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Post by obf on Sept 22, 2017 9:03:24 GMT -8
I was born and raised in Corvallis. Went to almost every Beaver game available during my youth and High school years. I even went to the Jerry Pettibone football camp (although college athletics were never a reality for my fat ass 2a self...) There was no bigger Beaver fan than me, yet... when I was 17 and ready to choose a college OSU was never even a consideration. Not because it wasn't a good school, not because I didn't love the Beavers, but because I WAS SEVENTEEN AND WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE AWAY FROM WHAT I KNEW! Be away from where my family was and my parents were, I wanted to experience new things and a new place. I ended up going to a small school in Texas, enjoyed my time there, got a degree, got married (to a girl from Corvallis ) had a kid... and upon graduation immediately moved back to Corvallis because I realized that it is a great place to be! Point being, I TOTALLY believe that Hufanga dropping OSU off his list has more to do with OTHER things than Beaver football... The only reason he "led us on" this far was to not disrespect OSU in the first place. We were never actually an option... Of course that one recruit with extenuating circumstances doesn't excuse the fact that our recruit has been pretty awful, and especially in state has been putrid when it was supposedly a point of emphasis with CGA...
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Post by nabeav on Sept 22, 2017 9:52:12 GMT -8
It's all lip service. They take the best kids they can get and they don't care where they're from. Every coach is the same really. They're not passing up a stud from Michigan that wants to come because there's a semi decent kid from Creswell available.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 10:13:46 GMT -8
It's all lip service. They take the best kids they can get and they don't care where they're from. Every coach is the same really. They're not passing up a stud from Michigan that wants to come because there's a semi decent kid from Creswell available. It may be lip service but I don't think it should be. Oregon doesn't have a bunch of PAC bodies most years so I think it'd be smart resource management to get them. It'd be pretty rare that you'd have to pass on a stud from another state to get an Oregon stud. OSU needs to be creative and being the destination of choice for PAC kids from Oregon would be a smart use of limited resources. There is also the idea that you want to be the school they think of if they get home sick and decide to transfer a year or 2 in or as a grad transfer. That said, this kid was never gonna go to OSU, he has USC written all over him. If I were him I would have chosen UW but I get why he'd want to get out of the northwest. Seriously doubt he ends up at UO.
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Post by vhalum92 on Sept 22, 2017 11:01:35 GMT -8
I was born and raised in Corvallis. Went to almost every Beaver game available during my youth and High school years. I even went to the Jerry Pettibone football camp (although college athletics were never a reality for my fat ass 2a self...) There was no bigger Beaver fan than me, yet... when I was 17 and ready to choose a college OSU was never even a consideration. Not because it wasn't a good school, not because I didn't love the Beavers, but because I WAS SEVENTEEN AND WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE AWAY FROM WHAT I KNEW! Be away from where my family was and my parents were, I wanted to experience new things and a new place. I ended up going to a small school in Texas, enjoyed my time there, got a degree, got married (to a girl from Corvallis ) had a kid... and upon graduation immediately moved back to Corvallis because I realized that it is a great place to be! Point being, I TOTALLY believe that Hufanga dropping OSU off his list has more to do with OTHER things than Beaver football... The only reason he "led us on" this far was to not disrespect OSU in the first place. We were never actually an option... Of course that one recruit with extenuating circumstances doesn't excuse the fact that our recruit has been pretty awful, and especially in state has been putrid when it was supposedly a point of emphasis with CGA... This is really hepful to a guy like me... I have a High School Senior right now who has also been an OSU fan his entire life and he is looking at colleges in Washington, Arizona, Idaho and a few in Oregon but isn't really wanting to go to OSU. I left Eugene for Corvallis at 18... that was my big stretch of a move.
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Post by green85 on Sept 22, 2017 12:30:17 GMT -8
It's all lip service. They take the best kids they can get and they don't care where they're from. Every coach is the same really. They're not passing up a stud from Michigan that wants to come because there's a semi decent kid from Creswell available. It may be lip service but I don't think it should be. Oregon doesn't have a bunch of PAC bodies most years so I think it'd be smart resource management to get them. It'd be pretty rare that you'd have to pass on a stud from another state to get an Oregon stud. OSU needs to be creative and being the destination of choice for PAC kids from Oregon would be a smart use of limited resources. There is also the idea that you want to be the school they think of if they get home sick and decide to transfer a year or 2 in or as a grad transfer. That said, this kid was never gonna go to OSU, he has USC written all over him. If I were him I would have chosen UW but I get why he'd want to get out of the northwest. Seriously doubt he ends up at UO. "Seriously doubt he ends up at UO." www.scout.com/PlayerInstitution/Talanoa-Hufanga-at-Crescent-Valley-172146/CurrentExpertPredictions
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 12:56:49 GMT -8
It may be lip service but I don't think it should be. Oregon doesn't have a bunch of PAC bodies most years so I think it'd be smart resource management to get them. It'd be pretty rare that you'd have to pass on a stud from another state to get an Oregon stud. OSU needs to be creative and being the destination of choice for PAC kids from Oregon would be a smart use of limited resources. There is also the idea that you want to be the school they think of if they get home sick and decide to transfer a year or 2 in or as a grad transfer. That said, this kid was never gonna go to OSU, he has USC written all over him. If I were him I would have chosen UW but I get why he'd want to get out of the northwest. Seriously doubt he ends up at UO. "Seriously doubt he ends up at UO." www.scout.com/PlayerInstitution/Talanoa-Hufanga-at-Crescent-Valley-172146/CurrentExpertPredictionsUnless those guys literally live inside his head, their predictions ain't all that better than mine. I predict USC. But good luck. Frankly, I am not that concerned, if he goes to UO cool but it'd be an academically stupid choice. If you have a chance to go to a top 25 academic school with a strong football program you should. UO is not that school. USC is.
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Post by Judge Smails on Sept 22, 2017 14:07:07 GMT -8
Unless those guys literally live inside his head, their predictions ain't all that better than mine. I predict USC. But good luck. Frankly, I am not that concerned, if he goes to UO cool but it'd be an academically stupid choice. If you have a chance to go to a top 25 academic school with a strong football program you should. UO is not that school. USC is. What you are missing is that he is buddies with Chase Cota. They have said many times that they would like to play together somewhere. That is what is giving uo the advantage.
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Post by spudbeaver on Sept 22, 2017 14:41:31 GMT -8
Unless those guys literally live inside his head, their predictions ain't all that better than mine. I predict USC. But good luck. Frankly, I am not that concerned, if he goes to UO cool but it'd be an academically stupid choice. If you have a chance to go to a top 25 academic school with a strong football program you should. UO is not that school. USC is. What you are missing is that he is buddies with Chase Cota. They have said many times that they would like to play together somewhere. That is what is giving uo the advantage. Smails! Where have you been? Good to see you post! $100 you slice into the woods!
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Post by fridaynightlights on Sept 22, 2017 15:27:06 GMT -8
IMO Tufanga eliminating OSU has more to do with the football program then getting away from home. So he wants to get away from home so he eliminates the school 4 miles down the road but the school 40 miles down the road may be considered the favorite....? The reason I have heard that uo is the leader over SC is that he wants to stay close to home and family. If OSU had a winning program on the rise with a coaching staff he related to I think we would have at least made his final 6.
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Post by blackbug on Sept 22, 2017 16:05:09 GMT -8
It may be lip service but I don't think it should be. Oregon doesn't have a bunch of PAC bodies most years so I think it'd be smart resource management to get them. It'd be pretty rare that you'd have to pass on a stud from another state to get an Oregon stud. OSU needs to be creative and being the destination of choice for PAC kids from Oregon would be a smart use of limited resources. There is also the idea that you want to be the school they think of if they get home sick and decide to transfer a year or 2 in or as a grad transfer. That said, this kid was never gonna go to OSU, he has USC written all over him. If I were him I would have chosen UW but I get why he'd want to get out of the northwest. Seriously doubt he ends up at UO. "Seriously doubt he ends up at UO." www.scout.com/PlayerInstitution/Talanoa-Hufanga-at-Crescent-Valley-172146/CurrentExpertPredictionsThe crystal ball predictions are a useful tool and comical at the same time. The correlation between predictions of a person's preferred school as the destination and 247sports staff designated to cover said school removes some of the reliability of the information. If you were to assume all the crystal ball predictions were correct for the ucks this year then the class would have to be more than 40 signed. We all know that is not going to happen.
Having said this, the prediction could be right; but it actually is more likely that it is wrong , right now. We shall see.
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Post by obf on Sept 25, 2017 7:58:35 GMT -8
IMO Tufanga eliminating OSU has more to do with the football program then getting away from home. So he wants to get away from home so he eliminates the school 4 miles down the road but the school 40 miles down the road may be considered the favorite....? The reason I have heard that uo is the leader over SC is that he wants to stay close to home and family. If OSU had a winning program on the rise with a coaching staff he related to I think we would have at least made his final 6. You must not remember being 18... Being 40 miles from home vs being 4 is a HUGE difference... No chance he runs into Mom and Dad at Winco, no chance they drop in for a visit in Eugene (it would be planned), however being 40 miles from home so you can do laundry on the weekend or spend thanksgiving with family is great, and something I hadn't thought about when I moved to Texas low these many years ago... Turns out campuses turn into ghost town on long weekends, sometimes that is fun, mostly boring and lonely though...
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Post by LJG888 on Sept 27, 2017 22:56:52 GMT -8
IMO Tufanga eliminating OSU has more to do with the football program then getting away from home. So he wants to get away from home so he eliminates the school 4 miles down the road but the school 40 miles down the road may be considered the favorite....? The reason I have heard that uo is the leader over SC is that he wants to stay close to home and family. If OSU had a winning program on the rise with a coaching staff he related to I think we would have at least made his final 6. This is 100% accurate!
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Post by nabeav on Sept 28, 2017 10:55:26 GMT -8
Just listened to Machado/Sprague podcast - Machado basically said it was the losing that deep sixed OSU from his list. So the kid I'm sure thought he was sparing feelings by saying he wanted to experience something new, but I think it would've been a lot better if he'd just said we weren't winning and that affected his decision. Might spur some people into action to hear from a recruit's mouth that the losing now is affecting our ability to win in the future.
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Post by obf on Sept 28, 2017 12:24:01 GMT -8
Just listened to Machado/Sprague podcast - Machado basically said it was the losing that deep sixed OSU from his list. So the kid I'm sure thought he was sparing feelings by saying he wanted to experience something new, but I think it would've been a lot better if he'd just said we weren't winning and that affected his decision. Might spur some people into action to hear from a recruit's mouth that the losing now is affecting our ability to win in the future. I trust Machados "sources" as much as I trust Nemec's and Canzano's.... However I agree with the sentiment that he should have just been honest then, and maybe a little embarrassment from a home town 5* recruit saying you weren't good enough would get the ADs wheel a' turnin'...
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Post by fridaynightlights on Sept 30, 2017 10:50:12 GMT -8
Here are quotes from Tufanga after last night when Taggart used a Helo to visit his game at halftime. It shows you that recruits are well aware of how hard a program and staff are recruiting them and how much they appreciate it.
That's when Oregon head coach Willie Taggart and his helicopter landed at the Crescent Valley softball field before making his way to the football field with considerably fanfare (even though the game was played in Corvallis.)
“That was incredible,” Hufanga said. “It blows your mind. You’re like did that really just happen? It's like 'Oh, that happened'.
“It was really cool to see him come out and support me. He’s really into that recruiting game and it was a really awesome experience for sure.”
Hufanga first caught wind of Taggart's intended arrival a week ago. When he received word that the Duck commander-in-chief would be present, he prepared to put on a show.
"We’re going to come out there and watch you," Hufanga says of he and Taggart's conversation. "It’s time for you to put on a show and show us what you got. I was like ‘Alright coach, challenge accepted'."
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