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How is Chun stopping the football team from spending? Why didn’t he stop the basketball team from it? We also knew who was visiting or offered on that side mostly. This seems more like a Jedd thing.
 
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Quietcowskee said:
When you’ve lost Teq…
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It's not so much about being "lost" as it is just reading the tea leaves of what is going on in the portal

We're "shopping for value" and that's not going to increase the talent base

@HFNY hits a lot of what I'll likely touch on at some point but Chun's working on a solid path of a vote of no confidence
 
HFNY said:
I'm thinking that time will heal some wounds and the sting from DW's idiocy will wear off by the time spring ball starts. Then it will further wear off by fall ball.

The bigger concern is Chun / Fisch. It sounds like they don't have a great relationship and I'm not hearing a lot of positives about Chun. I wasn't that impressed when I met him and think we can do a lot better - someone with more presence / gravitas and who is football first. I haven't met Matthew Hayes but his bio works for me: https://gohuskies.com/staff-directory/matthew-hayes/6294

I still think Fisch wants to do well enough to head to the NFL. One of my ideal scenarios is that the 2026 Huskies do well enough to make the playoffs so Fisch leaves for the NFL, Chun is then fired for mishandling the relationship, Matthew Hayes is promoted to AD which helps keep the roster intact, and Hayes as AD moves quickly to hire Indiana's defensive coordinator.
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I went to the hoops game on Sunday ...

Anybody that saw Chun on Sunday and what he was wearing would tell you that he's not "all in" on being the AD of UW ... on a big day where being dressed in some version of purple and gold he failed miserably.

When he spoke at half of the Welp retirement ceremony he came off as having a lack of executive presence and a 2nd tier (at that) AD

I've been in enough rooms with executive leaders ...

Some of them you listen to them speak and walk away feeling motivated and knowing that you're about to go kick ass

Others leave you realizing that they are not the answer and know that you're fucked

Chun is definitely in the last bucket

If You Know You Know
 
chuck said:
I was actually on the side of building mostly through HS recruiting but I see now that isn't going to work at UW. The young guys don't stick around to be old guys, and old guys are the ones who win, so you have to focus more resources on portal players. I don't like it but acceptance is setting in.

It feels like Fisch sold out in the name of signing that "best class ever" at UW and lacks the purchasing power to go big in the portal.
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The portal is the definition of a Catch-22

How many impact players are there in the portal to begin with? And the ones that are impact players go look at the money that they are going for.

If UW had to go out in the portal to get a QB, are they getting a QB making $4M to $6M+ like a Hoover, Leavitt, or Sorsby? Even if UW was willing to pay that number, do they have the "cache" to get those players to visit here?

How about at WR? Top guys are going for $3M+ ... is UW competing at those levels?

What about the OL? Top OTs are getting $2M to $3M+

Sensing a pattern?

Then you have a number of schools that absolutely don't give a shit about laughing at the lack of rules in place and will do whatever it takes to build their roster and then dare the "powers that be" to do something about it.

And if we're being really honest we know that UW isn't going to cross the line to do whatever it takes to the point of daring "regulators" to go after them.

And if you need further proof of that, go look at the proposal made by the Presidents of Arizona, Virginia Tech, Georgia, and Washington.
 
administrator said:
There's a James Johnson quality to Demond's career arc as of right now
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College players, especially QBs, now seem to be much more finished products early in their career than they used to be for better or worse. This isn't back in the day when Lockner came in from running a wing t and probably not doing 7 on 7 12 months of the year. I feel like Demond is Demond. He'll be bad next year against Indiana and Oregon and probably some other team we don't yet realize is good yet with talent like Penn State.
 
WoolleyDoog said:
College players, especially QBs, now seem to be much more finished products early in their career than they used to be for better or worse. This isn't back in the day when Lockner came in from running a wing t and probably not doing 7 on 7 12 months of the year. I feel like Demond is Demond. He'll be bad next year against Indiana and Oregon and probably some other team we don't yet realize is good yet with talent like Penn State.
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I've seen several NFL coaches lamenting the lack of developed players coming out of college. There is beginning to be an understanding that any QB you draft will need 1-2 years of actual coaching before becoming an NFL caliber player.

Because of the early specialization and proliferation of 7 on7 and camp circuits, kids are arriving to college more developed than they used to. However, they are interpreting this as being fully developed and they just want to get on the field immediately. Because they are so focused on just getting on the field, there is very little attention paid to actually becoming a better player.
 
houseofpain247 said:
Do they? Genuinely am not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.
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My guess is abundance. The midget will likely have 40 starts if he stays uninjured during his (non early exit) NCAA career.

Yeah,, it would seem that more actual playing time (real development) makes for a better professional.
 
RaceBannon said:
Yes they do

See Blo Dix for one

Caleb Williams as well
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Bo Nix is a solid example. I'm not sure it holds up across the board though. Seems like kind of a mixed bag. Here is what chatGPT gave me for top 10 QB starts in college:

QuarterbackApprox. Games Started (Career)
Bo Nix – Auburn / Oregon61 (NCAA record) (12 News)
Dillon Gabriel – UCF / Oklahoma / Oregon~60 (approx., based on projections & reports) (SI)
Colt McCoy – Texas53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (KATU)
Kellen Moore – Boise State53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (KATU)
Jake Browning – Washington53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (Saturday Down South)
Clayton Thorson – Northwestern53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (Saturday Down South)
Sam Hartman – Wake Forest / Notre Dame53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (Saturday Down South)
Sam Darnold – USC~42 (reported in media on starts; approximate) (New York Post)
DJ Uiagalelei – Clemson / Oregon State~40 (approx. starts reported) (Tomahawk Nation)
Pat White – West Virginia~40 (four-year starter; rough start estimate) (Sportscasting | Pure Sports)

Couple of really good players on there, but lots of QB's I'd pass on for my team.
 
houseofpain247 said:
Bo Nix is a solid example. I'm not sure it holds up across the board though. Seems like kind of a mixed bag. Here is what chatGPT gave me for top 10 QB starts in college:

QuarterbackApprox. Games Started (Career)
Bo Nix – Auburn / Oregon61 (NCAA record) (12 News)
Dillon Gabriel – UCF / Oklahoma / Oregon~60 (approx., based on projections & reports) (SI)
Colt McCoy – Texas53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (KATU)
Kellen Moore – Boise State53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (KATU)
Jake Browning – Washington53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (Saturday Down South)
Clayton Thorson – Northwestern53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (Saturday Down South)
Sam Hartman – Wake Forest / Notre Dame53 (tied prior NCAA mark) (Saturday Down South)
Sam Darnold – USC~42 (reported in media on starts; approximate) (New York Post)
DJ Uiagalelei – Clemson / Oregon State~40 (approx. starts reported) (Tomahawk Nation)
Pat White – West Virginia~40 (four-year starter; rough start estimate) (Sportscasting | Pure Sports)

Couple of really good players on there, but lots of QB's I'd pass on for my team.
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And they were passed on by the NFL

40 starts doesn't make Browning not suck. 40 starts makes a better qb than a one year starter
 
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