Reported by si.com. Visited Oregon in June and had the Ducks in his final group.

Looks like Oregon is zeroing in on Dave Iuli and Josh Conerly to complete their o-line class, which would be a strong finish.

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Last night, while watching the ABC World News, I just about fell off the sofa when they had a story about a couple of identical twins living in Medford OR that have boy friends who are also identical twins. It mentioned that Venessa and Kerissa D’Arpino and their respective boy friends had competed in D1 Track and Field at schools in the same conference. For any of you who aren’t familiar
with the D’Arpino twins, they were sprinters on the Oregon track team.

It was a fairly lengthy news story ( as in a couple of minutes). In one shot a D’Arpino had on a Duck tee shirt. In another camera shot, one of the boy friends had on a WSU sweatshirt. The men were showing off their strength by holding their respective D’Arpino girl friends in a horizontal position and actually curling their body weight in multiple repetitions. I would therefor speculate that the men might have been throwers at WSU. The names of their respective universities were never mentioned.

The news anchors had a post story conversation in which they mentioned that although there haven’t been any engagements for marriage it had been discussed as likely to happen. I am envisioning some athletically gifted offspring.

One anchor concluded by saying that the four of them were attractive looking people. There was a hint of some kind of capitalizing on their looks for future gain. That might have been the biggest story out of Medford in a long long time LOL!

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A lot of great athletes use small perceived slights to stoke their fire, Jerry Rice, Michael Jordan and Tom Brady among them. Intensely competitive and focused people can achieve great things.

Ohio State is #2. Playoff favorites comprise the top five. No squad from the PAC-12 makes it, and this used to be an offensive-minded conference. Kent State (?) is number ten.

The Dodd Trophy is given to the National Coach of the Year, and earlier this week they released a Watch List of 17 names.

One of the coaches on it has only 4 games head coaching experience, has never coached a road game, had a recruiting class ranked just above Vanderbilt and couldn't complete last season because he couldn't keep his players out of quarantine.

He's the only selection from the PAC-12.

The others have won conference and national championships and are universally recognized as being among the best coaches in the game.

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Subscription article from Bruce Feldman of The Athletic. There's a power struggle in state of California football recruiting, and the local schools are losing it, he says:


An opportunity the Ducks have taken full advantage of.

What follows is speculation, but it meets the test of Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation that accounts for all the data.

Oregon is having a down scaled year in recruiting.

Mario Cristobal, a two-time National Recruiter of the Year, an o-line savant who recruited and/or coached four of the last five Outland Trophy winners, didn't suddenly forget how to recruit offensive linemen, identify talent and sell the considerable strengths of his program.

Yet as we have discussed, the star power in the 2022 class is well below what the Ducks achieved in the last three.

It's a unique year.

On campus, there's a supersized freshmen class. All the 2020s redshirted, all the 2021s are incoming. There's a cache of super seniors as well.

Thus, rosters are deeper, and the scholarship limit in coming seasons is murky.

On the recruiting trail campus visits were first prohibited and then compressed into a single month, June, followed by the unprecedented creation of NIL, a channel for funneling money to top players for 2022.

Creating a frenzied, superheated market for their talents, with players, their advisors and their families having new-found leverage and bargaining power.

College football is unique from the NFL in that every coach is also the GM with ultimate control over the system, the culture and the roster.

Along with the school's donors, he sets the recruiting budget, establishing the "salary cap," if you will. All within NCAA rules, of course, while fully employing the opportunities presented by NIL.

It really looks like Oregon's plan is to work within a conservative budget in the overheated 2022 market, while making a max offer to the Last Missing Piece in the 2021 class, JT Tuimoloau.

For the 2023 cycle they'll return to aggressively seeking the best players, all while trying to raise the program's profile by succeeding on the field.

If JTT chooses tOSU, it frees up cap money.

Please discuss.

An NBC Sports interview that shows how driven and focused he is:

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CFB offenses to average over 40 PPG in 2020

Kent State
Alabama
BYU
Clemson
Buffalo
Oklahoma
Texas
UCF
UNC
Western Michigan
Ohio State
Arizona State

Maybe CMC has to unleash Joe Moorhead and pick up the tempo again. Or should he turn back the clock, relying on a defense that's expected to be very, very good?

Breaks down his top five:

From Fishduck

At least he's top five but Big Joe holds a candle to nobody.