UW loses 5* LB Kaho, may be looking at Oregon

[Duck07]

I motion that bumass is acceptable nomenclature for poodles and or Seattle.

[alxtw]

Whether Kaho passed the class/had enrollment issues we won't likely ever know.

I think it's pretty obvious though that Kaho and Bama had contact before his release and that it was already in place before he officially left UW. Good get for Bama, but they seem to play things pretty risky with additions like this, and then the reddit post showing 20+ players with brand new cars with most valued at 50k+.

This one is a bit of a grey area so nothing will come down from this but it's fishy at minimum.

Back in mid 2000s, i remember my friends at USC said many football players there parked their hummers and escalades in their players parking lots and cruised around in them. (Pete Carroll era) My friends at Northwestern said it was also the same thing over there, however, the players at northwestern were smart enough to never park their cars in the players' parking lot or be seen cruising around with their windows down.

[TualatinDuck]

I motion that bumass is acceptable nomenclature for poodles and or Seattle.

Second

[ncduck]

I motion that bumass is acceptable nomenclature for poodles and or Seattle.

Second

Motion carried

[Duck24]

I motion that bumass is acceptable nomenclature for poodles and or Seattle.

Second

Motion carried

Let the record show that “bumass” is accepted and preferred terminology for that bumass school up north. Ruling is also valid for a certain bald clown “journalist” working for The Oregonian that shan’t be named.

[GrantDuck]

Kid is at Bama a week later. Yeah, don't mind seeing it happen to UW, but that's a really fucked up situation and his family is fucked up for doing that. Will make coaches think twice before letting kids out of their NLI's in the future.

Not to mention o'l xbox Tosh Lupoi is the lead recruiter for Bama on it, one of the shadiest dudes in the business for like 15 years now.

[maxduck]

I don't feel sorry for UW. They were happy to hire Tosh Lupoi and have him poach Cal recruits. They escaped punishment when he provided extra benefits to recruits while in Seattle, then paid him $300K to go away. Almost fitting that he comes back and bites them in the bumass.

[Duck24]

Kid is at Bama a week later. Yeah, don't mind seeing it happen to UW, but that's a really fucked up situation and his family is fucked up for doing that. Will make coaches think twice before letting kids out of their NLI's in the future.

Not to mention o'l xbox Tosh Lupoi is the lead recruiter for Bama on it, one of the shadiest dudes in the business for like 15 years now.

What was UW’s recourse? Not release him and he just transfers/redshirts to Bama? Or worse yet, not release him and have the family go to the media with the sob story, which other coaches can then use against them in recruiting?

[AutzenMember]

I'm hearing from UW inside sources that grades were the issue...he would've become a non-qualifier, so the family story is a cover. We all know that Alabama's entry quals are as low as they get, so it makes sense for him to go there as a 5 star especially.

[TualatinDuck]

I'm hearing from UW inside sources that grades were the issue...he would've become a non-qualifier, so the family story is a cover. We all know that Alabama's entry quals are as low as they get, so it makes sense for him to go there as a 5 star especially.

Interesting, could have sworn Nemec wrote that he was academically cleared for all other Pac 12 schools.

[GoDucksTroll]

I'm hearing from UW inside sources that grades were the issue...he would've become a non-qualifier, so the family story is a cover. We all know that Alabama's entry quals are as low as they get, so it makes sense for him to go there as a 5 star especially.

That's just not true. Washington uses the same minimum clearinghouse qualification that most of the Pac-12 uses. If a kid "can't get into Washington" it means he can't get into Wazzu or Oregon either. Stanford and UC schools have different standards. Kaho had like one online class and he completed it. He could have gone to Washington. He could have gone to Oregon. He went to Alabama because they paid.

[maxduck]

For what it is worth the following is from Adam Jude in the Seattle Times

Over the summer, Kaho had been trying to complete one last language course to quality for enrollment at UW, which as a one of the nation’s top public universities has strict admissions standards. Alabama coach Nick Saban echoed that reasoning on Saturday, telling reporters in Tuscaloosa that Kaho had asked for his release from UW after he wasn’t admitted in Seattle.

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw- ... mson-tide/

Bryan Addison is a Duck because UCLA has different requirements.