Jarrett misses Portland

[MickZagger]

Look it up; it's not my job to explain it to you. I guess you hate Luke Ridnour too. Classy.

Actually you don't need to explain anything. None of Oregon's players went to LaSalle prep, if the school even exists.

Bryce Taylor was from California, he chose Oregon. Cal has thousands of great players to scour through down there, if they didn't get Taylor and they wanted him its off to the next one. I don't have any empathy towards any Cal school that don't get a player they target.

Hairston and Porter are from Michigan, Leunen from Redmond. That's their core of last year, I'm not sure where all these LaSalle prep Cal players are that your ragging about. Outside of those guys, Freddie Jones, Luke and Luke are all northwest guys. I think your a little confused buddy.

 

[MickZagger]

I just don't get the sour grapes comment. I attended a Big 10 school and have no affiliation with either the U of O or OSU.

I said:

"For the most part, it's been good. The U of O has the best college football facilities in the country, and that's a huge recruiting advantage."

How is that sour grapes? It's a simple statement of fact and not judgmental in any way.

I was just pointing out that when Nike "fired" 16 year old Kevin Love from their AAU team, they pretty much guaranteed he would not be attending their favorite university.

This isn't a U of O vs. OSU thing - at least not for me. My daughter calls me a platypus because I cheer for both schools - and when they play each other in the Civil War, I cheer for the one who has the chance to go to the best bowl game.

You seem to be reading more into my comments than what's actually there. Where did I say Oregon shouldn't take full advantage of Phil Knight's generosity? Where did I even mention OSU (prior to this response)? It seems like your entire rant is based on a bunch of false assumptions.

U of O's close ties to Nike hurt there chances of landing Kevin Love. That was my only point. It was just an observation, not an indictment of the entire U of O/Nike relationship. As I said, for the most part, it's been good for the school, but in this one particular case, it backfired on them

BNM

Gotcha. Its not really aimed at you, just Oregon bashers in general. Now that I realize that you aren't bashing Oregon in general I understand where your coming from. Nike f-d that one up with their antics with the whole Love situation.