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Why Ra’Shaad Samples Was Always Meant to Coach
At 31, Oregon Ducks assistant coach Ra’Shaad Samples has become one of college football’s top recruiters, leveraging relationships and player development to rise quickly.
MIAMI, Fla. – When Ra’Shaad Samples transferred from Oklahoma State to Houston, it was Cougars assistant coach Drew Mehringer that picked him up from the airport. The two drove straight to Cyclone Anaya’s Tex-Mex Kitchen in midtown where Samples shocked Mehringer by revealing he had already met three girls in town.
“I said, ‘I’ve literally been with you the whole time, you haven’t met anybody,’” Mehringer remembered from media day ahead of the Orange Bowl.
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