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[2010sarenevercomingback]

Even in LA it was hard to recruit kids because the kids look at it as an isolated place with nothing to do.

But the whole discussion above was not that you can't recruit to Oregon - clearly it is possible. It was that it is has been a very hard job as a coach to recruit to Oregon - not just to convince players to come but to take the time to go and see them, get their families to Eugene, etc. So much so that established HCs did not want to go to Oregon and coordinators took the job with a goal of leaving as soon as they could get the initial HC experience. It has been a steppingstone job.

You're going back to geography, which again, I agree is not a major point in their favor, but it is far from the only/complete determination of what makes a school easy/hard to recruit to.

As far as the coaches, I would argue that 6 consecutive different head coaches putting up very good recruiting classes almost every year is a strong indication that the school itself is in a pretty solid place, institutionally.

 

[Carm]

You're going back to geography, which again, I agree is not a major point in their favor, but it is far from the only/complete determination of what makes a school easy/hard to recruit to.

As far as the coaches, I would argue that 6 consecutive different head coaches putting up very good recruiting classes almost every year is a strong indication that the school itself is in a pretty solid place, institutionally.

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I'll say it again - I am not arguing you can't recruit to Oregon. I am arguing that successfully recruiting there is sufficiently hard (i.e., hard tome-consuming work) enough that it was a major reason that Oregon was never a destination job and was instead a steppingstone job (which is what it has been - and the University knew it).

I completely agree it is possible to recruit to Oregon.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Sorry, I'm not making this up. I read it on Oregon boards contemporaneously.

The Oregon job is extremely difficult. The travel for coaches to recruit is terrible.

The buyout I am talking about is if Lanning chooses to leave, not what he gets if he gets fired. Buyouts the coaches have to pay to leave are fairly rare and much smaller than firing buyouts. Kirby Smart's buyout he owes Georgia if he takes another job is only $5M, for example. I think Matt Rhule pays Zero to Nebraska if he quits.

Through December 31, Rhule’s buyout is $7 million if he chooses to leave the university. That number decreases by $1 million annually until it hits $3.5 million. It will then stay at $3.5 million through 2029 before again dropping to $2 million in 2030.