General Recruiting Thread

[JustisM]

USC has three WRs and only 7 more spots to fill with scholarships but Foster is planning on visits with USC and UO soon

Rivals shows USC with 10 commits... How many can they take this year? I thought it was only 15?!? Ive only been following recruiting for a few years so Im still kind of a noob...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/usc/football/re ... ments/2012

It's ok I'm still a noob too
I'm not sure on the specifics but a USC fan told me they would have 17 this year because of last years class and something about a grey shirt
Either way USC shouldn't take 4 WRs in a class of 15-17

[JustisM]

We offered LB/DE **** Bryce Cottrell from Texas
Looks like we are recruiting him as a LB while most others are looking at him as a DE
Has some pretty good offers but nothing like Texas or something
No word on if he is a lean to anywhere but he keeps showing his stuff at different camps in south/mid-lands area
Also heard we might offer some twins in Ohio
Two sets of twins in one recruiting class? That would be awesome

[briarduck]

Love this thread, thanks guys.

[JustisM]

Love this thread, thanks guys.

I just didn't want to make a thread for every little thing that I heard you know?
But I wanted to share and talk about the topics still

Pac 12 News:
Jordan Payton **** WR switched from being a Trojan commit
He looks like he might be a Golden Bear lean now
This kinda messes up my theory about USC not taking in too many WR's this class, our homeboy from AZ might start to equalize the lean towards us with USC now
Moral of the story: Even when USC had kids de-commit to them UO is still screwed haha
UCLA got one of the best JuCo DE's in Morgan Breslin too, looks like they might start him if Owa doesn't improve this year
Blake Martinez *** LB committed to Stanford
Colorado got a OL that isn't ranked
If you guys haven't heard by now OSU got the #1 Oregon player in Isaac Seumalo who is a coaches son
I think he would be a ***** if not for being a coache's kid
S Bryan Harper (no rank), WR/DB Taylor LaGace *** and DE Kalei Auelua **** (from St. Louis School) committed to Washington

[TheMaehlMan]

Too bad we couldn't pull a miracle and get Seumalo, though I can't fault him for wanting to play for his father. Seumalo is going to be a very good player for Oregon State.

[JustisM]

Too bad we couldn't pull a miracle and get Seumalo, though I can't fault him for wanting to play for his father. Seumalo is going to be a very good player for Oregon State.

Agreed
They have him listed as an OL but with his dad being the DL coach I doubt he stays there
Biggest bummer is that his final two were Stanford and OSU
We weren't even close
But yeah he has pretty much been a Beaver since his dad took that job and he started playing at Corvallis HS

[buckmarkduck]

Word is our coaches aren't showing Castro the love anymore, and in fact not calling him back at all. What I'm told is we are only taking 4 DL types and our coaches are going to hold out for a couple of bigger guys after getting Alex B and the kid from Montana.

[maxduck]

Word is our coaches aren't showing Castro the love anymore, and in fact not calling him back at all. What I'm told is we are only taking 4 DL types and our coaches are going to hold out for a couple of bigger guys after getting Alex B and the kid from Montana.

I keep reading that comment about our recruiting and it bothers me. These kids deserve the courtesy of a phone call if our plans have changed.

[karlhungis]

Word is our coaches aren't showing Castro the love anymore, and in fact not calling him back at all. What I'm told is we are only taking 4 DL types and our coaches are going to hold out for a couple of bigger guys after getting Alex B and the kid from Montana.

I keep reading that comment about our recruiting and it bothers me. These kids deserve the courtesy of a phone call if our plans have changed.

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. There is no way anyone other than the recruit and the coaches know what is really going on.

[bellsduck]

After reading the chat on ESPN today at "The Opening" recruiting event that Nike is running, I'm really concerned about how this NCAA probe is going to affect recruits this year. 3 months ago I felt like we had a ton of momentum we could use for this year. Now-not so much.

[TheMaehlMan]

After reading the chat on ESPN today at "The Opening" recruiting event that Nike is running, I'm really concerned about how this NCAA probe is going to affect recruits this year. 3 months ago I felt like we had a ton of momentum we could use for this year. Now-not so much.

It is just initial backlash from the most recent Lyles article. That feeling won't last with recruits..

[bellsduck]

After reading the chat on ESPN today at "The Opening" recruiting event that Nike is running, I'm really concerned about how this NCAA probe is going to affect recruits this year. 3 months ago I felt like we had a ton of momentum we could use for this year. Now-not so much.

It is just initial backlash from the most recent Lyles article. That feeling won't last with recruits..

I think it lasts until Oregon is cleared. And we all know competing schools won't be afraid to remind the athletes.

[TheMaehlMan]

After reading the chat on ESPN today at "The Opening" recruiting event that Nike is running, I'm really concerned about how this NCAA probe is going to affect recruits this year. 3 months ago I felt like we had a ton of momentum we could use for this year. Now-not so much.

It is just initial backlash from the most recent Lyles article. That feeling won't last with recruits..

I think it lasts until Oregon is cleared. And we all know competing schools won't be afraid to remind the athletes.

Teams in recent years that have been implicated in messes haven't exactly fell apart in recruiting. I'm not talking just about USC either, North Carolina had a top 25 class just this past season even with all of their issues. It may hurt us with a couple recruits, but overall we will be just fine.

[mdm0302]

Am i the only one who thinks these types of allegations could help recruiting with certain types of players. the ones who want to be offered extra benefits when they go to school. I think its a safe assumption to say that many high school football players would not mind going to a school that was associated with people who would offer extra benefits to student athletes. some of these recruits could actually be enticed by the rumors that UO is a school where if you play good you will get treated extra special. Extra benefits are accepted by players becasue it is free money. Everyone wants that, it just comes down to moral integrity with each individual recruit. Receive extra benefits and break the rules, or turn away from them and be an honest person.

Obviously these kind of rumor are gonna turn away kids who have high integrity, but how many high school kids, at that age, have the kind of integrity to turn down free items and cash. Especially when they definitely don't have the kinda of money to go out and buy fresh new cloths or some new kicks. I think that these rumors could actually turn more recruits on than off. The only other negative from this that i can think of that would impact a recruits decision would be possible sanctions to the program. But im sure the coaches are pretty persuasive in telling their targets not to worry about that.

any thoughts?

kinda going off what you said MaehlMan.. teams being implicated really haven't fallen to hard on the recruiting trail, or even at all

[maxduck]

Am i the only one who thinks these types of allegations could help recruiting with certain types of players. the ones who want to be offered extra benefits when they go to school. I think its a safe assumption to say that many high school football players would not mind going to a school that was associated with people who would offer extra benefits to student athletes. some of these recruits could actually be enticed by the rumors that UO is a school where if you play good you will get treated extra special. Extra benefits are accepted by players becasue it is free money. Everyone wants that, it just comes down to moral integrity with each individual recruit. Receive extra benefits and break the rules, or turn away from them and be an honest person.

Obviously these kind of rumor are gonna turn away kids who have high integrity, but how many high school kids, at that age, have the kind of integrity to turn down free items and cash. Especially when they definitely don't have the kinda of money to go out and buy fresh new cloths or some new kicks. I think that these rumors could actually turn more recruits on than off. The only other negative from this that i can think of that would impact a recruits decision would be possible sanctions to the program. But im sure the coaches are pretty persuasive in telling their targets not to worry about that.

any thoughts?

kinda going off what you said MaehlMan.. teams being implicated really haven't fallen to hard on the recruiting trail, or even at all

So we get a kid who, in addition to the normal problems with homesickness, cultural shock, the pressure of school and reality of constant rain, is now disappointed that he isn't getting all kinds of illegal benefits? No thanks, that is a potential problem on to many levels to count.