Why Dante Moore Will Thrive With Oregon

Why Dante Moore Will Thrive With Oregon

I already know what you’re thinking. People scoffed at where I ranked Dante Moore in my way-too-early QB post. I don’t care if you agree with me. I’m going to be right about this one. It’s a matter of whether you’re smart enough to hop on board. Oregon won’t skip a beat with Moore under center this year, and it’s only a matter of time before the world finds out.

Moore, 20, will take over for Dillon Gabriel heading into the 2025 College Football Season. After a shaky debut as a freshman at UCLA, people seem to be pessimistic about whether Moore can follow in the footsteps of Bo Nix. I’d argue he has a chance to be way better. Mostly because he doesn’t just have the talent to do it. He’s also shown he has the self-awareness, too.

Here’s the bottom line. Nobody was going to succeed at UCLA. No offense to Chip Kelly, but he found himself taking an offensive coordinator job over remaining the head coach there. Now, Deshaun Foster runs the show, and it’s highly unlikely he’s going to turn the program around. I know because he can’t speak and was dumb enough to trust the game guy who got Sam Howell killed. It only took one year for everyone involved to realize that was a disaster.

Moore didn’t let his ego get in the way. He did the right thing. No problem, I’ll sit for a year so I can learn and grow in order to be the best version of myself. In the NIL era, it takes a special person at that young of an age to understand that. If Moore has the right head space, he’s going to win because he has the talent to do so.

Checking in at 6-foot-3, 210, Moore was a former five star recruit and the number three QB (and number four overall player) during the 2023 class only behind Arch Manning and Nico Iamaleava. The talent has been obvious for a long time. He just needed the right people around him to properly develop the player. That appears to already be happening.

There are a lot of training videos online of Moore out there. Here’s an example of one. Here’s another. Sure, feel free to take them with a grain of salt. As long as you’re also willing to acknowledge all of the movement skills necessary to go out there and dominate are there.

Part of this is just trusting Dan Lanning and the program he’s building. We’ve already seen that shift take place at the running back position. We’ve also seen it with Bo Nix. A guy who couldn’t have been more down in the dumps at Auburn. Will Stein’s offense got the most out of him, and they will do the same with Moore. He won’t be able to run the way Nix did, but you will see more of a wow… did Oregon steal CJ Stroud’s brother? Cause that’s what it’s going to look like.

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Self-awareness and talent will win out here. Dante Moore is going to kill it at Oregon this year. Heed the warning.

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