Dontre Wilson sets announcement, finalists!

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DeSoto four-star running back Dontre Wilson is ready to make his college decision. "It's down to Oregon and Texas," Don Wilson confirmed via text message.

In addition to the big decision his father Don Wilson confirmed two programs are in a heated battle for the speedsters services.

Wilson has visited both programs this spring and would be a huge pickup for either school. Both Texas and Oregon have a running back commitment already in the class of 2013 with the Longhorns having nabbed four-star Arlington Martin prospect Kyle Hicks.

247Sports will be on hand when WIlson makes the call between the Longhorns and the Ducks.


We'll see what he does in another month!

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I think he picks Oregon ... our depth at RB being the deciding factor.

Because of that depth losing him to the Ducks won't sting quite as much.
 
Did they give any hint to the day they are looking at announcing the big decision?
 
Sorry 35... somehow I didn't copy this;
The No. 106-ranked player in the Top247 for the class of 2013 will announce between two schools during his spring game on May 25.

I guess he has to think about it a little more... or at least has time to! I'm 50-50 on this... he's liked Oregon & their offense for a while, but the distance for the fam is big issue... he liked Texas for a long time, but from what I hear, he's not sold on how Harsin/Applewhite will use him! How can he say NO to Texas...
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He may be concerned about competition, but 2 complete sets of starting quality backfield sounds pretty damn scary. You would get to the NFL with 1/2 as much chance of a career ending injury and even healthy, there are only so many carries in any RB's lifetime. And, if the guys already at UT are 1/2 as good as us internet experts predict, they will not all be at Texas for 4 years.
 
I believe Oregon is pretty nicely stacked at RB also. Lace Sestrunk wasn't close to playing time when he transferred. A frosh last yr was one of the top 3-4 RBs in the country. Incoming class has one highly ranked 4* signed and a 2013 rb commit is rated much higher than Wilson.
 
It was Colorado in the 80s and early 90s and now Oregon in the 2000s. I don't get what is attracting these Texas players to the NW.
 
The Oregon offense appeals to a smaller back like Wilson, and that team's wardrobe of unis appeals to this generation of high school football players. Wilson's probably headed to Eugene, and if he's like most state of Texas backs, he'll spend about a year out there before transferring back closer to home.
 
I haven't followed recruiting much lately - any news on the Wilson front? Or is it radio silence before the big day?
 
Any word on when Jesus comes back? I am at least as interested in that as in where some egomaniacal jock decides to pursue his education.

Will the announcement be covered by the networks? Will head coaches from both schools be on hand?

Has he already made up his mind and put off announcing his decision until the 25th, or is he going to dynamite his brain and finally decide on that date?

Is there any significance to that date as a reason for picking it? His patron saint's feast day? His town's Vegetable Fest? Anniversary of his mom's hysterectomy? His first son's third birthday?

I gotta know.
 
I had him going to Oregon. I didn't think he would sit behind Brown, Bergeron, and Gray.

I'm not a big fan of Oregon and its questionable recruiting tactics, but I wish the young man luck in his career.
 
fritz: I read the recruiting board for the same reasons you do. My snarky comments were aimed at two matters: first, it was obvious he was going to go where he had a shot at playing and starring. Even without Davis, that was not likely to happen. Second, the kid is tooling everybody around for his own sense of self importance. How about this for an announcement: "I will tell you where I am going when I make up my mind"?

INstead, the jerk sets everybody up for an anticipation game: "oh, I sure hope he goes to my school." Why do that to people? Extremely bad parenting would be my guess.
 
Good luck to the kid. Really. But if I had to bet $, I would bet he plays his Jr. year in Nacogdoches, Abilene, or maybe Huntsville. Oreegon is soooo far and so different from home.
 
Agree with 1leggedduck, he will be back in Texas in one year at a Div. 2 school. He is already behind the top HS RB in the nation with Tyner on board, not to mention the 3 that are on campus and were good enough to chase off Seastrunk in one year.
 
No surprise. Best of luck to the kid.

If he follows thru on the commitment, he might want to go ahead and start making his list of schools to transfer to though.
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