Will Oregon ever get over the hump?

The one thing they’ve always lacked was depth on the D line and O line. QBs, WR, TE and RBs have been really good over the years. But they don’t quite get the horses that SEC teams or OSU gets up front. That’s what hurts them. As to your question, they seem to have a defense this year but they are untested. Didn’t get OSU or Michigan on their schedule and their OOC sucked. They beat three good teams

With Lanning…maybe. But more than likely, no.

Always pretty good, never elite.

Oregon has a lot of beauty. It's a pretty cool state for the outdoorsman. It's pretty conservative outside of the bigger cities

Players don’t care about that though

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Players don’t care about that though

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Probably most don't...

But.

Oregon has two major problems in recruiting...

1) For most players Eugene is way, way far away from home. Even the Cali players are hundreds of miles away from home... and most everybody else.. thousands of miles.

2) Eugene is basically all white. And while that isn't all that unusual for college towns outside the south... the state of Oregon is somewhat stigmatized in the black community at large because they used to have black exclusion laws there. It was illegal to live there if you were black.

And although those days are long gone. It was kind of woven into black culture that blacks weren't welcome in Oregon. I'm not sure that for a recruit in some other part of the country that even today...his grandma might have heard that about Oregon while she was growing up.