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Post by Werebeaver on Feb 1, 2023 19:01:50 GMT -8
Still never heard of him. But I don’t follow the recruiting wars. Post less. Feel free to block me. It’s a useful feature of this board and I use it often. BTW, I admire your concision. According to this he rung up 3 tackles in his entire OSU career. And I’m supposed to remember him? osubeavers.com/sports/football/roster/dashon-hunt/2695
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Post by bvrbred on Feb 2, 2023 9:09:15 GMT -8
Any before the rankings in the 90's that would've maybe appeared here? Tim Alexander is the only one that comes to mind off hand. Hard to say. Prior to the 90s, and really internet, recruiting tended to be more regional or through a feeder school network. That still exists today but pretty much any school can have something if a national footprint. I'm sure Baker would be a national recruit today but back in the day he may have been unknown to anyone outside Oregon. You're right that it was regional rather than national. The top Oregon players were known up and down the West Coast in Baker's day. I think it helped if they were on a championship team. Baker's Jefferson team was a juggernaut, featuring Baker and the two Renfro brothers. Baker was set to go to Stanford to play for Cactus Jack Curtis. He came to Oregon State instead because Gill offered him a basketball scholarship and he wanted to play basketball instead of football. Prothro had to hunt him down on campus and talk him into it. Paul Brothers, who played for a state championship Roseburg team a few years after Baker's time supposedly had 30 scholarship offers. Don't know the distribution of the offers but I suspect it was primarily the western states.
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Post by orangeattack on Feb 4, 2023 17:17:19 GMT -8
I’m going to post this because the tone here seems like “he wasn’t even any good, why should I remember him?” He was super talented. very highly regarded as a recruit when he came in, and showed some serious potential. Was expected to play as a true freshman and then got sick and missed the first 3 weeks of the season so the decision was made to redshirt him. He was expected to start as a RSFR before he had a bad neck stinger that ended up revealing spinal stenosis and he had to take a medical retirement.
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