Emtman wasn't a diamond-in-the-rough as proclaimed repeatedly by new age doogs eschewing Golden Age legend. The big guy was actually a solid gold bar safely deposited in a sodbuster bank until the James Gang swooped in and took him away to Montlake. Emtman at the time he committed to UW was considered a good prospect, but he committed early (for 1988) and didn't attract much interest after emphatically announcing that he only wanted to be a Husky. Coming from Cheney, Steve was at the time assumed to be a gimme for WSU. However as we found out, Emtman wasn't some dumb sodbuster even if he did shoot carp with a shotgun.