Cannot say enough, or sing too many praises for what a great job Lanning is doing with recruiting. A #8 class in his first full recruiting year? Amazing!! And just as a sweet cherry on top, Oregon once again has the Pac12's best recruiting class 5 years running and beats SUC once again for West Coast supremacy!

For those of us who were raised in the era of the "Toilet Bowl", sometimes I just have to pinch myself.

Lanning is working his ass off and I'm proud of his work ethic and his leadership of the "progrum". Now it's time to put it all together on the field, coach. I'm counting the days until Spring game and Fall practices.

With everything that has changed with College Football (mostly negative, imo) I still have unbridled thrill and anticipation of what next season will bring. I'm going to enjoy it as long as it lasts. 

Last edited by Duckball (2/01/2023 7:02 pm)

I am in the camp of evaluating a class after 4-years not before they have taken a single snap.

Recent history at Oregon has proven recruiting rankings and real time results have frayed connections.

Noting that Justin Herbert was a 3* recruit(ditto on Mariota) with JH having no D1 offers; here are two numbers...first one is Oregon's recruiting ranking(Rivals) and the second one is Oregon's final ranking in the polls after the season...

2018 - #13 / NR *MC first year
2019 - #7 / #5
2020 - #9 / #23
2021 - #3 / #22
2022 - #24 / #15 *DL first year

A Rose Bowl win; a couple of Pac-12 Championships; major win against the luckeyes and what else? 1 Top Ten finish. No Playoffs.

2022...yeah Lanning did a nice job with the #24 recruiting class EXCEPT Utah was #37 / osu was #53 / USC was #56 / uw was #94.

Oregon had twice(more?) the roster talent than osu and yet couldn't stop a QB unable to throw a pass.

So recruiting classes mean diddily squat unless there is a coaching staff in place who know how to develop /coach the roster.

We saw what happened with a defensive oriented head coach on that side of the ball and time will tell if the offense was Dillingham centric or whether the new OC from football power University of Texas at San Antonio can match or surpass last season.