Best Facilities in the Country Goes to Oregon

The uniform and colors will turn off more players than anything else. Both the all green and white kinda make you want to play at another school. The all black is tolerable.
 
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I hope that was hyperbole, because I think if a recruit turned down Oregon because of their colors, he isn't a very centered individual and hardly mature enough mentally to be a good fit. I think the quality of facilities would be a major factor in a player's decision, though. Of all the reasons I can possibly think of for a player not to play for a particular program, colors isn't one of them. Besides, and no offense, but outside of Texans, there are very few folks who think burnt orange is a good color. I like it, and so do y'all, but that don't mean the sentiment is shared elsewhere.
 
Hey man, burnt orange is actually a very popular color these days. There is now a burnt orange Polo shirt, for example. It's a quite fashionable fall color. I'm insulted.

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This proves that it still takes coaches and players to win championships.

However, I would go there to get daily spa treatments to lose 4-5 games a year.
 
You might be suprised at how many kids love Oregon's uniforms. Not every 17 year old has the same taste as we do.

Hell, they let the players help design the uni's.
 
the recruits actually love the uniforms and the players help design them.

i think they're really ugly and so do most duck fans but then they say "hey the recruits love them and the players are the ones helping to design them, their not meant to attract anyone other than 17-18 year old prospects"
 
I agree that any recruit who bases his decision just on the colors isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. And as mentioned, not everyone outside of Texas cares for burnt orange. UO's green and yellow can be a bit garish, but it could also appeal to the Xbox/PS3 crowd.
 
I've said it before, but when my cousin was being recruited he and his football player friends loved Oregon's unis. They're not a turnoff to players at all. Its another piece of a whole package for recruits.
 
UO is also situated in a gorgeous area of the country, which probably doesn't hurt. You could draw many parallels between Austin and Eugene, though the temperature there obviously gets a little chilly for my liking. Nevertheless, with the Pacific Ocean not far off, it's not as a bad as one would think and it's one of the greenest areas in the nation.
 
Looks more like a 5* hotel spa than a football complex. Damn nice. Glad it's in Oregon and not LSU or OU.

BTW, I've also heard that the UO uniform that all us old farts hate is actually a draw to hs athletes.
 
Because if that the Casanova Center thats almost 20 years old now (a project of Bill Byrne's in the late 80's). I cant believe it looks that good.
 
Here is what I have to say about it.

Football is an icon, a matter of perception, a matter of style. There are only a handful of places in the country that qualify to honestly and truly represent football.

In the newer James Bond film, there's a scene where the lady says to Bond -- after she had picked out a tux for him -- There are dinner jackets... and there are dinner jackets. I got you the latter."

So... there is football... and there is football.

The University of Texas is one of the few places on earth that IS football.

All the rest is make believe. And you can argue that to the end of time, but you will not alter the plain and pure truth of it.

The Texas Longhorns in every respect is one of the finest expressions of football. An Oregon Duck? Listen, anyone can put on a uniform, hike the ball and run and pass and pretend it's the real thing.

But.. there is football... and there is football. Which do you want?
 
As others have mentioned, the UO uniform and colors, in fact, are a big draw to a lot of HS athletes.

And I'm not sure where anyone got the idea that UO people don't like them. I know quite a few people at UO and the general sentiment is that they love the uniforms. Especially the black, but even the other ones.
 
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After closely examining the photo in Lat22's post, I've changed my mind, and have to say that Oregon's uniforms really don't suck after all.
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You gotta love it when chicks wear shirts designed for 2-year olds.
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The UO facilities are the best and they continue to stay one step ahead of the competition thanks to Uncle Phil. Of course, they have to due to the lack of tradition. Without those facilities they'd be Oregon State...or Texas Tech (as a comparison).

The uniforms? They are a pretty big hit with the recruits which is what all this is really for right? The facilities and unis bring in the recruits and the program keeps getting better each year.

Recruiting to Eugene isn't easy. Both Oregon and Oregon State sit about an hour South of Portland which means they are small college towns without the big city amenities. Though they are close to the Pacific Ocean this isn't the Southern CA coast we're talking about. Wetsuits are required for surfing.

As a U of Washington alum I wish we had our own Phil Knight to help push the program forward.
 
Yes, the Oregon facilities are the best in the country. The Texas facilities (along with the facilities of several other powerhouse programs) are right up there, too.
 
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