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Makhi Hughes Video gives me confidence Oregon running game will continue to prosper. Makhi has is a complete running back: power, vision, balance, ability to laterally shift to avoid tackles and move to space, almost never goes down on first contac! I am pleased that Makhi will be a Duck running back this season!

Offense or Defense? If the offense can run and control the ball more then I say the Offense will lead. If Bear Alexander and Matayo Uiagalelei can create HAVOC and cause more 3 and outs, then the Defense will lead. I would like to see both groups be successful. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon Ducks' Offense or Defense To Lead Team Second Big...The Oregon Ducks have been on an upward trajectory since coach Dan Lanning landed in Eugene in 2022. At the center of the Ducks’ success under Lanning has been

Two interesting questions: does a top CFB Playoff contender’s schedule match it’s gaming odds to make the new 12 team Playoff field? Who are the best bets to make the Playoff when comparing odds to their schedules, according to FanDuel? Cool questions, and let’s apply them to the Big-10 conference for fun! Of course our own Mr. FishDuck took a ... Big Playoff Contender Schedules vs. Actual Odds

Well…that fit right in!

The Seahawks made a pair of additions prior to the start of training camp, signing rookie cornerback Kam Alexander and nose tackle Justin Rogers on Monday. Alexander, who went undrafted out of Oregon, participated in a rookie minicamp with the Seahawks and the Falcons. 10 Ducks were drafted, the most ever. 12 Ducks signed quickly as free-agents (7) or received minicamp invites (5) like Alexander. That's 22 guys who got NFL attention that won't be on the 2025 roster.

Off topic but Sabrina is always worth the discussion. Those wnba losers particularly Plumbob in this case, can't stop bleeding low class. Of course one girl stood out positively. It was Sabrina who voiced her displeasure at Plum's losing attitude about their gifts from the NBA and Caitlan Clark's role. Clarks got a long way to go to catch Ionescue in the sport as well as as a model player. Chuckoo7Inbox - Gmail 2.webloc

We have a pretty solid list of coaches. Melyssa Lombardi deserves accolades for resurrecting the program. However, I did notice that Kelly Graves contract is through the end of this upcoming season. If the team fails to improve this year is a coaching change on the horizon?

Got to feel happy for her. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/drama-heartbreak-and-transfers-inside-oregon-softballs-upheaval/ https://www.registerguard.com/story/sports/college/softball/2018/12/07/kleist-latest-to-leave-oregon/62943999007/

Great point. Riley was also shored up by having one of two Blue Chip rosters in the B12, and Texas not having its Sierra together. On the other hand, and I don't like giving Riley another hand, last season USC went 1-5 in one-score games. Conversely, 10-win Illinois went 5-1 in one-score games. I think SC has a good shot at going 9-3 this season and possibly 10-2. Michigan, Michigan State, and Iowa play SC in LA. SC is odds-on to lose in South Bend and Eugene, but has a shot of winning road games at Illinois and Nebraska. SC will be odds-on to win games vs. Missouri State, Georgia Southern, Purdue, Michigan State, Northwestern, and UCLA. SC was 4-2 at home last season, with a loss in OT to Penn State and two late in the 4th quarter 90+ yards pick-sixes versus Notre Dame. SC put up more yards against Notre Dame in 2024 than any other Irish opponent. The bowl win over an A&M team that had a 17-point lead late in the 3rd quarter was a terrific comeback victory that will help with QB Jayden Maiava's confidence coming into 2025. Last season, Riley too often went away from a very good run game, but did not do so versus A&M. In 2025, SC plays three teams: Michigan, Notre Dame, and OBD, with rosters equal to or better than the Trojans Blue Chip roster. In the penultimate game in the 2025 regular season, SC could be coming into Eugene in contention for a PO spot.

Good move. Oregon softball signs HC Melyssa Lombardi to contract extension through 2030

"What'd you expect? Oregon." Perfection.

Thanks, 30. The valuation of a team's worth included a separate valuation for football revenue. One B1G problem is that the folks who put this together included the 2023 COVID season, a season when the B1G only played six games. Thus, the revenue numbers for football are skewed in favor of the SEC. An interesting exercise by amateurs and not by a private equity group.

USC will be coming off a bye week, but Nebraska will be their second road game in a row after going to South Bend. USC will be Nebraska’s second home game in a row after playing Northwestern the week prior. Nebraska has a better QB situation and they’re playing a blue blood at home in front of their fans. They’re also playing November 1st so weather might favor them as well. USC has more talent and I think they will win, but they do have some factors working against them.

Niiiccce!

We could play a team during the season, in the conference championship, in the "Play-in" game, and could meet again in the Playoff! It is hard enough to beat a great team twice, but if you faced them a third time? Fourth? Jon is not promoting this, but explaining it.

Narrated by Ty Burrell from Modern Family, and while only 30 seconds....is awesome.

Tanner Bradley pitched a little for the Ducks this last season and showed promise. Blake Crawford is from West Linn and redshirted for Our Beloved Ducks.

Josh Schleichardt played at Lakeridge in HS, redshirted at Utah, played a couple seasons at Clark CC and then last year at D2 Vanguard. He's lit up the West Coast League (WCL) this summer with the Portland Pickles. (started in the recent all-star game)

David Barnes, a RHP from Spokane Falls Community College is going to be a Duck after a season of an ERA of 1.69 in 21 innings.

Coming to the Ducks is Elijah Cook, an outfielder who had a great season for Azusa Pacific. He won a Golden Glove, and put up great batting numbers as well.

Matt Scott II from Texas has committed to Oregon, he was a highly rated outfield prospect out of high school who didn’t play much last year. This feels very Mason Neville-esque, who came from Arkansas.

The word is...this guy is streaky, but perhaps can become more consistent at OREGON.

A new verbal to transfer is Blake Sandvik...and look at that ERA! At Everett C.C....in 28 innings pitched...his ERA was 1.93!

From DucksIrish44 on 247: Another HR highlight from yesterday, and this one's from a newcomer who could contribute next season with the possible opportunities in the outfield. Oregon baseball commit Danny Wideman homered for the Marion Berries (awesome name), a first-year Salem-area club in the West Coast League here in the PNW. Wideman's from West Linn and was 1st team 6A all-state three times (1x each as an IF, OF, and UT) and part of 2 state championship teams in baseball, and also a 1st team all-state WR for their state champ football team. (Good gosh, what a great athlete!)

No surprise that Tony Petitti's opening statement today mirrored his interview with Yahoo Sports that NJ Duck was good enough to post. I missed a call from Brother Charles, who left a message questioning, in particular, why fans would support PO play-in games when their team could have already secured one of The B1G's four automatic PO qualifying bids. Would fans support a system where a team could play the same conference opponent four times in a season? Both are excellent questions that I will try to answer. First, some context. College football (CFB) has seen more change in the last five years than in the prior 100 CFB seasons. The biggest change to the 'student-amateur-athlete' paradigm came recently when the House settlement was approved, with schools now able to pay athletes directly. The cap on direct revenue sharing in year one post-settlement is $20.5 million. OBD is blessed to be one of the very few schools to have an athletic department in the black. The majority of athletic departments, if they were stand-alone businesses, would be functionally insolvent. So, the most pressing question for college athletic departments is 'how do we bring in more dough?' In theory, the B1G's 4-4-2-2-1-3 16-team PO format (B1G format) would provide three additional sources of football revenue. The media, in this case Disney/ESPN, will pay more for a 16-team PO inventory than for the current 12-team inventory. With AQs in place, Petitti believes schools will schedule more challenging out-of-conference games, which in turn would mean more media income. No doubt a Football Challenge between the B1G and the SEC would generate significant revenue. Teams would not be penalized for scheduling and losing games such as Texas vs. Ohio State, Oklahoma vs. Michigan, and Alabama vs. Wisconsin, scheduled in 2025. Play-in games would be decided only on in-conference game results. Rivalry games would be played in the penultimate game of the regular season. In my earlier example of what the play-in games would have been in 2024, I erred in using 12-game regular-season records and not the standings after the 8th conference games were played. The conference schedules in 2024, after eight conference games were played, would have had No.1 Oregon vs. No. 2 Penn State, with both teams automatically qualifying for the PO regardless of the score of the Conference Championship game. The first-place and second-place teams would be in the PO. The champ game result could affect seeding but not PO participation. No. 6 Iowa would have played No. 3 Indiana. No. 5 Illinois would have played No. 4 Ohio State. The winner of these two games would advance to the PO. These three games would not have included a rematch. It's possible but unlikely that teams would play one another three let alone four times. The PO committee would determine the PO seeding, but the B1G would decide on the four AQ teams and their B1G seeding. This would be the case for the other three power conferences. The PO committee would not be able to change the order in which B1G teams were seeded by the conference, but of course, could change where teams are seeded one through sixteen. Three impactful flex-scheduled games played on the final week of the regular season would generate far more dollars than one championship game played a week after the conclusion of the regular season. Four teams would be in the mix for the final two AQ PO spots. In addition to the increased media revenue, play-in games would help level the in-conference scheduling in a given season. In 2025, a sixth-place Wisconsin, with the most difficult conference schedule, would have a shot at the PO. Nebraska and OBD's relatively easy 2025 conference schedules will be more difficult down the road. Not sold? I get it! A 12-team PO in 2025-26, this time with teams seeded as ranked by the committee, is just as likely as expanding the field to 14 or 16 teams. Petitti, in his opening remarks today, made it clear that a 16-team 5-11 format is not going to happen unless all of the Power conferences play nine conference games.