Bolden to possibly commit soon.

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Re: Bolden to possibly commit soon.

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jhopduck wrote:Tyler Shreve, Godfrey, Walker, amongst others are all HIGH Duck interest recruits. Those guys are all high 3-4 star QB's. We are definitely going after the cream of the crop however, and CK is so selective with his QB's. I think we have our share of guys who want to play here, but the top flight guys and CK's pickiness are going to only offer a select few guys. So Bolden going elsewhere is a bummer as he's high on our board, but it's not done yet.
I hate to say it jhop, but I'm starting to get a little depressed with the lack of recruiting interest by players that we all think should be beating down our door. I'm going to be pretty disgusted if we end up with a QB nobody else wants. Shreve doesn't have any offers, Godfrey has some, but not to play QB, except maybe Meatchicken.

Same with the RBs. How are top running backs not beating down our door to get in here and put up 1k yards multiple years and be a first round pick?

I get frustrated to no end watching kids ignore what we can do for them and going to play for some oily used car salesman who will put a big fat dead end sign on their career, like CLK and Swinney down there at Climpson.

I guess I should wait and see how this class shakes out before getting too fired up :lol: But from what I've seen so far it's not looking nearly as good as many talking heads around recruiting thought it would for us this year.
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I think that there are some serious misconceptions as to exactly who the Ducks want the most. Not always do the Ducks want the top rated player as rated by Rivals/Scout. Those players may not fit what we do here. Our success has been through evaluating talent and developing them once here. Don't get me wrong I would be ecstatic to have 15 4 and 5 stars lining up, but it's not real yet, and besides that, what has all that talent gotten Miami?
Tradition and location at this point are going to hurt us, hopefully in the next few years are tradition will become more established and less of a problem, unfortunately though location will never change.

Godfreys offer list per Rivals: (WVU should be on there too)
Florida State
Georgia
Miami
Michigan
USF
Tennessee
UCF

Walker:
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Oklahoma State
Syracuse
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Re: Bolden to possibly commit soon.

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jhopduck wrote:I think that there are some serious misconceptions as to exactly who the Ducks want the most. Not always do the Ducks want the top rated player as rated by Rivals/Scout. Those players may not fit what we do here. Our success has been through evaluating talent and developing them once here. Don't get me wrong I would be ecstatic to have 15 4 and 5 stars lining up, but it's not real yet, and besides that, what has all that talent gotten Miami?
Tradition and location at this point are going to hurt us, hopefully in the next few years are tradition will become more established and less of a problem, unfortunately though location will never change.

Godfreys offer list per Rivals: (WVU should be on there too)
Florida State
Georgia
Miami
Michigan
USF
Tennessee
UCF

Walker:
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Oklahoma State
Syracuse
I saw Godfrey's offer list. I was just saying that most of those teams are not recruiting him to play QB. If Chip thinks he's got the skills I'm sure he'll offer. But he hasn't yet so maybe he agrees.

I'm going to have to do some research on Walker. Him, I haven't heard much about.
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Primedime mentioned CK is not that high on Godfrey since his grades are a little low 2.2 GPA range. He'll get in no problem, but CK prefers a pretty mentally sharp QB to run his offense.
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I admit I don't follow recruiting like some of you this early, I start following it closer once they have finished their Senior seasons. But I read an article a while back about Bolden and frankly I wondered why of all the QBs out their he got one of our first offers.

In the article:

a) He doesn't particularly want to be a spread QB.

b) He is all measurables, has never been a dominant High School player in actual games. Poor stats on a team with a bad record.

c) He wants to be "the guy" in the recruiting class, doesn't want to be one of two or three QBs in the class. Because of point "B" he is far from a sure thing. It's not like a Pryor where his measureables were backed up by in game excellence, so if you recruit him on the physical upside shouldn't you also recruit someone who actually tore it up in high school as well to balance out the risk? We already have two guys in Harper and Hawkins who are great athletes but unproven as high school QBs. Do we really need a third?

So what's the deal? Why are so many of you so high on him instead of some of these other QB's out there with great stats, great measurable, who lead their team to winning records and want to be spread QBs?
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I'm sold on him if CK told him he was our #1 QB target, maybe he did that to gauge interest, and possibly since Bolden seemingly an MSU lock we have a new #1 QB target. However that said, I'll trust CK enough to have seen something in Bolden to put the full court press on him and rate him highly. IDK guess we'll see.
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Doubt we land him unless he visits in the next two weeks. Michigan State is where he will most likely end. With our new offers out the Legeaux and Broadway I would say the writing is on the wall.
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^^ just posted the Broadway offer in a thread. I agree Boyd we must be onto our new plans.
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Oracle wrote:I guess I should wait and see how this class shakes out before getting too fired up :lol:
That is a good idea. :) Let's not forget, less than a week before last signing day people were in panic mode over how poorly wide receiver recruiting was going. When all was said and done, the Ducks ended up landing Diante Jackson, Tyrece Gaines, Braxton Lane, Lavasier Tuinei, etc. It is many, many months too early to be worrying too much.
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jhopduck wrote:Primedime mentioned CK is not that high on Godfrey since his grades are a little low 2.2 GPA range. He'll get in no problem, but CK prefers a pretty mentally sharp QB to run his offense.
If that GPA is correct, how can the conclusion be reached that he will get in no problem?
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Oracle wrote:
ARGHimaPirate wrote: And Mosoli who was a true Freshman in his frist year of Kellys offense.
He was a Soph. He had played one year of JC ball at CCSF.
This I knew, I meant to say he was basically a true freshman.
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Just read a post on the Rivals Recruiting board from some MSU fans that make it seem that they are a lot less confident about Bolden than before and that the news of him possibly committing soon might have been overblown.

That would be good news for us. One guy said he thought it would be an Oregon-Penn St. battle but I think MSU will be in it until the end.
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Thanks Oracle
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Re: Bolden to possibly commit soon.

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Could the fact that Roper chose to leave UO have anything to do with this? Just wondering...
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The kid has to visit before I even remotely get my hopes up.
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