MacDuck wrote:This much we now know, via Jhop. The transfer isn't Chris Martin and he said the player has contacted our staff recently. Sounds like it's unlikely to happen at this point according to Justin's latest posting this morning.
It's also been confirmed via other sources (Marty at eDuck) that Bryce Brown has contacted our staff about possibly transferring. I'm not sure if BB has been released from Tenn (I don't think he has). Now the question is if BB got released and still wanted to come here, would we take him? He obviously doesn't have the appeal he had when we were recruiting. Furthermore, we're not exactly hurting at RB. Finally, is he the player Jhop is referring to? I don't know, but he doesn't fit since I believe Justin told someone that the player was a FR, part of the '10 class?
JHop said the kid was having troubles with the frosh transition.
Which obviously excludes Middleton - though I'd take him in a heartbeat, faild drug test or no.
I still say that it suggests the kid is local. To me, the term "frosh transition" doesn't speak so much to the players or coaches or even the environment, as much as it does simply the situation he's in (IE being away from home). If this were an issue, why go somewhere else that would be also new?
I still think it's Owa. He meets ALL the hints (frosh, would make you giddy, position of need, local, and would be one of the biggest transfer stories in a long time) AND, at least from reports earlier in his recruiting process, he certainly seemed as though he was a quieter family-first type of kid. That is NOT UCLA. UCLA is flashy, bright, big, loud, busy, noisy, glitzy, and VERY-unOregon for those who haven't been.
Also, I think worth considering... Though Oregon's picking up the pace in recruiting nationally, and really in their overall image, if a kid's good enough to make JHOP giddy, and his transfer would be "one of the biggest transfer stories in recent history", why come to Oregon when you can likely go anywhere in the country? I can only think of 2 reasons.
1) You're local and want to go back home.
2) You'll play right away. This would mean they'd be a bigtime WR or DT, and we'd have to get lucky and have them somehow not be forced to lose a year of eligibility.
All the signs, to me, still say OWA, but I'll throw out 1 other possibility that no one's mentioned yet...
Bjoern Werner. JHOP covers the Ducks and FSU and as we all know, Werner chose FSU over us at the last minute, largely due to the sun and a girlfriend (if you believe reports) so it would make some sense that JHOP would get that scoop . Maybe he broke it off w/ the gf? Maybe he's realized that Oregon is alot closer (in environment, not distance) to his native Germany than Tallahassee is (it's true it is)? Because Werner is an international kid, maybe he's just not adjusting well at FSU and realizes he made a mistake?
Those are my guesses. Owa first, Werner the thus-far-unmentioned darkhorse second.
