Transfer Portal - '21-22

[UOducksTK1]

Taki is a Duck.

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Good stuff!

[greenyellow]

Big news out of Pullman as de Laura is transferring.

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[GrandpaDuck]

Big news out of Pullman as de Laura is transferring.

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hmmm UCLA?

[HomeSickDuck]

Big news out of Pullman as de Laura is transferring.

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Sounds like they might land Cameron Ward.

[StevensTechU]

If, after all these high level transfers, Oregon has Bo Nix, I'm gonna lose my mind and quickly judge Kenny Dillingham. Casey Thompson, Dillon Gabriel, Jayden de Laura, etc. Just inexplicable how you end up with white Anthony Brown.

[OregonFan4Life]

If, after all these high level transfers, Oregon has Bo Nix, I'm gonna lose my mind and quickly judge Kenny Dillingham. Casey Thompson, Dillon Gabriel, Jayden de Laura, etc. Just inexplicable how you end up with white Anthony Brown.

I was just about to post the same thing. They have to be able to do better than Bo Nix this season.

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Gabriel had already announced his transfer to UCLA by the time Dillingham was named OC while de Laura just announced today. Thompson is really the only one you could scratch your head on but maybe they did reach out and got shot down.

[GoDucksTroll]

WR Kobe Hudson, Auburn’s leading receiver as a sophomore and Bo Nix’s favorite target, is in the portal. He says he got kicked off the team, and his reasoning was “he from the North I’m from the South he don’t understand me” or something along those lines. Maybe it’s just a Harsin thing, there’s a reason he wasn’t the hot ticket like past Boise coaches.

Some more good players in the Portal, including Arkansas safety Joe Foucha. He’s partially leaving because former Oregon commit Myles Slusher is an absolute stud. I should make a list of former Oregon commits and how they’re doing. In 9 games Slusher had 50 tackles, 3 TFL, 2 INT. Foucha had 72 tackles, 7.5 TFL and a pick and has 230 tackles for his career with one year of eligibility. Another good Arky DB - Gary Brooks, is also in the portal.

NW safety Brandon Joseph is another great DB available. That’s the group I’m most concerned about.

[alxtw]

If, after all these high level transfers, Oregon has Bo Nix, I'm gonna lose my mind and quickly judge Kenny Dillingham. Casey Thompson, Dillon Gabriel, Jayden de Laura, etc. Just inexplicable how you end up with white Anthony Brown.

Its quite disappointing the new staff hasn't made a bigger splash in the transfer portal and signing/retaining recruits.

[droop10]

If, after all these high level transfers, Oregon has Bo Nix, I'm gonna lose my mind and quickly judge Kenny Dillingham. Casey Thompson, Dillon Gabriel, Jayden de Laura, etc. Just inexplicable how you end up with white Anthony Brown.

Its quite disappointing the new staff hasn't made a bigger splash in the transfer portal and signing/retaining recruits.

Geez, maybe have a little patience. The new staff has actually been in place for like a week, and recruits haven't even been able to visit yet. Impossible to judge them yet.

[Tray Dub]

It's also funny that the same people who loved Brown coming in are now sure Bo Nix won't do anything. We'll see.

[StevensTechU]

It's also funny that the same people who loved Brown coming in are now sure Bo Nix won't do anything. We'll see.

I'll assume that's directed at me, as I nearly fit the description. I liked (not loved) Brown, because it gave us a floor for production from the QB position where Shough and others were a mystery. Brown had improved steadily in each year at BC and by the end has showed himself to be a running threat who could push the ball down the field but had some accuracy issues. I liked taking Brown over not taking a transfer at all. And how did that turn out? He ended up being the startwr.

Nix, by contrast, has not improved each season. In fact, he's been impressively flat, so we know exactly what we're getting. That is a guy who can make plays with his feet, can't throw passes on time, doesn't have a deep ball, and relies on improvisation which is boom or bust. Importantly, the alternative to Nix isn't not transfer at all. Depending on Dillingham's ability to recruit, the alternatives are Caleb Williams, Kedon Slovis, Dillon Gabriel, Jayden de Laura, Casey Thompson, Jack Sears, Connor Bazelak, and Cameron Ward (and many others). If we ended up with Brown with those options, that too would be a failure.

[lmduck]

It's also funny that the same people who loved Brown coming in are now sure Bo Nix won't do anything. We'll see.

I'll assume that's directed at me, as I nearly fit the description. I liked (not loved) Brown, because it gave us a floor for production from the QB position where Shough and others were a mystery. Brown had improved steadily in each year at BC and by the end has showed himself to be a running threat who could push the ball down the field but had some accuracy issues. I liked taking Brown over not taking a transfer at all. And how did that turn out? He ended up being the startwr.

Nix, by contrast, has not improved each season. In fact, he's been impressively flat, so we know exactly what we're getting. That is a guy who can make plays with his feet, can't throw passes on time, doesn't have a deep ball, and relies on improvisation which is boom or bust. Importantly, the alternative to Nix isn't not transfer at all. Spending on Dillingham's ability to recruit, the alternatives are Caleb Williams, Kedon Slovis, Dillon Gabriel, Jayden de Laura, Casey Thompson, Jack Sears, Connor Bazelak, and Cameron Ward (and many others). If we ended up with Brown with those options, that too would be a failure.

It seems the point is being missed that some of these guys were not even in the portal when Nix committed, and let’s be honest there were not a lot of people who expected Williams or de Laura to be in the portal either so maybe a bit of a re-set of expectations is in order.

The comment about Nix being the ‘white AB’ falls in the inappropriate category .


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[GoDucksTroll]

Coach Meat bringing the heat.

Gonzalez was my number one realistic want out of the portal and we got him. 6’2” 200 pounds with his speed, wingspan, and bendy athleticism is a prototype CB1. Which is great since we don’t have a proven CB anything. Maybe he’ll be a rover type DB but I’m betting on corner. Knocked down 10 passes in 18 career games, shows a knack for timing and good tracking.

I read Gonzalez’s bio on the Colorado roster. His older sisters were All-Americans at Texas and Miami in the 400 and 400 hurdles. They run for Colombia, where his oldest sister is the South American champion and qualified for the 2020 Olympics - she’s married to Detroit’s back-up QB David Blough. Dad is a 6’8” former UTEP basketball player from Colombia. Holds an impressive career 13% FT shooting average.