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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 4256273, member: 9403"] Respectfully, I gotta disagree with you there a bit. Yes, of course Oregon is never going to be as fruitful as CA or many parts of the midwest and southeast. But Cameron Brink, Mercedes Russell, Evina Westbrook, and Jaime Nared were all top 5ish recruits in the past decade, and a lot of solid role players like Katie McWilliams, Aleah Goodman, have grown up within 50 miles of Eugene. The most striking thing is simply that Oregon has had no success recruiting any homegrown talent. For whatever reason, Rueck has been better about gobbling up the locals. And, given the state of Washington's programs for most of this past decade, and the lack of good programs in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, or Alaska, there's really not a good reason why Oregon shouldn't be dominating the entire greater Pacific NW. But again, a lot of those top recruits (Mikayla Pivec, the Hull sisters, Brittany McPhee, Slocum, Kaylee Johnson) have gone to OSU or Stanford. [/QUOTE]