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Thank you, Charles, for another superb and much-needed editing job. And thank you, and Another OD, for raising the Portal Transfer impact on today's college football rosters. In an era of largely unregulated 'free agency,' roster management is critical to a team's success. Players must be recruited from high school and the portal, and often need to be re-recruited to prevent them from moving on to another program, one that is likely offering more NIL money. Ohio State, with an experienced deep blue Blue Chip Roster, likely would not have won last season's title (Sigh) without Will Howard transferring in from Kansas State to start at QB, and starting Center Seth McLaughlin, and Safety Caleb Downs, transferring in from Alabama. It's another feather in Dan Lanning's and his assistant coaches' hats that Oregon has yet to lose a starting player with remaining eligibility to the portal. 2025 could well be referred to as 'The Season of Roster Turnover.' So many quality teams, Texas, Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, and others, have to replace players who contributed to their team's success in 2024. What coaching group does the best at slotting in new starters who were on the 2024 roster and arrive as recruits from high school or the portal in 2025 will go a long way toward determining this season's champion. This season presents a new challenge to Coach Lanning and his staff. For the first time in Lanning's four seasons as OBD's head coach, a player with limited starting experience will start at quarterback. Since Dan's hire in 2021 and his first year coaching in 2022, Oregon has led the nation in average points scored on offense. But Heisman-contending finalists Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel, who joined OBD with a wealth of starting experience, have moved on to the NFL. Charles' terrific comment details the pieces added to Oregon's roster from the portal. Fortunately, the 2025 schedule provides four games, one-third of the season, for Oregon to gel on offense, defense, and special teams before being the guest at a Penn State White Out. Penn State, like Oregon, has a Blue Chip roster, but unlike Oregon, returns many players from 2024 when the Nittany Lions won a record 13 games, and has added players at positions of need, especially at wide receiver, from the portal. This season will test this Oregon coaching staff's acumen like no other in head coach Dan Lanning's time leading the Ducks. Buckle up! 2025 should be a very interesting ride for Oregon and its fans. One point in the article that did not age well. At the time I wrote the article, the B1G and the SEC were in agreement that an expanded playoff field in 2026-27 and thereafter, with 14 or 16 teams, should have four automatic qualifiers from the B1G and four from the SEC. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, duplicitously in my opinion, pulled the new playoff format rug out from under B1G commissioner Tony Petitti. The field will probably stay at 12 teams in 2026-27 and thereafter, unless the SEC agrees to play nine regular-season conference games. No big deal for the B1G that leads all conferences in revenue and net earnings, and will continue to do so with or without the playoff field expanding.

If Bear has a solid season then the video seems like a good advertisement for transfer portal players. A’Mauri Washington, Bear Alexander, Matayo, Tuioti, Purchase, D Jackson, E Rushing, Boettcher…seems like we have the foundation of a solid defensive unit. DB’s will have some growing pains, but overall looks good to me.

Bear seems like a guy who got really wrapped up in the NIL and stardom stuff. USC was not a fit for him and I think he just assumed he'd get a starting role and that didn't happen. Lanning knew the potential of Bear and knew his culture would either mold him into a player or he'd effectively quit on the team and be a non factor. Bear knows he needs to step up and work if he wants to have a shot at the NFL. I think we all know how bad USC's culture is based on the exodus of talent at the end of last season. Bear knows this is his last shot to make the NFL and it sounds like he is taking it. Probably a mix of Lanning culture and guidance and Bear getting his act together. Here's hoping for a monster season from the Bear.

It’s August which means I’m allowed to get excited about the roster. Pretty sure he’s going to blow up!

Starting about the third minute....they give some information about Bear that nobody has brought up before, and SHOUTS to what his impact could be this fall. There are other elements of this video that make it worth 12 minutes of your time as well. Good stuff! A fun way to pass a little time between tasks...

Another OD...you beat me to it, and Jon wanted that addition added to his article, and I figured we would cover it in the comments. Oregon is listed with just five returning players, but when you look at portal transfers who were tremendous starters at other schools...that number changes. When you consider Theran Johnson, the incredible corner from Northwestern, Dillon Thieneman Jr. from Purdue at safety, and Bear Alexander from USC, we see three starters on defense from portal transfers. On offense, we see Isiah World from Nevada, Emmanuel Pregnon from USC, Matthew Bedford from Indiana, and Alex Harkey from Texas State on the offensive line alone. Add Dante Moore at QB, (UCLA) and Makhi Hughes from Tulane, and Oregon's "rebuilding" year looks very different. That number of "5" now moves up to "14 with the portal transfers, which is why, with the schedule, Our Beloved Ducks look to do a lot of winning this year! Makhi Hughes

You run a great program here, Charles. Congratulations and cheers to many more! - NYDuck

Hoping Jurrion can get the help he needs. Special talent!

A'Lique Terry: “Competition is as high as it's ever been.”Offensive Line Coach A'Lique Terry meets with the media following practice on August 11, 2025. Tony Tuioti: “It takes all eleven guys.”Defensive Line Coach Tony Tuioti meets with the media following practice on August 11, 2025.

AnotherOD brought this to our attention yesterday that Jurrion Dickey was suspended. Autzen ZooOregon wide receiver Jurrion Dickey suspended from teamA former five-star recruit, who has just two catches in as many seasons with the program has been suspended by the staff amidst actions detrimental to the team.

Interesting RP hasn't been adjusted to the portal era? Not exactly sure how it is adjusted; but, if you look at RP for the Duck OL you see 1 player with 15 career starts However, the projected unit has 138 FBS starts and a collective 21 years inside college football programs. Over 100 career starts and an average of over 4 years of experience per starter are both very positive numbers. Hughes has 523 carries and 2,779 yards the last two years at Tulane. Jordan James finished his career at Oregon with 386 carries. Dillon Theineman had 210 tackles and 6 ints his last 2 years at Purdue. Theran Johnson 25 starts at NW. Oregon is going to be running a lot of young guy out there but an RP of 5 seems wildly off, even if technically accurate.

Previously, we looked at FanDuel’s odds for teams to make the 2025-26 College Football (CFB) Playoffs (PO) and whether a team’s strength of schedule (SOS) matched the odds. Several teams favored to make the Playoff had minus odds. For instance, Clemson at -128 means you would have to wager $128 to win $100 plus the return of your bet. All ... Read More

After working for years as a software engineer, I've said this on many occasions: "it's amazing how something so smart can also be so dumb."

And, LOL! Not at you, of course, but at another great GIF. 😁

Happy Birthday Charles! And thank you, for me it is one stop shopping!

I break rivalries into two very different categories; the first are the ones that bring the bile of vomit up my throat, and that is of course... Huskies Trojans Beavis (in Baseball) The second category is "want" to beat them, their arrogant fans, etc., and I really only get that vibe from... Ohio State Michigan I agree with HDuck, in that it takes more time to develop the hatred, more wins by Our Beloved Ducks over those usual B1G heavyweights. We are in elite company now, and we will be in some blockbuster games over the next number of years!

My Beloved Duck-Buddies, we have had an issue here on the forum since Saturday morning, and I was not able to get help until now. Pretty hard to contain my frustration, but without going into details...people on chrome often could not see the site and got an "Error" page when they came to the site. The only way to solve it was to clear everyone's Google Chrome cookies that automatically populated the password for you when you sign in. This means you have to sign in again, and mark "OK" when the password manager asks if it should remember your password. Please....email me for your password if you cannot remember it or cannot find it ONLY after you have looked diligently. BTW...if you put in for a new password, you will NOT receive an email as it says. You have to email me at charles@fishduck.com for a new password, and include your phone number, name and handle name for in case we have a snag. And once you are signed in, you do NOT have to sign out. Just leave and click out of the page, and when you come back--you are automatically signed in. There is no danger here in doing that... No problem, not frustrated at all...

Word on the street is he has been kicked off the team. However, I’m also seeing posts that say it’s just a suspension. Either way, it’s not good.

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Jurrion Dickey is the Duck allegedly suspended indefinitely.

I am currently in Galway Ireland and saw this banner tonight at 10:00pm. It says K-State, I saw one earlier that said K- S State. We will be flying home from Dublin on Saturday the 23rd, the day of the game. If I was paying attention when I was planning the trip I would have stayed an extra day for the game.

From AI source: Dakorien Moore, a five-star wide receiver committed to Oregon, is not currently suspended. The news circulating about a suspension refers to Sherrone Moore, the Michigan football coach, who received a self-imposed suspension for the first two weeks of the 2025 season. Dakorien Moore is a highly-touted recruit who flipped his commitment from LSU to Oregon in May 2024. My best to McNutt and I hope he continues to love UO

It has only been out there for an hour or two. Possibly my post should be deleted until better confirmed. I did see the McNutt stuff out there yesterday, so that proved accurate, but maybe jumping the gun 😐

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