Mamba Press Conference

[Bigducker]

Funny, a player from Portland can sign with USC and nobody even boos. In LA, signing with a rival school requires a SWAT
team. Says bundles about our two cities.

Dumb post. USC doesn't rule LA. I'm from LA and while USC is the most popular football program in the area, people aren't going to torch Thomas' house if he decides to go elsewhere. This isn't the SEC.

USC has a great class. I'm sure it would suck for them to lose Thomas, but they'll still end up with a top 5 class. Pretty impressive for a program that is on probation.

USC's class might not look too good in the end if they lose 5 star Grimble, 5 star Thomas, 4 star Turene, and who ever else might jump ship before LOI day. And if it does, it couldn't happen to a nicer coaching staff.

[wvduck34]

Funny, a player from Portland can sign with USC and nobody even boos. In LA, signing with a rival school requires a SWAT
team. Says bundles about our two cities.

Dumb post. USC doesn't rule LA. I'm from LA and while USC is the most popular football program in the area, people aren't going to torch Thomas' house if he decides to go elsewhere. This isn't the SEC.

USC has a great class. I'm sure it would suck for them to lose Thomas, but they'll still end up with a top 5 class. Pretty impressive for a program that is on probation.

USC's class might not look too good in the end if they lose 5 star Grimble, 5 star Thomas, 4 star Turene, and who ever else might jump ship before LOI day. And if it does, it couldn't happen to a nicer coaching staff.

Listen Student, it was dumb for me to say that about the LA Area. But I refuse to say anything nice about USC.
Suffered to many insults from their fans. That I am not sorry about!!

[hines]

Looks like that was taken at his HS gym, could have been today.

oh god. That pic was taken in one of the practice gyms at Matt Court. Congrats on the header.

[GoDucksIn09]

Maybe I am just a skeptic.. I have spent all day reading different thoughts from people on this guy. One thing that seems to be my gut feeling is that he is sticking with USC. While I can not neccesarily explain the news conferences and why need them there is one thing that keeps coming up in my mind.

It comes to me that this is probably some sort of gimmick by USC and their coaching staff in particular Lame Kiffen. I am reminded of the tricks USC was up to after the sanctions were announced and they accused Oregon Washington Tennessee and Florida of trying to steal one of their recruits they had signed and had been contacted by the 4 universities which would be breaking NCAA rules. When it comes to Kiffen I would not put this past him that it is just a charade for who knows why. Maybe I am wrong and maybe I am just pessimistic.. but something just doesnt seem quite right bout this. I hope that I am wrong and that he seriously wants to come to Oregon.. but I personally am not holding my breath on this given the coaching staff are dealing with at USC.

[karlhungis]

Maybe I am just a skeptic.. I have spent all day reading different thoughts from people on this guy. One thing that seems to be my gut feeling is that he is sticking with USC. While I can not neccesarily explain the news conferences and why need them there is one thing that keeps coming up in my mind.

It comes to me that this is probably some sort of gimmick by USC and their coaching staff in particular Lame Kiffen. I am reminded of the tricks USC was up to after the sanctions were announced and they accused Oregon Washington Tennessee and Florida of trying to steal one of their recruits they had signed and had been contacted by the 4 universities which would be breaking NCAA rules. When it comes to Kiffen I would not put this past him that it is just a charade for who knows why. Maybe I am wrong and maybe I am just pessimistic.. but something just doesnt seem quite right bout this. I hope that I am wrong and that he seriously wants to come to Oregon.. but I personally am not holding my breath on this given the coaching staff are dealing with at USC.

He may very well stick with his commitment to USC but even if he does, I don't think this is another one of Kiffin's stunts. It felt pretty transparent when Dillon Baxter was in this situation but I get the sense that the USC staff is sweating this and that they are not behind it.

[TheMaehlMan]

Maybe I am just a skeptic.. I have spent all day reading different thoughts from people on this guy. One thing that seems to be my gut feeling is that he is sticking with USC. While I can not neccesarily explain the news conferences and why need them there is one thing that keeps coming up in my mind.

It comes to me that this is probably some sort of gimmick by USC and their coaching staff in particular Lame Kiffen. I am reminded of the tricks USC was up to after the sanctions were announced and they accused Oregon Washington Tennessee and Florida of trying to steal one of their recruits they had signed and had been contacted by the 4 universities which would be breaking NCAA rules. When it comes to Kiffen I would not put this past him that it is just a charade for who knows why. Maybe I am wrong and maybe I am just pessimistic.. but something just doesnt seem quite right bout this. I hope that I am wrong and that he seriously wants to come to Oregon.. but I personally am not holding my breath on this given the coaching staff are dealing with at USC.

Even though Lane Kiffin is about as arrogant as it gets, he wouldn't send one of his top recruits to the defending Pac-10 Champs' campus in order to play games. That would seriously alienate a recruit, and Kiffin would have to wonder if that recruit saw something he liked while on the trip. Thomas may not be a Duck, but he is considering us.

[UofDuck]

Sending him to Cornvallis sure, the O - no way.