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According to a Bryan Fischer tweet today. Was a Duck target I believe.

@BryanDFischer Texas A&M websites reporting RB Trey Williams & QB Matt Davis committed today. Davis is #7QB, Williams #7 RB according to Tom Lemming

Still plenty of quality QBs to choose from, but Oregon is going to really need another couple to fill out the QB depth chart.

Looks like we are out of the Lyles business har har har..

Good pickup for A&M, I wanted him.

Wonder if Manziel will ever play QB at A&M.

Well from the coach I talked to (granted a D coach) he's still upset that we took Randall's commitment and lost out on Manziel. He would have much rather had Chip tell Randall last summer to pound sand, from his own words we lost Manziel because of Randall no other reason.

Manziel had a good Spring Game at A&M, by going 8-9 for 115 yards and 2 TDs throwing. I would rather have had him instead of the coaches continuing after Randall, like the previous poster said. If the QB depth for the future is seriously hurt by Randall taking up a spot that could have been used on someone else, then it will look like a big mistake by Chip and the coaching staff.

I wonder if Chip valued Randall coming to Eugene all the way from Florida? If he viewed Manziel and Randall as equals in terms of QB talent, maybe he wanted Randall to help build up the recruiting base in S. Florida.

Lightning Strikes wrote:I wonder if Chip valued Randall coming to Eugene all the way from Florida? If he viewed Manziel and Randall as equals in terms of QB talent, maybe he wanted Randall to help build up the recruiting base in S. Florida.

Like how we built a pipeline off Ryan Gilliam?

buckmarkduck wrote:Well from the coach I talked to (granted a D coach) he's still upset that we took Randall's commitment and lost out on Manziel. He would have much rather had Chip tell Randall last summer to pound sand, from his own words we lost Manziel because of Randall no other reason.

If Manziel was scared off by competition, then Oregon was not the right place for him. I would take Randall over Manziel, just based on talent alone.

Matt Davis is a huge pickup for Texas A&M. Early on, it sounded like Oregon had a great shot. More recently, it appeared that he wanted to stay relatively close to home.

If Manziel was scared off by competition

he wasn't. not sure why you believe that.

hines wrote:

If Manziel was scared off by competition

he wasn't. not sure why you believe that.

I think it was more of a case of him getting an offer closer to home which made him decommit from Oregon.

hines wrote:

If Manziel was scared off by competition

he wasn't. not sure why you believe that.

cause he ain't coming

uostudent wrote:

hines wrote:

If Manziel was scared off by competition

he wasn't. not sure why you believe that.

cause he ain't coming

so you're saying A & M has zero competition at qb? fantastic reasoning! because if you actually read ANYTHING about his recruiting, the offer to stay closer to home and have his family watch him play really stuck out like a sore thumb. but hey, you know everything. guess EVERYONE here was wrong. we'll try to improve our reading and logic skills this year.

hines wrote:we'll try to improve our reading and logic skills this year.

thanks!

What hines is saying is true. He committed to Oregon initally since they were one of the first big-time BCS schools to offer him, but once TAMU offered, it was only a matter of time before he committed to them.