When did you get hooked on crootin’?

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Quietcowskee

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For me, it was a Sports Washington Magazine “Recruiting Spectacular” I got at 7-11 in 1994. It chronicled the probation-shortened class with Benji Olson, Tony Coats, etc.

Soon after, I subscribed to Sports Washington (by mail, youngsters) and even (allegedly) called the pay-by-the-minute hotline a couple times.
What say you?
 
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I tried to get into around 2016 - 2017 but my interest faded pretty quickly once the insane TBSers like Coke and the gay car crash guy started talking about fast strategy, yada yada.
 
I don’t recall but I’ve always been a whore so being a TBSing ⭐️ chasing whore just came naturally for me.

I can tell you I use to be a complete doog thinking we? were getting every guy we offered. Might’ve been late Ty, early Sark when I really blossomed into a teenage boi stalking douche.
 
I enjoyed the tims when I would read about James classes in the PI or Seattle Times in the 70s when it was mostly a side note in the sports section.
Knew a guy that worked for Heckman and he sent me Sports Washington magazines in the early 90s. This is back when Jason Bass? didn’t make it to UW for reasons I have long forgotten.
Remembering player time lines for me is easier than remembering dates or years. I’m guessing I started following dogman online when we were recruiting Paul Arnold. Rick brought a lot of sizzle to recruiting back in the day and I got into again a little during the Pete years. Ultimately for me anyway, following Petersen’s recruiting was the best because he was getting and producing solid players that lived up to their rankings and often over achieved.
I follow recruiting very little and read threads here but nothing beyond. I used to get excited about 5 **** receiver classes, now I get excited for OL and DL. Not excited but optimism.
I never got very excited for DeBoer’s classes but would much rather enjoy the season because we were winning! I give credit to DeBoer for winning on the field but the fact is outside of a select few players his team’s foundation here were guys Pete evaluated and recruited. Kalen is a great coach but building a program at this level is something he’s never had to do between UW and Alabama. I didn’t love how defense seemed like an afterthought with DeBoer or Fisch.
 
I first heard of the concept when UW got some guys like Kauffman, Jason Shelly, and Cedric White and thought it was good entertainment if only there was more info available.
Years later, I saw a news story about Reggie Williams and he did the whole hat on the table thing. I think it was within a few days of that that I stumbled into doogman. I think I got what I could for free that year, then became an account holding tbser the next cycle.
I no longer am. The shitshow this board turned into thanks to DDY losing his mind put me on the ledge. NIL and the portal gave me the final shove.
 
I remember my dad calling in the line in the 90s when I was very young and the Sports Washington recruiting magazines. I've found some at my parents' over the years and they're a trip and funny how little information it was back then compared to now. The 2001 class after the Rose Bowl was what got me hooked and I think I was a Doogman guy for 10+ plus after that.
I started to fade once NIL became more and more of a thing and it became more about money and Twitter took a lot of the mystery out of stuff.
 
When a bunch of entitled cunts in the city I was living in started whining/raging that Molden isn't supposed to go to UW.
 
Earliest was the string of future NFL quarterbacks most from in state. Guys like Chandler and Conklin
Then 88 and 89 as the national championship team was built
Recruiting only matters if you do something with them
 
I was a passive follower for years. Whatever the PI would mention was as far as my interest went. Ty’s last class I followed pretty closely because it was a bunch of local guys and they flipped Polk from USC, allegedly, but it was the Sark years when I really dug in. I thought it was Jimmy’s and Joe’s that were needed to win big. As Race said, it’s also what you do with it. I just figured that the hit rate on recruits was 30% until Pete got here and actually developed kids into real players. I follow pretty closely now. I kinda like what Fish is doing. When everyone said he was a great recruiter, they may have been right. No time like the present to do something with it Judd. Tick tick tick
 
Rick arrived with the internet recruiting sites. Our first great recruiter
Also our first he can only win with the previous guys recruits
Sark would win 7 games with his recruits
Dennis and company didn't like Petersen recruiting but Petersen could build a team before he burned out
 
When Donny Mateaki committed. Real Doogs remember that picture from dawgman, boner inducing croot.

somebody post the picture
 
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Most of the leaders on James first Rose Bowl team were Owens recruits but we weren't retarded back then. Everyone knew Owens couldn't win with them so no one cared
 
RaceBannon said:
Rick arrived with the internet recruiting sites. Our first great recruiter
Also our first he can only win with the previous guys recruits
Sark would win 7 games with his recruits
Dennis and company didn't like Petersen recruiting but Petersen could build a team before he burned out
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Agree with most of what you say or write but why do you discount the argument that many of Rick’s Rose Bowl players were recruited and developed initially by the previous staff that played a significant role (foundation) in winning the conference and RB. Obviously Rick gets a ton of credit coaching the team and he was able to motivate his team. I wouldn’t call Rick a great recruiter although recruiting was exciting because he brought a lot of sizzle.
The program began to go downhill after the previous staff players cycled through and the team became soft. Obviously firing Rick was a bad move but I highly doubt he would have taken another team to a RB appearance. We wouldn’t have gone 1-10 or 0-12 either but most of us were not surprised how things went at UCLA. Even his success at Colorado was much of Barnett’s guys.

It’s a fact Boner was/is a great coach and he recruited his best player during his time here. Can you not admit that the Big Penix years had a great or significant contribution from Petersen’s recruiting and evaluation including Lake where Coach Pete ran the program although burnt out. Not taking away from DeBoer’s coaching but he benefited greatly having a solid foundation. Our former center and the wr he took to Bama originally were recruited by Lake although I imagine Pete had them on his board early on. The only player Boner recruited to Alabama and UW was their TE Josh C.
The fact is DeBoer hasn’t built a D-1 program from the foundation and he has definitely underperformed at Alabama with team full of high blue chip players. Alabama fans are nuts if they want him gone and if he does move on to Penn State bama will sink to pre Saban years.
Not trying to be argumentative, I give Petersen a nice tip of the cap to Boners great 2 years at UW and he gets most all of the credit. I’d give Pete 15-20% credit for Kalen’s success and I would bet he would acknowledge Petersen’s foundation as significant. Starting to ramble 🤦‍♂️
 
J.R. Hasty’s commitment really got me hooked. If I was smart I also would have been like J.R. Hasty and quit, but that didn’t happen. Don’t follow it nearly as much these days as NIL has essentially turned it into yearly free agency.
 
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graveyardDEADdawg said:
RaceBannon said:
Rick arrived with the internet recruiting sites. Our first great recruiter
Also our first he can only win with the previous guys recruits
Sark would win 7 games with his recruits
Dennis and company didn't like Petersen recruiting but Petersen could build a team before he burned out
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Agree with most of what you say or write but why do you discount the argument that many of Rick’s Rose Bowl players were recruited and developed initially by the previous staff that played a significant role (foundation) in winning the conference and RB. Obviously Rick gets a ton of credit coaching the team and he was able to motivate his team. I wouldn’t call Rick a great recruiter although recruiting was exciting because he brought a lot of sizzle.
The program began to go downhill after the previous staff players cycled through and the team became soft. Obviously firing Rick was a bad move but I highly doubt he would have taken another team to a RB appearance. We wouldn’t have gone 1-10 or 0-12 either but most of us were not surprised how things went at UCLA. Even his success at Colorado was much of Barnett’s guys.

It’s a fact Boner was/is a great coach and he recruited his best player during his time here. Can you not admit that the Big Penix years had a great or significant contribution from Petersen’s recruiting and evaluation including Lake where Coach Pete ran the program although burnt out. Not taking away from DeBoer’s coaching but he benefited greatly having a solid foundation. Our former center and the wr he took to Bama originally were recruited by Lake although I imagine Pete had them on his board early on. The only player Boner recruited to Alabama and UW was their TE Josh C.
The fact is DeBoer hasn’t built a D-1 program from the foundation and he has definitely underperformed at Alabama with team full of high blue chip players. Alabama fans are nuts if they want him gone and if he does move on to Penn State bama will sink to pre Saban years.
Not trying to be argumentative, I give Petersen a nice tip of the cap to Boners great 2 years at UW and he gets most all of the credit. I’d give Pete 15-20% credit for Kalen’s success and I would bet he would acknowledge Petersen’s foundation as significant. Starting to ramble 🤦‍♂️
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