Grade the 2010 Class

[Sooth]

I went with an A. And I'm usually not very easy to please.

Sure we missed on some, but Heimuli made my day.

[SuperDuck]

Ask me how good this class is in 2-3 years. It looks very good on paper, but there's no way to know, actually there's really no way to even guess based on what they did in high school.

From the looks of it I'd give us a B+/A-, but I'm just a fan with no personal knowledge of the kids and their abilities like the coaches have.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this class turns out to be an A+++

[sepdxsnwbrdr]

A-. Totally awesome offensively, awesome secondary, but one more solid DT/DE would have made it an A/A+ for me.

That's what I thought and how I voted.

cosigned

[ksmack]

A- DT/DE/DL were the holes I would of loved to fill more! however Ducks will be fine ~ GO DUCKS

[RanDux]

A from me. Yes, we would have liked anothe DT or two, but I love the speed and quality of the class. The speed of this class is just insane.

[Duckster]

I gave this class an A...I would have given it an A+ if we would have gotten a few more D-Line players. But I am totally stoked! Go, Ducks!

[featherbutt]

I gave it a B based on my perception of the other offers.

It is hard to give it a much lower ranking with White, Lache, Heimuli, Dior and Rowland coming. Wow.

However, we just won the conference by 2 full games. We were just in the Rose Bowl. We have the best facilities on planet earth. All this and the only prep D-line help we get is a potential one-and-done Hamani-type guy? Really? Right now we should be swinging our member around and knocking over huge, mean, and smart DT's. Guys that are not going to take a 2-year break right after they are just learning how to play at this level.

Also, look at the other recruits. Sure, there will be a couple that will contribute. Maybe one may become the best player ever at Oregon (cough, cough, Washington). The offer lists from these 3* players is not what I expected. USC gets an A-level class. UCLA, Florida got them too. This is a great class but I really expected more need filling and balance.

Remember all of you rah-rah's, this is just an opinion from one guy. No need to flame

[duckgrad99]

I gave it a B based on my perception of the other offers.

It is hard to give it a much lower ranking with White, Lache, Heimuli, Dior and Rowland coming. Wow.

However, we just won the conference by 2 full games. We were just in the Rose Bowl. We have the best facilities on planet earth. All this and the only prep D-line help we get is a potential one-and-done Hamani-type guy? Really? Right now we should be swinging our member around and knocking over huge, mean, and smart DT's. Guys that are not going to take a 2-year break right after they are just learning how to play at this level.

Also, look at the other recruits. Sure, there will be a couple that will contribute. Maybe one may become the best player ever at Oregon (cough, cough, Washington). The offer lists from these 3* players is not what I expected. USC gets an A-level class. UCLA, Florida got them too. This is a great class but I really expected more need filling and balance.

Remember all of you rah-rah's, this is just an opinion from one guy. No need to flame

Well we aren't USC or Florida. As far as needs filled, we could have used another DT or two but I think the balance of this class is great.

[featherbutt]

too many bugs, not enough beef. Review Rose Bowl tape.

[uostudent]

A- tremendous class, but need more help at DT. Proud of Chip and the coaching staff.

As academics improve and the team continues with its winning ways, Oregon will have even better recruiting classes.

USC had an excellent class, but they have to be disappointed that they missed out on a bunch of top guys who appeared to be SC locks. The loss of Pete Carroll definitely hurt.

I hate to say it, but the Weasel did an unbelievable job of recruiting this year. UCLA is definitely a program on the rise.

[GoDucksIn09]

I guess I am a troll if vote. I would give it a B simply because while on the skill players we did very well but the lack of DL or DE signees is a pause for concern. We have all heard defense wins championships... We lost the Rose Bowl in large part to our defense not being able to tackle. It is an extreme area of need and yet we really whiffed on most of the DL recruits we targeted and to top that off we lost Owa.. an instate recruit.. lost McCain in the end and lost King. Championship teams when have areas of needs they do everything to get those needs filled. Our offense will instead have to score 50 per game again in order to win. I am sorry if being the realist when it comes to our needs on the DL makes me a troll.

[uodux1212]

You cant lose a recruit if he was never really yours to begin with... Owa wants to study engineering... His final three schools OSU, UCLA and UN all have Engineering Programs/Schools... Oregon does not.

[briarduck]

I voted an A- because the one position of greatest need we fell a little short but beyond that I couldn't be happier!

As far a missing on a few guys, that happens every year it just means they focused a little to much and didn't have enough fall backs or the fall backs went somewhere else...

All in all great class!

GO DUCKS!!

[briarduck]

You cant lose a recruit if he was never really yours to begin with... Owa wants to study engineering... His final three schools OSU, UCLA and UN all have Engineering Programs/Schools... Oregon does not.

I agree...we tend to focus on who we didn't get and not on who is actually a Duck!

[vagusnerve]

I gave A-


We did very well at every single area of need, with the exception of DE & DT

Without Heimuli, I would have given a B or even B- ...


I think in order to get an A or A+ class, we needed to book two more standouts at DL, for example, Easley or Owa or King or Werner


I am still really interested to hear more about the King story, btw, but its sounding more and more like Kelly would rather be weak on the Dline than have someone that "didn't fit" in the program. Makes me think that McCain may have had his offer pulled as well???