re: OFFICIAL 2020 Head Coach Search thread

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Better than cristobal losing to Arizona state with a much larger talent gap and a top nfl quarterback as a senior

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Oregon’s NFL QB was a 3-star with an .8584 rating from 247sports.com. He was the #659 ranked player in the country coming out of HS. Other than Oregon (his hometown school), his only other offers were from Montana State, Portland State, and Northern Arizona.

In contrast, ASU’s QB in that game was a 4-star with a .9833 rating and was the #35 ranked highschool prospect in 2019. He had 25 offers, including Alabama, Florida, UGa, LSU and Ohio State.

In recent years, ASU and Oregon both recruited at the same level (high teens to mid 20s nationally) up until 2018, when Cristobal elevated the Ducks into the top 10. So the “much larger talent gap” was pretty much nonexistent last year.

ETA: out of curiosity, I looked up the recruiting rankings for the last few classes at Iowa State and ULa. The Cyclones ranged between 46th and 55th nationally, where the Ragin’ Cajuns were between 76th and 121st. So the talent gap between those two schools was an order of magnitude greater than between Oregon and ASU, at least on paper.

Don’t see how it’s remotely possible to spin ISU’s 17-point home loss to ULa this year as “better” than Oregon’s 3-point upset on the road vs ASU in 2019.

But I’m sure you’ll try.