GeotechDuck

Ugh. Swing and another miss……

Oregon has had several recent 4* and 5* recruits that didn’t pan out. Most of them didn’t do much better after transferring. Thompson, Burmeister, Butterfield, Jonson, Rodrigues, Mahalak all come to mind.

We are in a scary period. I hope you are right. If so, we will probably be okay. Very concerned that Oregon has not had a 2026 commit stick since February.

I don't usually worry to much about missing on guys here and there. However, there has been a clear shift in strategy over the past 4 months, with Oregon losing 4 and 5* commits and consistently missing on high end prospects. This is becoming a trend and is very concerning. As David pointed out above and I agree with, it is challenging to get recruits to Eugene. But Oregon had built an advantage in two areas...brand and money. Oregon had the funds to compete with the big boys in the NIL game, and now they are going to pull back? I think that is a massive mistake. Losing out of Greene and Cantwell is huge and extremely disappointing. If you have money to spend on recruiting, those are the two guys you really needed. You can try and live off portal talent for OL play, but I am not sure that will get you to the promised land. Here is an excellent article posted by Smith 72 on why consistently, talent, and experience playing in a system with the same teammates for several years is so critical to the success of OLs.

Best Oregon news I have heard in months. Who’s your starting 5 as of today? Hopefully they add another guard. Shelstad - lock Simpkins - combo guard on a roster very short on guards. Lindsay - can play multiple positions. Shot better than 50% from the floor and better than 40% from three. Rebounds well. Does lots of little things. Will it translate to the next level? My bet is yes. He will be the surprise player on this roster. Evans - lock Bittle - lock

Oregon was killing it in football recruiting over the past three years. Now this offseason, something has clearly changed. They have missed on a 1/2 dozen top level recruits and had multiple key decommitments over the past three months. Oregon has 7 total commitments and is in danger of dropping out of the Top25 recruiting rankings, all while most teams are nearing 3/4 to full capacity recruiting classes. I am not convinced that Oregon wants to participate in the market right now in any sport. And I agree with your point. There is an article a while back that I linked here that indicated that Oregon’s basketball NIL budget was in the neighborhood of $2M. Michigan, Maryland and other top teams in the BIG are spending $8-$10M on their roster. Sure sounds like a fast way to the bottom. The worst part, is that Altman will probably take the blame if this team misses the tourney this year. It doesn’t seem fair to give a guy a Yugo, then expect him to win the Indy 500.

What’s the hang up here? Does anyone know? On the surface, having 1/4 of the NIL budget of the top teams in your conference in a revenue generating sport does not seem like a successful strategy.

Also happy to see this. However, while non-revenue sports may not be going backwards, the men’s basketball program certainly appears to be doing so.

This. It’s almost better at QB and OL to pick up proven talent in the portal. Let someone else pay them $2M to get them trained up the first and maybe second year.

This makes too much sense, so it will never happen.

Bluey is the best kid’s show on TV. I am probably going to watch that with my daughter instead of some 9am kickoff game that doesn’t involve the Ducks. But I know that I’m the only adult with that opinion.

Finally someone who averages over 4PPG! Seriously though, this seems like a decent pick up. He rebounds well and can block some shots. He can also score a little bit and supplement Evans, Bittle, and Shelstad. There are a lot of forwards on this roster - Pryor, Evans, Stewart, Lindsay, Kobzystyi. Oregon still needs a couple of guards that can shoot it from deep very badly. Sarr is still a must have.

Parents and girlfriends still undefeated in recruiting.

Oregon recruiting, in both football and men's basketball, is in a serious downward spiral over the past few months. Hopefully, they can reverse course here very soon.

We lost Paul Mbiya to NC State? The recruiting trail is rough for Oregon right now.