With one more game in the books
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I don't see how you can compare UW to the ducks - the ducks have ESPN hype year round, we were in the CFP championship and can't keep our coach and 80% of our starters- no hype at all. Oregon recruits 10X better than us and stockpiles 4/5 stars while playing 75% transfers. They have 2 5 star QBs on their roster if not more after the next signing day. They can pay their coach and assistants exorbitant bucks to stay.
We are no where close to them. Although we have beat them 3 games in a row.
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It will probably take at least $750,000 to keep Coleman and $500,000 to keep Boston but I don't see Boston going until the 5th or 6th round if he goes. If I were him, I'd stay and work on my craft while getting stronger.
Regarding UW vs. Oregon and USC / UCLA, UW has never really had an absolute advantage in terms of location (Southern Cal) or dollars (Phil Knight) but it has a good combination of things (good location, great stadium, very good school, decent money) to draw recruits. Where UW has had the worst time is turnover over the past 5 years at the HC position (self-inflicted Jimmy Lake and two events out of UW's control in Petersen retiring and DeBoer getting poached by Alabama at the absolute worst possible time). If UW can get good stretch from Fisch before heads to the NFL (4 to 5 years), that would go a long way towards stability.
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Phil knight won't be around much longer, then oregon recruiting will wither on the vine. Oregon will likely regress to an Iowa Hawkeye level once Phil is gone and the quality recruits go elsewhere - forced to become 1 dimensional like Iowa. Oregon loses a # of their 4-5*s every year.
Oregon won't have the NIL money LA or Seattle has when Phil is gone. Then UW starts taking their NW recruits away from them.
Look how Nebraska's recruiting has evolved...almost all 3*s now. That is Oregon in 10-15 years.
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How long does it take to charge to maximum doog?
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Uncle Phil is leaving behind a one billion dollar endowment for the Ducks. His money isn't going to the grave with him.
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You can scream this and they won't hear you. The doog brain is an amazing? thing.
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Yeah, Oregon has built a machine at this point. It's not like Alabama has a single billionaire donor. They just built a machine, and now it's self-propelled by hype. Uncle Phil got the ball rolling, but it's ESPN, Nike, etc. that are carrying the water now.
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The poaching of major conference standouts by the handful of teams that have endless money without coaching changes hasn't happened the way it seems like it was going to yet. I guess that could change more every year though. You see some of it but not as much as you might think.
UW at least seemed like they paid for proven players already on the team in 2023. So they'll do it again?
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Bama is just a different animal. Has been since the 1926 RB, in the infamous, "The Game That Changed The South," when George Wilson was injured and, consequently, Bama won by 1. Quit living in the past! FML. Saban's success @ Bama was primarily due to his recruiting acumen. Jimmys and Joes. He said as much himself.
Also, Phil Knight probably never would've gotten involved to the extent he has w/out Bill Moos. People forget that.
