Oregon Visit Sets the Bar For No. 1 JUCO Recruit Malik Benson

Oregon has stored the pedal to the metallic on the recruiting path this spring. Contemporary off a dedication from 2023 wideout Ashton Cozart, the Geese hosted the highest junior faculty recruit in Malik Benson from Hutchinson Neighborhood School in Kansas. 

The go to left a really sturdy impression, and Benson mirrored on his favourite a part of the journey.

“I feel my favourite a part of the entire go to was attending to go there with my entire household,” he advised Geese Digest. “All of us attending to expertise that. The minute that I had the jersey on and I stepped onto that area, it simply felt electrical.”

Hutchinson WR Malik Benson

Oregon put within the additional effort to ensure they created a household environment and bought everybody concerned within the expertise.

“They’d the music taking part in whereas they’re taking photos. My little eight-year-old brother, he is in there he is simply dancing,” Benson stated. “He is he is having a very good time and so they let my 15-year-old-brother gown out with me, get within the image with me and he’s in the entire uniform.”

Hutchinson WR Malik Benson Visits Oregon

Benson’s recruitment has boomed the second time round as an elite junior faculty recruit, and the Oregon go to set itself aside from what he is skilled earlier than.

“I felt like my go to was completely different as a result of they made me really feel like there’s actually a need and a necessity,” he stated. “Simply the little issues like simply getting my siblings concerned, letting them placed on the gear, that was the whole lot.”

After making his first journey out to Eugene, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound playmaker left with one very clear takeaway.

“It’s good for me to know after leaving Oregon that it is a precedence that they get me. They’re gonna do something and the whole lot to get me. Their actions are talking louder than their phrases.”

His time in Eugene additionally gave him the prospect to spend some high quality time with Dan Lanning, who has proven him a transparent imaginative and prescient for taking this system to the subsequent stage.

“Simply Coach Lanning and all of the those that he’s surrounded himself with to make that program do what it’s gonna do,” Benson stated. “I really feel like he bought the correct folks trigger they’re gonna flip that program right into a nationwide championship program.”

In case you wanted any extra convincing, Benson was adamant that his go to to Oregon set the bar for his remaining 4 official visits.

“Sure sir. It’s gonna be different faculties that we go see, which are gonna need to high that, that shot.”

Along with his first official go to within the books, Benson will head to Baton Rouge to see the LSU Tigers as he begins an SEC swing within the month of June.

What’s he going to have an eye fixed on throughout these journeys?

“Simply actually if they will high what Oregon did,” he stated. “Like each place I’m going is a giant title; Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, they’re all profitable packages. I simply need to get that feeling, it has to really feel like dwelling.”

Benson goes to take all of his journeys to get a style of what every of his finalists have to supply earlier than making a dedication.

“It’s gonna be a while in the course of July. I’m gonna take all these visits after which I’ll in all probability submit it on Twitter similar to what I did with the highest 5. I haven’t actually regarded that far. Simply on this final dwelling stretch taking these visits earlier than I take into consideration once I need to commit.”

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