but the sence that UW will no longer be a push over to recruit against in the future has to be in the back of their minds. Especialy a team like Oregon who primarily recruits California looking for the USC / UCLA “left overs”. They will surely have stiff competition for those kids now. I agree with a post i read somewhere yesterday that stated this staff is going to hurt a team like Oregon as much as it’s going to help us which is GREAT news!

…no idea that’s coming, it would be funny to see how he handles it.

Boyd wants a shot at QB, and we may give that to him. Stan liked (from what i read) the hiring of our O-Line Coach/OC (not even going to try to butcher his name out of respect). Plus there is another really good player that played with Boyd in High School that is making the trip. Like i said before, they are getting a lot of guys that are middle of the road recruits that are only getting noticed as of late because of great senior years. I trust Sark and Co to make it happen!

There’s going to be a serious cultural change around the program, something that always happens when a new coach comes in from outside the existing program. I would expect that some of Willingham’s kids are simply not going to like/be able to handle the new intensity that Sarkisian and Holt and the new staff will bring. Some kids will look to transfer on their own, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Sarkisian and co. “encourage” a few others to explore other options.

There’s also the possibility that some of the less-ready recruits coming in this year could grayshirt (not enroll until January 2010) to make room for all the scholarships.

Problem with that is it cuts down the number of people we can sign in 2010, which likely would be a lot better year for recruiting.

I personally trust what Sark is doing. He’s making all the right moves so far. If he plans to bring in 25 in this year’s class, you have to trust he has a plan.

I personally think we’ll have about 22 myself. Just not enough recognizable talent left out there to justify much more than that, in my opinion.

Extremely unlikely – Western played at the Division II level, 2 levels below where the UW plays. It’s possible they have someone who really flew under the radar as a H.S. recruit and has developed like crazy, but the chances that any of them are Pac-10 worthy are very slim.

…I think this coming weekend is the first of three.

…the weekend of the 17th and 18th. There are six coming for this weekend so far. That’ll probably change and a few others will join those current commits. Will Shamburger a safety prospect is the only visitor who is uncommited. He has five offers now including Washington and he was previously commited to Boise State. ASU WSU and Utah are the other offers he has.

It will be very interesting and tense to watch it play out. Sarkisian is obviously gambling that his best shot is to cram as many in-homes, evaluations and phone calls as he can up until next weekend, and then go for broke on the visits from that point and hope he can pry away some studs and uncover some gems.

I’m encouraged at the number of skill position guys he’s attracting attention from, CB/WR/S/Athlete types. This team can obviously use help wherever Sarkisian can find it. But we all know it starts up front, and it’s a little nerve-wracking not seeing much in the way of interior linemen recruits publicly known to be on Sarkisian’s radar and returning the interest. That of course could change quickly, and I can’t really blame Dawgman.com for being low on good recruiting info right now – it’s probably very hard to keep up with the frantic pace that Sarkisian is keeping right now.

News is slow right now, but I’m sure we’ll hear confirmation on the two new defensive coaches soon and perhaps some offensive hires as well, and I’d expect the recruiting news to pile up quickly as the scouting services catch up to the work that Sarkisian and his staff have put in the last few weeks. The visit lists should be pretty large, and the commits will probably come in bunches.

I’m really excited to see how the 2010 class shakes out – I have a feeling Sarkisian is going to bring in a really good class. Not just the in-state studs, but some California studs too.

I think this is the calm before the storm.