Question, who is coming to the UCLA game, or in this case, who is going on OVs to UCLA this saturday?
from what I can tell they're scheduled to have 3 kids in for OVs, 2 of which of some faint Oregon buzz... Zona LB Cassius Peat & Texas RB/WR Soso Jamabo. I'd expect that we'll find out about local SoCal talents who visited unofficially after the game STOMP
Having top recruits coming to one of the elite state of the art football campuses and them being pampered for 48+ hours and sent home with a carry on bag full of Duck gear and duck cheerleader memories and actually signing here are very different things MOUTH!!!! You'd think by our total lack of top 5* D line signees over the last 4 years you'd have gotten that! The fact you STILL defend our shaky close rate at this particular position of top talent is even more a mystery than you defending how a apathetic 3-4 D is working! Let's also remember while we are talking about facts vs. opinions here, Aiken didn't even recruit Cumberlander for his own line, and can you name 1 top talent DT Aiken has brought into Oregon since being here? Oh that's right we haven't recruited a true D Tackle in 3 years. Thus why our line is being run over now!! Chinander has already out recruited Aiken for his own line and Erik has only been back under 6 months. There have been plenty of bad coaches who've had long careers hopping from 1 place to the next. Refer Lamo Kiffin , so your logic there needs some work! If Aiken personally can close any of those guys I'd be shocked, perhaps we should let Coach Neal and Coach Chinander do all the closing, they seems to get the job done!
I would also add that if we get Manu and Kaumatule that has a hell of a lot more to do with our Island pipeline and sense of family structure for these kids than any recruiting our coaches have done. Hawaii has been very good to us and Marcus and Buckner may be the biggest reason why!
How many of those are interior lineman? Have any actually given a verbal to Oregon? Again, not being a little shit, honestly wondering
no no no, you're not being a little shit here. I particularly appreciate how instead of posing like you know things you could guess at, you're asking a question. I am hardly an authority on the HS prospects, none of us are, but I'm happy to share the little I do know and will speculate on some gray areas. Are you asking how many of these are Nose Tackles or down lineman for their front 3? If the question is NTs, Manu, Green, Beckner & Gallimore probably all can project there. Ude is probably the next most likely. Of the rest of the guys I mentioned, only Keisean and possibly Sweat project in their Drop End spot. The rest would most likely play with their hand down in the DLine spots currently manned by DeForest & Arik. Projecting positions is always a guess for fans as the coaches by NCAA rules can't comment on individual recruits until signing day in February, and Coach Rad (the strength and conditioning coach) has proven to be very adept at metamorphosing guys physiques dramatically. None of these listed prospects have committed to Oregon (yet), and only Rex Manu, Green & Carlberg have visited. Most are from far enough away to require a plane flight and it's not until the fall of their Sr. year that the school can pick up that bill during the Official Visit period. I don't know about you, but I didn't have an extra 400-1000$ to visit a college over a weekend while in HS and I bet it's the same for most of these kids. Whats exciting is that they're scheduled to come. It's been my prediction for a couple seasons that this would be the offseason that they land a couple of top DLine talents as available playing time is finally on the horizon. In past years prospects were probably looking at 2 seasons of none to few snaps because of the depth chart. Should be a fun February STOMP
So you're saying you think on a year where we haven't recruited a DT for three + years and may lose two of our starting interior D tackles to the pros and having no quality backups we may in fact see some urgency to do so? We should pay you for this insight! I swear you're a prophet! Now being the Lipton kind of guy you claim to be, how many of these kids you think commit with the way we use DT's here at Oregon? While studying those leaves did you find it interesting that we are still trolling JC's and offering because many think Green, South and Iman are already silent to USC? Sweat most think wont leave the east along with Cowart and NEITHER is a DT. That leaves Manu and Kaumatule at the positions of need and hopefully we score here! Thank our Hawaiian players for that, not Mr. "can't be found" Aiken who you still defend as a great recruiter and football mind based on his years. Quirky I've never heard his name mentioned with great D lines anywhere have you? He does get quite a nice paycheck in fact I think more than Pellum and Oneal.... Does that seem odd to you? What do your tea leaves tell you about that? I think this guys is milking a sweet amount of money and laying up on his recruiting and coaching endeavors. For being a pro D line coach you'd think our line would be better huh? As for Gallimore who I think is the best DT hopeful prospect we've had in years, he's still a super long shot..... So that gives us 2 out of your list..... What I think is funny is you keep saying to have this kind of talent even coming to the campus is such an amazing feat, why? This isn't the 90's anymore. Unless you've missed the last 5 years, Oregon has become a national brand! Coming here just to see what this is all about has been of paramount need to many top recruits from coast to coast. Many just want to tell their buddies they saw our great facilities and got a product grab! Great D line coaches and scheme will get top players. Our D ranks 95th or worse.. That said... My long shot is Green and I hope USC drops a few more games to solidify his Quack. Make no mistake Oregon should be in panic mode to get DT's this year, and with so many in the top 100 why we haven't gotten 1 should be very telling! That's not me being an expert that's just common sense!
you're off the rails from the opening salvo and then go full Thelma and Louis. I'm going to address the opening silliness & then wave bye bye at the vapors rather then try to make sense of the resulting wreck that is your post. They signed two true Freshman DTs & one NT in the last cycle alone. Arriving at UO at 6'2 300 what do you think Maloata came to do, star at Corner Back? Like a whole lot of young Ducks in the past (including Buckner who at least you're finally admitting is a DT), they'll need seasoning and Coach Rad's guidance to become all they can be, but my guess is that history continues to repeat itself and these guys turn out to be solid players. Yes players continue to graduate/move on, this isn't a news flash for anyone, it's the cyclical nature of college football. Oregon still doesn't accept a player's commitment until they visit and this fall is the first time many of those I listed have that opportunity. An opportunity to play early on a national powerhouse is available for the first time in years, so of course there is interest... and apparently a whole lot more then available spots. It's a big deal when players visit Oregon as historically they've received commitments from about 50% of the kids who take Official Visits. Again, for those of us rooting for Oregon to do well, these continue to be exciting times. STOMP
Oh goodie Also, any targets for us out in the Midwest? That jake fisher read and how P.Brown played reminded me that some Midwestern guys can play too!
there are numerous Midwestern targets. Off the top of my head Midwesterners scheduled to take OVs include... DL Raequan Williams, DL Drayton Carlberg, RB/S Marquise Doherty, and LB Tevis Bartlett. I've not heard any rumorama about Williams, but I've heard reasons to optimistic about the last 3 listed. Oregon also has a shot at Michigan LB commit Darrin Kirkland, who refers to himself as a soft commit & claims to be setting up OVs to Eugene among other spots. http://www.hudl.com/athlete/2739604/highlights/69484390 STOMP
Peat most likely to UCLA, we distanced ourselves awhile ago. Sweat cancels official with us, we didn't think we'd land him so somewhat mutual (since we have reduced officials(
Knew we were a long shot on Sweat anyway. Meh about Peat. If we can focus on Green and Houston so be it.
Ofodile may be looking around, recent visit to Ole Miss. Despite signing early (minor violation for us if he goes elsewhere) Note we parted ways with Newsome because we thought we were solid here, so if he leaves it will be a much bigger loss because we've already stopped or ended recruiting of most of our other WR targets.
Bleacher Report I don't truly know this to be the case here, but generally I really hate the way recruiting reports are constantly jumping the gun in the effort to be first on something. Josh's tweet this morning... "I'll be at Oregon soon! Jus wait on it.. where my #Duck fans at???"...sounds like he's rescheduling. Maybe the thinking is fresh off a major knee surgery he should push the visit date back rather then cramming his huge frame into a tiny plane seat for two 8 hour flights? Anyhoo, if anyone thinks he's done with Oregon check out what he's posting https://twitter.com/JoshSweat9 In other news, 2016 QB Seth Green is announcing tomorrow between the home school Minnesota, Michigan State (who he hasn't visited) and UO (who he's visited twice on his own dime). Looking good Louis... Feeling good Billy Ray STOMP
Does the Ofodile visit have any real teeth to it or did he just check out their campus? I'm calling it right now, keep a big eye out on Ole Miss for future recruiting violations.... This is a program that came from lower middle of nowhere SEC obscurity to top program in under three years and beating Bama to boot? I know they SCORED HUGE two years ago with recruiting of Nkemdiche, Tunsil, Treadwell and Connor but I still question if those kids weren't paid off huge to turn down the likes of Auburn, Bama, LSU and even UF, Georgia or A&M for a team that hasn't won in how many decades? Seems odd with far better coaches available in conference and exposure to get them to the next level. That was an epic Ole Miss recruiting class. A head scratcher for sure and now Ofodile sniffing around brings up my sketchy booster radar. That and the fact this particular school embraced racism openly up until damn near the early 70's and the student body still carried confederate battle flags up until the late 90's to games. As for Sweat, I'd love to have a fellow VA man at the OOOO in Sweat, but something tells me VA Tech will pull out the state to keep him! Their D coordinator is a great coach! Still have my fingers crossed for Green! This kid with Balducci, Buckner and Talia could be stout!
the story being told by his family is he's just checking things out and still solid to Oregon.... but whatever. No verbal commit is 100% until they sign a LOI or enroll in classes early (which Alex is supposed to do in Jan) and only the prospect knows how they truly feel about their status. In this particular case, Alex hasn't said boo to the sites or social media, so fans know pretty much nothing but his actions which are... verbally committed to Oregon, visiting other schools. He looks like he'd be a solid addition to the program, but WR is arguably their most stocked position. Hope he's a Duck but would be able to turn the page if he chose elsewhere. STOMP
