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I hate that we missed the boat on Lucien. I posted about him in the summer after one of my friends had seen him play last year and said that the kid was an absolute stud. He talked to him and Lucien said that he was very high on Oregon. Apparently, Lucien would have committed to Oregon had he been offered. He was practically begging for an offer. Lucien was a high school teammate of Bryan Bennett and Hroniss Grasu. I believe Oregon has another Crespi player on their team too. At the time, Lucien was a 3 star prospect with offers from Air Force, Illinois, Colorado, OSU, and a few other smaller programs.

Now Lucien is a 4 star recruit and has offers from Michigan, Miami, UCLA, Nebraska, and Texas A&M. The guy is going to be a very good receiver at the next level. He's very physical, has great hands, and good speed. It's unfortunate that we never offered him and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the coaching staff was confident that they would land Blackmon.

We'll see tomorrow.

Is Lucien out of the picture now or do we still have a shot? Recruiting is tough set of decisions for the coaches...

Well you can't just willy-nilly give and take offers on a weekly basis. As a coaching staff, you have to be somewhat committed to the recruit that you offered. A player like Lucien would have been told "hey, we want you to play here BUT we don't have any offers left to give you. HOWEVER, if any of the other guys who we've already offered go elsewhere, we'll call you right away and let you know that you're offer is now on the table.

I don't have any inside info, but I would imagine if Blackmon goes elsewhere and maybe one other guy we've offered, then Lucien gets a call from CK and Co. telling him that he now has an offer.

Destroyer77 wrote:Well you can't just willy-nilly give and take offers on a weekly basis. As a coaching staff, you have to be somewhat committed to the recruit that you offered. A player like Lucien would have been told "hey, we want you to play here BUT we don't have any offers left to give you. HOWEVER, if any of the other guys who we've already offered go elsewhere, we'll call you right away and let you know that you're offer is now on the table.

I don't have any inside info, but I would imagine if Blackmon goes elsewhere and maybe one other guy we've offered, then Lucien gets a call from CK and Co. telling him that he now has an offer.

I realize that. I'm not calling out the coaches. They are great talent evaluators and have certainly "coached up" a lot of players. I just think that it's disappointing that they didn't give a closer look to a kid who desperately wanted to play at Oregon, played a position of need, and had Oregon connections. Most importantly, he's a terrific blocker and a great fit for this team, something that the coaches always emphasize during the recruiting process.

At this point, if we offered Lucien, we'd probably have somewhat of a shot (Miami just offered him and he's considering them). I thought that he would end up at Michigan, but with Rich Rod likely being pushed out, I think he'll stay home and go to UCLA.

I am sure the coaches know and have evaluated him when they looked at his team mates films. If they have not offered him yet they have some they like better at this point.

I hate that we missed the boat on Lucien.

breaking news: no one here can offer scholies to players. the sooner you realize that the sooner you realize "you hate missing" things means absolutely nothing. believe it or not, life does go on.

hines wrote:

I hate that we missed the boat on Lucien.

breaking news: no one here can offer scholies to players. the sooner you realize that the sooner you realize "you hate missing" things means absolutely nothing. believe it or not, life does go on.

hines,

Technically speaking you are right. There is really no such thing as "we" in any given experience. Every perception is unique to the "I" that experiences it. That "we" tend to identify ourselves in a collective sense is just a hardwired effect of social and survival instinct. Poo poo on that poster for making the egregious mistake of identifying his being with that of something he is only semantically a party to. I mean let's get real.

Pontius wrote:

hines wrote:

I hate that we missed the boat on Lucien.

breaking news: no one here can offer scholies to players. the sooner you realize that the sooner you realize "you hate missing" things means absolutely nothing. believe it or not, life does go on.

hines,

Technically speaking you are right. There is really no such thing as "we" in any given experience. Every perception is unique to the "I" that experiences it. That "we" tend to identify ourselves in a collective sense is just a hardwired effect of social and survival instinct. Poo poo on that poster for making the egregious mistake of identifying his being with that of something he is only semantically a party to. I mean let's get real.

You also have to realize that it's just hines being hines.

greenyellow wrote: You also have to realize that it's just hines being hines.

And I'm just Pontius being Pontius. Hines is right often enough to warrant a veritable response when his opinion lacks pragmatism(as in this case).