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mrydel wrote:We appreciate your thoughts but are not looking for accolades, just doing our job.

BeaverNation wrote:I'm an Oregon State fan, but I want to tell you all that you dodged a bullet with Moore.

In December 2014, we got a new coach (Gary Andersen). D. Moore was one of his first 2016 targets for OSU and offered Moore a scholarship. This was back pretty early in the recruiting cycle, so naturally you would expect a program to offer a few QB's, hoping one would eventually commit from the bunch. Well, Moore didn't like it, and threw a little tantrum on Twitter whenever OSU offered another QB. He would eventually delete the tweets, but people had seen them.
Oregon State still needed another QB to play for us Fall 2015, so we were still looking for a guy who could play right away. We went after a Wisconsin commit with no luck, but we ended up with a QB by the name of Seth Collins, who flipped from San Jose State and came to OSU within a matter of days to enroll early. David Moore had a fit about both the Wisconsin kid and Collins. He would tweet stuff about it and then delete it awhile later, but by then the damage had been done and it had been picked up by all the OSU fan sites, Rivals, etc. No one could understand why this 2016 recruit was flipping out about us needing a 2015 guy for Andersen's new offense. Moore wasn't even committed and had never even seen the campus yet...it was early in the process. Our QB's were depleted, we had several transfer, and we were switching from pro-style to a variation of the spread.
Eventually, OSU's coaches found out that Moore was a headcase and completely backed off of him. He took to Oregon's main newspaper, The Oregonian, to ask why he was not being pursued anymore. Apparently, from what I have heard, OSU completely dropped him because of his immaturity and the fact that he couldn't be trusted to lead a team.
So this entire time of his recruiting process, some of us fans have sat back and watched it unfold. He had a fit when SMU might have had some interest in getting transfer Trevor Knight. As of recent, we speculated all along that he would decommit from you guys, and we figured he'd pull this move right before signing day. As a QB you absolutely do NOT decommit right before signing day.

Good luck to you all and I hope you end up with a fantastic QB and you kick Memphis' butt on the field.

JasonB wrote:If those stories are true, it kind of makes you wonder why he was a leader in the recruiting class.

mrydel wrote:Not trying to make a direct comparison, but Hitler recruited pretty well and some have rumored he was a little on the flakey side.

Rebel10 wrote:

JasonB wrote:If those stories are true, it kind of makes you wonder why he was a leader in the recruiting class.

MAybe Coach Morris was unaware of what Beaver Nation said if it is even true. I would not question Coach Morris recruiting like that though.

Grant Carter wrote: Are you saying you would not question whether Morris would be unaware of that stuff if it is true or are you saying you are not questioning why he would recruit Moore as a leader in the class knowing about that stuff if it is true?