UCLA Recruiting Not a Huge Surprise

[BigBalls]

Nice gets by the Bruin staff. No one should be surprised by the recent recruiting success in Westwood. A good coach is going to leverage the fact that he is brand new and disassociate from the struggles of the past. UCLA has plenty of positives to sell besides the obvious, location and playing time.

What is surprising to me is that Oregon is getting shut out in California recruiting. Califlock is a thing of the past and I’m not sure why. USC beating the Duck out of Oregon for recruits should surprise no one but UCLA locking them out is a mystery given the NIL war chest imbalance. USC’s limited number of rides also bodes well for UCLA.

[LA Duck]

What is surprising to me, BB, is that most Trojan fans fail to understand that a good part of the reason for USC’s success over Oregon in recruiting your local state is that SC is willing to spend more for local CA talent than Oregon is.

Oregon is not willing to do so.

Fine, USC wants to overspend to keep kids in So Cal?  Great, we’ll go to:

Oklahoma

North Carolina

Arizona

Texas (x2)

Alabama (x2)

Pennsylvania

Utah

Oregon

etc.

and, yes, occasionally California, if (as Mr Barker would say) the price is right….

….to get ours – and without any such USC premium attached.

My quacks are on no mission to say they are building a fence around one state.  (Oregon already has landed, and routinely lands, the #1 recruit in Oregon, not that it matters much…lol)

Instead, I guess you could say Oregon is building a fence around…….the good ol’ US of A. 🙂

 

 

[GTrojan2]

LA, I am not aware of SC overspending on CA players.  Last year maybe, but I don’t believe it’s happening with the current 2027 class.  Cali players can stay in LA area and have the great weather and the beaches to enjoy and watch the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Rams and Chargers if they want.  If they choose Eugene they can enjoy the 6th Street Grill and smoke weed. LOL!

[RWC]

The next big combination will be Moore to Moore as in Dakorien. Jez that dude is good.

[ATLBRUIN]

BB, what makes UCLA’s recruiting success even more remarkable is they haven’t even hosted one official visit yet.

[PasadenaTrojan]

😂🤦‍♂️😂🤦‍♂️

Ok. Then explain it for a dumb guy like me can understand. How and why? In the NIL era

 

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