Idaho Vandals

Robb Akey quotes from signing day

Posted on 03 February 2010 by Jesse Baumgartner

Here are a few things Idaho coach Robb Akey had to say about his new class of recruits.

In general…. “I’m obviously excited about this class. I don’t think you’re going to hear one football coach come on the screen today and say ‘hey, you know, we really didn’t do very well’ … every coach in the country is excited about who they’re signing today, and we are, we are with good reason.”

On the impact of a winning season……“Well, I think that the success of the season, as we were going through things that certainly had a lot of folks excited. I think it strengthened the interest level of the people we were going after … that got some of those guys to commit to us early. A number of these kids have been committed to us for a long period of time. And I think the completion of the season and the exclamation point of the Humanitarian Bowl … I think that that really helped us solidify the kids that had been committed to us. I think it got some of those guys that decided after the …. we pulled off a couple of deals here at the end of the recruiting that – one of them is a guy that was going to go play for somebody else in our league that elected to come here. And that wouldn’t have happened before.”

On local recruits…...”But I think you’ll also see on here, that we’re getting stronger up here in the Northwest. And to me that’s a great, great sign. And I’m very proud of the fact that we’ve got four guys that you can throw a rock from campus and hit their home. I’ve got a good arm – I can hit Asotin and Lewiston from here.”

On Moscow’s Jayson Washington…..“That kid’s been making plays in this town for a long time. He’s going to continue to make plays in this town for a long time, and he brings great speed to the table.”

On Lewiston’s Justin Podrabsky…….“He’s a big guy, got a rocket of an arm. And he’s got the whole future in front of him.”

On recruiting locally…..“We’re going to continue to recruit other areas, but the more we can get from the homeland, I think that that helps the program – it helps everything about what we’re doing.”

On success…..“The fact that we’re having success now, it made a difference in the battles that we’ve been fighting on a lot of these kids.”