but one of the Hawkins kids the Ducks just offered, 4 star CB Greg Johnson is off the table, committing to Arizona

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With Arkansas in the last rankings prior to the NCAA Indoor Championships

"It’s not just the Hogs and Ducks in contention for the title, nor are they alone in championship pedigree. In fact, the top six teams in these rankings – Arkansas, Oregon, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 4 Florida, No. 5 LSU and No. 6 Tennessee – have combined to win 29 of the past 32 national team titles."

NCAA T&F Rankings

#9 in the AP, #10 in the Coaches

If you want to know how USC treats recruiting, you can see an insight on it here:

Lindsey piece from SC

I wouldn't worry about the lack of Oregon mention, you won't find it often in the SC written pieces (Lindsey has already visited Oregon)

Good game going on on ESPN right now. Number 9 Arizona is at Number 22 Utah fairly close game with 4 minutes left in the first. Something worth watching if you're bored.

http://www.oregonlive.com/recruiting/index.ssf/2016/02/oregon_hs_football_prospects_s.html#0

Another good couple of years coming up in state.

Oregon extended an offer to 4 star WR Tee Higgins from Tennessee. This kid has been waiting for an Oregon offer. He was committed to Tennessee, but opened it back up a couple of weeks ago. Supposedly Clemson is in a good spot for him, but the Oregon offer might shake things up.

There was an interview with him a couple of months ago where he said Oregon is his "dream school" and that his family would support him attending Oregon because they know how much he loves the Ducks. I believe it was an interview on Scout.

Can lightening strike twice in Tennessee? Can the Ducks pull the top receiver from the Volunteer state in back to back classes? Hopefully, we can get Higgins and Jacoby Stevens to visit and Mitchell and Amadi can be their escorts. I think Higgins is the best receiver in the '17 class. Kid is a stud!

Not Phill....and not $400,000,000...but another billionaire alumnus who is in the sports apparel businees. Oregon alumnus and Columbia Sportswear CEO, Tim Boyle. As a side note the first class that I attended at Oregon was taught by George Streisinger

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-receives-10-million-gift-life-sciences-research

We are heading to MKA in about an hour for the 5:30 start. Big game for Oregon as they need to win two of the last three to win the Pac-12.

Join us for LIVE! analysis and commentary from press row.

Here is my analysis of their performances yesterday.

Adams and Addison take their turn

I caught up with Buena Park ATH Elijah Gates about his Oregon offer and found out Big Play could be a factor.

Elijah Gates talks Oregon offer

I thought he looked very good out there. Here are his results.

Moose solid in Indianapolis

Devon Allen has 2nd fastest qualifying time in the 60h...advances to tomorrow's final

Preliminaries
1 Williams, Chris SR Washington 7.72q 5
2 Allen, Devon SO Oregon 7.88q 2
3 Davis, Ashtyn SO California 7.89q 4
4 Morris, Marquis SO Usc 7.92q 3
5 Viltz, Misana SO Ucla 7.94q 1
6 Goodman, Dillon SR Byu 8.10q 3
7 Tonnesen, Pau SR Arizona 8.15q 5
7 Oliver, Isaiah FR Colorado 8.15q 1
9 Williams, Harrison SO Stanford 8.17 4
10 Allen, CJ JR Washington St. 8.17 1
11 Markham, Ian SO Washington St. 8.17 3
12 Kamara, Abu SO Washington St. 8.19 2
13 Simpson, Eric SO Washington 8.27 4
14 Grant, Christapherson FR Washington St. 8.40 2
15 Scheible, Max SO Byu 8.59 1
16 Harley, Re'Quan SO Cal St. Northridge 9.29 3
-- Billing, Alexander FR Colorado DQ 5

The latest in Devon Allen's Speed Chronicles.

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I must admit, in several close games this season, more than I can recall in the past...the officials just stop officiating in the final seconds of the game. It happened to the Ducks and the Tar Heels at least once where there were hard fouls at the end of the game. I didn't see what happened to Romar's team, but I don't have much trouble believing he's got a legit gripe.

I expected faster.

I think that he will be much faster at the Pro Day...he will need to be to get drafted at a decent spot.

Also, VA ran a 4.83.

I knew he was not Mariota, but I honestly thought that he was faster than that.

Not such a big deal for him though because he is a QB and his time is fast enough.

Looks like Marshall is not running

The receivers 40 times, for the most part, are surprisingly slow.....even some of the "Big Names."

Mayock says this is the slowest class of receivers he can remember.

Really no point to this post......I'm just having football withdrawals........

Corey

On Helf's twitter, he typically only follows commits, but I'm guessing he is just doing this for communication. If he has these 5 locked down, Oregon fans can start celebrating:

Alijah Vera-Tucker
Marlon Tuipulotu
Salvon David Ahmed
Foster Sarell
Elijah Molden

Greetings all, after less than normal of my internal dialogue/debate, and just a couple of formal queries, I decided I preferred to release this book independently now.

This one is quite a bit longer, maybe less detailed in the areas of some compulsions, but still an approach that I found interesting. For those that do not read my rambled musings on my blog, this book came froim a strange inspiration while driving home one night on Cornell Road. I had this vivid picture of a small pickup rolled over the side and a person who wanted to 'start over' in life. From there the concept grew, changed, grew some more, and changed some more into what it is today.

After some false starts on earlier work, I had this one professionally reviewed prior to my edits and have spent the past 8 weeks editing based on that review, as well as the original 4 weeks of edits. As for what to do if you buy it and like it, here is my request, after reading it, leave your review on Amazon, then give the book to someone else and ask them to read it, if they like it, buy it and pass along a copy to someone else who might like it with that same request.

Thanks to everyone for all of their support! I have been somewhat inactive over the course of the last week as I finalized my edits, including some 'copy edit' stuff relating to fonts, chapter titles, etc. I added an acknowledgements page, but want to say publicly here how much I appreciate all that A.J. has done for me over the last almost five years. The opportunity to write for Rivals has been paramount to my decision to pursue fiction. Without the support of DSA and Rivals, I am not sure if this would have ever been possible for me.

I have made it available in both paperback and eBook format at these links:

Grand Illusion: A Novel (paperback)

Grand Illusion: A Novel (Kindle)

So there is also a 2018 MBB offer out to SG David Singleton III from California:

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I was talking to a tight end offeree tonight and he told me how many TE's the Duck coaches told him they are looking to sign in 2017.

What is the number that he said?