Bear Down Wildcats

Boise State football coach Chris Petersen’s recruiting philosophy showed up Wednesday at Arizona — in a big, splashy way.

Petersen and his staff have called their recruits OKGs — “Our Kinda Guy” — since he became the head coach in 2006. The label reflects the program’s philosophy of recruiting players who fit on and off the field, with an emphasis on character, personality and competitiveness.

On Wednesday, Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez talked about his OKG philosophy. In fact, the Wildcats announced their signings on Twitter with the hashtag #AZOKGDAY.

OKGs were the talk of the day in Tucson — here are stories from the Arizona Daily Star and Fox Sports Arizona.

Rodriguez was asked yesterday about how the OKG label became part of his program. Here is what he said:

“I don’t remember. Matt Dudek, who has done a really good job as our on-campus recruiting guy, talked about, ‘How do we describe what we want to do going forward in our recruiting process? What kind of catchphrase can we have?’ I said, there are a lot of people who rank these guys — and they do a really good job for the most part — but some guys who rank them maybe never even saw the kids play. They could be sitting in their pajamas in their basement drooling on themselves, saying, ‘Oh, let’s give this guy five stars’ and never watched film. Even though you look at that and it’s fun to compare, we like to say we’re going to do our own evaluation and get our kinda guy. This class and going forward is going to be Our Kinda Guys.”

That could get awkward when Boise State and Arizona inevitably recruit against each other.

OKG is acronym for Our Kinda Guys -- a unifying term Wildcats coach Rich Rodriguez has used since 2001. Boise State and Chris Petersen dispute the origin, but let them have their own signing day show with a ball-of-recruiting fire ready to go Monte Hall on your sorry behind.

Reydituto wrote:Petersen is not My Kinda Guy, so he can go fuck himself ...

Reydituto wrote:Petersen is not My Kinda Guy, so he can go fuck himself ...

RazorsEdgeAZ wrote:Some dispute with this...

Petersen used at Boise St. Claims since 2006. Rich Rod claims he's used since 2001 WVU. Petersen disputes that ...

Dennis Dodd:

OKG is acronym for Our Kinda Guys -- a unifying term Wildcats coach Rich Rodriguez has used since 2001. Boise State and Chris Petersen dispute the origin, but let them have their own signing day show with a ball-of-recruiting fire ready to go Monte Hall on your sorry behind.

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