Either the Washington coaches are crazy or are geniuses

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Talked to a couple different guys on the staff and neither of them are concerned about recruiting, in fact they like where they stand in recruiting. I made one of them repeat it because I couldn’t believe it. They both told me that when things open back up, it’s going to be insane and Washington will be in a very good place to deal with it. Both told me recruiting is a marathon not a sprint and believe come fall, they will flip a lot of these guys including Troy who they are still confident in. I want to believe but all my neutral sources aren’t as optimistic so I got no clue how this ends.

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Bowdowndubsup wrote:

Do we know why jimmy lake fired cooper pentaga? I’m really trying to make sense of it because by everything I’ve heard he was pretty good at his job and well liked in the program.. jimmy didn’t have the balls to fire coaches who actually deserved it like BG and KB yet he gets rid of this guy? We now have Justin Glenn as a first time recruiting coordinator and although I do like Glenn, so far the results are not there…

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I think you guys are overstating the importance of the recruiting coordinator. Isn’t his main job like coordinating the logistics of visits?

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I think you guys are overstating the importance of the recruiting coordinator. Isn’t his main job like coordinating the logistics of visits?

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He did a lot more than that – he is more than an administrator(there is usually an administrator that does that) – most people in that job at schools across the country regularly talk to recruits, evaluate film to prioritize recruits for offers, track and coordinate what is happening in the recruitment. Last year the USC individual in an equivalent position went on recruiting visits. It is a key role and Cooper had experience at Michigan and Alabama.

To have him walk to Oregon with all the data and perspective UW had on the forthcoming recruiting class had to be significant and one element in what is going on now.