Panic in the streets

[duckfan22]

Every year we loose recruits to cal, USC and alot of teams.
Sure it would be nice to have every kid we set our sites on.
But something tells me we still do ok. For example were in this
game in January called the BCS Championship game. Were always
going to get the players that fit the coaches needs and not us
arm chair Quarterbacks. It is fun tho watching the recruits and the
build up of their announcement. Then they pick someone else and
it's panic in the streets. What can Kelly and company be doing wrong.
Why would this guy go play here or go play there and not us. But looking
at our commits so far and the ones rumored to be leaning our way were
doing pretty dam good. Look at some of the last classes we have had.
We have lost kids to cal and usc and washington etc. And yet we have
won back to back pac10 championships. Gone to the rose bowl and now
the bcs title game. I think the ducks are doing just fine. I trust Chip to
bring in the players to keep this rolling right along.
I love to watch recruiting. Sure it's disappointing to loose players
that had us on their list and showed interest. I want kids that want
to come here. There are so many things that come in to play. Location,
coaches at the universities, facilities, the parents, academics, depth
charts at their position, and there im sure are many more. The biggest
key is these kids are 17-18 years old making a decision for the next
4 years of their life. These kids cant make a decision on what video game
they want next with out alot of thought.
I'm with others that cant believe a kid would go to cal and not
come here. But for what ever reason they do. With Tedford there
they are gonna recruit well. He has since he's been there. But look
at his teams. He's close to being on the hot seat there.
Ok those are just my thoughts on this. GO DUCKS WTD

[mijaha]

Great POST, yes we have become somewhat arrogant regarding recruitment. And yes I would love to land every 5* athlete that even whispers he's considering Oregon. But alas, it doesn't always go that way. I'm going to be happy with this class, because for one thing, these players who chose Oregon WANT to be here. Let's celebrate them, and revel at the ones who got away, and then celebrate when we kick their collective butts. WTD

[nerickso]

I seem to remember a lot of talk on here from insiders 2-3 weeks ago that we were "full" at DB and not recruiting Walls anymore...Maybe that had something to do with this?

[gofightingducks]

I don't think most of us are panicking, for me it is obvious that we get the players we need in order to be successful, what boggles my mind is how Cal is able to convince these kids that playing X-Box with a cool coach is better than going to a winning program that prepares you for the NFL just as good or better than Cal. Like I said in a previous post Cal has academics but most of these kids don't care so much about that and other than that they have a coach that can relate to them and is hip and on their level and nice weather, I think most people would agree Oregon is better on every other level. The sky is not falling by any means and Oregon will probably end up with it's best class ever, it is just amazing they can continue to get so many highly touted players when they can't produce results on the field, other than faking injuries because their cool X-Box coach told them to.

[mijaha]

What angers me more, is all the web ammo we're givin Cal. Can you imagine their boards linking all of these "the sky is falling" posts from this board. Enough of the Cal envy, look where we are and look where they are. I'd say we've done alot better than Cal recruiting meaningful players!!

[gofightingducks]

What angers me more, is all the web ammo we're givin Cal. Can you imagine their boards linking all of these "the sky is falling" posts from this board. Enough of the Cal envy, look where we are and look where they are. I'd say we've done alot better than Cal recruiting meaningful players!!

Yeah they recruit very well but cannot coach all of that talent nor develop the lesser talent. Oregon can recruit well, coach that talent and develop the lower talent.

[briarduck]

Great thread guys, I wake up this morning to see we are in panic mode...holy crap sure its frustrating to lose a few recruits to CAL but I will take winning over that any day!

[Bigducker]

What PO's me more than anything is he was committed to the Duck coaches for the last 3 weeks and then decommits last night and recommits to Cal. Hard telling what their telling these kids. Tedford and his cheaters will do anything to win.

[dthomas=ddixon]

Been saying the same thing in every thread. They love Cal & what they have to offer, let em go. We'll be kicking their A's for the next 4-5 years anyways.

I could understand the frustration if we weren't getting great recruits ourselves & Cal was stealing the only decent recruits we had a shot at. But we're loading up on plenty of top 100 players as it is. Who cares if a few kids drank the Cal kool-aid.

[ducksvb6]

Remember just a few years ago on this forum some were saying..."We can't recruit naionally...why is Chip wasting his time" Today we are recruiting nationally and the player are those that fit our system. We probably lost players to evey PAC 10 team over the last 3 years and look at the results.

Right players that want to play at Oregon = 12-0

[greenyellow]

Been saying the same thing in every thread. They love Cal & what they have to offer, let em go. We'll be kicking their A's for the next 4-5 years anyways.

I could understand the frustration if we weren't getting great recruits ourselves & Cal was stealing the only decent recruits we had a shot at. But we're loading up on plenty of top 100 players as it is. Who cares if a few kids drank the Cal kool-aid.

+1

[UofO8]

Not so much panic mode. Just damn annoying watching good recruits skip on over to play at Cal when, lets face it, Cal is fu**ing terrible.

[wlduck]

We recruit probably 100 kids a year. Can only sign about 25. Cmon people, more are going to go somewhere else.