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Tyler Johnstone becomes Oregon's 3rd commit from the state of Arizona joining 4* OL Andre Yruretagoyena and 3* DE Sam Kamp.

http://ducksattack.com/?p=882

Suh-weet! I'm loving what we're doing in AZ.

Another nice pickup from Arizona! I think its safe to say we now have a new major pipeline.
-Tyler Johnstone
-Andre Yruretagoyena
-Sam Kamp
-Isaac Remington
-Nick Rowland
-Dion Jordan
Lots of talent stolen right under Stoops' and Erickson's stepstool.

James Euscher from Aloha as well...two O line commits in a matter of minutes!

ljginger wrote:James Euscher from Aloha as well...two O line commits in a matter of minutes!

Here's an article about him first getting an offer from us: http://recruiting.scout.com/2/980742.html

Euscher's Profile: http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p= ... id=3853480

Impressive offer list= good enough for me.

Johnstone is an excellent pickup. Some of my UCLA friends thought that they had this guy in the bag.

A sweet commit. Not only is Johnstone a great prospect with some fabulous offers, but I love this Arizona pipeline we are building. I mean we're getting more of the top players from that state than any other school lol.

Great pickup, the kid looks great! Damn fine O-Line day!

BTW Tyler coach Rad is waiting for you to help with that strength and size issue...

GO DUCKS!!

I don't think the AZ pipeline is new but it's just getting used more. I remember that Oregon was getting a couple from AZ every year for a while during the late 90s-early 00s.

There are a TON of good football players down here! Most people don't realize that the Phoenix metro area is the 6th largest in the U.S. with over 3 million people.

They don't just have division one, division two, etc. They have things set up like division 4-1, 4-2, 5-1, 5-2, 6 in the upper divisions as well as several lower divisions. A division 4-1 school, Saguaro High, was ranked the the USA Today top 100 for three years running until last season. That would be the fourth highest division in the state, but good enough to be in the USA Today rankings.

Please don't quote me as being exact with those divisions. I don't have a newspaper handy to double check myself and couldn't find it right away online, but I'm pretty sure that's right.

Also, Tucson has another 500,000 people, so you've got a lot of great players down there too, not to mention the rest of the state.

Here's a good resource on Arizona prep sports, recruits, etc. A couple Oregon recruits are mentioned on there right now.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/preps/

It also seems like a good amount of Ex-NFLers retire there, so that helps the state bloodlines when it comes to football.

hendrg wrote:It also seems like a good amount of Ex-NFLers retire there, so that helps the state bloodlines when it comes to football.

Some also get into coaching, which can only help with the quality of athletes coming from there.

USC has offered.