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Will Tosh Lupoi work his magic in UDub? He's certainly coming up with some pretty impressive targets. I doubt anyone thought he'd have Washington up in the mix for a player of Reuben Foster's caliber. Foster is considered the top inside linebacker by multiple sites in this class, and the Husky coaching staff likes their chances.
Reuben Foster plans to take an official to #Washington. #UDub coaches traveling to see him says they feel they have a shot.
— Kipp Adams (@KippLAdams) December 10, 2012
Foster has a mostly-SEC list of Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Miami, and South Carolina comprising his final set of schools. That Washington is even in the running is impressive.
There is the matter of that tattoo though.
Another big name checking out Washington? Top defensive lineman Eddie Vanderdoes, someone who's closer to home in California. It doesn't hurt that Lupoi would be Vanderdoes's defensive line coach either.
Auburn (Calif.) Placer DL and #USC commit Eddie Vanderdoes will take his official visit to #Washington this weekend
— Greg Biggins (@GregBiggins) December 13, 2012
Vanderdoes still remains committed to USC, but he does seem very interested in taking a look up at what's happening at Washington, so they are definitely on the shortlist. If anything, it's at least generating buzz in a Husky program that had a modest but hardly groundbreaking 7-5 season.
This is why Sarkisian brought Lupoi in to team up with Justin Wilcox. Both Lupoi and Wilcox have plenty of history together at Cal, and their synergy helped land perhaps the best West Coast recruit of 2012 in Shaq Thompson.
If the two can land some top recruits together and team them up with stars in the making like Thompson, suddenly UW's defense becomes one of the fiercest in the conference and Washington can go out and compete with anyone out there.