Braxton Burmeister-Oregon relationship sign of recruiting's overkill

If anything, college football and basketball recruiting is overkill. Oregon-bound quarterback Braxton Burmeister, who twice made a commitment to play at Arizona, told the Eugene Register-Guard last week that he spent five consecutive days talking to Oregon coach Willie Taggart on the phone. “We’d been talking every day for 30 minutes to an hour,” said Burmeister. “I called Arizona and they wanted me to sleep on it, but I pretty much knew at that point.” Five days on the phone, for about three hours total? Brutal. 

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