as relayed before, he grew up a Beaver fan and stated publicly a few months back that it seemed UO was backing off. My guess is the writing was on the wall as to where he'd end up... best of luck to the kid STOMP
I agree, and he seems shorter than the DL that Aliotti is recruiting these day. I'm sure he'll fit in well OS and be a very good player, but the Ducks' are trending toward a 3-4 flex these days with a Dion Jordan type being able to drop into coverage or rush the passer. 6-6 and rangy seems to be the future of the Duck "DE".
So we'll mold Prevot into an OLB then who can do what Dion did then? Still, got to grab interior D-line...we all have seniors except Balducci...
Armstead played much of the year at DT, and Bair is slated to play inside too. They will be looking to add a few more though STOMP
We will need NTs if we are playing in a 3-4. You think Armstead can be a NT? He has the molds to be a DT/DE instead... Ah, well that's good news
Armstead and Buckner both are well-suited to play either end or 2-gap NT in a 3-4ish. I won't call what the Ducks do a true 3-4, because Jordan lined up everywhere and they did play some true 4-3 at times with him. Taylor Hart or Wade Keliikipi will most likely be that 2-gap NT in most formations.
I don't think neither Armstead of Buckner could play a true NT like a Sharrif Floyd or Sheldon Richardson could right. Or are we a 4-3?
beyond being an anchor in the middle of a very effective/stingy Aliotti Defense, BB has gone on to play on Sundays. "We" almost won that National Championship game and the DLine was hardly the reason that Oregon lost. Bair is very similar sized to the two guys you don't think can get it done, but you've offered no basis for holding this opinion. What are you talking about? STOMP
Well...Heimuli and Hart are in the 290s/300s range, which suits for a NT I suppose. Sorry, it's been a while since I last saw Bair play. I just want Oregon to do good up in the trenches is all.
Reverting all the way back to three seasons ago when Bair was the starting DT, I was used to rival football fans saying how they were going to run right over Oregon's "undersized" D going into a game. Coming out the game with no running game, a beat up QB & a L, those fans dealt with a full case of STFU. Many Oregon fans had fretted over the same thing in pre-season and beyond, but the actual results of having a huge stud stork in the middle of Aliotti's line was the perfect salve. Bumping into this same line of traditional (yet debunked) thinking from someone rooting for the Ducks a couple years later touches a nerve because this is a decided issue. Nick Aliotti likes having tall long players along his D-Line and has shown that he can direct a very effective D with that strategy... which is my guess as to why he keeps recruiting those body types STOMP
6'7 Illinois TE Ian Bunting will be visiting UO on his own dime this next weekend. He's already toured 7 other schools and has Notre Dame and Michigan scheduled for visits as well. He was one of the first kids that the Ducks offered in this class and he seems pretty stoked to finally be coming in for a long scheduled visit STOMP
UO is supposed to be primarily interested in Mondeaux as a DE. Lorenzo Carter is a much higher profile DE from Georgia with a pretty solid list of interested schools who also just picked up a Duck offer [video=youtube;nFdR6awsv1g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFdR6awsv1g[/video] STOMP
