Wilner on other Power 5s poaching the west
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How will the Pac 10 respond?
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Lot of capital over there in the Land of China. Maybe we could start a new program of visas in exchange for Chinese bag men.RaceBannon said:How will the Pac 10 respond?
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We fuct.
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Agree. We put on our pimp Tommy Bahama shirt and went down to the luau to fuck.Swaye said:We fuct.
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Pete does have a mean streak. Beating Auburn in Atlanta and then going to the sea burning 5 star recruits along the way would be great
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He didn't list who the 8 players deciding on signing day were but Penis Swell chose Oregon and nearly all the rest chose USC. So the article is slightly melodramatic.
That being said I've been sounding the alarm bells on this for years. We should never cheer when some CA kid chooses Oklahoma or Notre Dame over USC or UCLA.
California, and the West in general, has greater competition for fewer elite recruits than the Southeast or Texas. Then if the outflows are greater than the inflows from outside the region it makes the conference even weaker.
Also every kid USC misses out on means more competition for the next kid down the line since we almost never go outside the region.
To some extent this is all mitigated by USC, Stanford, and even Oregon going national but ultimately if UW is going to win a National Championship we don't just need our own program to recruit at an elite level- we need the conference as a whole to be strong as well. -
Great women’s tennis analogy as alwaysRaceBannon said:How will the Pac 10 respond?
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I fear Browning is no Sherman.RaceBannon said:Pete does have a mean streak. Beating Auburn in Atlanta and then going to the sea burning 5 star recruits along the way would be great
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I think this article is a little misleading. It starts with 2011 (which I'm assuming is the furthest back the composite rankings go) so it makes the trend look alarming - from one lost kid to six in only six years! But I think 2011 is the outlier. We?ve lost kids to the Miamis and Oklahomas as long as I've followed recruiting. Hell we? lost Luke Huard to UNC and Jared Jones to FSU and Carlos Pierre Antoine to ND the very first year I bought a recruiting publication, and that was just from in the state of Washington.
If you take the average of this sample it's less alarming: The six year average is 6.71. This year we lost six. Last year we lost seven. So we're basically right in line with the sample.
@FremontTroll's poont is spot on - the Pac loosing these kids almost never helps UW. Stanford, SC and Oregon bringing in kids from outside the footprint almost always helps UW. Kids leaving is an issue.
I'm just not convinced it's a bigger issue than it's ever been. -
Add Lake Dawson & another LB (Dubose?) from O'dea to the list of ND recruits lost. I don't give a shit about any other teams in the PAC and generally enjoy watching them lost but there is a perception issue when the conference does as poorly as it did in bowel games in 2017 and right now, we? need all the perception help we? can get.dnc said:I think this article is a little misleading. It starts with 2011 (which I'm assuming is the furthest back the composite rankings go) so it makes the trend look alarming - from one lost kid to six in only six years! But I think 2011 is the outlier. We?ve lost kids to the Miamis and Oklahomas as long as I've followed recruiting. Hell we? lost Luke Huard to UNC and Jared Jones to FSU and Carlos Pierre Antoine to ND the very first year I bought a recruiting publication, and that was just from in the state of Washington.
If you take the average of this sample it's less alarming: The six year average is 6.71. This year we lost six. Last year we lost seven. So we're basically right in line with the sample.
@FremontTroll's poont is spot on - the Pac loosing these kids almost never helps UW. Stanford, SC and Oregon bringing in kids from outside the footprint almost always helps UW. Kids leaving is an issue.
I'm just not convinced it's a bigger issue than it's ever been.
All that being said, Jake Browning still sucks.
