Good friend Mike Farrell of Rivals.com, is reporting that Terrelle Pryor has added the Oregon Ducks to his list of suitors. Apparently Mike Bellotti and Dennis Dixon paid him a bit of a visit when traveling to New York for an awards ceremony.
I have been saying since day one that his decision will come down to what type of offense he will be running. West Virginia and Florida would fit his desired style the best. However, no matter how good Terrelle Pryor is, he will never be more popular than Timmy Teabags in Gainesville.
Ohio State has proven that it can adapt. But is Tressell to conservative?
Was Michael Robinson's season enough for Penn St to prove that JoePa has not let the game pass him by?
Tennessee. Manning? Claussen? Ainge? That is twelve years of no chance.
With Dennis Dixon's play this season and no quarterback in sight on that campus, Eugene becomes an interesting option for Mr. Pryor. If it is the system he wants, there might be no better option than Oregon and Chip Kelly's offense.
Prior to Dixon's injury, West Virginia and Oregon were the two most explosive and most difficult to stop offenses of the 2007 season. Would love to see him go to Oregon.
Additionally, Pryor eliminated Texas. Shocking. They were never a serious player.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
Terrelle Pryor headed to Oregon?
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Oregon does not have the strong basketball program Pryor wants.
True, Ernie Kent is no quite on the same level as Huggins, Billy D or Thad Matta. But make no mistake about it, Oregon is a strong hoops program. They went to the Elite 8 last season and are a top-20 type team this year. You are right, that will be an interesting angle.
Saying that Oregon isn't a strong basketball program just shows the glaring east coast bias that still hangs over college sports. If it isn't UCLA in basketball or USC in football, nobody wants to really give the pac 10 the credit they deserve. Ernie Kent has built a very strong program in Eugene, as they have had two Elite 8 appearances in the last 6 years and they have had 4 first round picks in that span. How many programs can say that?! I bet you can only count them on 1 hand. And their recruiting classes are typically very strong, so their talent is not a surprise. Basically, this whole argument comes down to the simple fact that time and time again people want to discount west coast schools, like Oregon, in favor of the classic"powerhouses," and the sad thing is that typically they can't back it up. If teams like Oregon were on national tv more often instead of getting stuck on FSN regionally all the time, you would all have a different tune about them. And to that point, if it wasn't for the fact that Oregon football is on national tv a decent amount, nobody would respect them either!
Dude,
That's because Oregon is just full of hype.
Kellen Clemens ring a bell? Joey Harrington? Both Lukes?
People don't give the Pac-10 enough credit, but Oregon is easily the most overrated team in the PAC-10 for most all sports.
If you look at their baskteball path last year to the Elite 8, it was more luck than skill, which got them so far.
As for football, Belloti had Dixon playing knowing he was injured. Dixon has huge potential in the NFL but may have jepordized that for Belloti's ego.
Oregon is not a healthy place for good athletes.
More luck than skill????!!!!
ummmmmmmm ...... Ohio State was luck!!! They needed 2 comeback miracle shots just to get pass Xavier and Tennessee...belive me...Oregon was no fluke...tey won the pac 10 last year! Honestly, youre just a tard if you think that was all luck.
And overhyped? Ummmm Ohio State football is overhyped more than any team in creation! They were supposed to be all high and mighty last year...they got their asses handed to them by UF...andthe same thing is gonna happen this year...and the only reason they are even in the title game is because the big ten is soooooo weak and because their non-conference was horrible. How was Oregon overhyped??? they killed Michigan, beat USC and Arizona State, and the loss to Arizona was based solely on a tough injury...i mean te proof is in the pudding...so to call them overhyped is just an east coast bias again, plain and simple.
One could make the argument that Dennis Dixon won the Heisman when he got hurt. There was not a single more important player in NCAA football. However, this also an indictment on the team too. I give Oregon the benefit of the doubt though. They were one of the most injury riddled teams in all of football. Pasinger, Johnson, Dixon, the list goes on...
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