The Pac-12 Thread....

Given Oregon's placekicking woes over the past couple of years, Ducks fans should be excited to see Matt Wogan on the list. Rivals rated him as the No. 2 kicker/punter in the country. He made five field goals of 50 yards or more as a senior and had more than 80 touchbacks on kickoffs.

Needed it!

Does one recruit really bump a class up that much? I haven't read the final numbers but saw a few places WSU got 39th when there is only one legitimate recruit in Bruggman.

-**** Mike Leach.

Depends on the recruit.

When 4* RB Wilson changed to Ohio State from Oregon the ranking on Rivals went from 22 to like 36
the others didnt drop him as much maybe like 15 to 19.

while 2* RB Benoit commited and only went up 1 spot.

Well it looks like every outlet has UCLA as #1 in the conference.

No surprise Colorado is #12.  A little shocked that Stanford is #11 however.

Stanford got hammered cuz they're only bringing in like 12 recruits. That lowers the ranking of the class. Oregon and especially USC are ranked much lower than they should be also due to having smaller classes. If you look at the average star rating of the guys that Stanford actually does have room for it's actually pretty good.

No surprise Colorado is #12.  A little shocked that Stanford is #11 however.

With the way Stanford is built, they will wow you in one year when it comes to the lines but in a year where it skill players are needed they should not wow you. Let's face it, rivals, scout and all the other recruiting "experts" most 4 and 5 star skill players can not get into Stanford. Stanford's offensive line alone from last year is a 4 year recruiting class of top 10.

USC is bringing in 12 recruits. Even though they lost a bunch of studs recently, they still average 4.42 stars per player on both Scout and Rivals. That's the highest for any team in the country by a landslide. They're getting five 5 stars and seven 4 stars. As a Boise fan that just blows my freaking mind. We've never had a single recruit in our entire school history that was a 4 star on both services. Not one! USC. So much talent. So incredibly loaded. Yet so sad that Lame Kitten is at the controls. What a waste.

If I'm the Kitten, I'm taking a good hard look at Max Browne this offseason. They need a quarterback in the worst way and I doubt anybody currently on the roster including Wittek is going to do any better. If you have to take your lumps here and there with the kid, then so be it.

ONE MORE  recuiting piece to the Beaver's puzzle to go!

Tatum Taylor

First-team 2012 Class 3A Associated Press All-State at defensive back. First-team Seattle Times All-Area at DB and first-team All-Metro Mountain cornerback. Also a force on offense and special teams with blazing speed. Returned kickoffs for TDs covering 75 and 85 yards in one game.

Named a 2013 Nugget in Waiting by the Tacoma News Tribune. He was named Metro Mountain Division Offensive co-MVP and first-team all-state as a junior.

Taylor’s official 2011 statistics from longtime O’Dea head man Monte Kohler: RUSHING: 103 touches for 1,014 yards (9.84 ypc) and 17 TDs; RECEIVING: 6 catches for 78 yards (13.0 ypc) with 1 TD; PUNT RETURNS: 11 for 209 (19.0 avg) with 1 TD; KICKOFF RETURNS: 19 for 396 yards (20.84 avg)

Also an elite track star, his personal bests in the 100-m and 200-m, set in May of 2012, are 10.39 and 21.41, respectively. The all-time state records in those events, set back in 1997, are 10.27 and 21.02, (Ja'Warren Hooker).

Taylor was tied for fastest 60 meters time in the nation at 6.71 as of April 2012. Taylor also took the state title in the 100-m in May 2012.


Guy wants to play football for the Beavs and run track @ ASU...hmmmm?


One things for sure, Riley can't teach speed and this kid's a burner!


Bring em Home to Beaver Nation Mike!!

one moe thing about Tatum...

Washington State, Purdue and Wyoming have offered this Seattle area speedster. But Oregon is one school he'd love to earn an offer from.

Looks like the Smucks lose out yet again!


HA!

Tatum Taylor

He and Tyner are the fastest hi schoolers in the country... Possibly Faster than Tyner even!!!!!  SPEED BURNER!!!!

Both have potential Olympic 100 futures...  INSANE

Tyner has recorded a 10.28 100...

Both kids are lightning fast

But we all know the greatest athelete going right now is a Duck... Olympic GOLD MEDALIST Ashton Easton...<br /><br /><br />

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Olympic GOLD MEDALIST Ashton Easton..

Chaulk that 1 up to NIKE'S TRACK CLUB IN EUGENOLAND.

Sorry but I cant say Oregon "lost out" there must have been something Oregon saw that they didnt like.

there must have been something Oregon saw that they didnt like.

Probably his size, but if ya can't catch him...who cares about size!

This is interesting. We are only signing 13 recruits. But as it turns out that is 2 more than we lost to early departure and seniors.  Assuming we lose that TE to incarceration or whatever. It would be then plus 1. But it seems we played last year with allot of redshirted players not playing. This coming year Kiffin is banking those schollies because he will have about 102 football playrs available to him if I counted right. Maybe there is some depth problems at a postion but not in total for 2013. But I would appreciate somebody checking me out on this because I can't say I am sure. Anyway, I didn't see depth as a problem last year. Schemes yes, depth no. Strange, but if we find a QB, this actually could be a very good year, assuming defensive adjustments materialize.