Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
So, after coming off my alcoholic stupor very busy week, I decided to go watch the Nick Harris film again. There has been some speculation that they took this kid to basically shore up with Wattenburg (Stanford was close to stealing him, perhaps) and maybe give the little fat kid something to live for.
The problem with Nick Harris is not that he totally sucks (he really doesn't, he's 'ok'), but it's that he's small. When a kid is listed at 6-1, I instantly worry that he is 5-11.
After carefully studying the #Petersencardboardcutout photo with him and Wattenburg (where Wattenburg looks like a giant), he is definitely a good couple inches taller than the Pete cutout they have, so that puts him right around 6-1. I consider that last sentence to fulfill my time in the obligatory 'bargaining' phase of grief.
As far as his play, he's got some things I like: he definitely can jerk people around in small space. That small space power is what really makes the difference between a guy like anyone good and Dexter Charles. Charles has a body that should work for his position, but he just can't quickly overpower people like, say, Danny Shelton can (or #myjojo).
It's one of the main things I look for in linemen film: does the guy surprise people who he is engaged with physically? If you are currently engaged with a blocker and he—all of a sudden—just throws you, that's impressive (look at Trey Adams' film to see this happen constantly). Harris does it some.
Harris is either a high one or a low two, but I'm still going with a one, because honestly it would be a pretty big surprise if he were ever an All Pac-12 player and my ratings are all relative to that.
However, if this is what it takes to keep Wattenburg, so be it.
I think Pete got some of his first tastes of true battles this year with Eletise and Eason. This wasn't finding people other people hadn't, getting to them early, etc. This is—hey, everyone knows about this kid and they're all dying to have him. That #okg shit is fine, but even DickRod has #okg shit. In the end, you want kids to commit and stay that way and I have a feeling we will be in for that much more than Sark/Mora ever will...
Still, this is the big time and kids have tons of pressures on them. They have recruiters looking for any opportunity to sway them.
My read on the whole thing is I think Pete felt like he was cruising and got out-hustled. He's also playing a message that is—what we call in Econ—a dominated option.
Selling kids that this is the Stanford of the NW is kind of stupid because they are better than us in academics and better than us on the football field. That message works fine with in-state kids, but we're going to lose every last out-of-state kid to Stanford if we're in the final 2 with them and they care about academis, football and life.
We are basically Stanford compared to Boise State Trucker U., but we aren't basically Stanford compared to Stanford. We are basically UCLA compared to Stanford, which is great and respectable, but we aren't Stanford.
As such, if Stanford's poking around take Nick Harris and be done with it.
Oh, and hire Arizona's Eletise-recruiting coach and fire one of ours. Nothing else matters.
The problem with Nick Harris is not that he totally sucks (he really doesn't, he's 'ok'), but it's that he's small. When a kid is listed at 6-1, I instantly worry that he is 5-11.
After carefully studying the #Petersencardboardcutout photo with him and Wattenburg (where Wattenburg looks like a giant), he is definitely a good couple inches taller than the Pete cutout they have, so that puts him right around 6-1. I consider that last sentence to fulfill my time in the obligatory 'bargaining' phase of grief.
As far as his play, he's got some things I like: he definitely can jerk people around in small space. That small space power is what really makes the difference between a guy like anyone good and Dexter Charles. Charles has a body that should work for his position, but he just can't quickly overpower people like, say, Danny Shelton can (or #myjojo).
It's one of the main things I look for in linemen film: does the guy surprise people who he is engaged with physically? If you are currently engaged with a blocker and he—all of a sudden—just throws you, that's impressive (look at Trey Adams' film to see this happen constantly). Harris does it some.
Harris is either a high one or a low two, but I'm still going with a one, because honestly it would be a pretty big surprise if he were ever an All Pac-12 player and my ratings are all relative to that.
However, if this is what it takes to keep Wattenburg, so be it.
I think Pete got some of his first tastes of true battles this year with Eletise and Eason. This wasn't finding people other people hadn't, getting to them early, etc. This is—hey, everyone knows about this kid and they're all dying to have him. That #okg shit is fine, but even DickRod has #okg shit. In the end, you want kids to commit and stay that way and I have a feeling we will be in for that much more than Sark/Mora ever will...
Still, this is the big time and kids have tons of pressures on them. They have recruiters looking for any opportunity to sway them.
My read on the whole thing is I think Pete felt like he was cruising and got out-hustled. He's also playing a message that is—what we call in Econ—a dominated option.
Selling kids that this is the Stanford of the NW is kind of stupid because they are better than us in academics and better than us on the football field. That message works fine with in-state kids, but we're going to lose every last out-of-state kid to Stanford if we're in the final 2 with them and they care about academis, football and life.
We are basically Stanford compared to Boise State Trucker U., but we aren't basically Stanford compared to Stanford. We are basically UCLA compared to Stanford, which is great and respectable, but we aren't Stanford.
As such, if Stanford's poking around take Nick Harris and be done with it.
Oh, and hire Arizona's Eletise-recruiting coach and fire one of ours. Nothing else matters.
