I See That Dan Cozzetto Will Be On The Dawgman Show Today

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It's no wonder Kim never criticizes any coaches. It would be refreshing if he actually admitted his agenda instead of acting like Cozzetto has legitimately done a nice job. The guy has sucked since he was let go with Snyder by ASU in the late 90's, save for 2000, when he was RB coach for the Beavs.

I don't care what the excuses/explanations are. When you are a position coach and your group has sucked four straight years, you aren't doing a good job. But keep acting like he has so you can get guests for your shitty radio show, Kim. Why don't you ask if Cozzetto showers and goes for the kitchen when he wakes up?
 
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I seem to recall that Sark's first choice as OL coach reneged at the last minute and went to a better job in the NHL leaving Sark in a rush to find somebody else before his first Spring practices at Montlake were scheduled to begin........ and that is how we got Cozzetto sort of on the fly. At the time I wasn't impressed, Cozzetto coming from Dennis Erikson's then unemployed veteran traveling entourage.

While Sark and Cozzetto had only Tyrone's hand-me-downs to work with, it wasn't so bad although not great because Ty didn't leave much behind on the OL after his 0-12 masterpiece. What concerned me right away was that in their first full year of recruiting, the new staff didn't go for any JC transfer help of any quality at all on the OL and that along with the DL were obviously the positions that needed the most rebuilding the quickest. Even Don James brought in some JC transfer linemen during his first couple years at UW to help rebuild Husky Football leading to the 1978 Rose Bowl, and DJ inherited some good OL talent from Jim Owens which Sark was not as fortunate to receive from Tyrone.

Cozzetto may be doing a better job with the OL than is evident from what we've seen thus far. This coming season will tell us a lot about that. No question that the OL recruiting has been imbalanced and perhaps mediocre at best leaving Sark entering his fifth season at UW relying heavily on five (of seven) RS junior OLmen from the 2010 recruiting class, none of whom have more than one year of starting experience. Unless OL performance picks up significantly in 2013, especially in pass protection blocking, I think we can conclude that Cozzetto is probably lazy, not a good evaluator or recruiter of OL talent, and probably not worth his pay whatever than may be.

Cozzetto has been around a lot in college and pro football. Is he close to the retirement golf course or fishing lake where old coaches must go eventually?
 
"The focus on recruiting this year...I want to find the best tackles - I don't care where they're from - and bring them to the University of Washington."

Sweet strategy bro.
 
"The focus on recruiting this year...I want to find the best tackles - I don't care where they're from - and bring them to the University of Washington."

Sweet strategy bro.
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I didn't listen to it, but it shows how badly we have struck out on tackles. Riva is the only decent one we have and he isn't anything great.

As for his strategy of getting the best tackles? No shit Cozz, great insight. When has that not been the goal?
 
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The problem (and I've heard this from a few sources) is that cozzetto is not a guy that OLs want to play for. A kid may come to UW because of the school, because of Lupoi, or whatever, but they don't come here because of cozzetto.

We should have an OL coach that players want to play for. He should be a guy that is a draw. Right now we have an OL coach that either: 1) does not factor into an OL's decision; or 2) is a negative on the ledger sheet.

If we have a DL coach that is a great recruiter, why can't we have an OL coach that is a great recruiter (i.e., klemm at ucla).

I listened to the interview and heard nothing earth shattering. It was a lot of the "we need to find great/athletic tackles" stuff, as mentioned above. But did you hear fetters after cozzetto hung up? He raved about what great stuff you get when cozzetto is interviewed. Really? What was new?
 
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But did you hear fetters after cozzetto hung up? He raved about what great stuff you get when cozzetto is interviewed. Really? What was new?
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Maybe Cozzetto bought Fetters a plate of beef nachos. That would be new...and Fetters would undoubtedly call that great stuff.
 
"The focus on recruiting this year...I want to find the best tackles - I don't care where they're from - and bring them to the University of Washington."

Sweet strategy bro.
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I didn't listen to it, but it shows how badly we have struck out on tackles. Riva is the only decent one we have and he isn't anything great.

As for his strategy of getting the best tackles? No shit Cozz, great insight. When has that not been the goal?
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Overall I agree, but I actually do think Riva is going to be a pretty damn good OT.
 
"The focus on recruiting this year...I want to find the best tackles - I don't care where they're from - and bring them to the University of Washington."

Sweet strategy bro.
Click to expand...

I didn't listen to it, but it shows how badly we have struck out on tackles. Riva is the only decent one we have and he isn't anything great.

As for his strategy of getting the best tackles? No shit Cozz, great insight. When has that not been the goal?
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Overall I agree, but I actually do think Riva is going to be a pretty damn good OT.
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He has potential, but he lacked strength last year. Part of it may have been the broken arm, but I still replay a CAL DE destroying him on two 4th and 1 plays in the first half of that game.

That said, we played much, much better with him in the lineup, so he obviously did some nice things.

 
Agree. I think while Riva may not be the best thing ever, he will be a solid Honorable Mention Pac-12 kind of guy this year...the issue is we need 4 more just like him or better than him...and we don't have them because Sark fucking sucks balls.
 
Passion could be right but Cozzetto is a symptom and not the root cause as Fremont said. If you are an OL which offense do you want to play for? Oregon, Stanford and even Arizona now are a better place than UW. Throw in USC and UCLA and its no wonder our OL recruiting has sucked. Sark is soft and even though the stats show we are balanced in terms of play calling, he has an obvious reputation as a pass first guy. Cozetto would be a great OL coach under Mora, Harbaugh or Saban. I'm sure we can do better than Cozetto but at this point any continued OL problem will cost Sark more than it will Cozetto.
 
Sark was stuck with Cozz. No real o line coach wanted to come here because of 0-12, Ty, Gilby, Rick, track. Just wait until next year. Sark will fire him and bring in someone great. We'll be really young then but once the new guy develops the lineman we'll have a special season.
 
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