Sark thought that doogman posters bashing Walker Williams lost him Garnett and Banner. He had no shot at Garnett according to the guys at Performance Edge or his high school teammates. If UW was actually a strong program with a coach Garnett liked, I'm sure it would have been a tough decision, but the reality always was Sark wasn't getting him. The reason doogman posters bashed Walker Williams is because Eklund said he wasn't good enough to play at UW.
The funniest part about all this was Kim calling Mattingly, Enewally, and Kearsley (BYU) idiots the next recruiting season after all his bullshit about not bashing recruits.
Great history lesson here.
Eklund bashed Walker Williams incessantly then had the nerve to scold posters that said WDWHA when Williams committed to Wisconsin. When the shit hit the fan with the rest of the class, Eklund blamed message bored poasters, the poasters fought back and called Eklund out, Kim came to Eklund's defense....huge clusterfuck.
This was literally the snowflake that caused the "Class of 2012 Avalanche" that destroyed in state recruiting under Sark.
Totally agree that Garnett was never coming to UW as long as Sark was the head coach. Then word amongst the recruits got out about the bashing of Walker Williams that was originally started by Eklund and it almost became a matter of pride to in-state kids to give the middle finger to UW.
No Garnett. Banner fucked with Sark and committed to USC. Then Rector decommitted and went to Stanford. Oh, and let's not forget the biggest middle finger came from Keivarae Russell. That kid literally said fuck Sark, fuck the UW, fuck everyone. Those kids even posted a picture of all of them together and posted it on twitter with a caption basically saying fuck UW. And it all began with Eklund ripping Walker Williams non stop during the summer and fall of 2011.
Then Sark gets a hold of Kim and those two decide to blame Doogman subscribers for Sark's in state dreckfest. I mean, talk about the pot and the fucking kettle. Those two had WAY more culpability for in state recruiting going into the tank than any group of fans or message board posters.