Signing Day Soundbites: Jimmy Lake Teleconference
December 18, 2019 | Football
LAS VEGAS β New Washington football head coach Jimmy Lake spoke with the media over the phone from Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 18, following the opening day of the early signing period that saw the Huskies ink 23 future student-athletes to National Letters of Intent. Read some of what we had to say:
(Opening statement) "We're extremely excited about this class. With all that's going on with [Chris Petersen] and myself, to be able to hold on to these 23 excellent players β we're all just thrilled as a staff. When we start diving into this class, we have eight different states that are represented. What I really like about this class is the average core GPA of these 23 signees is 3.06β¦ We're very happy about that. We also have four state champions in Sam Adams II, Ethan Garbers, Mark Redman, and James Smith and one national champion in James Smith down at St. John Bosco. We have eight mid-year guys. We'll have four guys enrolling in the winter quarter β Triston Brown, Gaard Memmelaar, Myle Murao and Jordan Lolohea β and we'll have four guys enrolling in the spring, that being Garbers, Redman, Mason West, and Geirean Hatchett."
(On how the last two weeks have been and what it feels like today) "We can really take a big exhale. Just a huge kudos to our operations staff, our recruiting department, and our assistant coaches. It was a big web of getting around to go see who we needed to see and go to the high schools we needed to go to. That two-week period was obviously somewhat chaotic, but with the scheduling that our operations people did and our recruiting department did, they made it very, very smooth. In between flights and on flights, a lot of preparation in watching Boise State's offense and game planning just like we normally would. Instead of sitting at my comfortable desk, I was in-flight with laptop on my lap, but still got the same work done. Definitely excited we kept all 23 of these guys today."
(On whether committed recruits help in the recruiting process) "I know these [signees] are in group chats, too, not just on social media. Those guys get really, really tight. It's part of the uncommon unity that we have here at Washington. These guys get really tied into each other, they become friends even before they sign. They forge these really cool relationships, and we try to foster that as much as we can. Certainly, once they arrive on campus, we're just going to pour gas on that fire and these guys are going to get that much closer. Our best recruiters are our current players and our [recruits] that are committed because they know that if we all band together and come here, something special is going to happenβ¦"
(Opening statement) "We're extremely excited about this class. With all that's going on with [Chris Petersen] and myself, to be able to hold on to these 23 excellent players β we're all just thrilled as a staff. When we start diving into this class, we have eight different states that are represented. What I really like about this class is the average core GPA of these 23 signees is 3.06β¦ We're very happy about that. We also have four state champions in Sam Adams II, Ethan Garbers, Mark Redman, and James Smith and one national champion in James Smith down at St. John Bosco. We have eight mid-year guys. We'll have four guys enrolling in the winter quarter β Triston Brown, Gaard Memmelaar, Myle Murao and Jordan Lolohea β and we'll have four guys enrolling in the spring, that being Garbers, Redman, Mason West, and Geirean Hatchett."
(On how the last two weeks have been and what it feels like today) "We can really take a big exhale. Just a huge kudos to our operations staff, our recruiting department, and our assistant coaches. It was a big web of getting around to go see who we needed to see and go to the high schools we needed to go to. That two-week period was obviously somewhat chaotic, but with the scheduling that our operations people did and our recruiting department did, they made it very, very smooth. In between flights and on flights, a lot of preparation in watching Boise State's offense and game planning just like we normally would. Instead of sitting at my comfortable desk, I was in-flight with laptop on my lap, but still got the same work done. Definitely excited we kept all 23 of these guys today."
(On whether committed recruits help in the recruiting process) "I know these [signees] are in group chats, too, not just on social media. Those guys get really, really tight. It's part of the uncommon unity that we have here at Washington. These guys get really tied into each other, they become friends even before they sign. They forge these really cool relationships, and we try to foster that as much as we can. Certainly, once they arrive on campus, we're just going to pour gas on that fire and these guys are going to get that much closer. Our best recruiters are our current players and our [recruits] that are committed because they know that if we all band together and come here, something special is going to happenβ¦"
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