Laiatu Latu, 4* 2019 BUCK, Carmichael (Jesuit), CA (Committed)

LaMichael_Corleone said:

StrongArmCobra said:

Some of you are fucking idiots. This kid is not a fucking Buck. He's as big or bigger than Stephon Wright and Drake Jackson. He's gonna keep getting bigger. He's the fifth defensive lineman in this class whether you like it or not. It's awesome. It's great. Another elite defensive lineman. Stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. He's not an OLB that will be standing up on the edge and sometimes dropping into coverage. Just stop with the stupidity. And stop mentioning Latu and Benning in the same fucking sentence. Benning is nowhere near this kid athletically.

Dood he can do both. It’s not about size as it is physical skill set. The dood is a BUCK who can play inside as well but doesn’t have the leverage to 2-Gap like our defense would like unless he’s playing no more inside than a 5-Teq. Coach K is his primary for that reason. We want to do multiple things against multiple teams. Against Colorado we played a lot of 5-1 with Benning being bumped inside and Tevis moving back outside.


He even talks about it in an interview where he said we want to use him at multiple spots so he talked to Gregory and Malloe on the visit as well when Trice definitely didn’t. We should be complimenting the kid on how big of a freak he is, how athletic and physical he is, not fighting over where he’s going to “exclusively” play when really it doesn’t fucking matter.

Yeah, when you hear the coaches talking to a kid about using him at multiple spot across the D-line that means they see him as a D-lineman. He started out as an exclusive Buck recruit at 235 pounds (Hence Coach K being his primary recruiter) and grew into a D-line recruit. He's a 3-tech with the speed to play outside as well so a swing d-lineman the likes of Levi Onwuzurike and Jaylen Johnson. Sure, he may play some Buck without ever being asked to drop into coverage like Jaylen Johnson was this season but he won't primarily play Buck long term. If he can help us as a true Freshman it's likely at Buck but after that first season I don't see it. But you're right about one thing. It's not worth arguing back and forth about. They'll fit him in where he fits in best. I'm just confident that won't be primarily at Buck.

LaMichael_Corleone said:

StrongArmCobra said:

Some of you are fucking idiots. This kid is not a fucking Buck. He's as big or bigger than Stephon Wright and Drake Jackson. He's gonna keep getting bigger. He's the fifth defensive lineman in this class whether you like it or not. It's awesome. It's great. Another elite defensive lineman. Stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. He's not an OLB that will be standing up on the edge and sometimes dropping into coverage. Just stop with the stupidity. And stop mentioning Latu and Benning in the same fucking sentence. Benning is nowhere near this kid athletically.

Wait...you just said not to mention him and Benning in the same sentence and then did that exact thing while saying Latu is more athletic than Benning meaning he’s more versatile in space due to his fast feet and due to his length and flexibility, can rush the passer from the edge better. Benning is 275 by the way and 2.5 inches shorter.

And Benning was 245 his Senior season of high school and oh would you look at that, got bigger in the weight room. Would you look at that. When football players lift weights 4-5 days a week in college, they tend to get significantly bigger than they were in high school, especially if they play on the line of scrimmage. It's almost as if tearing muscle fibers causes their muscles to grow when they repair themselves. Gee I wonder what would happen if you put a 6'6 270 pound 18 year old Poly kid who played DE in high school into UW's strength and conditioning program? Perhaps his muscles will also grow like everybody else's and a year or two down the road he's a 290-300 pound versatile, swing defensive lineman. A world could exist...

RaceBannon said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Paging @AIRWOLF for some dope graphics to twit at recruits. Doesn't Lake have some ridiculous stat like putting 75% of his blue chip recruits into the league?

Edit:Fuck, thought I was in my tab for the Asa thread.

Staff, get this filth off the bored

creepycoug said:

backthepack said:

StrongArmCobra said:

LaMichael_Corleone said:

StrongArmCobra said:

Some of you are fucking idiots. This kid is not a fucking Buck. He's as big or bigger than Stephon Wright and Drake Jackson. He's gonna keep getting bigger. He's the fifth defensive lineman in this class whether you like it or not. It's awesome. It's great. Another elite defensive lineman. Stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. He's not an OLB that will be standing up on the edge and sometimes dropping into coverage. Just stop with the stupidity. And stop mentioning Latu and Benning in the same fucking sentence. Benning is nowhere near this kid athletically.

Dood he can do both. It’s not about size as it is physical skill set. The dood is a BUCK who can play inside as well but doesn’t have the leverage to 2-Gap like our defense would like unless he’s playing no more inside than a 5-Teq. Coach K is his primary for that reason. We want to do multiple things against multiple teams. Against Colorado we played a lot of 5-1 with Benning being bumped inside and Tevis moving back outside.


He even talks about it in an interview where he said we want to use him at multiple spots so he talked to Gregory and Malloe on the visit as well when Trice definitely didn’t. We should be complimenting the kid on how big of a freak he is, how athletic and physical he is, not fighting over where he’s going to “exclusively” play when really it doesn’t fucking matter.

Yeah, when you hear the coaches talking to a kid about using him at multiple spot across the D-line that means they see him as a D-lineman. He started out as an exclusive Buck recruit at 235 pounds (Hence Coach K being his primary recruiter) and grew into a D-line recruit. He's a 3-tech with the speed to play outside as well so a swing d-lineman the likes of Levi Onwuzurike and Jaylen Johnson. Sure, he may play some Buck without ever being asked to drop into coverage like Jaylen Johnson was this season but he won't primarily play Buck long term. If he can help us as a true Freshman it's likely at Buck but after that first season I don't see it. But you're right about one thing. It's not worth arguing back and forth about. They'll fit him in where he fits in best. I'm just confident that won't be primarily at Buck.

Can you just DIAFF already?

I'm offended.

Pussy!!!

Baseman said:

RaceBannon said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Paging @AIRWOLF for some dope graphics to twit at recruits. Doesn't Lake have some ridiculous stat like putting 75% of his blue chip recruits into the league?

Edit:Fuck, thought I was in my tab for the Asa thread.

Staff, get this filth off the bored

Pretty sure this pic is either in cockers or ddy's living room.

UW_Doog_Bot said:

dirtysouwfdawg said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Dear Christ, as a general rule I never watch hudl or highlights until these guys are signed(Fuck you Kaho) but @CokeGreaterThanPepsi forced me to watch Laiatu's hudl. I will never forgive him if we don't sign this kid.

TBS his twitter media. Scroll way the fuck down and watch his rugby videos.

Do it!

As resident rugby superiority guy I'd bet he's a monster 8 man.

Oh god, I strongly agree.

UW_Doog_Bot said:

backthepack said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

dirtysouwfdawg said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Dear Christ, as a general rule I never watch hudl or highlights until these guys are signed(Fuck you Kaho) but @CokeGreaterThanPepsi forced me to watch Laiatu's hudl. I will never forgive him if we don't sign this kid.

TBS his twitter media. Scroll way the fuck down and watch his rugby videos.

Do it!

As resident rugby superiority guy I'd bet he's a monster 8 man.

Oh god, I strongly agree.

Dear lord, It's worse, they've got him playing inside center(my position btw) bc he has so much speed they want him in space.

Confirmed he's playing buck/DE. Anything further inside would be a waste of all that speed.

Confirmed PAC-12 QBs and Tackles are supremely fucked.

UW_Doog_Bot said:

About damn time we unleashed our secret weapon in this recruitment.

UW_Doog_Bot said:

HillsboroDuck said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

About damn time we unleashed our secret weapon in this recruitment.

You can thank me after 6pm. He was no doubt going to USC until I hit him with the 7's talk.

Thank you for your service

WeakarmCobra said:

GaryFromTeenMom said:

Fellas it’s about that time once again....

Poast the whole video, this jif doesn’t do it justice

I am so so so ashamed for what I am about to post in roughly 20 minutes....I'm just apologizing in advance for my sin.