Nick Bolton’s UW Explanation

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Found this on another site very interesting I wonder he was soo forceful.

Bolton’s side of the story

“In June before his senior year of high school, Bolton went on an unofficial visit to the University of Washington and felt like he had found a good fit. Bolton was realistic — he knew some schools considered him as an undersized linebacker — so the Huskies felt like an impressive program for him. He verbally committed on July 24.
When he did, he wanted to be transparent with Chris Petersen and the rest of the coaching staff.
Bolton told them that he had a pact with some high school friends to sign their national letters of intent together, on the February National Signing Day. Washington wasn’t a fan of that stipulation; the coaching staff wanted him to sign with the Huskies during the early signing period in November.
And everything changed.
“They were so overwhelming with him,” Jalunda Bolton said. “Just pushing and pushing and pushing him.”
At one of his games that season, Texas A&M sent then-defensive coordinator John Chavis to watch Bolton play. A couple of days later, Bolton got an angry call from Washington. He didn’t know why the team was mad at him until he found out an article had been published after the game, blueprinting how Texas A&M would get Bolton to flip his commitment. He didn’t even have an offer from the Aggies.
From that point on, Washington told Bolton to cut off communication with other schools.
“I still wanted at least to hear from other places, make sure I was making the right decision for myself, my family and my future,” Bolton said. “Each school has different guidelines. If you commit to (Washington), they believe that should be the only school you’re talking to, and that’s what their motto was.”
The pressure on Bolton to sign with Washington in November escalated. As it did, he wondered if he had rushed into his decision to commit there. October came, and instead of a national letter of intent, Bolton had a 10-minute phone call with the coaching staff.
“Whenever I was talking to other schools, they didn’t like that,” Bolton said. “So they decided to drop me.”

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Just Brilliant

OKG bullshit. Hopefully it slowly dies out under Lake. Win football games. Let the parents raise their own kids.

Yeah that shit was so stupid. I understand not wanting kids to flip at the last minute because it leaves the coaches with no other options and fucks them over but he never even received an offer from Texas A&M. He wasn’t going anywhere. We’ve had a shit load of other commits before who continued to talk to other coaching staffs and they didn’t get dropped. The reality is, they were looking for a reason to drop him because they thought MJ Tafisi was better after evaluating both of their Senior seasons. Oops. Instead they had to play Kyler Manu for a year and a half and Tafisi hasn’t done shit. Chris Petersen had a lot of idiotic moments.

[253-404Dawg]

Obviously Petersen deserves blame but this lays at the feet of BG again Petersen typically deffrred to his assistants. BG racist ass would not have played him anyway, on a serious note I believe there is some racial/cultural bias with BG. Who goes this many cycles without being able to recruit one African American player at a position that produces a lot of African American players combine that with Victor, not to mention Simon this year combine that with his failure to retain African American players there is obviously a problem

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253-404Dawg wrote:

Obviously Petersen deserves blame but this lays at the feet of BG again Petersen typically deffrred to his assistants. BG racist ass would not have played him anyway, on a serious note I believe there is some racial/cultural bias with BG. Who goes this many cycles without being able to recruit one African American player at a position that produces a lot of African American players combine that with Victor, not to mention Simon this year combine that with his failure to retain African American players there is obviously a problem

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Bob Gregory struggles recruiting black kids because:

A: The vast majority of the elite black ILB talent comes from the South East and

B: He has zero swagger and charisma and struggles to culturally connect to most elite prospects of any race because his personality is boring as fuck.

Our lone black ILB on the roster is our best ILB and came in as a walk on. Bob was praising him when he was just a Freshman special teams player and then played him over scholarship guys. That doesn’t look racist to me.

Julien Simon is not an example of racial bias. The coaches simply don’t think he’s all that good of a prospect. Simon admitted in an interview months before committing to USC that the UW coaches wanted to “see more physicality and better open field tackling” from him. He was never a recruit they were all in on. He’s a good athlete but didn’t check enough boxes for them as an ILB. They obviously think Will Latu is better.

@Ballz,

1. The vast majority of all elite talent comes out of the S.E. thus that excuse can be used at multiple positions.

2. He actually was forced to finally play Eddie U, after the epic failure of playing Manu and the entire inside linebackers. In fact he played Tafisi & Sirmon before he finally gave Eddie U an opportunity.

3. There is obviously some latent bias of course Simon doesn’t fit because of his bias, of course Bolton is a easy pass because of his bias. Those are all pre-textual reasons under the law. He has not recruited an AA ILB in 4 cycles that’s pretty hard to do almost impossible. Not to mention the players he did have there left. His recruiting and player retention of African American player is an obvious red flag of racial bias. Couple that with some of the Eiflers comments about why he left, as a former employment lawyer this would be an easy case to bring but hard to prove like all discrimination cases becasue people typically want to hear salasctious facts of the “N” word being used but that is rarely the case in contemporary America.

I never said the man is racist in his heart but there is obviously some bias that needs to be addressed. Even Coach K has a simillar background but over the years has learned to adapt and has started recruting his position better yes the west doesn’t typically have the best OLB’s but coach K understands the player profile he is looking for and has started recruiting that profile even recruiting Milton from O’Dea as a PWO.

Gonna keep saying it until people get it. If you have an assistant coach problem it’s really a head coach problem.
Waste of time slamming assistant coaches. They are there because the head coach wants them there. Blaming lower level employees for lack of job performance is a cop out. Successful head coaches take responsibility for their staff. If you are not willing to cut loose non performing staff you have no business running a program.

253-404Dawg wrote:

@Ballz,

1. The vast majority of all elite talent comes out of the S.E. thus that excuse can be used at multiple positions.

2. He actually was forced to finally play Eddie U, after the epic failure of playing Manu and the entire inside linebackers. In fact he played Tafisi & Sirmon before he finally gave Eddie U an opportunity.

3. There is obviously some latent bias of course Simon doesn’t fit because of his bias, of course Bolton is a easy pass because of his bias. Those are all pre-textual reasons under the law. He has not recruited an AA ILB in 4 cycles that’s pretty hard to do almost impossible. Not to mention the players he did have there left. His recruiting and player retention of African American player is an obvious red flag of racial bias. Couple that with some of the Eiflers comments about why he left, as a former employment lawyer this would be an easy case to bring but hard to prove like all discrimination cases becasue people typically want to hear salasctious facts of the “N” word being used but that is rarely the case in contemporary America.

I never said the man is racist in his heart but there is obviously some bias that needs to be addressed. Even Coach K has a simillar background but over the years has learned to adapt and has started recruting his position better yes the west doesn’t typically have the best OLB’s but coach K understands the player profile he is looking for and has started recruiting that profile even recruiting Milton from O’Dea as a PWO.

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I think you’re really reaching here. Bob Gregory has been at UW for seven years and in that time we’ve only had two white guys start for us at ILB, BBK and now Sirmon. All of his other starters have been black or polynesian.

Eifler transferred because he sucked. We saw that with our own eyes when he got playing time in garbage time. The coaches knew he was dissatisfied with not playing as early as he thought he would when he was recruited so they tried to move him to OLB and use him as a situational pass rusher to get him on the field but he didnt want to do that.

I think Bob Gregory has a standard for mental understanding of the game from his players that is too high and he overloads them with too much information. He turns guys who were highly aggressive and instinctive in high school into guys who are thinking too much and playing slower and more tentative. Bob Gregory is not a confidence builder. He’s a confidence killer.

The facts don’t support what you’re suggesting. I think the guy simply sucks at coaching and recruiting and should be fired. That doesn’t mean he is racially biased.

Clemson has white ILBs starting for them every year. Does that mean Brett Vennables has a racial bias? No. Everybody in the country wants the elite black ILBs Alabama signs every year but they ALL want to go to Bama. Nick Saban is the GOAT because he was smart enough to realize black athletes are superior so he should try to dominate recruiting black kids. He has cornered the market for the black talent pool down South and that is what turned Bama into a dynasty.

This last recruiting class, there was only one elite black ILB recruit in the entire Western region of the country and that was Raejon Davis. He had no interest in UW. Good luck recruiting black ILBs when there’s only one or two of them out West per year who are worth recruiting and your ILB coach is a terrible recruiter.

Ballz that is your best post I’ve ever read. More of this and less of the pom pom waving.

@Nip 8, your 100% correct unless additional information or evidence proves otherwise this is definetly a Jimmy problem. It’s plain to see BG is underperforming.

253-404Dawg wrote:

@Ballz,

1. The vast majority of all elite talent comes out of the S.E. thus that excuse can be used at multiple positions.

2. He actually was forced to finally play Eddie U, after the epic failure of playing Manu and the entire inside linebackers. In fact he played Tafisi & Sirmon before he finally gave Eddie U an opportunity.

3. There is obviously some latent bias of course Simon doesn’t fit because of his bias, of course Bolton is a easy pass because of his bias. Those are all pre-textual reasons under the law. He has not recruited an AA ILB in 4 cycles that’s pretty hard to do almost impossible. Not to mention the players he did have there left. His recruiting and player retention of African American player is an obvious red flag of racial bias. Couple that with some of the Eiflers comments about why he left, as a former employment lawyer this would be an easy case to bring but hard to prove like all discrimination cases becasue people typically want to hear salasctious facts of the “N” word being used but that is rarely the case in contemporary America.

I never said the man is racist in his heart but there is obviously some bias that needs to be addressed. Even Coach K has a simillar background but over the years has learned to adapt and has started recruting his position better yes the west doesn’t typically have the best OLB’s but coach K understands the player profile he is looking for and has started recruiting that profile even recruiting Milton from O’Dea as a PWO.

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Not sure that many people distinguish between an accusation of bias and an accusation of racism. Even AA Ballz is calling BS on your accusation, an accusation which I think is really out of line TBH.

@Ballz not to belabor the issue but to boil it down to basic he plays non-white players is taking the easy way out of my arguement BG has a cultural bias towards AA players and culture if you ask me I think the evidence speaks for itself only one elite ilb on the west coast would assume we are recruiting elite ilb period we don’t. Eifler is on draft boards so I don’t agree he sucked. In my opinion based on the evidence in front of me and considering I have litigated through trial many of these cases while working with the EEOC early in my career I can see a problem. Ballz also didn’t see the cultural bias in OKG.