I'm putting 90% of the blame for this class on that lazyass lake. He did shit... The first time a number of these local recruits were contacted by udub was boner and his crew. He needs to put an exciting competitive team on the field and we'll see what his recruiting chops are with next years class.
I know were on like the 12th class that's a mulligan for a Husky staff in the past 18 years but I guess let this one play out.
The twins are probably better than any other DL on the roster other than Voi. Dating back to the 2001 class with Rick, highly touted classes have never worked out at UW. Give me a glory days K State type of teamwork with a couple actually productive 4 and 5 stars. Give me the good Boise State teams with Budda, John Ross, and Vea added in. Those would be good teams.
It makes me irrationally mad to see how shitty our “blue chips” are. Go look at the thread on the main bored of the roster breakdown by class. Every upperclassmen blue chip on defense fucking sucks. They aren’t just bad, they don’t belong playing PAC 12 football.
I'm ready to go fully "we only want guys who want to be Dawgs" doog for a while after this abysmal run of "four stars" at UW. After the top 20-30 recruits it really feels like it's a crapshoot after which is why unless you're Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma who can stack those mostly sure thing guys over Classes and fill the gaps with four stars that work out, you might as well just focus on guys that work for you. That, and get the best guys you can in-state.
I’m not dumb enough to say we don’t want 4 star guys. Missing out on JT and Egbuka was bad. We really need those type of guys to hell us get where we want.
Evaluate and pick better players. There are plenty out there. I like the idea of Morgan being basically a gm and being the evaluation guy. More colleges should do that. Pay a guy good money that is a great scout and can evaluate. Evaluate better. I keep hearing that it’s impossible but it’s not at all. Lots of schools have evaluated and developed at a higher level than most.
You are spot on about the “stars matter” bullshit. When Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia, etc offer kids any shmuck can stamp a 4 or 5 star rating on them. There are seemingly 3,000 3 star players. Of course the percentages of four and five star players going to the NFL will be greater.
Those schools have no reason to look far and wide for prospects because they don’t have to. We do. Steal the best fucking guys from schools “shittier” (but recently better) than us. Of course we will still have some busts, but the amount we have right now onto the highly ranked guys is fucking insane.