Oregon Ducks: Football Recruiting
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Recruiting is the lifeblood of every program in the country, and every conference has its own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to landing top prospects. We've spent a week examining the BCS conferences plus Notre Dame to find each's strength, the biggest obstacle each faces and the overall view of the conference. The final conference we'll look at is the Pac-12.
Biggest obstacle: Defense, defense, defense. While this conference is never short on skill, weapons, quarterbacks and big-play offenses, finding playmakers on the defensive line is a whole lot tougher. It is staggering to see that from the top 40 players we've graded from the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Utah and Nevada since 2006, there are only three defensive linemen. That is well over 3,000 players graded and just three defensive linemen. Unlike Florida, which borders several states that are loaded with prospects, California does not have this luxury surrounding it in numbers and quality. The Pac-12 has the juice and player pool to be good enough to play for the national championship with a few teams, but can they win it without being loaded up front on defense?
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"I'm just kind of out there, looking," he says. "There's still a lot to see, so I'll wait that out."
With cautious curiosity, Goolsby visited Ohio State and Florida this week -- two big steps in his plan to narrow a sizable offer list to a handful of top teams before his senior season and make a decision by the end of the fall.
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound tight end was in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday.
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Plattenburg makes his mark at cornerback
Plattenburg moved to California following his freshman season at Houston Lamar High School. In his two years at Centennial, he has played a number of positions. He grew up playing running back and safety -- running back because he had a passion for offense, safety because he was so athletically gifted, as he could simply run down any opponent who broke loose.
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Pac-12 Official Visit: Cali's 2015 QB crop
While ESPN 150 QB Kyle Allen snubbed the Pac-12 when he chose Texas A&M, Erik McKinney says better things are to come with California's crop of 2015 quarterback prospects.Murray took in a satellite camp hosted by Sam Houston State and assisted by Arizona State, one of the schools to have offered, on Thursday afternoon. While he chose to watch the camp and not participate, Murray said he was a fan of what he saw from the Arizona State coaches.
"I've been talking to [offensive coordinator] Coach [Mike] Norvell, and he told me they liked me," Murray said. "I like what they're doing over there. I'm definitely interested."
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Cornerback Dominique Harrison landed offers from Arizona State, Idaho and Louisiana-Lafayette, but it was a big one that came Tuesday that sealed the deal for the 5-foot-11, 185-pound defensive standout.
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It began this past December, when the sophomore made contact with his first college coach. But rather than the usual feeling-out process recruits and coaches go through, Lucier-South was thrust immediately into the ranks of the early offered. That first offer came from Boise State.
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Earlier this month, ESPN 150 wide receiver Cameron Sims (Monroe, La./Ouachita Parish) had what he called a quiet spring game, reeling in only four catches. But what Sims fails to mention is that he took those four completions for more than 160 yards and three touchdowns in front of several college coaches, including University of Georgia receivers’ coach Tony Ball, Billy Napier from Alabama and Cam Cameron from LSU.
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S Mattrell McGraw breaks down top eight
Right now, it’s cutting his list down to eight. By the time football starts, it’ll be down to three.
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It has become commonplace for committed members of a recruiting class to form a close bond as they work together to fill out the remaining spots and prepare to begin their college years together.
But while recruits throughout the country reach out to each other via Twitter and text messages, there’s a group in Northern California that has a sizeable head start on all of them and would serve as an impressive recruiting haul for a number of programs on its own.
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It happened quickly for the 6-foot-5, 250-pound lineman. He hadn't heard from many schools during a junior season in which he posted 42 tackles and 1.5 sacks, but everything changed once the calendar flipped to March.
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After building up the program in 2010 and 2011, defeating Mater Dei and Orange Lutheran in 2011, St. John Bosco rolled through the Trinity League's fearsome foursome in 2012, with no win coming by fewer than 12 points. In 2013, the Braves are expected to compete for a state championship.
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Erik McKinney and Phil Murphy recap Keller Chryst's performance at the San Francisco Elite 11 and break down the impact of Adoree' Jackson's track career on his football decision.
TE Elmore closing in on summer decision
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