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Narrated by Ty Burrell from Modern Family, and while only 30 seconds....is awesome.

Tanner Bradley pitched a little for the Ducks this last season and showed promise. Blake Crawford is from West Linn and redshirted for Our Beloved Ducks.

Josh Schleichardt played at Lakeridge in HS, redshirted at Utah, played a couple seasons at Clark CC and then last year at D2 Vanguard. He's lit up the West Coast League (WCL) this summer with the Portland Pickles. (started in the recent all-star game)

David Barnes, a RHP from Spokane Falls Community College is going to be a Duck after a season of an ERA of 1.69 in 21 innings.

Coming to the Ducks is Elijah Cook, an outfielder who had a great season for Azusa Pacific. He won a Golden Glove, and put up great batting numbers as well.

Matt Scott II from Texas has committed to Oregon, he was a highly rated outfield prospect out of high school who didn’t play much last year. This feels very Mason Neville-esque, who came from Arkansas.

The word is...this guy is streaky, but perhaps can become more consistent at OREGON.

A new verbal to transfer is Blake Sandvik...and look at that ERA! At Everett C.C....in 28 innings pitched...his ERA was 1.93!

From DucksIrish44 on 247: Another HR highlight from yesterday, and this one's from a newcomer who could contribute next season with the possible opportunities in the outfield. Oregon baseball commit Danny Wideman homered for the Marion Berries (awesome name), a first-year Salem-area club in the West Coast League here in the PNW. Wideman's from West Linn and was 1st team 6A all-state three times (1x each as an IF, OF, and UT) and part of 2 state championship teams in baseball, and also a 1st team all-state WR for their state champ football team. (Good gosh, what a great athlete!)

No surprise that Tony Petitti's opening statement today mirrored his interview with Yahoo Sports that NJ Duck was good enough to post. I missed a call from Brother Charles, who left a message questioning, in particular, why fans would support PO play-in games when their team could have already secured one of The B1G's four automatic PO qualifying bids. Would fans support a system where a team could play the same conference opponent four times in a season? Both are excellent questions that I will try to answer. First, some context. College football (CFB) has seen more change in the last five years than in the prior 100 CFB seasons. The biggest change to the 'student-amateur-athlete' paradigm came recently when the House settlement was approved, with schools now able to pay athletes directly. The cap on direct revenue sharing in year one post-settlement is $20.5 million. OBD is blessed to be one of the very few schools to have an athletic department in the black. The majority of athletic departments, if they were stand-alone businesses, would be functionally insolvent. So, the most pressing question for college athletic departments is 'how do we bring in more dough?' In theory, the B1G's 4-4-2-2-1-3 16-team PO format (B1G format) would provide three additional sources of football revenue. The media, in this case Disney/ESPN, will pay more for a 16-team PO inventory than for the current 12-team inventory. With AQs in place, Petitti believes schools will schedule more challenging out-of-conference games, which in turn would mean more media income. No doubt a Football Challenge between the B1G and the SEC would generate significant revenue. Teams would not be penalized for scheduling and losing games such as Texas vs. Ohio State, Oklahoma vs. Michigan, and Alabama vs. Wisconsin, scheduled in 2025. Play-in games would be decided only on in-conference game results. Rivalry games would be played in the penultimate game of the regular season. In my earlier example of what the play-in games would have been in 2024, I erred in using 12-game regular-season records and not the standings after the 8th conference games were played. The conference schedules in 2024, after eight conference games were played, would have had No.1 Oregon vs. No. 2 Penn State, with both teams automatically qualifying for the PO regardless of the score of the Conference Championship game. The first-place and second-place teams would be in the PO. The champ game result could affect seeding but not PO participation. No. 6 Iowa would have played No. 3 Indiana. No. 5 Illinois would have played No. 4 Ohio State. The winner of these two games would advance to the PO. These three games would not have included a rematch. It's possible but unlikely that teams would play one another three let alone four times. The PO committee would determine the PO seeding, but the B1G would decide on the four AQ teams and their B1G seeding. This would be the case for the other three power conferences. The PO committee would not be able to change the order in which B1G teams were seeded by the conference, but of course, could change where teams are seeded one through sixteen. Three impactful flex-scheduled games played on the final week of the regular season would generate far more dollars than one championship game played a week after the conclusion of the regular season. Four teams would be in the mix for the final two AQ PO spots. In addition to the increased media revenue, play-in games would help level the in-conference scheduling in a given season. In 2025, a sixth-place Wisconsin, with the most difficult conference schedule, would have a shot at the PO. Nebraska and OBD's relatively easy 2025 conference schedules will be more difficult down the road. Not sold? I get it! A 12-team PO in 2025-26, this time with teams seeded as ranked by the committee, is just as likely as expanding the field to 14 or 16 teams. Petitti, in his opening remarks today, made it clear that a 16-team 5-11 format is not going to happen unless all of the Power conferences play nine conference games.

We got a transfer pitcher who will be a senior from George Fox; Ryder Edward's ERA in 2025 was 2.29, and in 2024 it was 1.41!

And we know that he is pitching for the Ducks for certain!

Whoa! Look where this player is ranked!

This is much more than I wanted to put in the usual Oregon Baseball thread, so let's get it going. First, we have not lost much leaving via the portal, but we did lose Cole Stokes and Santiago Garcia. Although Garcia was highly inconsistent...when he was on--he was tough and had four saves for us. Thus I believe his upside could have been realized by the new pitching coach, but alas...he left before the coach got here. But as for Stokes....I wish him well, but he lost his confidence in games way-too-often. Heck, he choked two game losses to Portland in 2024, and 2025, so I think we can do better than that. First of all--Oregon had some luck this time versus the MLB Draft, as usually our best HS players verballed to Oregon--get drafted high and sign with a professional team. But look below!

Riley’s lack of CEO-type leadership gifts and skills didn’t surface in Norman where he was shored-up by a focus and faith in Sooner football that never seems to waiver. In LA, those shortcomings are all too apparent.

Tony just needs to sit on his hands, do nothing, and keep the current format. With the skewed rankings and the 8 game schedule, it will be the SEC that is missing out on the extra playoff spots. The pressure will mount eventually.

“Telling a wealthy person who owns a business that they can’t pay a student-athlete $25,000 for advertising because some other third party tells him that he’s overpaying and the student-athlete is only worth $10,000, you know, that just doesn’t feel appropriate to me, personally.” That's what I've been saying too, plus part of the "review" is supposed to be based on "market." So, a kid considering UW is told a car dealer in Seattle will be allowed to pay him $50K, but one in Pullman can only pay $10K based on "market?" How is that going to work for USC's recruiting vs the same kid considering Fresno State?

This article makes me wonder what Division Street is doing. https://www.wsj.com/sports/college-sports-booster-collectives-8941202e?st=GgQgJ7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

If the Trojans have a tough game in Lincoln, they aren't ready to rumble.

Ohio State-Oregon is the hottest recruiting rivalry in the Big Ten In college football, rivalries between top programs often extend beyond the field and into recruiting. These intense battles for top prospects directly influence the direction of programs and shape future conference standings. This week Rivals is exploring the hottest recruiting rivalries in major college football. Today we look at the Big Ten. Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Oregon Ducks Notable head-to-heads: Dillon Thieneman (2025 transfer), Faheem Delane (2025), Nate Roberts (2025), Na’eem Offord (2025), Trey McNutt (2025), Dorian Brew (2025), Chris Henry (2026), Kayden Dixon-Wyatt (2026), Jamier Brown (2027) Ohio State-Oregon is the hottest recruiting rivalry in the Big Ten

Oregon has made a late-cycle addition with international big man Ege Demir

Until I see a Riley led U$C team that doesn't bumble, stumble, fumble, crumble and get humbled, I will be hard pressed to believe they can rumble.

Josh Pate Joins Dirt & Sprague From Big Ten Media Days In Las Vegas

USC lost a TON of experienced players to the portal, (Our Beloved Ducks have two of them) and at crucial moments--that lack of experience will hurt them in 2025, IMHO. He is their Mark Helfrich; a great OC and QB Coach, but he is not a leader...

Their toughest games this season are in South Bend, Lincoln and Eugene. If they can win one of those and beat Michigan at home, they could probably be a playoff team. They have a lot of talent, but their success will depend heavily on the play of their QB Maiava. I think OBD are in the same boat with two pretty difficult away games (PSU, Iowa) and a new QB and OL.