who don't fall in any of those three categories, but we don't have any specific advantage for them other than a winning program. We're not especially Poly on the staff or the team anymore, we're not especially close to Utah.
I'm all for establishing a presence in Utah, but I really see it as Eastern Hawaii. We don't have any built in advantages there anymore, so expecting it to be a serious pipeline is probably unrealistic. If we could pull a kid or two every year that would be awesome.
