Taggert the headline seeker !a

Here is the difference - most of Beaver nation did not even know about this offer. If it was slick Willie, it would have his photo and columns of praise from indulgent duck fans for being such a go getter. It's also not an offer from USC or Norte Dame that we are competing against . The ducks are putting a kids opportunity for an education at risk, by trying to do the shoe schmooze and, quite purposely, ditching the kids future. Hey Willie, for some of these kids and families, it is not alll about you and some football.
If he wants to do things this way, he should do it quietly and under the radar. The kids are the ones that pay the ultimate price for their choices. He does not need to put their decisions under a microscope for all to see, and for years to come. I keep thinking about Colt Lyerla. He ended up choosing the worst place to play football - Eugene is loaded with people and temptations that are not good environments for kids that need a more controlled situation. He made a bad decision, got tons of bad publicity and has paid the price. If you were applying for different jobs, I don't think you want to be 'lured' into a situation that you will later regret because it ruins your whole career. If you are gullible and impressed by promises over substance, that is how you mess up your career and it follows you for a long time afterwards.

No... the real difference is Beaver fan looking for any reason to hate the ucks. This is ridiculous. Point being, most on here are in the loop, I am in the loop, but do not search out items to just hate on the ucks. Knew zero of all this supposed Taggart publicity until I come here. Most just skip over uck news. But oh no, not this stupid thread.

Holy cow, we won the CW, they fired maybe the only coach in their staff with any integrity... actually leading to firing rise with none... they make what seems to be a questionable if not weird hire. But, thus entire thread of WT being all about "look at me" is ludicrous and quite frankly embarrassing.

Glove... why is this still in this thread? This is not about Beaver football, OSU, and enough is enough.

Really? WT is the "look at me" one here? Jeez, some on here need to grow up.

Out of the loop baseball
Apparently you only read what you post. Watch the news, read the news - get informed. If you have not seen, or heard of the embarrassing coverage of everything ducky - you are hiding under a rock somewhere. The point is that OSU ALWAYS GETS SHORT SHRIFT FROM THE Oregonian, while the ducks are Oregon's team and when they blow their noses, it's front page news.
The real question is why you bother to post anything when you have no idea what is going on... and it is getting worse. Pay attention !

I love the Beavs. You love the Beavs. Everyone on this board loves the Beavs. You know who doesn't? A majority of people in Oregon. Small wonder the newspaper caters to the majority of people.

www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/4i51df/rcfb_fan_map/

Personally, I've never found the Oregonian's coverage of Oregon State lacking. They have two beat writers assigned to the program, and they crank out a ton of content. Andrew Nemec, the recruiting writer, is FAR more complimentary towards Gary Andersen's efforts recruiting than he has been to Oregon lately. Hell, he wrote a whole column about how Oregon got full of itself and lazy in recruiting a few weeks ago.

It's ok to have a bias. Most fans do. The entire state of Wisconsin thinks Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are out to get Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.

I'm not buying that it's somehow more arrogant to offer a 4* committed to another school than it is to offer a 3* committed elsewhere. My rule of thumb is that if I think something the Ducks did is arrogant or just plain dumb, I ask myself if I would cringe if the Beavs did it. Putting a billboard up in Times Square? I'd cringe. Roboduck? See Randy the Logger. Floating a rumor you might play a game in Beijing? I remember how irritated I was when the news leaked that OSU was trying to play a basketball game on the White House lawn. But offering a player that is really good, and then capitalizing on press touting that you're going after really good players? That's just smart. That's what everyone liked about Andersen I thought.....that he was unafraid to recruit high profile players and go toe to toe with schools that were maybe a step above us in the pecking order.

Much like OSU needed a perception shift from "doing more with less" and "Corvallis is not a destination," OSU fans will be much better off when we stop caring so much about every little thing the Ducks do and start treating them with the indifference their fan base has shown us for so many years

I just don't know how you know that they're only going after 5* committed kids.....looking at oregonlive recruiting stories in the past days there's one about a 3* safety including UO in his top 6, a 3* TE who has an official visit that was once committed to Tennessee but isn't any longer, one about the offer to 4* Arizona QB commit Burmeister (so there you go), an offer to a 4* uncommitted linebacker from Hawaii, and then one about two RBs setting visits - one a USC commit (another feather in your cap) and the other a former Clemson commit that opened his recruiting back up last month.

I follow you just fine - you're just looking at the information you want to see. Yes, they're offering bigtime recruits committed elsewhere, but that's hardly all they are doing. Any time there's a coaching change, recruiting is going to be tougher and you're probably going to have to reach a little bit.

You're pretty much talking to the same people who said Riley never offered highly sought kids and was only after lower ranked kids without looking at the actual offer list.