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So yesterday we had our high school team up at a camp where pretty much 3/4 of the Pac 12 coaching staffs, SEC, Big 12 recruiters and most of the smaller division schools around the NW attended to watch players mix it up individual then team 11 on 11. Now if was my first time as coach at one of these big time camps and man I was really impressed with a lot of the staffs and how they worked the camp and watched kids and chatted them up.

Now as a high school coach the end game of attending one of these camps is to see your kids compete against some of the best teams in the state, and I mean there was some of the best playoff teams we have in state now. Of course my homerism kicked in when I caught Jimmy Lake walking in, but then damn near the entire coaching staff for the Dawgs came rolling including coach Pete, oh did I mention they plucked two of our Olinemen.

Of course their prize recruit was there slinging the rock, they watched him like a hawk. They were also watching Lincolns big Oline and Dline pretty close as well.
 

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So yesterday we had our high school team up at a camp where pretty much 3/4 of the Pac 12 coaching staffs, SEC, Big 12 recruiters and most of the smaller division schools around the NW attended to watch players mix it up individual then team 11 on 11. Now if was my first time as coach at one of these big time camps and man I was really impressed with a lot of the staffs and how they worked the camp and watched kids and chatted them up.

Now as a high school coach the end game of attending one of these camps is to see your kids compete against some of the best teams in the state, and I mean there was some of the best playoff teams we have in state now. Of course my homerism kicked in when I caught Jimmy Lake walking in, but then damn near the entire coaching staff for the Dawgs came rolling including coach Pete, oh did I mention they plucked two of our Olinemen.

Of course their prize recruit was there slinging the rock, they watched him like a hawk. They were also watching Lincolns big Oline and Dline pretty close as well.

Great post. As a high school coach you have a lot of insight that we obviously don't have.

If you have any other nuggets like this to share, please do. It's really interesting.
 

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The best approach out of the Dawgs staff is they would ask the player if their parents were there, so they could chat together, some of the other colleges didn’t do that. Tennessee approached my son didn’t even ask coaching staff which UW did it was the little things like that made a huge impression on my son and me
 

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The best approach out of the Dawgs staff is they would ask the player if their parents were there, so they could chat together, some of the other colleges didn’t do that. Tennessee approached my son didn’t even ask coaching staff which UW did it was the little things like that made a huge impression on my son and me

That's pretty cool.

It's fascinating to hear your perspective as a UW fan, a parent and a coach.
 

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That's pretty cool.

It's fascinating to hear your perspective as a UW fan, a parent and a coach.

Yeah I got about 3 years of this with my oldest, I told him last night there is going to be so much back and forth and folks approaching him, best thing to do is step back enjoy the attention, focus on winning ball games and see where this journey leads too....
 

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Winter : sophomore year mail, emails camp invites have been rolling in pretty much everyday,

Yesterday was first day for a Pac12 school, Stanford invite down to the oline camp
 

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Winter : sophomore year mail, emails camp invites have been rolling in pretty much everyday,

Yesterday was first day for a Pac12 school, Stanford invite down to the oline camp

Congrats buddy! What does that include? Do they pay to fly players down or do they just waive the fee for the camp?
 

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So it's the equivalent of an unofficial visit? I would've assumed if they sent the invite, they'd at least waive the fee for the camp.

Im sure they do, ( I haven't reach out to the coach as of yet) but I will fork out airfare, money for either me or his mom to go down with him, ( he will stay in the dorms)
 

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Im sure they do, ( I haven't reach out to the coach as of yet) but I will fork out airfare, money for either me or his mom to go down with him, ( he will stay in the dorms)

If you haven't booked the flight yet, shoot me a PM. I travel a lot and I'm really good at finding good deals on flights and would be happy to help you out. The advertisements you see for Expedia and whatever else are bullshit.
 

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If you haven't booked the flight yet, shoot me a PM. I travel a lot and I'm really good at finding good deals on flights and would be happy to help you out. The advertisements you see for Expedia and whatever else are bullshit.

Thanks buddy, I work in the FAA business so I got a pretty good hook up :suds:
 
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