June 17, 2025 • 14 mins
Kodi Greene, five-star offensive tackle commit , joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about flipping from Oregon to Washington and what went into that decision, Jedd Fisch, his high school move, being in the national rankings, the NIL factor, and the UW program.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us right now with the radio show five Star
Offensive Tackle Eastside Catholic matter Day, was gonna go to
Oregon and then told Oregon to take a hike for
you up. Cody Green is with us and Cody tell
us what it was about Oregon that turned you off
and made you flip from the Ducks to You Dub.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So for me for Orgon to not do right, I
was nothing really like it's not like against them, but
like even though it's committed, Oregon coach Switch hit me
up as soon as he got the job. When he
got hired at You Dub. I was his first call.
He didn't try to sell me. He just checked in
and built a real relationship with me. Same with Marcus Griffin.
He's in my guy since I was a freshman. When
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he got teed up as director of recruiting. He started
calling me almost every day, just telling me about the
direction You Dub was headed and my brother Kayden. He
just kept it real with me and said, bro, you
just got to come see for yourself. So I did.
I went with no expectations, just wanted to see it
with my own eyes.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, Cody Green is with us on the radio show
and you mentioned coach Swit's obviously the brand new Michael Switt,
sort the brand new offensive line coach at We don't
know a lot about him besides the fact that he
was an assistant for Jedfish obviously, So tell us about
the guy. What was it about your relationship with him
that kind of made you feel comfortable, especially after it
felt like he made you a priority.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So when I when I went up for a visit there,
I had a meeting with him and he was breaking
down my film showing me practice some of the Huskies,
and he seemed very passionate, very eager to learn. So
like when he didn't know something like he'd be like, okay,
I can learn this. Like he was very passionate in
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his game and he's always looking to strive to be
the best.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, Cody Green again is with US five star offensive
tackle going to play football for ud UP and Jedfish.
And there were a lot of people that were surprised.
I guess when you moved from Washington, from the state
of Washington go down and play football that matter day. Well,
what motivated that decision and how did that maybe change
you into a better person?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You think after that experience man.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, I wasn't easy. I left my home behind,
my best friends, Washton and Cotto, everything I known built.
But my plan A is making to the league and
chasing that dream means to sacrifice, sacrifice some things. I'm
modern day. I'm surrounded by top tier talent every single day.
That daily competition has gotten me so much better. And yeah,
people were loud about me leaving Washington, said I wouldn't
(02:24):
make it down here, but I stayed focused, put my
head down, earned every rep I was given, and ended
up being the Trinity League Alignement MVP. Now people are
being lot again in question why fifty dub. I'm not worried.
I mean, I'll just prove them wrong again like I
did when I moved down here to California.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, well, Cody greed again with started off with Eastside
Catholic and now it matter day.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And I mean the move paid off.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean, you got a five star Composite ranking listed
as the number three tackle I believe in the country
by two four seven. But you know, it's sounds like
you got a big ego, right, You sound kind of
humble about that. Tell me about those rankings and how
much you pay attention to that, and how cool that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is for you to hear people say things like that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, it's cool, but like I don't really get
caught up in the rankings, being number one, ranked with
number the goal. That stuff is a way out of
my control. It's someone else's opinion. My goal is to
become the best player I can be. If they rank
me one, five or ten, it doesn't matter. I don't
need outside validation. I get that confirmation other Friday nights,
Every Friday night under the lights.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I love it well.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Cody Green is with us incoming offensive tackle that you
dub with matter day five star player was gonna go
to Oregon and then he flipped to U Dub. Dude,
I got to ask you, honestly, if it was reversed.
I'll be totally honest with you. If it was reversed
and you were gonna go to U Dub and then
you turned away from U Dub and went to Oregon,
you and I are not talking right now, Okay, Yeah,
I mean, I'll be totally honest with you. We're not
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having this conversation. But how much heat did you take?
How much crap did you take from Oregon? Fans on
social after you flipped to you Dub be honest with us.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I mean it was pretty bad, but I was in
a rupt date for the first couple of hours. But
then I realized, like it's my decision, Like I'm not
gonna let people online determine where I'm gonna go, Like
this is my path.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, yeah, was there a Was there another option?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Honestly when you decided and take us through the timeline, like,
was it, Hey, I just want to be at you
dub and you mentioned play with your cousin obviously you
mentioned coach Switzer Or was it I don't want to
be at Oregon anymore. I have to go look somewhere else,
and Washington happened to be the place.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
No, No, it wasn't that. It was I realized, like
how much I feel like they valued me, Like at
You Dubbed, they were building like around me, not just
plugging me into a system. I feel like everything about
you Dub, I feel like, was just this is this
is what I need in a program, this is what's
going to take me to the next level.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, well, I think Cody Green with us again five
star offensive tackle company to dub you know, as well,
as I man, we live in a very skepe the world, right,
and when when people hear things like hey, they showed
me a lot of love, that showed me a lot
of respect, I can hear and see people in the
audience rolling their eyes saying, well, he means nil.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He means he got a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He means he got paid a lot of money, He's
got a lot of endorsements coming. So how much of
that drove your decision to leave Oregon to go to Washington.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, I'm not doing it for the nil I hope,
like I hope other kids aren't. But that's not for everyone.
Like that's not my main goal. Like the money's gonna come,
but I wanted to be somewhere that I'm actually like that,
I feel valued, and I feel like Washington is that place.
So it's not Yeah, it's not for the highest bidder,
it's not for the highest number, the most whatever, like
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this is this is the place I want to be at.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, you grew up a Husky fan, I assume, and
you probably had some heroes on the offensive line. I mean,
were your big fans of guys like Trey Adams and
and Kaylen McGarry.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I mean, Nick Harris is in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He started at center against Alabama when he was seventeen
years old. So is there a guy that you followed
that you dubbed that you want to kind of take
after a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It wasn't really like an offensive lineman, but it was
a Buddha Baker. Wow, I feel like that. Yeah, I
feel like that's the guys that I was like, dude,
he slipped, Like, I mean, I was still young. I
don't really know like what happened, but like he's a star.
He's from Washington. That's like, that's probably one of the
biggest names like to come out of Washington that was
from Washington. So it was it was really cool saying that.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, well yeah, I mean you're both guys that left
Oregon to go to U dub and it worked out
pretty damn good for Buddha. I think at what point
he was the iest made safety in the NFL. Have
you talked to him, by the way, Cody, have you
talked to Buddha.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Baker at all?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have not. I want to someday.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well, I think we got to set that up, all right,
I'll have my people call his people, and then I'll
call my people, call your people, and we'll make it happen.
So what would be Cody before you go? First of all,
it's great to have you on the air. Looking forward
to catching up a ton when you get up here
to play for Jed. What would be your overall message
for Washington fans? I mean, you know, we're coming out
of this crazy era of Kaitlin de Boor into Jetfish
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where things are starting to settle down a little bit. Obviously,
recruiting's kicking ass. Everyone's all fired up for demand and
guys like you. What's your overall message you think for
Washington football fans that are wondering where this thing's headed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's my message the fans would be, I'm coming home,
and I'm coming with the purpose. I'm going to give
everything I have to this program to my teammates into
the city. I love Yeller gains someone who doesn't need
the spotlight. I just want to put people on the
ground and win games. Let's get to work.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I love it put people on the ground and win games. Man,
go get him, Cody, great stuff. Great to meet you, man,
look forward to seeing you in person, and we'll talk soon. Man,
appreciate it, Bud, Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Cody Green again had a chance to catch up with
him earlier for today's show. And I don't know, man,
I got a fundamental rule on this radio show. Anybody
who tells Oregon to take a hike and says yes
to Washington automatically gets a spot on the radio program.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And I mean, let's not bite naive.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I mean the fact that he grew up here, the
fact that his cousin's playing for UW. He went to
Eastside Catholic and then took off to go to Matter
Day to get kind of you know.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What, exposure to better athletes.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I get all that, But if this kid was from
California or from Texas or from you know, Idaho wherever,
he's probably not.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Coming to you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But this is what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, it's kind of like Nil seems to be
taking over everything.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And it doesn't matter where you grew up.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It doesn't matter about putting a fence around the state,
things like that or kind of cliche now, but it's.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Still as important, man.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, you got a kid that grows up a
Husky fan, and he admitted he grew up a Husky fan.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Said it right there, Buddha Baker.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It wasn't Trey Adams or kayleb McGarry's alignment was Buddha Baker.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Was his favorite player.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You grew up a Husky fan, and you live through
one of the greatest eras of Husky.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Football with that final fourteenes. You gotta be a Husky man,
have to be. And well, you know, we'll.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Forgive him for his you know, mistake that he made
by originally choosing words little yeah, Well, we all have mistakes.
As long as you correct your mistake before it's too late.
All right, now he's going to the right spot. I'm
just I'm excited at the new era of college football
and college basketball because I think wherever Washington was in
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this current iteration, this two three year current iteration.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They're going to be in a better place in the
next iteration.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Even though they weren't in a terrible place in this
last Heck, we went to the national championship what fifteen
months ago, so it's not like we were in a
bad place in this current iteration.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well here's the thing, so think about like, and I
hate to bring this up, but I'll bring it up anyway, right,
because I'm trying to make a point here, which I
don't really have a lot of points to make on
the air that people want to hear, so when I
do make.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
One, beating Yeah, this is exactly I've been sitting on
this for at least five or six minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
When you are nine ten years old in two thousand
and eight, and the Huskies are going oh to twelve,
and you're rooting for Oregon or you're rooting for USC
or Michigan anybody, but you dub because the Huskies stink.
Those kids when they're seventeen eighteen years old in twenty
fifteen to whatever, you kind of understand it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know why guys don't choose you Dubb.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Because it didn't grow up Husky face Washington in the
last you know what, eight nine ten years whatever it
is now going back to the twenty sixteen seasons. So really,
if you're talking about twenty sixteen twenty thirteen, you're talking
about a seven eight year period where if you're eleven
twelve and then eighteen nineteen years seventeen eighteen years old,
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you're exposed to two of the greatest runs in the
history of Washington football. I mean we can now sit
down and say, hey, the era of eighteen year old
kids that were ten when Tyrone Willingham was going on
and twelve, those days are now over.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's done.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Now we're talking about kids that live through Peterson, live
through Caitlin to Bore, are gonna live through Jedfish. So
it almost feels like the idea of kids grow going
up Washington fans is a cool thing again and that
we could maybe start banking on that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You're exactly right, You hit it on the head.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
And you know, I am just now starting to get
into that time of life where friends of my kids
are going now to college or getting ready to go
to college. And I can totally, I can totally vouch
for what you just said.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It is cool to.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Be a Washington Husky again, And that was not the case.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I remember stories, you know, coaching ten fifteen years ago,
I was coaching in two thousand and eight and two
thousand and nine. You couldn't find a high school athlete
that wore a Husky pair of paraphernalia anywhere anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Would you want to be sixteen years old walking around
where jersey of a football team that just lost every game.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
And it's getting back to the pay It's maybe not
back to the point when I was in high school,
because when I was in high school, we won a
national championship my senior year and everybody had a Husky gear.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
But it's getting back to that stage.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah really, Yeah, Well, good for Cody coming on the
air and talking about his his situation. Obviously, as a
five star tackle, there's gonna be a lot of expectations
placed on this kid.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right out of the gate. There's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I just wonder again, you know, we talked to Jeded
about this, dick last week. Is this gonna be a situation,
and not just with Cody, but with any you know,
highly recruited guy who's got a lot of offers in
a competitive market. Are they gonna have to continue to
recruit kids like this?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I mean Jed talked about this last week that when
a guy's on campus, Hey, you know, I need money
for recruiting high school players, but I also need money
from local businesses to step up and keep guys here
that maybe we didn't really think we'd have to work
that hard to keep here you know, all of a sudden,
a three star guy plays his ass off, or a
four star guy blows up and surprises people, and there's
competition for those dudes. There's no type of player that
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coaches want more than than players that are already developed,
right right, And there's a lot of guys like that
that are out there that don't need to be coached
as much as they would be.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They're already developed.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Somebody coached him up, and you're gonna, now, you know,
bear the fruit of that labor by somebody else.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So this is the kind of guy, Let's be honest
that if he.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Ends up playing well, which we all think he's going to,
Washington's gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Have to keep recruiting him every single year.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And I had a little I had a little nugget
in my notes, and you wanted me to write down
every once in a while, like write this down, right,
And so we had Jedfish on probably four or five
months ago, and you said, write this down.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We gotta find out how many.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Guys Jedfish has taken from other schools in this next
five six month period. Do we have any idea what
about what that number is over the last five or
six months that guys like this that have committed to
other schools that are now going to Washington.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Because it's it seems to be a fairly sizable number.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, it seems like a lot of those players are
guys that were with him at Arizona. You know, we'd
have to I mean, that's gonna go away obviously after
he's probably done now, right, I mean, you spend a
couple of years getting kids to get brought to Arizona
with you, and then by year three those kids are
either moving on or they came to Arizona to play
for somebody else. But no, we can look it up
for sure. I mean, I just feel like that's just
the name of the game is. You know, look college
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basketball going out and getting upper classmen right, you know
that can stay together for at least two or three
years now to try to win a championship or make
the tournament. In college football, the more guys that you
can get that are established right away, it can come
in and contribute because I don't know how many kids
from this high school class will actually stay at Washington.
But again, you know other schools will have the same problem.
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Washington Dick will lose kids from this recruiting class. I'm
talking to high school recruits, but they'll gain other high
school recruits from other people's classes that will look drastically
different after a couple of years. So I'm fired up
for Cody Green. Good for him, and good for him
telling Oregon to suck it. We'll get a break. A
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Joining us right now with the radio show five Star
Offensive Tackle Eastside Catholic matter Day, was gonna go to
Oregon and then told Oregon to take a hike for
you up. Cody Green is with us and Cody tell
us what it was about Oregon that turned you off
and made you flip from the Ducks to You Dub.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So for me for Orgon to not do right, I
was nothing really like it's not like against them, but
like even though it's committed, Oregon coach Switch hit me
up as soon as he got the job. When he
got hired at You Dub. I was his first call.
He didn't try to sell me. He just checked in
and built a real relationship with me. Same with Marcus Griffin.
He's in my guy since I was a freshman. When
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he got teed up as director of recruiting. He started
calling me almost every day, just telling me about the
direction You Dub was headed and my brother Kayden. He
just kept it real with me and said, bro, you
just got to come see for yourself. So I did.
I went with no expectations, just wanted to see it
with my own eyes.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, Cody Green is with us on the radio show
and you mentioned coach Swit's obviously the brand new Michael Switt,
sort the brand new offensive line coach at We don't
know a lot about him besides the fact that he
was an assistant for Jedfish obviously, So tell us about
the guy. What was it about your relationship with him
that kind of made you feel comfortable, especially after it
felt like he made you a priority.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So when I when I went up for a visit there,
I had a meeting with him and he was breaking
down my film showing me practice some of the Huskies,
and he seemed very passionate, very eager to learn. So
like when he didn't know something like he'd be like, okay,
I can learn this. Like he was very passionate in
(01:37):
his game and he's always looking to strive to be
the best.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, Cody Green again is with US five star offensive
tackle going to play football for ud UP and Jedfish.
And there were a lot of people that were surprised.
I guess when you moved from Washington, from the state
of Washington go down and play football that matter day. Well,
what motivated that decision and how did that maybe change
you into a better person?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You think after that experience man.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, I wasn't easy. I left my home behind,
my best friends, Washton and Cotto, everything I known built.
But my plan A is making to the league and
chasing that dream means to sacrifice, sacrifice some things. I'm
modern day. I'm surrounded by top tier talent every single day.
That daily competition has gotten me so much better. And yeah,
people were loud about me leaving Washington, said I wouldn't
(02:24):
make it down here, but I stayed focused, put my
head down, earned every rep I was given, and ended
up being the Trinity League Alignement MVP. Now people are
being lot again in question why fifty dub. I'm not worried.
I mean, I'll just prove them wrong again like I
did when I moved down here to California.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, well, Cody greed again with started off with Eastside
Catholic and now it matter day.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And I mean the move paid off.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean, you got a five star Composite ranking listed
as the number three tackle I believe in the country
by two four seven. But you know, it's sounds like
you got a big ego, right, You sound kind of
humble about that. Tell me about those rankings and how
much you pay attention to that, and how cool that.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is for you to hear people say things like that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I mean, it's cool, but like I don't really get
caught up in the rankings, being number one, ranked with
number the goal. That stuff is a way out of
my control. It's someone else's opinion. My goal is to
become the best player I can be. If they rank
me one, five or ten, it doesn't matter. I don't
need outside validation. I get that confirmation other Friday nights,
Every Friday night under the lights.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I love it well.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Cody Green is with us incoming offensive tackle that you
dub with matter day five star player was gonna go
to Oregon and then he flipped to U Dub. Dude,
I got to ask you, honestly, if it was reversed.
I'll be totally honest with you. If it was reversed
and you were gonna go to U Dub and then
you turned away from U Dub and went to Oregon,
you and I are not talking right now, Okay, Yeah,
I mean, I'll be totally honest with you. We're not
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having this conversation. But how much heat did you take?
How much crap did you take from Oregon? Fans on
social after you flipped to you Dub be honest with us.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I mean it was pretty bad, but I was in
a rupt date for the first couple of hours. But
then I realized, like it's my decision, Like I'm not
gonna let people online determine where I'm gonna go, Like
this is my path.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, yeah, was there a Was there another option?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Honestly when you decided and take us through the timeline, like,
was it, Hey, I just want to be at you
dub and you mentioned play with your cousin obviously you
mentioned coach Switzer Or was it I don't want to
be at Oregon anymore. I have to go look somewhere else,
and Washington happened to be the place.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
No, No, it wasn't that. It was I realized, like
how much I feel like they valued me, Like at
You Dubbed, they were building like around me, not just
plugging me into a system. I feel like everything about
you Dub, I feel like, was just this is this
is what I need in a program, this is what's
going to take me to the next level.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, well, I think Cody Green with us again five
star offensive tackle company to dub you know, as well,
as I man, we live in a very skepe the world, right,
and when when people hear things like hey, they showed
me a lot of love, that showed me a lot
of respect, I can hear and see people in the
audience rolling their eyes saying, well, he means nil.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He means he got a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He means he got paid a lot of money, He's
got a lot of endorsements coming. So how much of
that drove your decision to leave Oregon to go to Washington.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, I'm not doing it for the nil I hope,
like I hope other kids aren't. But that's not for everyone.
Like that's not my main goal. Like the money's gonna come,
but I wanted to be somewhere that I'm actually like that,
I feel valued, and I feel like Washington is that place.
So it's not Yeah, it's not for the highest bidder,
it's not for the highest number, the most whatever, like
(05:42):
this is this is the place I want to be at.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, you grew up a Husky fan, I assume, and
you probably had some heroes on the offensive line. I mean,
were your big fans of guys like Trey Adams and
and Kaylen McGarry.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I mean, Nick Harris is in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He started at center against Alabama when he was seventeen
years old. So is there a guy that you followed
that you dubbed that you want to kind of take
after a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It wasn't really like an offensive lineman, but it was
a Buddha Baker. Wow, I feel like that. Yeah, I
feel like that's the guys that I was like, dude,
he slipped, Like, I mean, I was still young. I
don't really know like what happened, but like he's a star.
He's from Washington. That's like, that's probably one of the
biggest names like to come out of Washington that was
from Washington. So it was it was really cool saying that.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, well yeah, I mean you're both guys that left
Oregon to go to U dub and it worked out
pretty damn good for Buddha. I think at what point
he was the iest made safety in the NFL. Have
you talked to him, by the way, Cody, have you
talked to Buddha.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Baker at all?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have not. I want to someday.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well, I think we got to set that up, all right,
I'll have my people call his people, and then I'll
call my people, call your people, and we'll make it happen.
So what would be Cody before you go? First of all,
it's great to have you on the air. Looking forward
to catching up a ton when you get up here
to play for Jed. What would be your overall message
for Washington fans? I mean, you know, we're coming out
of this crazy era of Kaitlin de Boor into Jetfish
(07:03):
where things are starting to settle down a little bit. Obviously,
recruiting's kicking ass. Everyone's all fired up for demand and
guys like you. What's your overall message you think for
Washington football fans that are wondering where this thing's headed.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's my message the fans would be, I'm coming home,
and I'm coming with the purpose. I'm going to give
everything I have to this program to my teammates into
the city. I love Yeller gains someone who doesn't need
the spotlight. I just want to put people on the
ground and win games. Let's get to work.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I love it put people on the ground and win games. Man,
go get him, Cody, great stuff. Great to meet you, man,
look forward to seeing you in person, and we'll talk soon. Man,
appreciate it, Bud, Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Cody Green again had a chance to catch up with
him earlier for today's show. And I don't know, man,
I got a fundamental rule on this radio show. Anybody
who tells Oregon to take a hike and says yes
to Washington automatically gets a spot on the radio program.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And I mean, let's not bite naive.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I mean the fact that he grew up here, the
fact that his cousin's playing for UW. He went to
Eastside Catholic and then took off to go to Matter
Day to get kind of you know.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What, exposure to better athletes.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I get all that, But if this kid was from
California or from Texas or from you know, Idaho wherever,
he's probably not.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Coming to you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But this is what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, it's kind of like Nil seems to be
taking over everything.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And it doesn't matter where you grew up.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It doesn't matter about putting a fence around the state,
things like that or kind of cliche now, but it's.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Still as important, man.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, you got a kid that grows up a
Husky fan, and he admitted he grew up a Husky fan.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Said it right there, Buddha Baker.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It wasn't Trey Adams or kayleb McGarry's alignment was Buddha Baker.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Was his favorite player.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You grew up a Husky fan, and you live through
one of the greatest eras of Husky.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Football with that final fourteenes. You gotta be a Husky man,
have to be. And well, you know, we'll.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Forgive him for his you know, mistake that he made
by originally choosing words little yeah, Well, we all have mistakes.
As long as you correct your mistake before it's too late.
All right, now he's going to the right spot. I'm
just I'm excited at the new era of college football
and college basketball because I think wherever Washington was in
(09:16):
this current iteration, this two three year current iteration.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They're going to be in a better place in the
next iteration.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Even though they weren't in a terrible place in this
last Heck, we went to the national championship what fifteen
months ago, so it's not like we were in a
bad place in this current iteration.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well here's the thing, so think about like, and I
hate to bring this up, but I'll bring it up anyway, right,
because I'm trying to make a point here, which I
don't really have a lot of points to make on
the air that people want to hear, so when I
do make.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
One, beating Yeah, this is exactly I've been sitting on
this for at least five or six minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
When you are nine ten years old in two thousand
and eight, and the Huskies are going oh to twelve,
and you're rooting for Oregon or you're rooting for USC
or Michigan anybody, but you dub because the Huskies stink.
Those kids when they're seventeen eighteen years old in twenty
fifteen to whatever, you kind of understand it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know why guys don't choose you Dubb.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Because it didn't grow up Husky face Washington in the
last you know what, eight nine ten years whatever it
is now going back to the twenty sixteen seasons. So really,
if you're talking about twenty sixteen twenty thirteen, you're talking
about a seven eight year period where if you're eleven
twelve and then eighteen nineteen years seventeen eighteen years old,
(10:34):
you're exposed to two of the greatest runs in the
history of Washington football. I mean we can now sit
down and say, hey, the era of eighteen year old
kids that were ten when Tyrone Willingham was going on
and twelve, those days are now over.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's done.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Now we're talking about kids that live through Peterson, live
through Caitlin to Bore, are gonna live through Jedfish. So
it almost feels like the idea of kids grow going
up Washington fans is a cool thing again and that
we could maybe start banking on that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You're exactly right, You hit it on the head.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
And you know, I am just now starting to get
into that time of life where friends of my kids
are going now to college or getting ready to go
to college. And I can totally, I can totally vouch
for what you just said.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It is cool to.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Be a Washington Husky again, And that was not the case.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I remember stories, you know, coaching ten fifteen years ago,
I was coaching in two thousand and eight and two
thousand and nine. You couldn't find a high school athlete
that wore a Husky pair of paraphernalia anywhere anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Would you want to be sixteen years old walking around
where jersey of a football team that just lost every game.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
And it's getting back to the pay It's maybe not
back to the point when I was in high school,
because when I was in high school, we won a
national championship my senior year and everybody had a Husky gear.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
But it's getting back to that stage.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah really, Yeah, Well, good for Cody coming on the
air and talking about his his situation. Obviously, as a
five star tackle, there's gonna be a lot of expectations
placed on this kid.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Right out of the gate. There's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I just wonder again, you know, we talked to Jeded
about this, dick last week. Is this gonna be a situation,
and not just with Cody, but with any you know,
highly recruited guy who's got a lot of offers in
a competitive market. Are they gonna have to continue to
recruit kids like this?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I mean Jed talked about this last week that when
a guy's on campus, Hey, you know, I need money
for recruiting high school players, but I also need money
from local businesses to step up and keep guys here
that maybe we didn't really think we'd have to work
that hard to keep here you know, all of a sudden,
a three star guy plays his ass off, or a
four star guy blows up and surprises people, and there's
competition for those dudes. There's no type of player that
(12:49):
coaches want more than than players that are already developed,
right right, And there's a lot of guys like that
that are out there that don't need to be coached
as much as they would be.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They're already developed.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Somebody coached him up, and you're gonna, now, you know,
bear the fruit of that labor by somebody else.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So this is the kind of guy, Let's be honest
that if he.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Ends up playing well, which we all think he's going to,
Washington's gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Have to keep recruiting him every single year.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And I had a little I had a little nugget
in my notes, and you wanted me to write down
every once in a while, like write this down, right,
And so we had Jedfish on probably four or five
months ago, and you said, write this down.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We gotta find out how many.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Guys Jedfish has taken from other schools in this next
five six month period. Do we have any idea what
about what that number is over the last five or
six months that guys like this that have committed to
other schools that are now going to Washington.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Because it's it seems to be a fairly sizable number.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, it seems like a lot of those players are
guys that were with him at Arizona. You know, we'd
have to I mean, that's gonna go away obviously after
he's probably done now, right, I mean, you spend a
couple of years getting kids to get brought to Arizona
with you, and then by year three those kids are
either moving on or they came to Arizona to play
for somebody else. But no, we can look it up
for sure. I mean, I just feel like that's just
the name of the game is. You know, look college
(14:09):
basketball going out and getting upper classmen right, you know
that can stay together for at least two or three
years now to try to win a championship or make
the tournament. In college football, the more guys that you
can get that are established right away, it can come
in and contribute because I don't know how many kids
from this high school class will actually stay at Washington.
But again, you know other schools will have the same problem.
(14:31):
Washington Dick will lose kids from this recruiting class. I'm
talking to high school recruits, but they'll gain other high
school recruits from other people's classes that will look drastically
different after a couple of years. So I'm fired up
for Cody Green. Good for him, and good for him
telling Oregon to suck it. We'll get a break. A
lot more to get to on a busy Monday from
the emeral Quin Casino right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
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