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Every recruiting class from now on the kids will be younger than me...I've been following Duck football and recruiting since middle school and always felt like these guys were way older than me. Now that the time has come, it feels weird. Geez, listen to me...18 and I sound like I'm having a mid life crisis hah

Dude same thing happened 2 years ago for me, I'm 20. I just all of a sudden realized that the 6'4 240 DE we got was younger than me. Just weird.

OMG you guys wanna borrow my walker and hearing aides?

gregspechtismyhero wrote:Every recruiting class from now on the kids will be younger than me...I've been following Duck football and recruiting since middle school and always felt like these guys were way older than me. Now that the time has come, it feels weird. Geez, listen to me...18 and I sound like I'm having a mid life crisis hah

That was me 4 years ago. Now I'm older than the majority of people on the Oregon roster. Once next football season ends during my super senior year next year, I WILL be older than everyone on the Oregon roster or college football in general with the exception of seniors in the 2012 season who took Mormon missions, but even they would most likely be only a little bit older than me.

I died the day Kevin Durant got drafted to my hometown Sonics, and subsequently got a million dollar contract.

Yeah....that was 20 years ago for me. haha

Trust me, it gets worse.......... wait until you're MY age and the players end up being the age of your kid. Now that sucks!

It eventually happens to all of us! Im 37 years old... I dont have a 18 year old kid but technically these high school recruits could be my kids! As you get older your perspective on the game changes a bit too... when you're a real youngster you look at the players as Superheros, then as you move into HS/College years you look at the players as peers, as you get older they turn into "kids"... its weird....

gregspechtismyhero wrote:Every recruiting class from now on the kids will be younger than me...I've been following Duck football and recruiting since middle school and always felt like these guys were way older than me. Now that the time has come, it feels weird. Geez, listen to me...18 and I sound like I'm having a mid life crisis hah

Same feeling here.

It becomes even more strange when you hit the age that the seniors are younger than you. And then you get to the point where most of the guys in the NFL are younger you.

Haha yeah that happened with my a few years ago. I'm 21 now.

It is kind of weird when you have a class with an incoming freshman football player. The fact that I cared enough to spend a lot of time on his recruitment, and he's younger than me made me feel like like a weirdo.

MFRDuckFan wrote:Trust me, it gets worse.......... wait until you're MY age and the players end up being the age of your kid. Now that sucks!

or...You are my age and you forget how actually old you are...Its called Alzheimers.....The next stage is NOT caring how old I am....

I'm 24 and it does feel weird knowing that there are now zero players on the team older then me or my age. I tend to care less and less about recruiting each year cause of that......I follow them once they commit to us but don't go searching out guys who are just prospects

uodux1212 wrote:It eventually happens to all of us! Im 37 years old... I dont have a 18 year old kid but technically these high school recruits could be my kids! As you get older your perspective on the game changes a bit too... when you're a real youngster you look at the players as Superheros, then as you move into HS/College years you look at the players as peers, as you get older they turn into "kids"... its weird....

I agree...