EUGENE, Oregon — The pace of change around the Oregon football program was readily apparent Wednesday in the lobby of the Ducks’ football complex. As defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt sat down on the couches by the entrance, the 64 TV screens that bracket the room combined to play a video of a grinning Willie Taggart taking the field at Autzen Stadium.



Leavitt slept for two hours last night (though he normally doesn’t sleep much more than six in a given night) and was in the office with the rest of the Oregon staff before the sun rose, helping to close on the recruits in what is technically this “staff’s” first full recruiting cycle.



The Ducks had more than their share of 11th-hour hurdles coming into this early signing period:



Taggart’s indecision about the Florida State job — and how it dragged on longer than Oregon would have liked — and eventual departure



The search, albeit quick, to find...