Pac-12 Coaches "Don't like Oregon's recruiting tactics"

[woundedknees]

Not everyone wants to be an O...K...G...

[justducky0]

^^^^ This.

[alxtw]

There have been rumors that Cristobal uses negative recruiting. I think that might be what the other coaches are referring to. The main example I've seen referenced is with Sav'ell Smalls. I'm sure others have seen this in one form or another, but the story goes that Mario did his best to run down UW such that Smalls completely took the Huskies off his list, until they got in touch with him and cleared up the issues, and ultimately he committed there.
I can't vouch for the veracity of the story, but certainly, we know that Smalls did take the Huskies off his list and then eventually came back around and committed there. And we also hear that Cristobal's recruiting tactics aren't popular with the other coaches. Leach made a reference to Oregon's recruiting in a presser after the Ducks pulled it out vs. the Cougars, implying that recruiting was the major reason the ducks won. We also saw how frosty the handshake was between Mario and coach Whittingham after the Pac 12 Championship game. So who knows. I still think it was ridiculous to take it out on the Oregon players in the All Pac 12 vote. Doesn't exactly reflect well on the maturity level of the other coaches, especially since most of the slighted guys were Helfrich recruits anyway.

There's probably a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff we will never know, but I wonder why Peterson quit and if it had anything to do with the increased recruiting pressure.

That honestly sounds like a yarn created by delusional husky fans to justify why their program isn't recruiting as well as Oregon. Washington is a good program and Cristobal would look like a fool if he was trying to run them down. I just find this very difficult to believe.

It was reported that smalls didn't feel like petersen and UW rolled out the red carpet for him, thus he felt they didn't want him badly. UW had to specially meet with him and probably did some ass kissing to show him they really wanted him, in order for him to put them back on his list. Situations like this and what recruiting has become is probably why petersen is quitting.