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Ted's Top-5 Most Important Transfers for Duck Success in 2025 Ted's Top-5 Most Important Transfers for Duck Success in 2025 - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Oregon signed a key transfer class for this upcoming season and here are my five most important transfers for Dan Lanning.

Oklahoma Coach Gasso: "If it isn't us, I want it to be them" I'm sure Lombardi feels the same way.

No. Back in the good ol' days, even being No.1 in recruiting on June 1 didn't mean a thing. Now being No.1 on National Signing Day is better than nothing. USC is on top now, check back in December.

Were I sitting to write a post about Kirby Smart's recruiting philosophy, I could do no better than this. Nailed it on every point Smith72!, particularly on the philosophy of not setting the market for unproven talent. Georgia missed on two of the highest rated recruits in the country recently, i.e., OT Cantwell who went to Miami and TE Bowmen aka Baby Brock who went to USC, and I merely shrugged Why? Because I knew the coaching staff had other option recruits who were likely to perform as well at Georgia whom they'd gladly take. Kirby has said he has a hard time giving an untested recruit a salary that far exceeds the average of what his juniors and seniors will make based on their "potential". Start messing with culture and you can get in trouble in a big hurry. Georgia reportedly did not waver even with stud QB recruit Jared Curtis. Curtis has been on the same wavelength as Georgia OC Mike Bobo for several years now and, consistent with Kirby Smart's and apparently Dan Lanning's philosophy, was willing to take less to be developed in a way that made sense to him. In other words, Georgia's 4-year offer to Curtis was in the ballpark with other offers but backloaded heavily in year one and contingent upon satisfactory development and performance. Both Jared and the Curtis family were on-board with this approach.

Thank you, Darren. Roster management in CFB and CBB is a full-time job. Dan and friends, to date, have not needed a GM, unlike $10 million a year men Lincoln Riley and Bill Belichick. In Bill's case, the GM is in addition to his granddaughter, er, GIRL-friend, following him around. A writer on a CFB site noted last week that a new criterion has popped up in recruiting and portal picking: Is having the young man on board worth having to deal with the young man's Old Man? In Wesley's case, at close to the same time his son cannon-balled "committed," his Old Man noted that his son's recruitment was not over. I hate to ask, but in this day and age of NIL, is Lincoln Riley's approach the way to go? An SC "commit" takes further recruiting visits, and SC's offer disappears. In other Forum discussions on this subject, I have noted many comments supporting Dan and Division Street on not spending $4 million on a guy who led the SEC in Ints in 2024, and $2 million for a high school student who hasn't played a down of college football. IMO, the D&D Forum fans support is $pot On! See you in December on recruit and portal signing days. Until then, a CFB 'Commitment' is only a rumor.

Absolutely. Saban knew when to get out.

Not I, not at those salaries. Even the old timers like Dabo, it is not what they signed up for, but they originally didn't sign on for 7+ mil a year either. P.S. Good article Darren

Would have been three, but Moe was on vacation

Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham Clarifies Comparison To Oregon Ducks, Clemson Tigers Arizona State Sun Devils coach Kenny Dillingham revealed his aspirations of building his program into one like the Clemson Tigers or Oregon Ducks in a recent interview. Dillingham later clarified his comments, emphasizing the distance between his Sun Devils and teams like Clemson and Oregon. Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham Clarifies Comparison To Oregon Ducks, Clemson Tigers WWW.SI.COM Arizona State Sun Devils coach Kenny Dillingham has won a Big 12 Championship and reached the College Football Playoff at Arizona State. Dillingham revealed tha

Where Oregon assistant coaches stack up in Big 10 and national recruiter rankings entering June Here's a breakdown of how Oregon's coaching staff factors into the Big 10 rankings, as well as where they land on the national recruiter leaderboard. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/oregon-football-recruiting-assistant-coach-rankings--249936206/

Oregon Ducks Trending For 5-Star Recruit Jett Washington? Official Visits Loom The Oregon Ducks and coach Dan Lanning are in the mix for the best athletes in the country, five-star safety Jett Washington, the No.1 recruit in the 2026 class out of Nevada. Washington is the nephew of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant Oregon Ducks Trending For 5-Star Recruit Jett Washington? Official Visits Loom WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks are in the heat of the recruiting cycle for the class of 2026, with commits landing at schools across the country by the day. The Ducks are in

Go, Lady Ducks sounds great to me!

Bring it to The Jane! The talking heads could NOT have been serious.

It is so complicated now...you gotta feel for the coaches. All that work...

I heard two talking ESPN heads on Sirious, channel 84, opine the other day that Oklahoma is not helped by the finals being played in OK City. Bull !!!

Come On Paige (name of one of three granddaughters ) Come On! Put the chockies on the Okies. May their bats freeze up , and may the legion of Sooners fans in OK City go home swooning. Give 'em !

Take on a powerhouse program when they're mad? NOT!

Oklahoma won't have to far to go, if Oregon wins and derails Oklahoma of its try for 5 in a row. If Oregon loses it's the last game for Paige Sinicki.

Let's hope grasshopper can pull it off What to know about 16-seed Oregon's WCWS matchup with the reigning champion Oklahoma Sooners

Oh my, MTV, Blockbuster, Casey Kasem & "America's Top 40" buying movie tickets at the door, HBO was cool. Players sitting at a table, 3 hats spread out in front, he feints picking that one. Then picks your team!!! And it mattered. National Signing Day stopped being the same a while ago. It's still big. you want to bring in the blue chips, but the urgency isn't there, the transfer portal, it's amazing actually how much stability there is now.

Thanks Darren! I agree with you. It's a new world with money being involved. The players deserve a chance to be compensated for their talent. Oregon coaches and the NIL group Division street are doing well in the portal. They are working the Portal to fill needs, and spending wisely. Money is being spent but they are refusing to be the highest bidder for unproven talent. Our Beloved Ducks are proving that eventually players will want to be coached well and play for a winner.

I get what you're saying Jon, and I can't get behind what Sankey thinks the playoffs should be. I personally believed the playoff should've been eight from the start. It was mind-blowing that there were five power programs and Notre Dame( they're special) but only four spots. I can't get into that again though. I hate the static scheduling the SEC does. Meaning each SEC team plays the exact same conference schedule in consecutive years but the home field is flipped. My reason for creating this topic was to point out a concerning trend with teams backing out of series like Nebraska did to Tennessee within ten months of the game to be played, and SEC teams refusing to play nine game schedules but still saying they deserve more respect because top to bottom the league is tougher. Texas is running from a home away game but insisting that Texas gets to host a night game next year. What if Ohio State says no?

Back in 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first music video ever played on MTV. It represented a big change in the way media was absorbed and signaled a huge shift in the music industry. The transfer portal has done the same to college football regarding how teams acquire players. Even Mr. FishDuck had to take... Portal Killed the Recruiting Star | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM Darren Perkins of FishDuck.com believes that the transfer portal in college football has taken much of the lustre off of recruiting.

Best to the ladies tomorrow (I am guessing hey are called the Lady Ducks but don't know). Either Oklahoma or Texas will be a daunting challenge I was sorry to see the Ducks eliminated in the men's CWS. The National seed Georgia Bulldawgs may not be far behind. Georgia is an enigma--left-handed pitching is their kryptonite and Duke threw nothing but lefties at them today. And they will be facing one of the best lefties in the country in the losers bracket tomorrow. Their problem is plate discipline, specifically swinging at far too many balls out of the strike zone.

I'm starting to feel the 12 team playoff is as good as it gets. It appears the B1G and the eSECpn want to wait until their current contracts end before just taking their beach ball away and going to another beach. South Carolina, Bama and Ole Miss simply screwed up. They lost to non playoff teams, and feel they still deserved a shot at the playoffs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ole Miss stomp pedestrian Wake Forest, but South Carolina and Bama lost to comparable B1G teams? SEC coaches still want to preserve their regular season records, while claiming they have the toughest schedules (yeah, two Pluto State caliber opponents really makes up for that tough run against Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Auburn, and a misunderstood Oklahoma. Your conference has nothing to cry about when nearly half your teams won half or less of their conference games (especially when that number would climb if they played nine conference games). Not to mention, the SEC could (and probably would ) prove it by replacing Mater Dei Catholic with a Big12 and ACC opponent each. That would not only solve a big issue, it would shut up the ACC and Big12 for good ( because they would have to put up or shut up). I also do not want to disparage the SEC crew that visits this forum regularly, because despite my penis envy, I do like and respect the SEC. But let's be real, this decade has been Kirby and Saban. LSU got a B1G product in Joe Burrow, as did Texas for that matter. Tennessee, Florida and Auburn are like us old geezers-better days long past (though I REALLY like Florida this year-the road to the title game requires defeating a very loaded Gator team). So in essence, there are three gimmie playoff teams in both conferences, and frankly, I'm not impressed with potential as we saw what Niko was, what Ole Miss has been the past two years, and it didn't take much for Texas to claim their spot by winning games they should. In other words, win 10 or take your potential to a bowl game and lobby how tough you are while the real teams vie for a Natty. I say stay at 12 and force teams to win 10. Even better, have play in games interconference. Then Ole Miss can demonstrate they can beat the third best team in the Big12 or ACC. So can Bama, and South Carolina. Except they'd have to play the Illinois, Indiana, and Miami circa 2024. That makes more sense than saying my schedule is tougher than yours. In fact, that would make way more sense than the models proposed. As far as I see it, despite having a talent advantage, the SEC sounds like those snooty students that never worked a day in their life talking about how to run businesses. Playing two rounds of games against said lessor opponents in lessor conferences just might prove you really have a strength of schedule argument. This notion you earn a spot just because sounds rather elitist without providing some substance. Josh Pate always says you aren't what your record says you are. Well, let's just see that. Except you can't host a play in game if your record includes potato state as four of your victories.