Psh. Nah. I heard there was no evidence they do that. He said our coaches don't go out and recruit. That can't be right.Coach Cooper was in Anacortes, WA today. But not enough proof for oldngrizzly apparently.
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Pawlak is really getting out there looking for linemen.
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It's actually kind of impressive that he's wrong so very much of the time.
Burnt sienna, Mom, burnt sienna!
oldngrizzly
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The fact is Cooper was in Anacortes on an invite and he was there after I made my original post does not qualify. He was there representing the school along with SEVERAL other schools. He's there selling summer camp spots. You can call it recruiting if its fits your narrative. Only because you are trying to use it to prove me wrong. I don't consider it recruiting. Recruiting is what Pawlak did by visiting a player one on one. IMO Cooper's trip was a waste of resources.
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oldngrizzly
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Where is Hauck recruiting? Maybe he is laying low after embarrassing the University with his uncalled for sideline rant this past season.
oldngrizzly
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Exactly, she has no idea about the visit yet chimes in because she thinks she has proven me wrong. Nice try but she burnt her toast. I can see CDA is adding his usual nothing to Egriz.
billingsgriz
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We have a great story to tell about both our athletic programs and our academics, and I am glad that Coop was in Anacortes north of Seattle spreading the GRIZ gospel, looking for recruits !!!
The Seattle-Tacoma region, with a little over 4 million people and closer to Missoula than most of Eastern Montana, has historically been a crucial part of GRIZ recruiting, not only for football but also men's basketball and other sports. ( Montana's population, by comparison, is a little over 1.1 million residents.) Our great men's bball coach Travis Decuire from Mercer Island on Lake Washington was himself recruited to play for UM by HC Blaine Taylor a little over 30 years ago, and Travis it goes without saying knows how important Seattle-Tacoma is to GRIZ recruiting and so does Coach Bobby Hauck, a former assistant coach @ UDUB in Seattle.
While Anacortes is about 90 miles north of Seattle, that's less than an hour and a half away by car or by ferry.
Go GRIZ !!!
The Seattle-Tacoma region, with a little over 4 million people and closer to Missoula than most of Eastern Montana, has historically been a crucial part of GRIZ recruiting, not only for football but also men's basketball and other sports. ( Montana's population, by comparison, is a little over 1.1 million residents.) Our great men's bball coach Travis Decuire from Mercer Island on Lake Washington was himself recruited to play for UM by HC Blaine Taylor a little over 30 years ago, and Travis it goes without saying knows how important Seattle-Tacoma is to GRIZ recruiting and so does Coach Bobby Hauck, a former assistant coach @ UDUB in Seattle.
While Anacortes is about 90 miles north of Seattle, that's less than an hour and a half away by car or by ferry.
Go GRIZ !!!
https://x.com/ODeaAthletics/status/1881829809510355309
https://x.com/IsaiahAOlson/status/1882672026697232719
Golly. It kinda seems like Cooper is all over out there recruiting, including one player specifically saying "thanks for the one on one time." It is almost like your narrative is entirely a figment of your imagination.
He was at Bethel yesterday, with his visit being celebrated by a coach he has known for decades. I thought you knew everything?
He's fishing. Thought you knew.
horribilisfan8184
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I have old and fizzling on ignore, and this thread was quite illuminating about recruiting, without having to read the energy sucking posts by this troll. I would encourage everyone who responded to him to put him on ignore and that would mostly end it for him/her/they/it.
The coaches work very hard, including recruiting. Oldngrizzly is an idiot. The end.
billingsgriz
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I think that GRIZ upset over UDUB in 2021--Granted, it was not a very good Washington team, but it was also our first win over UW in 101 years.--while not a panacea is still paying some dividends in the Seattle-Tacoma area where at least diehard Husky alums and/or fans still have not forgotten the historic upset and when we combine that with our historically powerful and successful FCS football program, excellent facilities such as our new indoor practice facility, athletes' academic center, and Washington Champion's Center, Coop and our other coaches have a pretty good story to tell !!!
Two years ago, my Smithsonian-eligible Samsung Galaxy S5 needed to be placed in cell phone hospice, so I headed out to the Verizon store on 17th and Grand in early Jan. '24. When I noticed the Verizon rep, probably in his mid to late 20's, was not wearing the obligatory Verizon red polo or red button-up shirt but a purple
polo with UW emblazoned on the left chest, and when I mentioned UDUB's success in '23-24, he was all giddy talking about the Huskies big season and upcoming NC game against Michigan--he told me that he graduated from UW in the late teens, and worked in Seattle 3-4 years before moving to Billings.
When I asked him about Da GRIZ, he gave me the polite but condescending view that we have a good little team in Div. Ii. So then I mentioned our '21 game and our historic upset over his beloved Huskies, pointed out to him that was our first win over UDUB in 101 years, and he looked down at the floor and winced in pain and sheepishly admitted to me he was at the game. After he recovered from this most unpleasant flashback, he called the Verizon store on 24th Street West --They were out of new phones at 17th and Grand.--and had them set me up with a brand-new S23, a huge improvement over my ancient, terminally ill S5.
While many, perhaps most people in Seattle don't know that we even played UDUB in '21 and don't care that we upset them, I think almost all the Seattle-area high-school football coaches that Coop is talking to remember and tell their kids and that doesn't hurt our recruiting in Husky land !!!
Two years ago, my Smithsonian-eligible Samsung Galaxy S5 needed to be placed in cell phone hospice, so I headed out to the Verizon store on 17th and Grand in early Jan. '24. When I noticed the Verizon rep, probably in his mid to late 20's, was not wearing the obligatory Verizon red polo or red button-up shirt but a purple
polo with UW emblazoned on the left chest, and when I mentioned UDUB's success in '23-24, he was all giddy talking about the Huskies big season and upcoming NC game against Michigan--he told me that he graduated from UW in the late teens, and worked in Seattle 3-4 years before moving to Billings.When I asked him about Da GRIZ, he gave me the polite but condescending view that we have a good little team in Div. Ii. So then I mentioned our '21 game and our historic upset over his beloved Huskies, pointed out to him that was our first win over UDUB in 101 years, and he looked down at the floor and winced in pain and sheepishly admitted to me he was at the game. After he recovered from this most unpleasant flashback, he called the Verizon store on 24th Street West --They were out of new phones at 17th and Grand.--and had them set me up with a brand-new S23, a huge improvement over my ancient, terminally ill S5.
While many, perhaps most people in Seattle don't know that we even played UDUB in '21 and don't care that we upset them, I think almost all the Seattle-area high-school football coaches that Coop is talking to remember and tell their kids and that doesn't hurt our recruiting in Husky land !!!
BadlandsGrizFan
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They have to branch out. Bobby openly discusses how during his first tenure he would go into the exact communities you mentioned and get 1-2 big farm kids to play oline with every class.
They just aren’t out there anymore.
Well, that may be, but at least I'm not unoriginal.
Even when you're being ridiculously sarcastic (and funny as heck), you're still more correct than oldn.
billingsgriz
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You're right, Badlands, we need to branch out and I and many other GRIZ are happy Coach Pawlak was in Minnesota, home of the Gilman brothers, recruiting and his efforts could be paying off according to Payton's 2026 offer list.
That said, Seattle-Tacoma. with over 4 million souls and growing--more than the populations of Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota combined, will remain crucial in our recruiting and 8 of our 17 incoming high school kids are from Washington, including the Beaner brothers from Anacortes, where Coop just was--future GRIZ safeties, OL Lincoln Hoefer, 6-5, 250 of Bellingham, TE Malaki Davis, 6-5, 230 from Seattle, DB Sage Salopek also of Seattle, LB Colton Lentz from Everson near Bellingham, DE Logan Knaevelsrud from Snowqualmie, add in OL Quinlan Hyatt, 6-7, 270, from Spokane, and almost half of our incoming high-school class is from Washington, especially the Seattle-Tacoma region.
And since Montana and Washington are de facto neighbors, only separated by about 120 miles of Idaho panhandle, I don't see this changing.
That said, Seattle-Tacoma. with over 4 million souls and growing--more than the populations of Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota combined, will remain crucial in our recruiting and 8 of our 17 incoming high school kids are from Washington, including the Beaner brothers from Anacortes, where Coop just was--future GRIZ safeties, OL Lincoln Hoefer, 6-5, 250 of Bellingham, TE Malaki Davis, 6-5, 230 from Seattle, DB Sage Salopek also of Seattle, LB Colton Lentz from Everson near Bellingham, DE Logan Knaevelsrud from Snowqualmie, add in OL Quinlan Hyatt, 6-7, 270, from Spokane, and almost half of our incoming high-school class is from Washington, especially the Seattle-Tacoma region.
And since Montana and Washington are de facto neighbors, only separated by about 120 miles of Idaho panhandle, I don't see this changing.
oldngrizzly
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I don't ice fish because the results would be similar to his recruiting. Cold with not much biting.
oldngrizzly
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Competing to recruit in Seattle against Boise, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Utah to name a few FBS schools. Then you have FCS schools like Idaho, Eastern Washington, Portland and even Harvard recruiting in Seattle area. You may get players who have not been offered by FBS schools but is that the goal ? You have to think out of the box when recruiting if you really want to pick the best fruit.
