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Apropos of the Fiesta Bowl, Oregon is out recruiting ND... by NavyJoe
...over the past three years. Oregon has pulled in the #7, #11, #6 classes. Over that same time, we have been 15th, 18th, and 9th.
Now, some of this has to do with USC being down and Helton not recruiting CA as well as USC should. But Oregon has pulled good players from the Midwest, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida as well. Cristobal isn't a great game-day coach, but he can recruit his ass off.
We simply need to start recruiting better. Oregon should not be out recruiting us...ever. Texas A&M should not be recruiting better than us. North Carolina should not be recruiting better than us. We are not adequately leveraging some of the pretty solid seasons we have had in recent years.