All major college football coaches have a recruiting goal of "owning" their home state. Sometimes that pans out; sometimes it doesn't.

Both Oregon coach Mark Helfrich and Oregon State coach Gary Andersen have said that they want to lay claim to the state of Oregon. Of course, that doesn't mean that they'll offer scholarships to every in-state prospect. At this point, the Ducks have a much shinier national appeal than the Beavers, so the amount of in-state offers for both programs differed during this past cycle, especially considering the sprint-like pace at which Andersen had to put his class together.

But just because a team like Oregon hasn't taken as many in-state players as Oregon State doesn't mean they haven't been on the trail. Because the last thing Helfrich would want to do is completely ignore a school until a five-star receiver pops up in a local city, only to find that the high school coach has a much better relationship and opinion of Andersen.

To kind of gauge how both of these coaches are doing, Oregonian reporter Andrew Nemec checked in with a handful of high school coaches to see if they'd give anonymous responses regarding both staffs' in-state recruiting. (He broke it into two parts for the Ducks' recruiting and the Beavers' recruiting.)

As expected, some of the high school coaches haven't fully formed their opinions of Andersen. There were a lot of "it appears" and "from what I've experienced" and "it's early" talk.

However, this nugget was especially interesting from one coach: "Well, the first week that Gary Andersen was on the job, he called me just to introduce himself. In [the decade-plus he's coached been at his current position], I never got a call from Mike Riley, so I thought that was kind of cool." Now, this could mean any number of things: Other coaches on Riley's staff could have called this coach, or perhaps Riley didn't have a reason to recruit that area because there wasn't a prospect from there, which speaks to Riley's recruiting tactics. Or perhaps Andersen literally cold-called every coach in the state just to get a jump start on getting his name out there.

In the Oregon piece, there also was a coach who reached back into the previous regime to make a comparison.

"A few years back – in Chip's days, like five years ago – they did a poor, poor job," one coach told Nemec about former Ducks coach Chip Kelly. "There was a time when people started making reference to them not having kids from Oregon. I think they really turned that around and made a real conscientious effort to try to recruit some kids."

And while a few of the coaches described the current Oregon staff's approach as phenomenal and great, there was one who still sort of held that same belief, telling Nemec: "To me, they don't give the kids in the state of Oregon enough respect. Unless the guy is a blue-chipper, they want them to walk on. To me, if you're good enough to get a scholarship, you're good enough to get a scholarship."

With June 1 coming soon -- it's the first day of the recruiting quiet period --it's definitely a timely piece and one worth a read for Ducks and Beavers fans as well as other teams who believe/don't believe their team is doing enough recruiting in their home states.