Man, getting kids to buy into winning as a team is still harder than it looks I guess. Even with Washington's recent success and Petersen's long history of same.
To tell you the truth the message "Come here if you want to win"
resonates with kids in about 3 programs: Bama, Clemson, and OSU.
Until you are a big time consistent winner over a number of years,
that is not currently a sales pitch that will work at UW. Put together 3
or 4 more seasons like the last two then you got something. Those
above three programs can sell "win it all with us". We're not there yet.
yes.
It seems like 4 factors drive recruiting more than anything else.
-location (see texas and USC)
-flash (this is how used car salesmen like taggart are able to succeed)
-winning (we're getting there, but not there yet in terms of reputation)
-academis (fuck Stanford)
the kids we get seem to be very similar in that they're looking for a solid combination of those things. but where the struggles come from is that UW is not elite in any of those categories.
Chance to get to the nfl may factor a bit, but teams who have Terrible records of doing that are still big time draws so who knows