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Oregon is one of his top teams, but he was scheduled to decide soon. So it's a whether of delaying or not to visit Oregon. Keeps eyes on this one.

Pretty good offer list but this seems fairly late to be offering a scholarship, since the kid plans to decide in about two weeks. Wonder if we missed on another OL we were recruiting.

I don't see how we stand a chance here by offering a scholie 2 weeks before he decides. He's got virtually no chance to visit. Really surprised we waited this long to offer him. My guess is we've missed on some of the other OL's we'd been targeting, which is sad cause I think we need at least 2 good ones every year.

Yeah, we need to OL this year. If we get Long and he can come in and play right away, that's great. But we need at least one beastly freshman OL that we can RS. Offering this kid does make it seem like we must have missed on ALL of our OL targets for this year. Too bad.

Oh, thought I would add that it's crazy that we're missing out on all of our OL targets this year, when you consider that:

1. it's supposedly a great year for OLs on the West Coast
2. USC has limited schollies available so can't take as many OL as they'd like
3. our competition for OL is basically against PAC12 lightweights like UW, UA, ASU, UCLA and Cal. No winners there, in fact, three coaching changes among them plus Cal and UW always underachieve.

vagusnerve wrote:Oh, thought I would add that it's crazy that we're missing out on all of our OL targets this year, when you consider that:

1. it's supposedly a great year for OLs on the West Coast
2. USC has limited schollies available so can't take as many OL as they'd like
3. our competition for OL is basically against PAC12 lightweights like UW, UA, ASU, UCLA and Cal. No winners there, in fact, three coaching changes among them plus Cal and UW always underachieve.

I wouldn't call Cal a lite weight in recruiting they certainly have proved themselves over the years in that regard. Nor UW anymore, both UW and Cal are building new stadiums and facilities. ASU has a reputation among young people as a very fun (party) school with a solid football program in a warm climate so they are always a factor. Never discount the fun factor for kids wanting to get away from home and cut lose and "experience life".

Poutasi, Kozan, and Davidson are the last ones besides Murphy that are left on my rather long want list from the summer. If we get three of these guys, ore two and Long it would still be good.

If Long only has one year and can't get here till June I think thats a waste of a scholarship. We need to go all out on Murphy and I still don't think it will be enough. Sucks most of these guys are all about education this year because we can't compete with our rivals. Putting a couple more guys in the Nfl would really help too.

Grades were an issue with Poutasi, which is why we waited to offer. I'm not sure if he will delay his announcement, but I'll go ahead and guess that he does. At least he replaced Washington with Oregon in his top three..lol

If we can get him in for a visit... I like our chances against Utah and Oklahoma St.

TheMaehlMan wrote:Grades were an issue with Poutasi, which is why we waited to offer. I'm not sure if he will delay his announcement, but I'll go ahead and guess that he does. At least he replaced Washington with Oregon in his top three..lol

I thought offensive linemen were smart guys.