QB/Shortstop Johnny Manziel a Duck

[Hoagduck]

per Tony Di Francisco's twitter, the Ducks just picked up a commitment from Texas QB Tony Di Francisco

"Oregon has picked up a commitment from Texas Dual-threat QB Johnny Manziel. He camped last week at Eugene"

"Manziel's JR stats are sick: Passing- 211-349 (60%), 2,782 yards, 19 TD, 5 INT, Rushing- 232 for 1,529 yards, 33 TD. Receiving -5 for 152, 2 TD"

http://rivals.yahoo.com/smu/football/re ... ziel-89597
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loUsp3syrRQ

Picked us over Stanford, Baylor, Tulsa, and others



"For football and baseball."
-Manziel

[Hoagduck]

"3 weeks ago Super Johnny tied a San Antonio scoring record of 8 TD's in one game, he's a phenom"

Profile on him in the local paper.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/Expr ... 39914.html

246 yards and four TDs passing, 203 yards and three TDs rushing, 39 yards and one TD receiving.

[buckmarkduck]

Sounds like Altman might want to talk to him also, Texas has offered him as a basketball recruit. Great athlete to say the least.

[Hoagduck]

"I coached against (former Texas wide receiver) Quan Cosby before. I'm not going to say that Johnny's as fast as Quan, but they do a lot of similar things in the open field, and we let Johnny get out in the open field. Watching the numbers he's put up, you see that nobody stops him. And I don't feel quite as bad that he scored four touchdowns on us.”
— Danny Threadgill, Boerne Champion coach

“On that one run (a 99-yarder), he got into the second level, and we didn't have anyone that could catch him. We had one kid fall down on that play, and an athlete like Manziel saw that and took advantage. Ninety-nine yards later, it was over.”
— Steve Van Nest, San Marcos coach

[duckgrad99]

Honestly, why would we offer him with all of the other qb's on board? He does sound really talented, but what about everyone else?

[woundedknees]

Football, golf and baseball... and he would like to play either pro football or baseball? Plus a Texas offer in basketball.

Could this be Oregon's first quadruple sport letterman?

[ducksrock]

The kid definitely has ALOT goin on....The U-Tube clip video is amazing...Gotta love the play calling by the coaching staff too, double-reverse into a pass play, with who is that catching the ball? Was that Joey Heisman? Now, that is fun football to watch....

[briarduck]

Honestly, why would we offer him with all of the other QB's on board? He does sound really talented, but what about everyone else?

He does sound great and all but I agree with you...do lose out on other targets now?

Did we offer as a ATH or QB, thats a big difference for our other recruits!

Dude does look like a gamer and obviously CK likes him so...

GO DUCKS!!

[maxduck]

Honestly, why would we offer him with all of the other qb's on board? He does sound really talented, but what about everyone else?

Probably answers your question "Oregon has picked up a commitment from Texas Dual-threat QB Johnny Manziel. He camped last week at Eugene"

[Boom]

Do we know for sure that we want him at QB?

I'm guessing WR

[buckmarkduck]

Maybe he tore it up at the camp last weekend, and we didn't want to miss out on him? Stanford did offer him as a QB, and they have a long tradition of great QB's. If Harbaugh thinks enough of him as a QB and CK does to, that's more then enough for me to like him.

[pezsez1]

QB is by far and away the most important position in our offense, even more so than it is at other schools. We are unique in needing dual-threat guys who aren't afraid of taking hits, and who have quick enough minds to effectively run CK's offense. I would rather we take too many QBs rather than too few, especially this early in the process. By now, we all know how much a verbal commitment really means, right? Better to have one or two too many and let nature sort out the rest.

[dthomas=ddixon]

Man are we still questioning offers by the coaches? He's a 3* & has offers form great programs in multiple sorts, give me a break. Mariotta wasn't even rated when we offered him but everybodies in love with him now becaase he ran a supposed 4.3. This kids obviously a sick talent, I'm gonna trust Chip's judgment on this one. Especially since he was just here for a camp & they got to see him up close & work with him.

[duckgrad99]

He is obviously a tremendous athlete. My guess is that he would move to wide receiver if Oregon gets Hundley and Randall. Being a qb from Texas couldn't hurt. I was just a little surprised at this commit, especially with the talk of about 4 other qb's on board for Oregon. Pretty rare that we get a commit that had not been previously discussed on this board.

[Sooth]

i'm having john boyett flashbacks