He's a lazy recruiter he wont fight for the higher ranked kid, he said he wasnt going to waist his time on recruiting kids who have other schools ranked above Huskies, he's going to see very shortly that he wont win in Pac 12 with that nonsense.
Twisting.
He has said he won't put resources into recruiting kids who aren't genuinely interested in going to UW. He's not going to be fooled into thinking that a guy like Ruben Foster is genuinely interested just because he agreed to take a free trip.
You're fighting a losing battle on this one dumb dumb. Petersen has already shown he will recruit similarly or higher rated classes to UW than Sarkisian. Simpletons who don't know how to read the the aspects of recruiting rankings that sort of matter won't get this, but the 2014 class was about as good as any that Sark and his highly paid recruiting mercenaries brought in. That was in the transition year.