Another Junior Day visitor. Does not have an Oregon offer yet but thinks the Ducks will possibly offer him this spring. He says he has to show them what he is all about first. Like everybody else, he loved his visit.

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The 2019 class is officially on the clock and with the early Signing Period just about nine months away and the first opportunity for prospects to take official visits coming this spring, it’s time for recruiting fans from across the country to start familiarizing themselves with the class of 2019.

We at Rivals.com are here to help. Over the next two weeks, we will introduce the top five players at each position in the class. Today we take a lot at dual-threat quarterbacks.

RELATED: Meet the top 2019 pro-style QBs



Michael Johnson Jr.
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Early contenders: Oregon, Miami, Michigan, LSU, among others

Breakdown: Johnson has been a fixture on the national recruiting scene for years and collected most of his offers prior to his junior season of high school. Because of that his recruitment is a little clearer, with Oregon and Miami emerging as the favorites. Johnson’s father is the wide receivers coach for the Ducks and he’s basically around the program on a weekly basis, but he’s said multiple times he fully expects to treat each school equally. The Canes have ramped up their pursuit and appear to be making him their No. 1 priority in the class, so it will be fun to watch if he stays home with the Ducks or flies south to play for The U.

You can see the rest of the Top 5 DQBs here.

The Rivals250 ATH and his mom loved their visit to Eugene Saturday.

Ducks in top group for Rivals250 ATH following Junior Day visit

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Thought some of you might like to look at all the new players in relationship to the Duck depth chart.

I also experimented with showing a 4-2-5 defense in addition to the base 3-4. (This will only show on the desktop version.)

https://web.nmsu.edu/~ogden/oregon/depthchart.html

No offers yet but he thinks ones will come from Oregon and Texas Tech first. He was here last weekend for Junior Day and was blown away by the visit. He says Coach Joe is recruiting him as a DT even though the Rivals database says OG for him. Definitely a guy to keep an eye on this cycle.

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The Ducks and the rest of the Pac-12 won't miss you one bit. The league has two of the top five QB's in the NFL draft.

NFL draft: QB's

ESPN has exposed what we all have known about the necessity of encumbant dominance to ratings. And so, with Sean Miller offering $100,000 to Ayton's agent and disappearing from courtside last night, we must continue the narrative...the heroics of Ayton and the Wildcats despite the loss.

If anyone could glean the least shine of the team that beat Miller/Ayton, I have a needle in the haystack.

Instead, Ayton's first half heroics are stamped as a defiant response to the charges against his munificent coach. The second half flop...to the disgrace of his now disgraced sugar daddy.
As with Duke, NC, and now MSU,ESPN lives on the predictable revenue that comes from touting the now questionably gotten excellence of coaches whose wins are as ill gotten as the Black Sox series loss.

On the other half of the equation are those who's wins against these darlings of the ill gotten are relegated to an afterthought.

Facts are as much a casualty of reporting as is a public that no longer requires them.

Really good film for Malaesala Aumavea-Laulu Coach Salave'a is leading his recruitment. The guy is going to be one of the top rated JC OG's in the nation when he gets his rating.

Sala wracking up offers

Who writes their contracts?

I have attached a long and somewhat boring ESPN article about Sean Miller's contract and what happens if he gets fired.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...dre-ayton-signing-according-fbi-investigation

(Here are the highlights, IMO):

The part that gets me is this.

If Miller gets fired with cause, he makes more money than if he were to be fired without cause!

Uh...what??

"If Miller is fired for cause, his contract is written in such a way that he would still receive more than 85 percent of the money he is owed through May 31, 2022."

"Miller's contract provides that even if he is fired with cause, the university would have to pay his base salary. The contract defines his base salary as his salary plus his peripheral salary. That adds up to roughly $10.3 million through May 2022. "

"Keeping such a percentage on a firing for cause would be unprecedented. Most coaches who are fired for cause receive no additional money past their employment date."
In a strange twist, Miller's contract somehow pays him more for getting fired with cause than without cause. The section in his current contract that references him being fired with cause mentions no reduction in base salary upon firing. But if Arizona fires him without cause, there's a 50 percent reduction noted. So if Miller is fired with cause by the university, they will owe him approximately $5.15 million more ($10.3 million versus $5.15 million) than if it fired him for no reason." (my italics)

Who is running this zoo??!!

Ducks have offered two of the three uncommitted pro-style QB's on this list, Sam Howell and Grant Gunnell. Not sure they are going to offer Bachmeier.

2019: Meet the pro-style QB's

Max Williams, four-star Serra CB, is in town today. Unfortunately, he hit town with some bad weather with cold and rain today. In Gardena, where he just flew from, it is going to be mid-60's and sunny today.

Hopefully we'll see him at the basketball game tonight.

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Saw this and don't know if it's been posted here or not. Big ups for Golpashin.

From FootballScoop.com
UCLA: With Hank Fraley leaving for the Lions, sources tell FootballScoop UCLA offensive assistant Ramsen Golpashin is likely to be promoted to offensive line coach. Golpashin played offensive line for Chip Kelly at Oregon.

Ducks are set to tip off shortly after 7:15, come join the action here

Ya know, I'm a short, overweight, out of shape, old man who's missing some parts I was born with...but I watch this football staff and how they relate and motivate the players and my gut tries to tell the rest of me I would suit up and bang heads right now. Fortunately, the rest of me isn't stupid.

Seriously, it has been a LONG time since I've felt the palpable energy that's flowing through the team and its fans.

GO DUCKS!!!

Makes God awful look good. How in the hell can anyone listen to his incoherent ramblings and come away entertained is a complete mystery to me.

Honestly it feels like ESPN is like Duck fans? Screw ‘em. Let’s torture them and make them listen to a guy who hasn’t been sober in about 90 years. All we are missing is Harry Carey doing shots right next to him.

Well, not really. We did get about four inches at my house. We are about 500 feet higher than in town and that makes quite a difference for snow and ice conditions. I hear the school district is delayed 2 hours. Good luck picking up the kids out here.

It should mostly melt off today but then tonight terrible conditions with temps in the low 20's and all the roads will be sheets of ice out here at DSA HQ.

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