here’s a shocker that didn’t happen Ty Simpson to Oregon

[Java]

OK, so Dylan Raiola was determined to go to Oregon and they may not be paying him as much as folks think.  Even what he was making at NEB

 

NEXT.  if Moore had gone to the NFL Raiola would not have been the Ducks starting qb in 2026.  It would have been Ty Simpson.

 

Much as Simpson has thrown Miami under the buss for tampering and offering him 6.5 million?  Apparently they would not have won.  Oregon would have.  I don’t know if that means Simpson would rather play at Oregon and hates Miami or that UO would have offered even more money.

What’s interesting these days is that top QB have some odd choices.

 

For now, YES< they can make more money, though not a massive amount more, being a Top5-10 pick in the draft.  But they will get beat up play on a bad team and risk ruining their careers like Sam Darnold dealt with for many years.   Turning around Chicago and New England is the hope like Caleb and Drake did but the Panthers, Jets, Browns will tell you that doesn’t always happen.  Houston isn’t sure if it’s happening.

 

Meanwhile the QB gets criticized, bashed and often torn up.  Might even be better to be a mid to late first round pick, except for that money you may as well play college and date every pretty girl on campus and only take 1-2 shots a week.  And they might be alcohol shots.  Then get drafted to a pretty good team like Denver or  Green Bay or the 49ers and haver a good chance at a nice career.

 

Anyway, thought that tidbit on Simpson was interesting for the Ducks

 

[Butkus51]

I read some other big schools offered Bama’s QB Simpson a ton of money too.  But, he did not whore himself and entered the NFL draft.  How refreshing.  Shoot Bama must find a good QB and fix their D…  Cheers

[LA Duck]

Good stuff, Java.

We quacks had heard the same – if Moore went to the NFL, then Simpson would have come to start at Oregon for one year with Raiola redshirting (or at least healing and backing up QB1) just as he will be doing now under Dante.

What’s maybe more surprising to some is that Sam Leavitt was never seriously considered as a transfer QB by Oregon despite growing up only a couple hours north of Eugene in Portland.

It’s a toss-up as to the better QB imo:  Simpson or Moore (probably give the edge to Simpson on that, but Dante would have the advantage of being familiar with the offense).  But I think Leavitt is clearly behind both, just as Raiola is, of course.

[Java]

Sam leavitt was not seriously pursued by a lot of big schools.  Miami Oregon Texas tech all fooled on him.  I’m not sure why schools would trust asus reviews of him but he got bad character reviews.  Which makes lsu and kiffin perfect.

and ASU people trashed him out the door.

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