They needed to get some athletic guys they could plug into a lot of spots and help in a lot of ways. Plus, they got a lot on the offensive line. Carroll comes through USC rolled along despite the firing of Paul Hackett and a messy coaching search that ended in the ho-hum hiring of NFL castoff Pete Carroll. They'll love throwing to 6-3 receiver William Buchanon, who got less attention that Washington's Williams, but has just as much upside. Oregon gets top QB After the Big Three, it's a tightly bunched field, all the way down to Washington State.
Nobody gets all the good recruits, and everybody gets something.
Oregon's class, given the Ducks' success in 2000, was somewhat disappointing. Best of the JCs Let's go right to the Washington class here. Neuheisel likes Taylor Barton so much that he was willing to spend two scholarships on him. Barton was barred from transferring to Washington, so he went to the City College of San Francisco while the Barton family and the NCAA and Washington worked out an agreement to allow Barton to become a Husky. Washington's sanction for signing Barton was to forfeit a scholarship.