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Come to Oregon and be a winner or go to Wash and be a loser.

Gotta like what we are hearing here. Proximity is really the only issue, but I think we still win out on this one. Eugene is only like a 5 hour drive to Seattle?

UOducksTK1 wrote:Gotta like what we are hearing here. Proximity is really the only issue, but I think we still win out on this one. Eugene is only like a 5 hour drive to Seattle?

About that. Easily drivable in a day and not all that far for his family to visit.

Great news. We don't need as many DTs as people seem to think. A couple highly ranked guys would be really good.

dthomas=ddixon wrote:Great news. We don't need as many DTs as people seem to think. A couple highly ranked guys would be really good.

That must mean that Heimuli is more than likely staying for next season. Him not leaving would be huge.

hopefully the case, i dont see how you could turn down an opportunity to play at Jerry World and just put off the mission by one year.

dthomas=ddixon wrote:Great news. We don't need as many DTs as people seem to think. A couple highly ranked guys would be really good.

3 minimum, but I want four, especially if they're all 4 star and above.

nehalem wrote:

dthomas=ddixon wrote:Great news. We don't need as many DTs as people seem to think. A couple highly ranked guys would be really good.

3 minimum, but I want four, especially if they're all 4 star and above.

With Ebert on board already, 2 more DTs is probably what the coaches are after.

Your probably right. But I doubt they'd say no if McReynolds, Latu, and Shelton wanted to commit.

nehalem wrote:

dthomas=ddixon wrote:Great news. We don't need as many DTs as people seem to think. A couple highly ranked guys would be really good.

3 minimum, but I want four, especially if they're all 4 star and above.

We already have 5 DT's on scholarship (though Hart could possibly play strongside end) all of which have at least 2 years of eligibility remaining. If we took 4 HS DT's that would be 9 scholarship players to man 2 positions. There's no way we take more than 2 unless the staff can see them playing end as well, even if it means turning good players away. Even if we take 2, at least one will almost certainly redshirt.

Also FWIW, Mosley has said a couple of times he feels (only his gut feeling, though) that Heimuli comes back.

Well when you put it like that......your logic looks pretty irrefutible. One minor bone to pick would be the 4 HS DT's; if we went with my scenario of 3 HS DT's and Ebert, you red-shirt 2 and talent willing, you add the other 2 to the rotation. So an availability of 7 DT's, with a few of those as hybrid DT/DE's and the chance of injury or some other unforseeable circumstance, 7 doesn't seem that far out. I'll grant you it does seem a little high when I look at it but then I'm a notorius Risk-card hoarder and I'll always error on wanting to many DT's.

They will take every stud on the D-line they can get.. That is the hardest position to recruit quality and they would take an overload for quality DT's.

Bigducker wrote:They will take every stud on the D-line they can get.. That is the hardest position to recruit quality and they would take an overload for quality DT's.

Yup. We haven't been able to recruit this position successfully in a long time. Sooner or later we need some quality DT's or we will be in for some trouble. Very frustrating how we lost all these DT's.

Some more info on Shelton's visit to UW and where we stand. Sort of similar to what we've read already. I would avoid some of the comments though as UW fans are pretty bad.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/h ... ngton.html