rsbgduck wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:54 pm
The Gang Green group led by Jeremy Asher and Rich Ruhl was a pretty good group. When you consider Oregon’s recruiting footprint back then was Cal, Oregon and WA with a few from NV, ID and AZ. No recruiting stars back then but I would guess they would have been high 3* to mid 4*. Were they the best…. I don’t know but they were absolutely part of the foundation of the product we have today. Another player on that team y’all might have heard of Kenny Wheaton made a play or two.
They were ok. But anytime they went against an offense with a pulse, they folded. Lucky for UO a lot of Pac10 teams back then didn’t play very good on offense. That’s why that era of P10 had so many teams with great D,
StevensTechU wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 8:41 pm
Funny the names people bring up. We often think the talent level is on the up & up, but that 2012 list of guys is hard to match on the defensive side of the ball. And frankly, it was no revelation with the D Boyz and others before them.
I have and will continue to argue that the 2012 team was the best and most talented Oregon team of all time. That 2012 Stanford game haunts me far more than any other game in Oregon history cause I know that was the best team in the nation that year and could’ve beaten anyone, including Alabama, by at least two scores. That 2012 Stanford game was just a nightmare game with crappy Pac-12 refs.
They were the platonic ideal of a chip kelly team.
StevensTechU wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 11:18 am
You could put any two of Jacobs, Bassa, Boettcher, and Jackson on the field and I just don't know if it really matters. I need to see the plays where Jacobs is in more specifically to feel certain about that statement, in fairness.
Agreed.
Also, Boettcher leads the Big Ten Linebackers in PFF grade with 89.5 rating. (And is 3rd nationally)
