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Reading today the number is expected to reach $4 million. If a team makes the playoffs, with no injuries (minus time coming out for "garbage time" snaps), what is a good number of expected snaps for a LT? Maybe 850? 4,000,000/850 = $4,706 per snap Imagine going 3 and out and your bill for just the LT is $14,118. Maybe the Duck offensive staff does need to rethink all those WR screens. 🙂 $4,706 a snap? It wasn't that long ago a guy couldn't get extra cream cheese on his bagel. I might be a bit more stunned if I didn't then realize Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zac Wheeler threw 3,134 pitches over a full season with a contract average of $42 million per year. 42,000,000/3134 = $13,401 per pitch So, $67,005 for that five pitch walk in the 1st inning. 🤷‍♂️

I’m excited! Will be interesting to see who steps up to replace the offensive production of the Luschar sisters and Paige Sinicki. Kaylynn Jones looks to be a good bet to take over the lead-off spot, while replacing Dezianna Patmon’s power could be by committee.

Another 1 for OBD - Let It Happen, Please https://www.profootballnetwork.com/cfb/oregon-following-indiana-as-college-football-champions/

ESPN has us No. 5, tops for the BIG. Good pitching; year two of a fab four frosh class; a trio of transfers. Three reasons to be excited about Oregon softball in 2026

Playoff team baby, playoff team. Oh, and a "just means better" conference!

As always, great comments JJ, appreciate your insights. However, to limit the meaning of ‘lightening in a bottle’ to lucking-out is to limit the expression itself. The phrase is generally described to refer to achieving rare or unlikely success, often in a way that feels fortunate or extraordinary, and not easy to replicate. Luck certainly enters into that. As DM pointed out, he by-enlarge escaped the injury bug and portal losses as a result of a senior laden roster. However, the expression emphasizes not only being ‘fortunate’, but also ‘achieving’ as well. Whatever fell in his lap he not only didn’t take for granted, but knew how to take advantage of. While you can’t predict outcome, you can affect it by the choices you make, and that’s where we’re in agreement that his coaching experience and savvy played a huge part in helping to keep his stars aligned; ie, he couldn’t have predicted the “misfit” mentality his team would eventually acquire, but once they did, he knew how to take advantage of it. One item I would disagree with is Mendoza’s recruitment being the product of luck. While all coaches attempt to recruit players who love the game, and instill in them that the sum is greater than its parts (Sabin’s wisdom imparted to ALL the semi-finalist HC’s?), Cig appears to be a ‘recruit whisperer’ on another level from his peers. Once he set his sights on him, I’m not sure Mendoza ever had a chance of going anywhere else. In short, lightening in a bottle does involve luck, but then becomes making that luck work for you. It’s both fortune and achievement.

We really don’t need a radical change imo, we just went 11-1 and made the final-4. This year we needed a better pass rush and to not be starting our 5th string HB (he was in the portal no less) in the semi-final. I don’t think Indiana won because of a slogan.

I don't think there will be much change at all... I think there is a greater chance at refinement. But I do think there needs to be some change to get over that last hurtle.

A+ season with an F- on the final…what does that equal? What percentage of the grade is the final exam? Is there a curve? My expectation going in was a 10-2 regular season with a home playoff win for a final record of 11-3. We certainly exceeded that, and unless we’re preseason top-4, we really should consider making the final-4 a great season. That being said, what a flop to end it on. I have no doubt we were severely impacted by injuries, the portal, and our coordinators having at least one foot out the door. The first priority above any playoff expansion should be fixing the calendar…but it will not be. Anyways, exceeding lofty expectations, but still having a dud to end gets a B+ in my book. I would give an A- if it had been competitive.

Made me think of the Bad News Bears!. 😂

To quote Cignetti, "We play to win. Other teams play to 'not lose'" This could not be a better explanation of ODB in recent years. Mario figured it out at Miami and damn near won with his Mari-go offense and Mari-no defense. I'm highly skeptical of Lanning's coordinator hires. Where is the 'change' going to come from? I'm not seeing it.

Up now on The Athletic site, Mandel has OBD No. 1 in his Way Too Early Top 25 for 2026.

Sweat, Lame Kitten, Sweat! 🤪 Death Valley VoiceLatest Jordan Seaton development has LSU fans everywhere...Lane Kiffin continues to pull out all the stops in an effort to land 5-star offensive lineman Jordan Seaton through the transfer portal. Kiffin has already brou

Fun to read these B1G better than SEC takes, but IMO, Not So Fast! B1G game on 9/12/26 when Ohio State visits Texas. Both teams have warm-up games on 9/5/26 - Ball State at TOSU, and Pac-8 (12?) Texas State at Texas. Also on 9/12 - Minnesota at Mississippi State, and Oklahoma at Michigan. A B1G game on Sunday, 9/6/26 - Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame in Green Bay, WI 9/5/26 - OBD opens against Boise State - Portland State is on the schedule, why open against an too early top 25 (never, ever, never schedule) Boise State? Saturday BlitzThe SEC’s reign is over as the Big Ten now runs college f...For the first time since 1942 (Minnesota in 1940, 1941, and Ohio State in 1942), the Big Ten has won three straight National Championships. Michigan in 2023, Oh

Get ready to watch these 11 Ducks in 2026 - https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/01/21/oregon-football-upperclassmen-break-out-2026/88235728007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_ter

Yes, Dan and Coach Terry had an in-home visit with Seaton in Atlanta. IMO, OBD will not match Miami or LSU in a bidding war. Seaton will, of course, be paid to play for OBD, but he'll have to come West for morer than money. On3Transfer Portal: Where the top remaining targets are tren...After speaking with sources, On3 has the latest intel on where the top remaining transfer portal targets are trending as commitments near.

Looks legit. If so, go get em Dan!

On3's Pete Nakos article on how Cig built a championship roster, turned around a laughingstock of a program, and won it all in two seasons. On3Curt Cignetti, Indiana reinvented how to build national c...Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers reinvented how to build a national championship roster through the transfer portal.

Gratz, fiddy. 😏

Article - A Gead for Ardical Headlane Spitting + Chicking Da Kalendar - F 😁 Great take, thanks.

A- Team showed a lot of toughness playing through significant injuries and keeping their season on track. Came out much better prepared for postseason and had 2 dominate playoff wins. Man did they not show up in the last game. Hats off to IU, and they deserve to be champs… but OBD laid an absolute egg when it mattered most… again. A normally executed game by OBD and this is a close game into the 4th quarter like with Miami. Bummer way to close out a sensational season. Next step forward is obvious for next season.

I don't even remember some of these guys, do you? The portal is crazy, with one former Duck on his 5th school in 5 years. I guess the grass is many different colors out there. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/how-former-oregon-ducks-performed-at-new-schools-in-2025-transfer-protal-271731585/#2782517

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Track fast and football fast are related but not the same, particularly for WRs. Those ten pounds of helmet and pads make a difference. In line speed is great and in the open is the deciding factor. Football fast takes advantage of that little shimmy fake, tight break, precise route running and stop and go to create separation. IU's Becker (Sarratt and Cooper as well) impressed with football fast moves and the use of the back shoulder throw. It quite honestly won them the NC. You don’t need to vapor trail past the DB, but do need to run a precise route, sell the defender on the go and not telegraph where the ball will be until the last second, have a QB that can deliver it there and go up and get it through contact. Mendoza did a good job at that throw. Moore has the skill to do the same but needs the judgement to know when it is the right play. Oregon has the WRs to make those plays but has underutilized them to this point. The addition of Bair gives them the 6'3" player they need, but he will have to learn the position and how to use his size and speed. If he is football fast and not just track fast.

Well, there you have it. Our Oregon football program’s offseason is in full swing, and now that we’ve crowned a national champion of the College Football Playoff, I think it’s time to evaluate the Ducks a bit more fairly on what they accomplished in 2025. Head coach Dan Lanning led the program to a 13-2 record in his fourth season ... Oregon Football: Geading The 2035-2026 Season