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So, UW wants to "enforce the contract." Well, unless there are performance incentives just how exactly are they going to do that? You want a kid that you are forcing to stay, to lead the team in B1G games at Nebraska, at Oregon, at USC next season. You think he'll give a damn if he throws into coverage? What if he plans to preserve a year of eligibility by refusing to play?

"If you're good enough, you'd better be old enough too." It took otherworldly play for a 2nd year player (Becker) to crack the two deep. I do seriously wonder how good IU is going to be when they run out of JMU super seniors. Certainly the portal is an instant way to increase experience, but there is no way this level of seniority and continuity within a system can be maintained. This year is IUs window to win it all way more than it is anyone else's, because they won't be able to replicate this situation again.

Nasir Wyatt was moved over to RB for practice this week. As others said Harris not being listed as our means he will be available. We will likely see some use of Grace in the 2 back sets in place of Davison. I think the bigger impact is protection schemes. Hill has had all season to work on his blocking. He'd better be ready to pull his weight blocking the pass rush. Silver lining is sometimes when great players are out everyone feels like they need to pick up the slack and the overall affect can be positive.

Players on playoff team rosters are allowed extra time from when their team is knocked out to declare and transfer out. Why would anyone sign a guy who played significant minutes and quit on his team in the midst of a PO run?

Looks like the UW dogs aren't lying down. On3Washington preparing to take major step after Demond Will....

Ouch. Losing Davison is massive in this game. He had good success running between the tackles in the first game. What a bummer!

Let's see how long it takes him to sign at another school and for how much money. Poaching was once punishable by death; today? The House settlement was STUPID. Players being paid are EMPLOYEES! For goodness' sake, stop trying to preserve the idea of amateur athletics that are long gone. Stop trying to preserve bowl games and calling it a 'playoff.' Acknowledge employee status, allow a union to be formed, bargain with the union, and adopt common-sense salary and transfer restrictions as we see in the NFL. Without these guardrails, the NFL would crater. College football has morphed into Billionaire Bingo. I understand why UW fans are frustrated and upset. It will be one thing if Dante goes pro, another if he decides to transfer for $XXX more.

After watching highlights from the FCS Championship game last night (Congrats to Montana State), I'm convinced that great effort and "want to" can overcome an awful lot of bad breaks. It was surprising the number of great plays that were made on both sides of the ball by athletes counted by most as not good enough to play Division 1. The Davison loss is a bummer for sure, but I am confident someone(s) are going to fill in the gap and wow us with their passion to play for OBD and get us a win Friday. Go Ducks!

I hate to say it, but that grieving-loser UW fan is somewhat right.

Their fans are somewhat stunned.

https://x.com/ChristianCaple/status/2008720782739038621 Just a couple days earlier it was "reported" he was signing a new deal with UW.

That’s really surprising, he showed quite a bit of improvement this season from last. What would be hilarious is if Dante opted for the draft and he transferred to Eugene. The Fusky fans would lose their minds.

Among several other players recently… On3Demond Williams makes stunning decision on future at Wash....

The Davison update is an extreme bummer but I see two possible upsides. Maybe Lanning will be more inclined to just take the dang points and punt from midfield as gambles could be even more fatale. The offense may be forced to throw in some unpredictable alternatives that Indy won't be able to prepare for. I'm not happy about this. Just trying to look on the bright side of life.

My guess is that as soon as these ridiculous window dates are resolved that every NIL contract will include the provision that you play every game. .. or what games you are required to play with this contract.

How do NIL contracts not already cover the entirety of the season?

Thank you for the ponder points! I too will put me prediction in the correct thread for it. Since we don’t have JD, the RB room will need to step it up in his absence. It will be imperative that DM has the time to hit our TE tandem over the middle for 6 and 8 yard gains early and often. That should soften the Hoosier run defense enough that we can rush for 150 yards or more. If that happens, DM can air it out to the WRs for 3 to 5 explosion plays. OBD needs to put together one of their best games in every aspect, O, D, ST, and coaching. If ALL Ducks (including coaching staff) play the game to OBD standard we have a chance to blow them out of the Peach Bowl. If not, we fans need to prepare for a long and uncomfortable day.

Davison's loss is immeasurable in terms of hard running, pass protection, and perimeter blocking. Damn.

I did not include the video, but in each case--Dante could have thrown to the space before the receiver gets there as he has done tons of times, and those plays were without defensive pressure. I can't show everything, but I have to show where the receivers were and how they could have been "thrown open" as Mike referred to above. Or we will disagree about what we see.

Harris isn't on that report, maybe he was offered NIL money to play until were done

And let's face it, the health of the RB room means diddly squat if the O-line loses in the trenches. That is where the game will be won.

No word yet on who was at practice today for the RBs. Da'Juan Riggs was out for the Orange Bowl, so it's unlikely he'll be available Friday. That Harris was present yesterday, after declaring he would enter the portal, is encouraging. He may not have the burst of Davison but is a bruiser and even if he only plays in the Peach Bowl before officially hitting the portal, he helps the Ducks. Maybe we see an expanded role for Grace as a blocker or even a decoy who can carry the ball for short yardage. Ditto lining Sadiq up in the backfield or putting him in the slot and bringing him back in. We already know that Platt has practiced with the RBs, he carried the rock in HS and that he is 230 lbs with an 11.0 sec 100m. Ditto for Kamar Mothudi, who likely has a higher upside at 6'3" 240, track speed, and rushed for 1400 yds as a junior before concentrating his senior year on the LB position. Neither burn their redshirt with bowl appearances. There is no doubt that losing Davison will be a significant loss, but WS undoubtedly has schemed something up. I doubt there will be any full house 3-1 formations but there is a lot of talent to work with using one RB and a host of other position players. Hell's bells, go jumbo, give the rock to Boettcher, stick him on Pregnon's fanny and let 'er rip.

Only Davison is a major loss at this point. If Whittington runs like he did against Iowa and Minnesota I don't have as many concerns. But he needs to run mean.

Well at least in his presser today he said he went through his progressions too quick in the first game...and film shows exactly that