Charles Fischer

Sorry, but making fun of the Beaver Bastards is now Blood-Sport for some of us. It's so much fun to give Beavis a kick...

I don't understand it; USC fans are usually so well grounded and reasonable...

Perhaps that is total yards of defense, but the most important stat is scoring. Oregon was in the Top-10 (9th) with only giving up 16.5 points per game. Incredible, and if we could duplicate or improve upon this with our schedule--I would be delighted.

One of my favorite memories of Chip and Barner was during halftime of a bowl game with Holly Rowe of ESPN...

Sometimes players who complain are "Prima-Donnas" who did not get their way. I cannot confirm that in this instance, but the accusations of favoritism based on race....are hard to believe. Favoritism based on behavior? Sure, and that is the prerogative of the coach.

And we play in a "White-Out" in 2025... I'd like to get a FishDuck group to go!

Another team that I look forward to seeing in my rear-view mirror....

I agree with Coach Waz in saying that most of us felt that USC and Arizona State would get into the tournament last year--but got left out. If Oregon loses this series to the Cougars, they will have the same risk, IMHO. Most pundits say that Arizona, the Beavers and Oregon will be the only Pac-12 participants in the NCAA tournament, but we gotta do our part this weekend. Arizona hosts Oregon State this weekend, so we cannot overcome both teams for first place. We have a shot at second, but most important--we need to hold onto third by winning this series. Go Ducks! The balance of the conference was amazing this year; everybody could beat everybody on a given day. We beat Arizona in our series, but lost to OSU and the one that hurt was to Stanford. One of the two games lost to the Cardinal was by ONE run... Series starts THURSDAY instead of Friday, so that teams have more time to travel to next week's Pac-12 Tournament.

HDuck...that was a fantastic article to post, thank you. EVERYONE...do help out posting articles like these to help the community that serves you. Oram is usually such an OSU tool, and Oregon hater, that this honest article above is stunning to me. The quote from HDuck from the article is what I was thinking...as having Beaver games on the CW allows Beaver fans around the country watch...but who else will? "The Pac-12 will be going head-to-head with games on CBS, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Fox, FS1, the Big Ten Network and SEC Network. Even with traditionally strong viewership, what the Beavers do on The CW won’t resonate on your average Saturday." "Being on national television sounds like a triumph after all those travails. But being available is no longer enough. Rather than national exposure, Oregon State football games will more likely be hidden in plain sight." "The viewership out of market, playing a largely Mountain West schedule, will be abysmal." "What will happen when Oregon State does a terrible rating in every game on The CW but scores a decent rating in its one game on Fox, against Oregon? What will that say about where the value is?"

This is how you become elite, and have a shot at a 'Natty!

Who wants it?

You make a good point Darren, in that in the end....it was really UCLA that was the tipping point that destroyed the conference. USC was headed out no matter what, but if UCLA stayed and we got 40 million? The conference would still be intact. But the Ducks would be making half of what they will make in the future at our new conference, and Oregon's exposure is probably tripled in the B1G. So in the end...

There are other articles out there, but Canzano provided below the home schedule... (And they should NOT call it the Pac-12) Oregon State Home Games • 8/31 - Idaho State - 3:30 p.m. PT on The CW • 9/14 - Oregon – Time TBD on FOX or FS1 • 9/21 - Purdue - 5:30 p.m. PT on The CW • 10/5 - Colorado State - 3:30 p.m. PT on The CW • 10/19 - UNLV - 12:30 p.m. PT or 7:00 p.m. PT on The CW * • 11/9 - San Jose State - 12:30 p.m. PT or 7:30 p.m. PT on The CW * • 11/23 - Washington State - 3:30 p.m. PT on The CW Bolded above are league games... I expect the deal to fall in the range of $5 million to $9 million per school.

Do read the top post again as I added more thoughts about Duckster's passing...