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California's class of 2011 football recruits who have yet to make commitments include a list of highly talented student-athletes. The list includes three players from last year's Gardena Serra High School CIF state football championship team, in George Farmer (WR/2011), Marqise Lee (DB/2011) and Jason Gibson (LB/2011). This group also includes a few recruits from NorCal powerhouse Grant High School (Sacramento), in Viliami Moala (DT/2011) and James Sample (DB/2011).

Check out the complete list and full breakdown of each recruit...

http://collegelevelathletes.com/stories ... l-recruits



Aaron

Thanks Aaron, nice to Oregon on a lot of those lists.

Cal seems to be doing quite well themselves, unfortunately.

If we could get Blackmon or Atkinson and Barr or Townsend that would be huge.

Lee also sounds like an intriguing prospect, but who knows how our depth chart looks to DBs right now.

hendrg wrote:Thanks Aaron, nice to Oregon on a lot of those lists.

Cal seems to be doing quite well themselves, unfortunately.

If we could get Blackmon or Atkinson and Barr or Townsend that would be huge.

Lee also sounds like an intriguing prospect, but who knows how our depth chart looks to DBs right now.

We'll get some good prospects out of CA but it seems a majority of the top ones don't leave the state now. It's a good think AZ is proving to be really fertile this year plus we can always hit TX now as well.

greenyellow wrote:We'll get some good prospects out of CA but it seems a majority of the top ones don't leave the state now. It's a good think AZ is proving to be really fertile this year plus we can always hit TX now as well.

I agree. In the piece on Johnny Manziel I talked about how the Ducks have been able to secure great talent out of Texas (James, Seastrunk, Cantu, Thomas), and I'm sure there will be more in the years to come. If anyone is making a mark for the Pac-10 in the state of Texas, it's definitely Oregon.

CLA Sports wrote:

greenyellow wrote:We'll get some good prospects out of CA but it seems a majority of the top ones don't leave the state now. It's a good think AZ is proving to be really fertile this year plus we can always hit TX now as well.

I agree. In the piece on Johnny Manziel I talked about how the Ducks have been able to secure great talent out of Texas (James, Seastrunk, Cantu, Thomas), and I'm sure there will be more in the years to come. If anyone is making a mark for the Pac-10 in the state of Texas, it's definitely Oregon.

Oregon has a nice thing going for it down in TX. It seems a lot of schools down there run some type of spread offense, which helps with recruits who are used to it. Not every player down there can go to one of the big in-state BCS schools so they will always have options aplenty.

Does anyone know how many rides Cal has to offer this year?

The other Cali schools don't have many left.

I don't understand the appeal of Cal other than their academics. Sure they always start the season out good but always end up being a bust. They have some new facilities and stadium renovations in the works but they still don't rival Oregon's. It must be the young coaches that they can play X-Box with

gofightingducks wrote:I don't understand the appeal of Cal other than their academics. Sure they always start the season out good but always end up being a bust. They have some new facilities and stadium renovations in the works but they still don't rival Oregon's. It must be the young coaches that they can play X-Box with

Isn't that supposed to be the reason to attend college?

May the appeal to Cal has something to do with the area. I love it down there. Nice climate and not far from lots to do.

gofightingducks wrote:I don't understand the appeal of Cal other than their academics. Sure they always start the season out good but always end up being a bust. They have some new facilities and stadium renovations in the works but they still don't rival Oregon's. It must be the young coaches that they can play X-Box with

How do you NOT understand the appeal of Cal? The bay area cities + vibrant college town + 2nd in the pac 10 in NFL placement + new facilities + top tier academics + great athletic department + in California (obviously this is only a + if the recruit is from California, but since the majority of great players on the west coast come from CA, this is pretty relevant).

And yes, i'm a Cal fan - but also like Oregon (would like to go to UO for grad school). =D

Quackers wrote:

gofightingducks wrote:I don't understand the appeal of Cal other than their academics. Sure they always start the season out good but always end up being a bust. They have some new facilities and stadium renovations in the works but they still don't rival Oregon's. It must be the young coaches that they can play X-Box with

How do you NOT understand the appeal of Cal? The bay area cities + vibrant college town + 2nd in the pac 10 in NFL placement + new facilities + top tier academics + great athletic department + in California (obviously this is only a + if the recruit is from California, but since the majority of great players on the west coast come from CA, this is pretty relevant).

And yes, i'm a Cal fan - but also like Oregon (would like to go to UO for grad school). =D

As awful and dirty as it makes me feel to agree with a Cal fan, I have to agree with Quackers on this one.

Anyone who's spent time in San Francisco knows its a great area. Berkely is as nice or nicer of a town than Eugene, is only a short drive to a big city, the weather is beautiful there, it's just a great place to be overall. Really the only negatives of living there are high living costs and crappy political issues stemming from Sothern California dragging everyone else down, and neither are really pertinent issues to 18 year old kids.

As much as I hate Cal, I can completely see why we (and other schools) lose recruits to them on a consistent basis. I'd compare it to trying to compete our campus w/ UCLA's... just not even in the same league. Eugene's a great college town, but outside of the program, there's not alot to convince alot of these inner-city kids to come. I honestly think we're lucky to be doing as well as we are...

California? I remember that place. We used to get a lot of our commits from there. In fact we have 1 commit from there this coming class.

I would consider Brendon Bigelow a top undecided recruit as well...sounds like Oregon and Cal could be the top contenders w/UW for his services. Though from what i read i wouldnt be surprised if he is a silent to Cal.