Since securing a commitment from Montana State quarterback Dakota Prukop, a few people have turned their eyes toward Eugene, Oregon, and wondered whether this (grabbing one-year or two-year players as graduate transfers or junior college transfers) is the future or if there's a quarterback development crisis with the Ducks.

Last Friday, Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said that's not the problem at all.

"I don't think it speaks to the development of anything," Helfrich told The Oregonian's Andrew Greif. "I think that's a little odd and nobody said one thing about not being able to develop centers that we brought in [graduate transfer] Matt Hegarty or [juco transfer] Kyle Long or whoever. So, if a guy fits our criteria off the field and fits our criteria on the field and it fits, we're going to see if we can make it happen."

And they've made it happen. First with Eastern Washington graduate transfer Vernon Adams Jr. And now with Prukop. So, is it becoming a pattern? And is that a good thing? Or a bad thing?

The Register Guard's Austin Meek wrote that it's not sustainable for Oregon's program.

"In the micro sense, the Ducks are doing exactly what they need to do. In the macro sense, we have to wonder: What are they doing? In the Nike subsidiary known as Oregon football, the quarterback position is one of the five most important jobs in the building. How does it happen that, two years in a row, the Ducks are seeking fill-ins from a temp agency?"

The Oregonian's Ken Goe says that the transfer only indicates a problem if Prukop finds no competition as he fights for the starting job.

"I'll be interested to see if Prukop has to fight for the job," Goe wrote on Monday. "If the battle to start truly is competitive, than there is no problem here. If Prukop gets it by default, that would indicate an issue."

Helfrich said that there certainly will be a competition in Eugene between Prukop and Jeff Lockie, Taylor Alie and whomever else is thrown into the fire.

But at this point -- after Lockie completed 54 passes with five touchdowns and four interceptions and Alie completed just six passes -- it's hard to imagine how much they'll actually be able to compete when looking at Prukop's game film and knowing that he has eight months of prep before the Ducks' first game of the 2016 season. Oregon made a transfer quarterback work on a tight timeline with Adams in 2015. Chances are it'll make it work with a stretched out one in 2016.

The question is: What happens about the kid who has been on campus for two years? When will that guy be their guy?