Derrick Woods

[uostudent]

The kid is one of the top WR's in the country, has excellent grades (> 3.5 GPA), will be playing in the Army All-American game, and was very interested in Oregon.

This was from Oct. 18

"I take the SAT in two weeks and then I can set some [official visits] up," Woods said. "I would like to visit Oklahoma, Oregon, Alabama and Arizona State and I’m not sure about the last one. I stopped hearing from Oregon and Alabama but I like Oklahoma a lot right now.

The kid has offers from every school in the Pac 12 + Alabama, Florida, Miami, and Oklahoma.

Apparently, Oklahoma wants him as a safety and he wants to play WR.

This is from Greg Biggins (ESPN) twitter on Oct 17

You know Oregon is rolling when they stop recruiting one of the top athletes in the state that they led for in Derrick Woods.

It seems pretty surprising that Oregon would pass up on a player this good.

I think there are three possible reasons why they won't take Woods:

1. They are expecting a commitment from DJ Foster (hope so) who could play WR, RB, or both
2. They promised Blackmon, Sumler, and Kelley that they wouldn't actively recruit multiple WR's in this class/they don't want any more WR's unless.....
3. They are only interested in adding a big WR to replace Tuinei. 1) Dwayne Stanford or 2) Javon Williams (Dion Jordan's cousin)

[greenyellow]

It really does seem as if Oregon is okay with signing only one or even no WRs this class, but with the way they move athletes around, I wouldn't be surprised if someone from this class ended up as a WR.

[Duffman57]

haha, my roomate is pretty good friends with him up here at Oregon, and he's trying to get Woods to get up here. He played football with him at Inglewood.

Funny story, but he didn't even know he was being recruited until my roomate asked him about it, and he was so confused that he was being recruited. My friend had to sit him down and show him his own ESPN/Rivals profile ahahhaha.

Interesting that we stopped calling him and all that, but we did have a HUGE WR class last year, and i think we're looking more towards bigger WR's, rather than the speed guys that we have so many of.

[neezy3]

Did Usc stop recruiting him too? We've done really well recruiting football players and sorting them out once they get on campus and this guy epitomizes a good football player. Looks like he has a pretty thick build similar to Huff and his highlights are retarded. Hope the coaches change their minds and quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbp5tP5kG0 (Got two minutes in and was like YES PLEASE)

[uodux1212]

The kid is one of the top WR's in the country, has excellent grades (> 3.5 GPA), will be playing in the Army All-American game, and was very interested in Oregon.

This was from Oct. 18

"I take the SAT in two weeks and then I can set some [official visits] up," Woods said. "I would like to visit Oklahoma, Oregon, Alabama and Arizona State and I’m not sure about the last one. I stopped hearing from Oregon and Alabama but I like Oklahoma a lot right now.

The kid has offers from every school in the Pac 12 + Alabama, Florida, Miami, and Oklahoma.

Apparently, Oklahoma wants him as a safety and he wants to play WR.

This is from Greg Biggins (ESPN) twitter on Oct 17

You know Oregon is rolling when they stop recruiting one of the top athletes in the state that they led for in Derrick Woods.

It seems pretty surprising that Oregon would pass up on a player this good.

I think there are three possible reasons why they won't take Woods:

1. They are expecting a commitment from DJ Foster (hope so) who could play WR, RB, or both
2. They promised Blackmon, Sumler, and Kelley that they wouldn't actively recruit multiple WR's in this class/they don't want any more WR's unless.....
3. They are only interested in adding a big WR to replace Tuinei. 1) Dwayne Stanford or 2) Javon Williams (Dion Jordan's cousin)

Im kinda a newbie when it comes to recruiting... do coaches make promises like this? Im not saying you're wrong by any means, but it just doesnt seem like something the coaches would do (not just at Oregon, but anywhere)...

[uostudent]

1. They are expecting a commitment from DJ Foster (hope so) who could play WR, RB, or both
2. They promised Blackmon, Sumler, and Kelley that they wouldn't actively recruit multiple WR's in this class/they don't want any more WR's unless.....
3. They are only interested in adding a big WR to replace Tuinei. 1) Dwayne Stanford or 2) Javon Williams (Dion Jordan's cousin)

Im kinda a newbie when it comes to recruiting... do coaches make promises like this? Im not saying you're wrong by any means, but it just doesnt seem like something the coaches would do (not just at Oregon, but anywhere)...

Do Oregon's coaches? Probably very rarely, but it definitely happens in recruiting - usually when dealing with elite recruits. It happens more often in basketball though.

I do think it's more likely a numbers game though. The coaches took 3 high school WR's + 1 JC transfer. It sounds like they would only be willing to take Foster + 1 big WR (Stanford or Williams).

I believe Randy Uzoma is being recruited as an athlete.

[hines]

It really does seem as if Oregon is okay with signing only one or even no WRs

really? do you have any proof that Oregon would be ok with ZERO wr's this class? does that make sense at all when we have WR offers out? of course it doesn't but hey, zero WR's makes perfect sense to only you.

god i do love message board coaches.

[TheMaehlMan]

really? do you have any proof that Oregon would be ok with ZERO wr's this class? does that make sense at all when we have WR offers out? of course it doesn't but hey, zero WR's makes perfect sense to only you.

god i do love message board coaches.

That's ironic coming from you.

[headshottzzzz]

There's a really good chance Oregon will accept WRs if they're offering scholarships to them.


I am surprised Oregon isn't recruiting Woods as much as I thought they would be. Woods has been pretty dominant in the Southern Section on an Inglewood team that frankly isn't very good. It still doesn't mean he won't come to the UO, though. I remember last year Oregon laid off on BJ Kelley all year until the very end of the recruiting period. However, the big difference this year is that Derrick Woods has quite a few more offers from major D1 school to choose from than Kelley did.

[greenyellow]

It really does seem as if Oregon is okay with signing only one or even no WRs

really? do you have any proof that Oregon would be ok with ZERO wr's this class? does that make sense at all when we have WR offers out? of course it doesn't but hey, zero WR's makes perfect sense to only you.

god i do love message board coaches.

I was just basing this off a quick look at eDuck's recruit database (probably not the best source of info either) and from what has been talked about on here. I'm not up to date on all the latest news and rumors so maybe my statement was a little off. Wasn't trying to be a message board coach, but more like a casual observer.