Never did. To make it clear I’m specifically giving Kwat credit for not fumbling away the opportunity for a visit, which happened over and over in the past, or getting his lunch taken by another school coming in late as has happened in the past. Additionally, giving him credit for the relationship with the parents, specifically Latu’s as had been reported as far back as the September. He’s not a great recruiter, will always need help, but if he can be a net positive in relationships with parents families, the program can sell itself enough to close out these kids.Props to Kwat. He nailed this one. Built a surprising great relationship with the family and kept our foot in the door while USC was trying to lock him up since June. I'm impressed and while he may always be a coach that needs assistance with recruiting, the fact that he can maintain interest with a recruit for that long, even did so with Trice on a smaller scale, is huge moving forward.https://twitter.com/CoachK_UW/status/1075212127151878144
Kwat showed improvement this recruiting cycle but let’s not pretend the biggest recruiter of Latu wasn’t the other recruits.
There’s also DDYs confidence theory. He beat out big time schools for Trice. Now he’s landed the big fish in Latu. Definitely can’t hurt if he starts to believe in his ability to close.
The Poly kids and the program got Latu. Kwat’s a great coach. These guys will be good playing under him.
