Talk about cherry picking…
That’s not what he said at all.
In fact he said that “every kid in the country wanted to come to Oregon; everybody was interested.”
He said it was *hard* to recruit there because it wasn’t in prime recruiting ground, like Florida, Georgia, Texas or SoCal where it’s easier for those schools because kids *most* top kids don’t wanna leave the state.
He even implied that Oregon is close enough to prime territory that they could get enough kids to run their offense when he said, “can’t run the Oregon offense at Wisconsin, not enough kids that run well enough”.
That would also be complete horseshit because they were constantly pulling in some of the top classes while he was there with elite recruits like DAT, Seastrunk, Canton, Taj, Blackmon, Freeman, Armstead and others. Not to mention the amount of “almosts”.
But Mario definitely was better; and everyone knows some of the main knocks on Chip and Helfrich was the lack of recruiting prowess on those staffs. And if u know anything about Oregon football you’ve heard the stories about Scott frost and his recruiting habits.