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Interesting discussion taking place. It is being broadcast live at this moment from the White House. If you miss it, it may be available on You Tube. NIL, problems with the transfer portal, and the impact NIL has on other sports is being discussed. Not reporting, just letting everyone know it is currently available.

Perhaps Dana could learn from Coach Graves how to assemble a cohesive team in the NIL era. Just saying.

With about 2:20 left in the game and Maryland star Oluchi Okanawa racing down court after a turnover with what looks like a guaranteed go ahead lay up, Ehis Etute not only out runs her, but cleanly swats her shot into the stands If you didn’t understand then that Oregon was going to win, you just weren’t paying attention. There is no quit in this team.

Hugs for a 24-team playoff - More or Less 🙃 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-news-24-team-cfp-format-nil-south-carolina-injuries/

I prefer..."Old Mountain-West."

First up on OBD's 2026 football schedule is (You Never Ever Never Schedule) Boise State - Yet again, Rob didn't get the memo. 😉 I do prefer 'rebuilt' to 'new world.' Early odds have OBD -18.5 (!!!) But calling this rebuilt jalopy the 'conference of champions,' where can I find some of the glue this guy is sniffing? 🙃 Saturday BlitzWho is the frontrunner in the rebuilt Pac-12? Boise State...After being raided in 2023 by its longtime Rose Bowl ally in the Big Ten and its geographical neighbor in the Big 12, the Pac-12’s conference rebuild is finally

Boy...this shoots the hell out of my day! Welcome to Big-10 Baseball Charles, because when they start their games at 4:00 PM...it is just after lunch for us. Purdue is where Coach Waz coached for a few years, so not only does he know Big-10 ballparks well, but he knows this one superbly. Surprisingly...Purdue is a decent team, a team that could beat us if we don't play (or pitch) our best. The Boilermakers are 8-3 as they swept Marist, won a series with Portland, barely lost to No. 11 Southern Miss 5-4 and beat Beavis in a tournament, 5-2. So come ready to play, as their pitcher, Cole Van Assen has an ERA of 4.16 (respectably good) and we counter with our ace, Will Sanford. (ERA of 0.00) Purdue has some really tough relievers, and some others that don't look so hot. I imagine to take a game off of us--they will throw the best relievers at us in the first game? Saturday's game is at 11:00 AM PST, and Sunday at 9:00 AM PST? (Charles...get used to it!) Will Sanford

Ehis Etute is a beast, it's been very impressive to see her development this season. Hopefully the Ducks can pull off another upset and at least move up a seed or two in the tourney.

Autzen Stadium is No. 4 on Josh Pate's 10 Toughest Places to Play - Penn State's Beaver Stadium is No. 3 A Dog of a stadium at TOSUN (That Other School Up North) came in at No. 6 - 🤬 The other seven stadia are in It (used to) Just Mean More territory. No ACC, B12, or new world pac-12 teams are on the list. On3Ranking the Top 10 toughest stadiums in college football.

Really, really good points, and the 13 day layoff answers my concerns about a layoff. 13 is not the 28 days of the past two years....

Three Underrated Oregon Freshmen Fans Should Look Out ForThese three Oregon Ducks players are underrated when it comes to the upcoming season and the 2026 recruiting class as a whole. Oregon Ducks On SIThree Underrated Oregon Freshmen Fans Should Look Out ForThe Oregon Ducks have a ton of talent coming in when it comes to the recruiting class of 2026. They have signed many of their targets that were at the top of th

What's new with the Oregon Ducks' OL room ahead of 2026 spring season? https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/03/06/oregon-football-spring-offensive-line-preview/89003736007/

Drew Mehringer explains what an experienced Dante Moore unlocks for Oregon’s offenseOregon will have one of the nation's very best quarterbacks in Dante Moore. That will make life easier for recently promoted offensive coordinator Drew Mehringer. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/drew-mehringer-explains-what-an-experienced-dante-moore-unlocks-for-oregons-offense-276500995/

When I played football at Benson in high school('71-75), I can still remember the coaches telling us that there was a new shoe company in Beaverton, that had good football shoes that were affordable. They were $12.00 IIRC. It was still called Blue Ribbon Sports.

RIP, you old curmudgeon. May you meet your maker with grace!

Former Arkansas, NC State, New York Jets, Notre Dame, and South Carolina head coach, Lou Holtz passed away at 89 after a month long stay in hospice. He won a National Title at Notre Dame, and as an assistant at Ohio State. May you rest in peace coach. Say hi to all the legends up there.

Two straight days of games, and play a fully rested Michigan on Friday. Losing that last second game to Washington last Sunday to drop down to the 11-seed hurts when it comes to this multi-day schedule. But, even if there is a loss to 2-seed Michigan, hopefully a 22 win season will still get the Ducks into the Tournament. Now 22-11, and a 20-12 probably wouldn't have made the Tourney. Ducks lost 87-92 to Michigan in 2-overtimes at MKA on Dec. 29. In that one, Ducks trailed 28-44 at half-time, then won the second half 41-25, before going to two OT's. 4 of 5 Ducks starters fouled out in the loss.

Great second round game! Great comeback in 4th quarter! 73-68 Yay Ducks!

The movie 'Air' with Ben Affleck as Phil Knight and Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, in the pursuit of Michael Jordan wearing Nike, is a great watch. Back in my Vegas days, I knew Sonny. Like his buddy Tark the Shark, Sonny was a Vegas, larger-than-life character. You can go the way of The Hive Mind, or the way of alea iacta est, the die is cast. I'm blessed for the private and professional lives I've lived, but unlike Phil Knight, I never had the stones to put it all on Pass Line; not once, but over and over again. What a great post. Come on, Danno! Win one for Phillper!

Phil Knight’s memoir “Shoe Dog” is a very good read. Anyone involved with trying to grow any business would benefit from reading it. My office was very close to Nike’s offices before they moved to their current headquarters. There was a restaurant/bar nearby that I would sometimes run into their employees, and ran into a few that were celebrating just after Jordan had signed. I don’t think any of them ever imagined the long term impact it would have on the Company at that moment.

He borrowed $50 from his father. Sold shoes out of the trunk of his car. Got dropped by two banks. Got sued by his own supplier. Got hit with a $25 million government bill he couldn't pay. Today his company is worth $100 billion. And you've definitely got a pair of his shoes in your closet. Philip Knight was born in 1938 in Portland, Oregon. His father ran a newspaper. When Phil asked him for a summer job his father said no. Go find your own work. So Phil ran seven miles every morning to the rival newspaper. Got himself hired. That was Phil Knight at 18. Already refusing to accept no as a final answer. He ran track at the University of Oregon under a legendary coach named Bill Bowerman. Bowerman was obsessed with one thing. Making shoes lighter. He believed that every ounce you removed from a runner's shoe was like removing a pound of weight from their body over the course of a race. He would cut apart his runners' shoes and rebuild them by hand. Looking for fractions of ounces. Phil watched and filed it away. He went to Stanford Business School. In a class about small businesses he wrote a paper that would change his life. The paper asked one question. Could Japanese shoe manufacturers do to German shoe manufacturers what Japanese camera makers had done to German camera makers? In other words — could cheaper, high quality Japanese production destroy the German stranglehold on the athletic shoe market? Adidas owned the world in 1962. Phil Knight wrote a paper in a classroom saying they didn't have to. Then he decided to prove it. He borrowed $50 from his father. Flew to Japan. Walked into the Onitsuka Tiger shoe factory. Told them he represented a major American distribution company. He had no company. He had $50 and an idea. The Japanese executives asked what his company was called. Phil Knight looked around the room desperately. And said the first thing that came to his mind. Blue Ribbon Sports. They shook hands on a deal. Blue Ribbon Sports didn't exist an hour ago. Now it had exclusive rights to sell Japanese Tiger shoes across the entire United States. He came home and started selling shoes out of the trunk of his green Plymouth Valiant at track meets across the Pacific Northwest. Just Phil. His car. And a box of shoes. Sales were $8,000 in year one. Then $16,000. Then $34,000. Then $84,000. Doubling every single year. But banks wouldn't lend him money. Every time sales doubled Phil needed more inventory. More inventory meant more cash. And the banks kept saying no. Two banks dropped him as a customer entirely. He was perpetually on the edge of collapse. Payroll would come due with nothing in the account. Suppliers threatening to cut him off. He described those years as operating in a constant state of near death. One wrong move away from bankruptcy. Every. Single. Day. For eighteen years. Then Onitsuka Tiger tried to replace him. They had watched Blue Ribbon grow from nothing to a serious operation and decided they wanted a bigger American distributor. They were going to cut Phil out of the business he had built from $50 and a trunk full of shoes. Phil Knight could have accepted it. He had no money to fight back. No manufacturer. No brand. No leverage. He had nothing. So he did something that should have been impossible. He started his own shoe company. From scratch. He needed a logo. He paid a graphic design student named Carolyn Davidson $35 to design it. She came back with a simple curved shape. Phil looked at it and said he didn't love it. But he didn't have time to find anything better. The swoosh was born. For $35. Today that logo is worth billions of dollars. He needed a name. His first employee Jeff Johnson woke up from a dream one night with one word in his head. Nike. The Greek goddess of victory. Phil didn't love that either. But again — no time. Nike it was. In 1972 Nike launched at the US Olympic Trials. Phil announced that four of the top seven finishers had worn Nikes. The first three had actually worn Adidas. Phil Knight didn't care. He was building a story. And nobody builds a story by telling people you came third. Then the US government came for him. A letter arrived demanding Nike pay $25 million in import duties. Twenty five million dollars. Nike didn't have $25 million. Nike barely had enough to make payroll. The government claimed Nike owed taxes on every shoe manufactured outside America. The fight nearly killed the company. Three years of legal battles. Three years of not knowing if everything he had built would be seized by his own government. They settled for $9 million. Phil called it an absolute war. He survived it. Then came Michael Jordan. In 1984 a Nike executive pushed Phil to sign a rookie NBA player to an endorsement deal. Phil wasn't interested in basketball. Nike was a running shoe company. He reluctantly agreed to meet the rookie. His name was Michael Jordan. Nike signed him for $500,000 a year plus royalties. Unheard of money for a rookie who had never played an NBA game. The NBA banned the original Air Jordans immediately. Said they violated uniform color rules. Nike paid Jordan's $5,000 per game fine every single time he wore them. And turned the ban into the greatest marketing campaign in sports history. The shoes that were too dangerous for the NBA. Every kid on every playground in America had to have them. Air Jordan generated $126 million in its first year. Today the Jordan brand alone generates over $5 billion annually. From one reluctant meeting with a rookie basketball player. Phil Knight took Nike public in 1980. On that day he was worth $178 million. His first employee was worth $6 million. Today Nike is worth over $100 billion. The most recognized sports brand on the face of the earth. Built by a man who borrowed $50 from his father. Who made up a company name on the spot in a Japanese boardroom. Who paid $35 for the most valuable logo in sports history. Who operated on the edge of bankruptcy for eighteen straight years. Who got sued by his supplier, dropped by his banks and hunted by his own government. And refused to quit through every single moment of it. The swoosh on your shoes right now started in the trunk of a green Plymouth Valiant at a track meet in Oregon. Sold by one man with $50 and an obsession. Just do it wasn't just a slogan. It was the only strategy that ever worked.

JJ, you just made the list, buddy. 🦆👍😍 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-insiders-superstar-2026/

Let's go out, get together, and do it again. (Runner-up would be OK 🙃) https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/curt-cignetti-focused-next-for-indiana/ Come on, Baby, make it Curt so good! 😁

For seeds 1-8, it would, in effect, be a 16-team PO field. The 1st round is a playoff play-in game for seeds No. 9 through 24. The bye for teams 1-8 would not be longer than 13 days before the 2nd round is played. If seeded No. 1 or No. 5 in a 24-team field, as was the case in 2024 and 2025, with a 2nd round home game, Oregon would have the same travel it did when reaching the semifinals last season. Looking at the Committee's final ranking of the top 16 over the last two seasons, the SEC would benefit, and the B1G would take it in the financial shorts. In today's CFB, it's all about the Benjis. The more conference teams that qualify for the PO, the more money in PO revenue, and 24 teams means more money from the media, including ESPN. Eight B1G teams in the above hypothetical seeding of a 2026-27 field would Just Mean More than twice the 2025-26 PO revenue for the conference. Petitti's 24-team field reflects, in part, his concern over SEC teams being overrated by the PO Committee. If there had been a 24-field last season, 4-loss Iowa would have been in the field, a team that had no bad losses and defeated 2-loss Vandy in a bowl game played in Florida with the Heisman runner-up Pavia playing QB for the Dores. Iowa played a much harder schedule last season than Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, which lost to the one SEC team with a winning record that it played, Missouri, with no wins over teams with a winning record, and a Tennessee team that lost to Illinois in Nashville. A 4-loss Iowa team in the field would not have destroyed the very foundation of CFB. In 2025, 4-loss Iowa gave Indiana a much better game than 3-loss Alabama. The depth of the field is the trade-off for not having a 16-team field with automatic qualifiers. Kirby Smart and Josh Heupel are now in favor of Petitti's latest format. With a 9th conference game in 2026, I think more SEC coaches will be more likely to support a 24-team field. I'd love to watch eight 1st round games played on campus; no 1st round rematches allowed. I probably would not watch the same teams with decimated, opt-out rosters playing in the Gee-Whiz Bowl, but count me in for watching the 1st round play-in games with all or the majority of starters on the field playing in a home-field CFB atmosphere. And, while I hate to consider the thought, there could come a day when 16th-ranked Oregon was knocked out by a far lower-ranked New World G6 Pac-Whatever team. 🤬 Mercy!

Amen. But in the proposed 24-team PO, there would be a 1st round one-week bye for teams seeded 1-8 and a 2nd round home game a week later. 13 days off max.