I’ve always had a hard time resolving my feelings about Paopao.
I dislike him, feel like he’s a bad recruiter and crappy coach, and yet also acknowledge he recruited and coached a string of great UW TE that were highly drafted.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins (Second Round), Will Dissly (Fourth Round), and Drew Sample (Second Round). Then Cade Otton was never not coming to UW but still counts as one of his signees. Even one of his Zona TE’s was top 15 in the country in TE catches and yards in 2021 or 2022 or something. That McLaughlin kid.
So like, he sucks and I hate him, and yet there are solid results.
Dissly and Sample were layups and Dissly was actually a DL coming out of high school. He might’ve switched at UW to cover for POW POWs shitty recruiting and lack of depth.
I’ve always had a hard time resolving my feelings about Paopao.
I dislike him, feel like he’s a bad recruiter and crappy coach, and yet also acknowledge he recruited and coached a string of great UW TE that were highly drafted.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins (Second Round), Will Dissly (Fourth Round), and Drew Sample (Second Round). Then Cade Otton was never not coming to UW but still counts as one of his signees. Even one of his Zona TE’s was top 15 in the country in TE catches and yards in 2021 or 2022 or something. That McLaughlin kid.
So like, he sucks and I hate him, and yet there are solid results.
I actually think PooPoo is a pretty good position coach, his recruiting leaves a lot to be desired. One of his recruits at UW chose Air Force over him. Yikes.
I think these are the reasons I have a hard time resolving my feelings. He can’t seem to recruit for the life of him. Anyone he targets that has any buzz he can’t get.
But then he’s also able to target under the radar project guys, even say a DL that switches over to TE to help with depth. And then he coaches them into studs.
It’s reminiscent of Utah body type recruiting and development. But is it on purpose, or is it necessity. Is he a shit recruiter and lazy? Is he a body type and develop guy. Abundance?
For such a track record of good players at his position, he also has a track record of suck. Thus, no resolution to my feelings. shrug