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Reminds me of the golf course Willie Nelson built on his ranch, he got to set par. Said on one hole the other day he shot a 12 . . . and birdie that sucker!

Both are top tier players, however one of them just happens to be a wiley veteran as well!

We had a ton of good wins, but we also has too many bad losses. Yet our margin is clearly much thinner than it is for most teams. It puts Waz in a tough spot; you need to schedule well for RPI, yet you need easier games to break in new players. I would like to think our body of work...especially in the last month is better than No. 12 or No. 13...

Sabrina is transformational... She does whatever her TEAM needs!

Yep, Clark is a transformational once in a generation player, just sooooo much better than Sabs.

Beavis does have a pedigree in baseball, so maybe OBD's sweep of them should matter more? The L's to Oregon look to be "Good" losses when it comes to that. Beavis didn't lose to Portland; they did lose twice to Nebraska.

Sorry to disagree, but the NCAA rules are pretty specific and support the Liberty coach's decision to contest the calls. She noted a glitch, perhaps on film review, in how Kai lifted her lead foot off the base even though she wasn't leaving early or getting a jump on the pitch. Once Luschar was no longer in contact with the base, she was in violation of the strict interpretation of the rules. From the NCAA Rulebook: 12.6 Base Runner Is Out 12.6.1 When she leaves the base she is occupying before the pitch is released and the defensive coach does not take the result of the play. 12.14 Leaving A Base 12.14.1 A runner may not leave the base she attained at the conclusion of play once the ball is in the pitcher’s possession in the pitcher’s circle. DL took advantage of a loophole in the 12 men on the field rule to help defeat Ohio State at Autzen. The NCAA then changed the rulebook to close that loophole. That's just smart coaching, and I give Dot Richardson the nod for exploiting it. The softball rules may need a revamp, but I suspect that runners will just make sure they always stay in contact with the base before trying to steal. I'm thankful that these calls didn't hurt Oregon and that the issue will be addressed before the WS games, where they could have been devastating.

You can look at D1Baseball's Projections right here, and below are some of my observations about other teams. In the B1G, only Oregon is hosting, as UCLA lost their Regional Seed, and will travel to No. 11 Clemson as a No. 2 Regional Seed! USC is in, but traveling to the Corvallis Regional to face Beavis, UC Irvine and St. Mary's. Nebraska is being "watched" as they play UCLA for the B1G Tourney Championship at noon today. Stunner: Oregon beat Oregon State four times, has won 15 of the their last 17 games, but Beavis gets a higher national seed than the Ducks at No. 9? Oregon opponents Rhode Island and Columbia are predicted to be in the NCAA field. Again...these are projections, and the actual bracket comes out tomorrow morning. Dominic Hellman Crushing the Beavers Did Not Matter?

Very happy to see this, Oregon Softball and Volleyball are extremely competitive, we just saw what the Women's Golf team did. Go, Lady Ducks!

It's time to say, "Buh bye to byes!"

I combined another thread begun by OBD member sports fan, and below is what he wrote: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 64 team field will be revealed tomorrow. The Ducks will know who and where they will play. On the D 1 Baseball website released today, Oregon is currently projected as a # 13 seed. They will start the series in Eugene against Arizona, Connecticut and North Dakota State. D 1 Baseball also released an up to date RPI rankings. Here are the results. Arizona # 27, Connecticut # 40 and North Dakota State # 152. The Ducks RPI is # 16. This is all speculation until the final tournament games are completed today. Although Oregon has had a great season, knocking off the Beavs in a four game sweep and taking two of three against the Bruins, the selection committee also looks at who they lost too. Listed below are the teams that beat the Ducks and their RPI rankings. UCLA 11 Nebraska 55 Rhode Island 67 Michigan 71 Rutgers 86 Minnesota 107 Grand Canyon 108 Maryland 127 Toledo 130 Michigan St. 141 Portland 178 We lost twice to the Pilots. Ohio St. 231 We lost twice to the Buckeyes

You can read the article from 247 right here, but the bottom line is that both D1Baseball and Baseball America have dropped their predictions of Oregon's seeding tomorrow to much worse than I ever thought possible. Yes, we would still host an NCAA Regional at PK Park, but one loss killed our National Seed hopes. Never mind that Oregon has won 15 of their last 17 games, so we had to win the B1G Tournament for a National Seed? Only winning 14 in a row will do it? Boy, if you do NOT want to award something, any reason will do. When the first one come along--we gotcha! From the Article: Following the completion of the Big Ten Tournament, D1Baseball.com has moved Oregon out of the Top 8 national seed to No. 13 overall, hosting a Eugene Regional against two-seed Big-12 Champion Arizona (39-18, 18-12), three-seed Connecticut (38-21, 17-4), and four-seed North Dakota State (20-32, 13-15). Baseball America has moved Oregon to the No. 12 overall seed with two-seed Big-12 Champion Arizona (39-18, 18-12), three-seed Kentucky (29-24, 13-17), and four-seed North Dakota State (20-32, 13-15). Oregon's NCAA Tournament schedule will be unveiled on Monday, May 26th, during the Selection Monday special on ESPN2 starting at 9 AM PT. PK Park

4-Star Recruit Troy Bowens Raves About Oregon Ducks' Dan Lanning, Tosh Lupoi The Oregon Ducks have their eyes set on their top recruits in the 2027 class, including four-star edge rusher Troy Bowens. Oregon coach Dan Lanning and defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi have been leading the way in his recruitment. 4-Star Recruit Troy Bowens Raves About Oregon Ducks' Dan Lanning, Tosh Lupoi WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks made a big impression on 2027 four-star edge rusher Troy Bowens when they offered him this past January. After all, the Ducks were only the sec

In an interview with John Canzano, Oregon Athletic Director Rob Mullens made an interesting declaration that might be reassuring to the Oregon Baseball fan that I am. He notes how funding is remaining the same for non-revenue sports, (good!) but only mentions womens sports in terms of new scholarships. But the discussion here and other places has been how non-revenue sports could be eliminated, and this below seems to be a statement that they are not at Oregon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canzano: I have wondered, not just with Oregon, but around the country, how athletic departments will begin to tier their sports. You want to invest at the maximum level you can with every sport, but you can't do it when you're carrying the number of sports that you're carrying. Hard decisions have to be made. How do you do that? Mullens: Yeah, it’s really difficult. One of the things we’re very fortunate in is that we’re not going to have to go backwards with any team. So the funding is going to stay in place. Resource allocation has always been one of the most difficult parts of this job. Because you want to give everything to everybody. But that’s just not reality, particularly when you look at the economics in our asset base. So we’re going to have to make strategic investments and strategic allocation. And that starts with football. Football generates 80 percent of our resources. We have to be successful in football to generate the resources to help fund the other 19 sports. And so then we’ll study the marketplace, the landscape, obviously, where we have a rich history and tradition. We want to continue our competitive advantage. And then we’re also going to make an investment in the new roster limit scholarship pieces in almost every one of our women’s sports to allow them to remain competitive. As you were noting off the top here in the spring, when you look at what women’s golf has done, what softball has done, what women’s track has done, we want to continue to excel in those sports.

Oregon AD Rob Mullens danced around the same subject recently, as he saw the value (revenue) and the experience of the home game versus the bye. So...go to 16 teams with no byes!

SP+ Top 40. 13 SEC teams. 12 B1G teams. 62.5% of the top 40. 50 most viewed CFB games in 2024-25. 49 involved one or more SEC or B1G teams. The only game that had no Power 2 teams playing was the Army-Navy game. Since the inception of 'One True Champion,' SEC commissioner Roy Kramer's idea for the BCS, when has a 'little guy' ever won a title? NEVER. Every CFB champion, from the BCS's inception to date, has had a Blue Chip Roster. The idea that automatic qualifiers will destroy the integrity of the CFB PO is a canard. Why should or would the conferences with the more difficult in-conference schedules rely on a committee that ranked Boise State the ninth-best team in the nation last season? A G5 team No. 9, on a whim? If the CFB committee used publicly disclosed metrics like the CBB committee, all involved would have more trust in the CFB committee. In 2024, we saw the SSDD. No 3-loss team, other than ACC champion Clemson, a team defeated by Georgia and 3-loss South Carolina, made the PO. Many 3-loss teams played far harder schedules than several 2-loss PO teams. In light of the pending House settlement, Oklahoma has announced cuts in its athletic department. Oklahoma may be the first, but it will not be the last program to do so. CFB is big business, and like every big business, the marketplace separates winners and losers. The winners cannot afford to prop up the 'losers.' No UFL team is invited to the NFL playoffs. Folks longing for 'the good old days' of college football are wishing for something that never existed. (OK, perhaps Jim Thorpe's Carlisle teams?)

I've lived out in Arizona for twelve years now and I can honestly say I've heard about ASU football maybe four times in totality. Two of those came when Oregon was ranked number one or two and they had to travel to Tempe. There was the one year the Devils won the Pac 12 South and got pummeled by Stanford. The fourth was this past year when they got a bye and nearly made it to the Semis, but they let Texas score on a fourth and twelve and lost in overtime. Should ASU have gotten a bye? How about Boise with their zero top 25 wins? ASU lost to Cincy by two touchdowns btw. I can subjectively say in a real life seeding that ASU and Boise weren't better than Miami, Alabama, Ole Miss or South Carolina. But I'm glad they got in over those teams. I would prefer to see an undefeated or one loss Boise and a two loss conference champion in ASU get their shot. You can't let three loss SEC teams get the nod. You can't let a Miami team that loses to Georgia Tech and Syracuse in. Just don't give the eleven and twelves seeds byes. Heck Notre Dame shouldn't get a bye and reports coming from Jon Wilner say the Irish prefer the home game over the bye. I've heard it from Texas, Penn State and even Ohio State fans(although Tennessee fans had a strong contingency there) that a home playoff game is bigger than getting the bye. Of course Boise and ASU wouldn't get the home games most likely. Clemson might.

Only top 10 without a Natty. Where Oregon Football ranks among the best teams of this century DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Oregon Ducks have been ranked as one of the best teams of the 21st century, according to The Athletic's Stewart Mandel.

They are the Power 2. It's ridiculous that often a sub-.500 team has hosted a Playoff game because it won a division. Now, by design, there is more parity in the NFL than in college football. Winning the B12 or the ACC is not the same as winning the B1G or the SEC. If a team from the B12 or ACC makes a run, let them do it like it happens in college basketball, from a lower seed.

No. 16 Oregon defeats Liberty 13-1 to win Eugene Super Regional - Daily Emerald DAILYEMERALD.COM The entire Jane Sanders crowd stood on its feet, progressively clapping faster and faster as Lyndsey Grein set, up in the count...

Dot's reviews were annoying, even more than Miami's football edition last year. On Friday, the reviews on Luchar exposed a ridiculous flaw in the rule, hopefully it can be corrected. As for Dot's "genius" in spotting it, I don't buy it. Luchar stole a base, Dot didn't like that so she called a challenge, that's it.

The transfer portal Ducks this year are doing well. Here's what Coach Lanning and all the position coaches say about them. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/isaiah-world-emmanuel-pregnon-dillon-thieneman-oregon-football--250252463/ Makhi Hughes Isaiah World

Sadly the Pac 12, Big. 12, and ACC all did multiple things to lead them to their current status. The ACC signed a terrible 12 year television deal that isolated their top programs. The Big 12 gave Texas carte blanche over everybody else, and the Pac 12 arrogantly thought the B1G and Pac 12 were brothers from different mothers.

Nevada, if YOUR team had been hosed in the CFB Playoffs…you would feel different. But wait! That’s not all… As Oregon was ranked 12th in the nation, the last two years in a row at the end of the season in baseball, but yet we were hardly ever on television this year, not even on the Big Ten network. And it does not stop there, as we were hosed in the playoff format for the Big Ten baseball tournament. Oregon softball was hosed in the original seating, as they were ranked as high as No. 3 in the nation, and ended up with a freaking No. 16 seed? They have overcome it, but I am sick of it. If reasonable people cannot do the right thing, then we must take it from them, and I will not feel sorry considering what has happened to Our Beloved Ducks. P.S. I have asked before, and request again that you use punctuation and paragraph spacing for easier reading for our members. I had to edit your post again, and simply ask that you proofread when done. My thanks.