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Bad news concerning recent Duck portal transfer. Oregon Ducks Release Penn State Transfer Miles Goodman After Police Charges WWW.SI.COM The information in this article may be disturbing for some readers. The Oregon Ducks men's basketball team is parting ways with one of their offseason transfer

Isaiah World comes in with 309 lbs of size and tenacity! Great addition to the Ducks. Oregon Ducks 309-pound transfer OL receives mind-blowing ESPN ranking WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The Oregon Ducks boosted their offensive line presence this offseason.

Rare for me to be sure, but I agree and heartily endorse almost all of Jon's many points in the preceding post! My only quibble here is the contention that only the power 2 deserve to be taken seriously as championship contenders. Too much of that favoritism and you could see football becoming a club sport more quickly than you might imagine. But 24 teams/ Not credible to this observer.

All it took for Oregon to bring back baseball was for the Beavers to win back to back championships in 06 and 07. Oregon fielded a team in 2009 after dismantling the program in the early 80’s. If Oregon, UCLA, or usc were to win a championship in baseball, I would expect other schools (alumni) in the conference would get their AD’s on the phone and start asking questions about how to improve their teams. Baseball in the BIG relies on other revenue sports to pay the bills. Alumni support dictates whether programs receive enough money to improve.

On a final note on this subject, I looked into each schools schedule, home and road games. Five schools did not have any weather related issues. They were... Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Rutgers and UCLA. The following schools had either cancellations or a postponement of a game. Michigan 2/3 Ohio St. 3/1 Iowa 3/0 Purdue 3/0 Penn St. 2/1 Michigan St. 1/2 Nebraska 1/1 Illinois 1/0 Northwestern 1/0 USC 1/0 Washington 1/0 Maryland 0/1

This might work if the regular season had ten games. With 24 teams and 12 regular-season games, how do you conclude the season before February? Even without Conference Champ Game weekend, and with every team playing in Week 0, you're running deeper into NFL playoff games. What entity will fund the first round of games featuring the 9 seed vs. the 24th seed, etc.? Visiting playoff teams last season received $3 million in travel expenses for travel to each away game and bowl games. The 4-4-2-2-1-3 format provides the same money for first-round games, with the 9 seed through 16 seed playing at the 1 through 8 seeds. There aren't 12 teams that can win a playoff, let alone 16, but 24? I don't believe the media would pay more for this format than for a 16-team format with no byes. Petitti and Sankey's format has the top eight teams playing a home game in the 1st round. Using this format in 2024-25 would have excluded only CU from the most-watched teams playing in the opening round. Using last season's final committee rankings, I'd rather watch No.1 seed Oregon play No. 16 Clemson in Autzen and No. 9 Boise State play No. 8 Indiana on the road, than watch No. 9 seed Boise host No. 24 seed UNLV, the third time these teams would have played last season. I believe ESPN would agree? And like it or not, money matters. No metric supports giving the 'little guy' a chance in a CFB playoff. A 24-team playoff would give 'the little guy' more money, but at what cost to the more successful, the more viewed programs? I want to see as few B1G varsity sports reduced to club sports as possible. The marketplace has separated the Power 2, and the playoffs should do likewise. A 24-team playoff has a populist appeal, but it is not grounded in today's college sports economics. There is zero financial reason for the Power 2 to keep the Lesser 2 and G6 football programs afloat at the expense of their athletic departments.

We'd have to. That's too many games to put players through at that point. I'd also add that each round gets re-ranked.

This is good news. I believe his attention would’ve been divided which would take some of his focus away from Oregon athletics. Phil Knight says he's not interested in buying Trail Blazers - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Nike co-founder Phil Knight said Wednesday that he is not interested in buying the Trail Blazers.

With the extra round… Could we skip the damn play-in Conference games?

At first, 24 sounds like a lot. But the format works, the Pop Tart Bowl will still be there for The U.

And yet, I know it's Sports Speak, but Washington Fan HATES Uncle Phil. They haven't won anything since '91, so it's hard to really measure, but an Oregon loss is as close to a rub on a Huskie's tummy as a Washington win is. Don James got the 'ship, then left in a cloud much darker than Chip's, but he's revered on Montlake. Billions of dollars are right there, but nobody even comes close to Knight for UW.

Some SI Love for PSU. (Written by Charles' grandson? ) Big Ten Football Primer: Penn State Primed for Jump, League in Position of Strength WWW.SI.COM Quarterback play around the conference will be key as teams look to make it three national championships in a row for the B1G.

Saturday Down South Projects Illinois to Make the 2025-26 Playoff. Predicting the Playoff: No. 9 Illinois - Saturday Down South WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Illinois finished 2024 with a bang to get to 10 wins, and with a team loaded with experience, it could earn its first Playoff berth in 2025.

Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning beams with gratitude when he talks about Nike co-founder and Ducks donor Phil Knight. Yes, in part to the financial impact that the billionaire Knight has had on the Ducks program amid the booming Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) era - but also because Lanning appreciates Knight’s thirst for victory and commitment to end cancer. Oregon Ducks Dan Lanning: Phil Knight A ‘Winner And Giver In Every Way’ WWW.SI.COM Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning beams with gratitude when he talks about Nike co-founder and Ducks donor Phil Knight. Yes, in part because of the financial impac

Elite Point Guard Tay Kinney Schedules Oregon Official Visit Elite Point Guard Tay Kinney Schedules Oregon Official Visit - On3 WWW.ON3.COM An elite point guard in the 2026 class has set an official visit to Oregon in September.

Phil Knight won't buy the Portland Trail Blazers; What does that mean for Oregon football? Phil Knight won't buy the Portland Trail Blazers; What does that mean for Oregon football? DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Oregon Ducks legend and Nike co-founder Phil Knight has opened up about his potential involvement in purchasing the Portland Trail Blazers.

4-Star Quarterback Recruit Matt Ponatoski On 'Cool' Oregon Ducks: Baseball Dual Athlete After 5-star quarterback recruit Jared Curtis committed to the Georgia Bulldogs, the Oregon Ducks have to look elsewhere in the 2026 recruiting class. Coach Dan Lanning has offered four-star recruit Matt Ponatoski, who also will play baseball in college. 4-Star Quarterback Recruit Matt Ponatoski Talks Oregon Ducks: Baseball Dual-Athlete WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks' football program recently offered the dual-athlete recruit Matt Ponatoski, who hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. The four-star quarterback also is

I didn't see this mentioned elsewhere. Rob Nelson, former Portland Maverick and inventor of Big League Chew was on Canzano's podcast and suggested the following 24 team playoff. 1) The top 8 teams get a bye. 2) Those top 8 get a home game in the 2nd round. 3) 9 thru 16 get home games vs 17 thru 24. 4) The losers of the 9 thru 24 games are eligible for bowl games. 5) The winners of the top 8 home games move on to the quarter finals. I like it.

College football's 10 greatest stadium atmospheres include several SEC, Big Ten heavyweights These programs take college football pageantry and passion to the next level. Every college football stadium has its legendary moments, and fanbases associated with top-25 teams will be the first to make the case that their school boasts one of the sport's most elite venues. Huge seating capacities do not always translate to raucous environments, though, and some fanbases are more reliable than others at packing the house and raining down ear-ringing noise on opponents on a weekly basis. For example, while Oregon's Autzen Stadium has approximately 50% the capacity of Michigan's Big House, Ducks coach Dan Lanning said his program's home venue is louder than the largest stadium in college football. Stacking the best stadium atmospheres up against each other is, in many cases, an apples-to-oranges situation. The common denominators for the most legendary environments make the exercise a touch more straightforward, though. Passionate fanbases that regularly sell out their stadiums even when team success is down, tremendous reported decibel levels and in-game traditions all factor into the equation as prerequisites for consideration in the elite tier. Here are the 10 greatest college football stadium atmospheres: https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/college-footballs-10-greatest-stadium-atmospheres-include-several-sec-big-ten-heavyweights-249930709/

Oregon Football heavily involved with multiple five-stars and other names in latest updated Top247 Rankings The Oregon football program is heavily involved with multiple five-star and four-star prospects that are included in the updated Top 247 Football Recruiting Rankings by 247Sports. Here are the names to know. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/oregon-football-heavily-involved-with-multiple-five-stars-and-other-names-in-latest-updated-top247-rankings-249891473/

Early Enrollee Spring Rewind: Dakorien Moore Here is a breakdown of what Oregon true freshman Dakorien Moore showed during his first spring football camp. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/oregon-football-dakorien-moore-ducks-football-spring-football-249936454/

Ranking the top 10 Oregon football players for the 2025 season Here is a rundown of Oregon's 10 best football players for the 2025 season. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/oregon-ducks-football-2025-football-matayo-uiagalelei-kenyon-sadiq-evan-stewart--249931184/

On3's J.D. PicKell breaks down why he believes the Oregon Ducks offense will not skip a beat ahead of the 2025 college football season.

I don't know whether I'd go that far. Most Dawg fans thought the 2021 season was over when J.T. Daniels got hurt and Stetson Bennett became the starter. Three more games downstream and a loss to Bama in Tuscaloosa made that sentiment a prophesy. Yet, by the time J.T. was fully healthy, about week 9, Stetson was cooking with gas and gave the Dawgs something that J.T. could not: superior mobility. His arm strength and accuracy was also noticeably better than adequate (indeed, he won the Manning award for best QB when he season was over). I tell this story to note that Dante has some learning to do on the job and it can be done. Stetson succeeded because he had a chippy attitude, believed that he was the best QB in the room, and made his teammates believe that as well. It took until the second half of the 2021 Natty to win me over, but Kirby got there far earlier. That's one reason why I am just a fan and Kirby Smart gets paid 13 million a year. What I'll be looking to see from Dante is the kind of leadership and confidence that Stetson Bennett displayed--in short, the IT factor. If I can see that "fire" early on, I figure we will be all right at QB, and perhaps good enough to get back to the playoffs. If not, who knows at this point.

A cold weather baseball team can become a national champion if the financial support is there, and the coaching is there. Oregon has both, and we are going to be a growing power to reckon with!