Tray Dub wrote:The most annoying part of this is that OSU fans will catch on and realize we got turned down by one of their recruits and use it against us. They don't exactly have a ton of things to talk s*** to us about nowadays.
Whatever. Owa would've been great, but we'll manage just fine.
Lol let them have it. Just say scoreboard. Really, isn't that what it comes down to? Who wins and who losses?
Not if you have the best RB of all time and at least you aren't owned by Nike even though Nike gives a lot of money to Stanford and many other schools and HIPPIES and laptops and *ucks and OMG A SHEEP!!!
My attempt at a Beaver fan impression. Pretty sure I nailed it.
As much as am hppy with Lache Seastrunk.. I am very disgusted with the coaches who let two players in the state of Oregon.. that were Army All Americans get away from Oregon. It is not often the state of Oregon produces those kind of recruits.. and when it does.. we absolutely have to get them to come to the ducks and not let them go to another school let alone another pac 10 school. This is very disgusting. Owa is a 5 star recruit.. who dropped the ball and let him get away.
GoDucksIn09 wrote:As much as am hppy with Lache Seastrunk.. I am very disgusted with the coaches who let two players in the state of Oregon.. that were Army All Americans get away from Oregon. It is not often the state of Oregon produces those kind of recruits.. and when it does.. we absolutely have to get them to come to the ducks and not let them go to another school let alone another pac 10 school. This is very disgusting. Owa is a 5 star recruit.. who dropped the ball and let him get away.
I was talking to my someone today that has an athletic departments view on recruiting and he made a good point. If you were in high school in oregon and had a free ride to go anywhere in the nation, would you stay here. I know most kids out of high school just want to leave and go far away right or not. Thats the way it goes.
Now Gabe in my eyes isnt an oregon recruit. He hasn't been here long enough. The only thing I see different in a recruit from Oregon and one anywhere else is the fact that they see more games and with the way this team is playing and the exposure its been getting, that difference is getting smaller.
GoDucksIn09 wrote:As much as am hppy with Lache Seastrunk.. I am very disgusted with the coaches who let two players in the state of Oregon.. that were Army All Americans get away from Oregon. It is not often the state of Oregon produces those kind of recruits.. and when it does.. we absolutely have to get them to come to the ducks and not let them go to another school let alone another pac 10 school. This is very disgusting. Owa is a 5 star recruit.. who dropped the ball and let him get away.
A. We got Curtis White.
B. We got Keanon Lowe.
C. Gabe King isn't really from Oregon. It's not like he was raised here. So really, the only truly local kid we missed on was Owa.
D. It doesn't really matter where the talent comes from, as long as we have talent. I don't understand people that prize local kids to such extents that they're "disgusted" when we don't get them. We have a top 15 class, and that's what actually matters.
GoDucksIn09 wrote:As much as am hppy with Lache Seastrunk.. I am very disgusted with the coaches who let two players in the state of Oregon.. that were Army All Americans get away from Oregon. It is not often the state of Oregon produces those kind of recruits.. and when it does.. we absolutely have to get them to come to the ducks and not let them go to another school let alone another pac 10 school. This is very disgusting. Owa is a 5 star recruit.. who dropped the ball and let him get away.
A. We got Curtis White.
B. We got Keanon Lowe.
C. Gabe King isn't really from Oregon. It's not like he was raised here. So really, the only truly local kid we missed on was Owa.
D. It doesn't really matter where the talent comes from, as long as we have talent. I don't understand people that prize local kids to such extents that they're "disgusted" when we don't get them. We have a top 15 class, and that's what actually matters.
Good post tray. Its a nice little story when we get an in state kid but nothing more. When there's bigtime talent in Oregon I think its important to pull it in... and we have. Curtis, Lowe, Coleman (2011) & likely Lylera (2011). But its not a massive dissapointment when you miss one or two guys.
As far as I'm concerned a 4* from texas is just as good as a 4* from Oregon. I really don't care as long as we get one of them. If we weren't pulling in tons of talent from all over like we are then I could understand people whining over not getting all the in state guys. But again, as long as you're getting tons of talent, who cares where it comes from.
GoDucksIn09 wrote:As much as am hppy with Lache Seastrunk.. I am very disgusted with the coaches who let two players in the state of Oregon.. that were Army All Americans get away from Oregon. It is not often the state of Oregon produces those kind of recruits.. and when it does.. we absolutely have to get them to come to the ducks and not let them go to another school let alone another pac 10 school. This is very disgusting. Owa is a 5 star recruit.. who dropped the ball and let him get away.
A. We got Curtis White.
B. We got Keanon Lowe.
C. Gabe King isn't really from Oregon. It's not like he was raised here. So really, the only truly local kid we missed on was Owa.
D. It doesn't really matter where the talent comes from, as long as we have talent. I don't understand people that prize local kids to such extents that they're "disgusted" when we don't get them. We have a top 15 class, and that's what actually matters.
Well it matters when Chip Kelly himself says getting local kids is a priority of his and his staff. It just shows that no matter how good of a coach Chip is, he can't do everything. Some more on the field success will produce these highly coveted recruits. I mean even Lache was gonna go to USC till F-bomb Petey left (said so in his post commitment video).
Bottom line, it comes down to individuals and their decisions.
When our program proves it on the field more then we will start getting these recruits, even if they have different desires of what they want in a college.
2nd Bottom line Big time programs are always appealing. We are not one yet. :/
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