Marqise Lee Loves Oregon

[DarronThomas5]

Sure his enduring legacy will be fumbling through the endzone to lose the Cal game in 07 but he was on pace for a great Senior year and was really putting it all together until he broke his ankle against WSU.

[dthomas=ddixon]

Scott Frost made a comment along the line of "Just wait till we start beating the USC's of the world in recruiting." And Adding Lee, Blackmon would be a great start. Just imagine USC type athletes in our system. It'd be other worldly & completely unstoppable.

Yeah, but it takes the right kind of kid with skills to be successful in our system. Pre-Madonna's don't work, they cause team chemistry to crash. Look at Cameron Colvin, the last 5 star wide-receiver to come to Oregon, pretty much a bust his whole career. Then look at a guy like Brian Paysinger (Spencer's Older Brother), who was the best WR out of Colvin and 50/50 in 2007 before going down with a knee injury, who was like a 2 star recruit.

I like Blackmon because he seems to me to be very excited to play for Oregon, and can't wait to contribute, I like that passion and energy and think he fits the 'Oregon' mold. However, I'm weary of big time recruits like C.Harper, who just want to date chicks and get the rock on every single play. SC can have those guys all they want.

Well obviously you need kids who will have the right attitude. And Colvin is a terrible example. He had a great attitude & tons of skill. He was just injury plagued & could never get on track. A healthy Cam Colvin woulda been an NFL draft pick.

The majority of recruits are good kids & willing to come in & do work. Harper wasn't even that highly rated & just a complete dbag.

Agree 100%. I didn't really know Colvin personally, but one of my friends was pretty good friends with him. Colvin was a good guy and a hard worker. It's really unfortunate how injury prone he was.

Yeah when he broke his ankle his SR I felt like I do with Costa now. Colvin was having a beastly year & looked like he was on his way to being a high draft pick. So unfortunate. I remember sitting in my seat at halftime of that game just depressed cuz both Colvin & JJ had gone down for the year. And we were up 40-0.

[duckfan96]

Was at that game and totally agree. Yay Oregon is up big. But damnit 2 starters out with pretty serious looking injuries.

[Duck07]

As Cam's old roommate some of this talk is just laughable. Talk of calling him a primma donna is frankly out of place when you look at what he actually did. He really shouldn't have played his frosh year because losing his best friend in TK was real hard for him. His SO year we were one of the best teams in the nation before KC broke his leg. His JR year he suffered from a hamstring injury where he didn't get enough time to heal before coming back so it turned into a "lingering" hammy. By his SR year, with his 3rd OC in 4 years he was easily the most gifted wr on our team.

We would go to Cas every morning where I would launch him balls and he had to catch at least 300 each session. Then we would go watch 1-2 hours of film, eat, rest, come back to Cas, lift, catch another 300 and get some PT before heading home for the day. During 07 Cam was on a whole other level than the rest of our wrs. Paysinger stepped up and looked nice, but anybody that had seen practices could see that nobody could cover Cam. As far as the internal games that MB played, with the wrs it was a joke. A guy would have a great week of practice and get demoted to 2nd string over a guy who had a bad week as a means of "inspiring" the guy who got dropped to work even harder. There's a lot more to it than just that and frankly I don't want to get into more than this. I suppose there is good reason though why he wanted me to use Lil Wayne's - Gossip on for his HL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqF9D0q4Jg

[ppilot]

As Cam's old roommate some of this talk is just laughable. Talk of calling him a primma donna is frankly out of place when you look at what he actually did. He really shouldn't have played his frosh year because losing his best friend in TK was real hard for him. His SO year we were one of the best teams in the nation before KC broke his leg. His JR year he suffered from a hamstring injury where he didn't get enough time to heal before coming back so it turned into a "lingering" hammy. By his SR year, with his 3rd OC in 4 years he was easily the most gifted wr on our team.

We would go to Cas every morning where I would launch him balls and he had to catch at least 300 each session. Then we would go watch 1-2 hours of film, eat, rest, come back to Cas, lift, catch another 300 and get some PT before heading home for the day. During 07 Cam was on a whole other level than the rest of our wrs. Paysinger stepped up and looked nice, but anybody that had seen practices could see that nobody could cover Cam. As far as the internal games that MB played, with the wrs it was a joke. A guy would have a great week of practice and get demoted to 2nd string over a guy who had a bad week as a means of "inspiring" the guy who got dropped to work even harder. There's a lot more to it than just that and frankly I don't want to get into more than this. I suppose there is good reason though why he wanted me to use Lil Wayne's - Gossip on for his HL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqF9D0q4Jg

You aren't the first person I've heard talk about Belotti that way. As good as MB was as a coach, his teams had major issues keeping focus and finishing the season.

[dthomas=ddixon]

I was waiting for duck07 to weigh in on this convo ha. And I totally agree, Cam was on a totally different level when he was finally healthy his SR year. He looked like an NFL WR & was just in beast mode every game. Thats interesting what you said about MB too. It seemed odd that, besides the injuries, it took Cam that long to get any real playing time. I always felt bad for the guy, seemed like he could never catch a break.

[briarduck]

I always liked CAM and its just too bad he had his best year cut short.

I love this Marquise Lee news!

[Everythingsducky]

Unfortunately, I think Cam may be best remembered for two things: Lack of heath, which translated into potential unrealized, and the Cal fumble into the end zone which helped lose a tough game. Not exactly rosy thoughts.

[Duck07]

Duck07, what happened to Cam in the NFL? From what I remember he signed with the 49ers practice squad but I never heard anything after that. Did he get a fair shot from coaches? Was there a concern about his health?

He wasn't fully recovered and at his fastest for his pro-day workouts which was a big reason he went undrafted.

. (by the time the draft/training camp came around but Mike Martz was his biggest fan within the SF clubhouse. He was making plays throughout TC but they decided to go with an extra player on defense for the roster cuts and Cam didn't make it. I don't think the Niners kept the right personnel to fit with Martz' system otherwise Cam would have made the team. He worked out for a few teams and recently was trying the UFL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZsbS3h6lBs out but it wasn't for him as he's mostly focusing on running his various businesses right now. He's opening Ballerz Ink tattoo shop in Berkeley and he wants me to help him start one up in Portland where you all would of course get a discount, If you want to keep up with him/what he's doing you can follow him at his website: http://www.camcolvinuniverse.net/

[Duck07]

Unfortunately, I think Cam may be best remembered for two things: Lack of heath, which translated into potential unrealized, and the Cal fumble into the end zone which helped lose a tough game. Not exactly rosy thoughts.

Cam's play earlier in the Cal game kept us in it to begin with but to use that as a defining moment shows how quick we forget about the past. Personally I'll always remember the TD he had against Fresneck his SO year where he just flat out ran at least 4 DBs who all had a line on him. Just a heck of a play and an example of what could have been for Cam.

[Phenom]

Cam was a straight up stud his senior year. Too bad the injury and everything else happened.

It looks like he's doing well now, though. He has his own business enterprises and we should look at him as a student-athlete success rather than a failure.

[glazeduck]

So...

Marquise Lee! Apparently he loves Oregon...

[dthomas=ddixon]

Unfortunately, I think Cam may be best remembered for two things: Lack of heath, which translated into potential unrealized, and the Cal fumble into the end zone which helped lose a tough game. Not exactly rosy thoughts.

Cam's play earlier in the Cal game kept us in it to begin with but to use that as a defining moment shows how quick we forget about the past. Personally I'll always remember the TD he had against Fresneck his SO year where he just flat out ran at least 4 DBs who all had a line on him. Just a heck of a play and an example of what could have been for Cam.

Thats still one of my favorite Duck plays of all time. He scored in the end zone where i was sitting at that game & me & my friend went nuts. We talked about that play for the rest of the season. Another one I remember was the game at Zona in the same season (the game when Kellen got hurt) where he took a screen pass the distance & absolutely BLEW everyone away. Guys went from a couple yards behind him to about 20 in a couple seconds.

[Destroyer77]

Unfortunately, I think Cam may be best remembered for two things: Lack of heath, which translated into potential unrealized, and the Cal fumble into the end zone which helped lose a tough game. Not exactly rosy thoughts.

I too often do not realize my own potential when I come up short on Heath bars.

[neezy3]

Lee article.

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news;_ylt=A ... ls-1150901