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I love this kid. Just happened to see some video of him browsing the other day and looked at more this morning. I don't know what his track times are, but on the football field this is the fastest linebacker I have seen in this class. He reads the play well, has great instincts and then is playing down hill to fill a hole, chase down someone trying to get to the edge or run down a QB or running back from behind. When he gets there he hits like he is 25 pounds heavier than he is listed. Only thing I haven't seen is pass coverage. With his athleticism I would think that would be a strength and he moved to line backer from safety too. This guy projects to cause a lot of havoc for opposing offenses in college.

More and more the product on the field will mean more than the location. How many bigtime college football programs are in big markets? Georgia in Athens Alabama in Tuscaloosa Oklahoma in Norman Clemson in Clemson Oregon in Eugene Notre Dame in South Bend Michigan in Ann Arbor It seems to me the USCs' of the college football world are the exceptions, not the rules.

That would help on the football field to. Imagine him just exploding off the line then shifting into that extra gear that few others (maybe no one else) have. This guy has so much potential for big plays. The pressure that it would put on a defense, with Oregon's running game, the RPO's we've been seeing Stein is bringing into the offense and then the speed of this guy at tight end. Where do you even begin to try to stop that offense? I think track may be what really puts Oregon over the top with him. I'm sure Maryland has track too, they may even be good, but until last year I lived in Maryland and never heard anything about Maryland track. Everyone knows Oregon track though.

What a joke! Decades of the PAC bending over backwards to kiss the rear end of USC and now when they are leaving they're complaining about ill treatment. Let's be clear, let's be adults, you deserve it!

We'll see.

Absolutely understand your point. Yet, if he was offered a schollie I'd also trust that the coaching staff saw something in him the raters didn't. This kid's film looks really good, scholarship worthy. If you just watched him perform and no one told you he was 6' and 175, you'd likely think he was a 4* recruit. BTW there's a guy who has a live arm, accuracy, escapability and is a good qb runner and is listed at 6'1" but is probably closer to 6' in that school down south, who just won a big trophy in NY. Of course I think he was a 5* coming out of high school.

This is a good pick up walk on or not. Remember Mariota was a three star recruit, Justin Herbert was a three star local kid. This kid has a live arm, is accurate and yes he is a really good QB runner with escapability off the charts. What he isn't is tall. Why do QBs have to be 6'4" or better these days? If he was 6'4" he'd be a 4 star.

I look at those same numbers and think this guy is really good. What were they expecting the second coming of Jadeveon Clowney? That happens once in a life time. This guy was really good at South Carolina and I suspect will be really good at Oregon too.

Everything I've heard about Burch, he will fit the culture just fine. We need talent on D now, develop culture guys for later and win now with guys like Burch. I'm okay with that.

Oregon obviously can't duplicate geography, but there are some similarities between Athens and Eugene. Both are small cities which love their university's sports. Oregon can't duplicate being in the southeast where people are crazy for their football. Will Oregon pull players from the southeast? Occasionally. But I don't think that is needed. Georgia recruits Georgia well, but they also recruit nation wide. This seems to be Lanning's strategy. Oregon has been hitting Texas hard recently, still doing well in Cali. Talk about the southeast all you want, those two states still produce more high level football players than any other states. I loved what Smart said after the game last night. There was no entitlement and no complacency on the team. That I think Oregon can reproduce. This seems to be Lanning's goal, get better every day. And yes I love what Georgia does on both sides of the ball. I said after our game with them in September that it was the best I have ever seen any team at any level block on the edge with receivers, tight ends, backs and pulling linemen. The edge is where they killed us. We stopped them running inside for the most part, we didn't even come close to stopping the jet sweeps, the flair passes, the bubble screens... partly because we didn't tackle well, but even more because they blocked those plays so well. Yeah, I think there is a lot of good about Georgia to emulate! Here we go!

Denver doesn't seem to be interested either.

Hmmm... looks like I'm watching a replay.

Also watching some Oregon recruits playing in the US Army Bowl. Dowdell, Purchase, someone whose name is slipping my mind also just forced a fumble. So, at least 3 Oregon recruits playing today.

If we sign Harbor imagine him getting that pitch with the potential that play has of getting the tight end to the second level. I'm ready, when does next season start?

Yes, it would give us a potentially good back up, maybe even competition for Bo. After Bo was hurt we lost two games. If he goes down this year, do we have someone behind him who will win those games and give us a chance to go to the playoffs. Maybe Ty becomes that guy, maybe the freshman could. It would be nice to have a proven guy.

Well I wish him well. After a very promising freshman year his roll was limited by some really good transfers. I didn't see his roll increasing considerably next year and he's too good to be seated on the bench. Hope he does well at Cal until they play the Ducks.

There is always room to upgrade. Before the season started we thought we had a pretty loaded running back room with guys coming back. Then Irving, Whittington and James showed we could be better. Will Dowdell and Limar do the same this year? There's always room for an upgrade. Who knows how this group will turn out. If nothing else James, Dowdell and Limar are developing to take over when Bucky and Noah are done. In any case this running back room looks really good!

I read this earlier and wondered what actual evidence they had to predict Bama on this. Has Proctor said anything, someone close to him said anything, or do they just assume that he will flip to the most recent visit? Whenever someone visits Bama, the bandwagon predictors automatically start saying Bama. Sometimes that happens, often it doesn't! I'm not convinced.

The defense this year was mostly good against the run, especially interior running (OSU game was the exception, not the rule). Where we failed was the edge, and pass coverage. Totally agree that a better pass rush would have helped the pass coverage. You simply can't cover D1 receivers for more than 3-4 seconds and not get burned way too often. But we were getting burned more quickly. I wondered often why Flowe and Sewell were not used on blitzes way more often. Just an observation from a rank amature, but they certainly weren't helping that much in pass coverage, why not see if we could get a few more sacks out of them. We just got potentially a very good one transferring from Iowa and actually have a pretty solid group coming back, even without Flowe and Sewell.

There is definitely room here for a very good class without Moore, but I think Oregon is still in good shape with him. There was a reason Ohio State swooped in and got the Huskie recruit and stopped trying on Moore. I'm still not convinced Nix is coming back. I think he needs a great showing in the bowl game to get the taste of the Washington and OSU losses out of people's mouths. He needs to show again that uninjured he can play at the next level. A 4 touchdown, 300 yard passing, 100 yard rushing game or something impressive anyway, and Bo may be gone. Of course that comes after Moore's decision. We'll just have to watch with bated breath and see what happens. High excitement in any case!

Yeah, with all the good and bad about Leach, he sure coached some exciting football, even when I was rooting against him. Prayers and peace to his family and friends.

This one doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I don't know anything about the young man other than watching him play football. With the losses on the O-line he had a really good chance of starting next year, even with some transfers added. Grass often looks greener from a distance.

Which according to some folks at Ohio State is Oregon. Rumor is OSU couldn't offer enough to switch him. That seems weird to me. After all isn't OSU just swimming in all that B1G money that SC and UCLA want in on?

I'm not sure about game changer, but very solid player who meets a critical need, yes. This guy can play the run, but more than anything he covers tight ends and big slots as well as any linebacker out there. Big tight ends and line backers killed us this past season. I think this is a great pick up for the Ducks!

yeah, sounds like the same kind of bright creative mind as Dilly. let's see how he does at getting on the recruiting trail now and keeping some of the guys who have committed and then get some really good new ones. If Bo stays, hope he can put him in a place where he can succeed much like Dilly did. If not let's see how he does with get someone else ready to produce at close to the same level.