McGee in portal Edit: He's staying

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Lanning already at work and still coaching for Georgia lmao

Also have to thank Don Johnson and his connection with the players.

[karlhungis]

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Who is coach DonJ?

[Duck07]

Who is coach DonJ?

Director of Recruiting and Player Personnel. He's a former HS coach in Portland before this but he's had a connection to a lot of the Ducks from the past, especially the group of De La Salle players.

[Tray Dub]

Damn, that's a pretty slick sales job to flip him back like that

[dthomas=ddixon]

Awesome job by Lanning. I was really bummed to lose McGee.


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[lukeyrid13]

Looks like Lanning's first recruiting win is McGee.

Mario's first recruiting win was keeping Royce and Crosby for another year. Definitely a good sign. Also Coach Don Johnson getting a raise out of Mario's buyout.

That was Taggart actually. Royce and Crosby played from 14-17, 17 was Taggart's only year here.

Cristobal salvaged our class late after about 10 decommitments when Taggart bounced with guys like: Penei, Shough, Crocker, Verone etc that came in to the class late.

Not saying all those guys were amazing, but they were all 4 stars at the time.

[UOducksTK1]

I already love Lanning!

[GoDucksTroll]

Don Johnson used to be the head coach at Madison HS when they had MJ Cunningham, who was with the Ducks before transferring to JuCo - not sure where he’s going now. His classmate there was Daniel Green, who committed to USC and then there were grade questions or they got someone rated higher. UO didn’t seem like they pursued, he wound up at Kansas State. This year he finished with 85 tackles, 14 TFL and 3 sacks, despite missing time with two targeting ejections. Finished the year on a year, in the last five games: 43 tackles, 10.5 TFL, 2 sacks. I bet Dave Aranda knows him, last two seasons against Baylor he had a combined 22 tackles, 6 TFL, 2.5 sacks. Another example of a local kid I wish we had gotten. He graduated and has two years eligibility remaining, maybe he can grad transfer, especially if Flowe leaves which is all speculation.

Don Johnson was also coach at Jefferson, we had to get a waiver to get Trejon Williams due to the rule about hiring recruits coaches. He’s a really well plugged in guy around NW football. He can network. I wasn’t so sure about him at first, but he’s an important one to keep and he’s been trying to salvage this recruiting class. His dad used to be the DL coach for UCLA and for the Chicago Bears and Lane Kiffin’s Oakland Raiders, plus a bunch of other NFL stops.

[StevensTechU]

Pieces of that, I didn't know. Appreciate the synopsis.

MJ has offers from Portland St and Eastern Washington. My money would be on him heading to Eastern.