Chris Watt
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Not a surprise. Better there. Can't recruit. That's one of the reasons he really wasn't under consideration to replace HH.
He can't recruit? You mean, he's tried, and everyone he recruits is like, 'Screw you, I'm noi going to play for you. I'd rather walk on somewhere else.... '
That doesn't sound like it makes sense. He doesn't know how to recruit, he doesn't understand the process? He's just not sure what he's doing or something? He's a young dude, you couldn't be in a better position to relate to HS kids better than someone like Chris Watt. Maybe he's gruff and brusque and unlikeable, but you'd really have to be a prick if you just couldn't recruit at all, and your recruiting performance was unacceptable, if you were in Chris Watt's position.
It's probably a good result for the Jeff Quinn haters. If the OL play were to diminish under CW's stewardship, that would put paid to the little conspiracy theory that he was the REAL coach during all those great years, that produced multiple playoff appearances and near-misses, and sent Eichenberg, Aaron Banks, et al to the NFL. So we can avoid that at least....
That doesn't sound like it makes sense. He doesn't know how to recruit, he doesn't understand the process? He's just not sure what he's doing or something? He's a young dude, you couldn't be in a better position to relate to HS kids better than someone like Chris Watt. Maybe he's gruff and brusque and unlikeable, but you'd really have to be a prick if you just couldn't recruit at all, and your recruiting performance was unacceptable, if you were in Chris Watt's position.
It's probably a good result for the Jeff Quinn haters. If the OL play were to diminish under CW's stewardship, that would put paid to the little conspiracy theory that he was the REAL coach during all those great years, that produced multiple playoff appearances and near-misses, and sent Eichenberg, Aaron Banks, et al to the NFL. So we can avoid that at least....
"That doesn't sound like it makes sense. He doesn't know how to recruit, he doesn't understand the process? He's just not sure what he's doing or something? He's a young dude, you couldn't be in a better position to relate to HS kids better than someone like Chris Watt. Maybe he's gruff and brusque and unlikeable, but you'd really have to be a prick if you just couldn't recruit at all, and your recruiting performance was unacceptable, if you were in Chris Watt's position."
Or simply, Watt is not a salesman -- or have that mentality to do it. He may know the product (being an OL himself), know the nuances, but cannot sell the product -- not a knock on him -- some guys have that "gift of gad" when talking with recruits, some don't.
Yeah, I suppose that's true. So he must have never really planned to be a college coach, and it was always just a way station. He had to get his foot in the door somewhere, but CFB was just never going to be an option for him. Only the NFL, on account of somehow he's just constitutionally unable to recruit. Just can't do it. I wonder what it would be like to be recruited by him. Like would he totally freeze up and be moody and weird and just wouldn't say anything? And the prospect is just sitting there, and Chris Watt is looking away, silent, stolid, impassive....
That's kind of tough, though. NFL or bust because you can't recruit. Lucky for him he's managing to catch on as an NFL apprentice coach, or whatever job title he's going to get exactly. Otherwise it'd be insurance salesman! Like Mike Goolsby. I guess this leaves the door open for the continuing sociopathic bashing of Jeff Quinn. Quinn was the recruiter, and the figurehead, the 'salesman'... but Watt was the real coach, the one with actual substance, and this sort of plays into that narrative....
Echo: How do you know he can't recruit? I'm not challenging your statement; I just never heard that about Watt before.
I have a long time source in the building. Watt was brought back as a GA mostly as a courtesy to Quinn. His tenure at Tulane did not go well. He certainly knows his stuff but he just didn't mesh well with teenagers. Not everyone can do that part of it well. Sounds like he is better suited for the NFL. Best of luck to him.
So you're going to continue with this line of unnecessary gibberish. That a rising young position coach, who's career appears to be going to pretty well and who has every reason to hope for a long career in the business, in 'the industry'... is such a poor and ineffectual recruiter, which is most definitely a necessary evil of the college game, that it has almost precluded that entire sphere of potential employment to him, and if nothing else was one of the principal reasons he couldn't be seriously considered for the ND job, his alma mater, where they love to hire alums, even if/when they're comparatively underqualified.....
Instead of just saying he didn't get the job and has taken a position with the NFL? I suppose it's possible that he's that rare bird, who's so entirely put off by recruiting, which could certainly be understandable, that it really is an actual problem. But I would I guess no, and he just took a job in the NFL after not getting the ND job, or merely preferred the NFL to ND, and nothing more than that....
Can you imagine the scrutiny he would have had at ND if he wasn't successful developing or recruiting. His developing might be decent or INDY wouldn't give him the chance.Look at Denson . Look at Todd Lyght. He had rbs with less fumbles but was a so-so recruiter. Lyght wasn't a great recruiter and had only a few develop at cb. Just because they went to ND doesn't mean they are going to be great coaches.
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