Mario Cristobal and the Oregon Duck football program once again are closing out the month of June as the top recruiting school in the Pac-12. Just like last season the Ducks are ranked first in the Pac-12 and are also the only school from the league ranked inside the top 25 of the 2020 recruiting rankings for football nationally at No. 15.

Two key parts of Oregon's recruiting success under Mario Cristobal has been the use of social media and a relentless approach to always be recruiting. In a podcast with 247Sports National Recruiting Analyst Greg Biggins earlier this week, Biggins explained why the Ducks are so good at recruiting, and how social media factors into the Ducks overall plan with today's recruit who uses social media so often.

"I think you have to strategically, you know, put that out in front of a kid and because they're always on social media, use that to your advantage and Oregon's doing that," said Biggins. "It's not just with the social media though, I think with Oregon, it's just how relentless that staff is. And I made the comment last year that they were probably doing a better job of getting SoCal kids on campus than 'SC and UCLA were. Think about that for a second you know, these are Southern California kids that are taking more visits to Oregon than they were to UCLA. So I think it's not just you know, yeah, the cool edits, but it's just how tireless they have become. And you talk to any kid for me and if Oregon wants to kid, any kid you talk to and ask them 'Hey, who's recruiting the hardest?' They'll always say Oregon, and if they don't say Oregon, you can kind of tell okay Oregon's that really interested in them anymore.

Oregon's 2019 recruiting class included 11 players from Southern California in their No.7 nationally ranked recruiting class. It featured five-star and No. 2 overall player Kayvon Thibodeaux, as well as Top 100 recruits Mykael Wright, Jonah Taunanu'u, Mase Funa, and Mycah Pittman.

Biggins says the commitment to recruiting and the effort put out by schools that finish near the top of the recruiting rankings can be associated with the attention the head coaches give to recruiting. Mario Cristobal fits that same mold in Biggins' eyes.

"So I think the effort is a lot of it and you go to see some of these schools," said Biggins. "I mean, Alabama you know, Nick Saban is very hands-on, Ohio State, Coach [Ryan] Day, extremely hands-on, Texas, Tom Herman, very hands-on, Dabbo Sweeney hands on, these are head coaches. It's not just you know, you're not just relying on you know, your area coach or your position coach or even like your little you know, football ops guys. These schools in the south and in other parts of the country, their head coaches are extremely hands-on and they're reaching out to kids and that's what Cristobal has been able to do probably as much if not more than any other head coach. I think that resonates with a lot of kids for sure."

Oregon's 2020 class has already started to resemble last year's class in the way it's been built: SoCal and out. The Ducks have landed prospects from states like Florida, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Mississippi, but the core of the class has been built around Southern California once again. Oregon currently holds commitments from six prospects from California and all of them are in the SoCal region, headlined by four-star quarterback Jay Butterfield, four-star athlete Jaden Navarrette, and four-star wide receiver Kris Hutson.