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contact above the waist... Uh, when the catcher drops to his knees, how is that avoidable?

When Even Your Friends Don't Get It? Why the Big Ten needs to vote for this specific CFP model SCARLETANDGAME.COM With the future of the College Football Playoff yet to be determined, the Big Ten needs to vote for this specific model that has been proposed. A conference's 6th best team should not be in the PO. This is exactly what would have happened last season with 9-3 6th-place South Carolina in the field. 9-3 Illinois, which defeated South Carolina in its bowl game, would have been left out. The B1G has implied that it could get behind the 5-11 format IF the SEC went to 9 conference games. The SEC hinted it was going to 9 games with no intention of doing so. Greg Sankey knew the lay of the land before he arrived at the SEC Spring meetings. Greg had not read the treatise that informs the world that the SEC deserves to have six teams in the field before he arrived in Florida? Maybe Tony Petitti likes lollipops but I can't believe he is this B1G of a sucker. Sankey and the SEC set the B1G up. And a guy writing on behalf of Ohio State can't see this?

Exhibit, "A(uburn)" - Inside the SEC's aggressive bid to get their way with the College Football Playoff FLYWAREAGLE.COM The SEC is unsatisfied with two straight years of being left out of the College Football Playoff Championship Game, and to rectify it, the "It Just Means More"

Compared to the PO posturing of Greg Sankey and his conference, the Longhorns/Buckeyes kick-off time is not that B1G a deal. As I explained in another post, this whole Advisory Committee detente looks like a front for Sankey to pivot and make Tony Petitti and the B1G look like the PO format bad guys. Looks like Sankey is going to sucker punch Pettitti like he did Bob Bowlsby while designing a new PO format and at the same time he was negotiating with Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC. Before he arrived in Destin, Florida, for the SEC meetings, Sankey was not aware that in 2024-25, with a 16-team PO field and a 5/11 PO format, the SEC would have had six teams in the field? This is duplicitous and disengenuous. According to Greg, he heard for the first time in Florida that his coaches only want to play eight regular-season games, and the majority are not in favor of a B1G/SEC football challenge. He's this clueless about the tenor of his member teams? There are multi-millions of dollars at play here, and apparently, I'm the only Duck to have his feathers ruffled over what looks to be a S(ec)tab in the back. Sankey is the hero for backing a 5-11 format with Petitti and the B1G being branded greedy, selfish SOBs who care not about 'The Good of the Game.' I'm not throwing shade at you or the other SEC friends who post here. It's simply that I've seen this movie before when Pac-12 'leadership' led to an implosion of the conference. This will not happen to the Big Ten. However, Petitti couldn't see through Sankey's call to him to form an Advisory Committee and move in lockstep on college football issues could pivot into an in-your-face? That a 4-4-2-2-1-1 PO format, the leaked story of ESPN paying more for a 9th conference game, and the leaked story about the SEC wanting to play a football challenge, were only feints before the sword was turned in the direction of the B1G. I very much doubt the B1G, as it did a week before the SEC meetings, would have approved a 4-4-2-2-1-1, or alternatively, a 4-4-2-2-1-3 PO format, without believing the SEC also backed one or the other format. What are today's stories up on The Athletic, ESPN, CBS, and other CFB sites? "Hurrah! Sankey and the SEC look like they will ride to the PO format rescue." BTW, I hope the cynic in me is wrong, but I doubt it. If I am right, I expect the supposed detente between the conferences will righteously disappear. As to Texas AD Del Conte, he not only objected to the game being played on Sunday evening because he had to go to church (there are no churches in Columbus, Ohio, open on a Sunday?) but also that Texas with have a short week to prepare for the home game versus San Jose State. I believe the Spartans from San Jose will be four TDs or more under Spartans heading into this game in Austin, Texas. Again, this behavior is both snarky and disengenuous, with no respect shown to Ohio State and AD Bjork. Of course, the Week 2 Michigan at Oklahoma game will kick off at 7:30 EST on ABC. The SEC again jocks the B1G by having a broadcast partner that does everything it can to promote the conference during the week and by showing the biggest (sigh) SEC games in prime time. Fortunately, Fox did not have the option to show OBD at Penn State at Noon EST. This is a 7:30 game on NBC (with a former PSC QB in the booth) and a White Out. PSU and its fans are most pleased. OBD's 3rd game of the season at Northwestern will be a B1G Noon, 9 AM OBD body clock time, kick off. Count on the Penn State at Ohio State game, like the game against Texas, kicking off at Noon in Columbus. Again, I am throwing shade at Sankey and the B1G's 'leadership,' and not at you. I very much appreciate your, Nevada Dawg, and other fans of other program's posts.

I will be watching and reporting, even if through slits of the fingers... Coach Waz says this Cal Poly coach is very, very good. They barely lost to Arizona yesterday 3-2, and this team won the Big-West Tournament against teams like UC Irvine and Santa Barbara. Forget about the future...let's win a game! Grayson Grinsell pitching!

The game crew, the remote crew, maybe the double-secret-remote crew? As long as they got away with it (and they got away with it) who cares, right?

None of this matters as the catcher didn't have the ball. This was obstruction and it was an inexcusable call.

The crew called it safe. “They said it came from Pittsburgh and it was out of their hands,” Wasikowski said. “I’m really proud of the way that Aroz went into home plate. I was taught to play hard. I was taught to get after it by my dad and by my coaches growing up. Unfortunately, playing hard was not rewarded tonight by whatever rule was supposedly violated by a player that was playing hard.”

So much for the "legitimacy" of college baseball... It doesn't matter if we would have won or not based on that call. What matters is that the officiating crew violated the spirit of the game, the spirit of sportsmanship, if not the rules themselves. Can anyone explain what the runner was supposed to do? The catcher didn't have the ball AND was blocking the plate. Not only was he blocking the plate but as the runner approached the plate the catcher dropped his shin/lower leg to block any attempt at a slide. This call was an absolute outrage. The game should be replayed. The crew should be terminated with cause.

The wind turned Walsh's deep ball in the 9th into a sac fly instead of a walk-off home run, such is baseball.

Yes, and no. It cost the game, but Oregon should have pitched better, hit better, and not made one play decide the game. I better really soak up and enjoy this weekend, because it is probably the last of Oregon baseball for this year. I just do not think we have enough pitchers to win four games straight, especially when we’re playing Arizona in the last two games, with the worst of our pitchers by that time. Oh well, I still love my Ducks, and got to see a lot of winning baseball this year…

Ole Miss isn't UCLA, or Oklahoma or Texas, but this was a big win for the Ducks, their early errors, two by Freshman Rylee McCoy, who was pulled from 1st base, and one by gold glove winning shortstop, Paige Sinicki, ended up not hurting them. The Luschar sisters, Kia, Kendre are a force, and this team always leaves it all on the field.

SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM Oregon and Cal Poly face off Saturday at 12:06 p.m. looking to advance to Sunday

No.16 Oregon keeps season alive with 6-5 win over Ole Miss - Daily Emerald DAILYEMERALD.COM As fans from both sides littered the near-sellout crowd, Lyndsey Grein stood in the middle of the circle taking in the game and the...

High stakes chess?

I don't know if Oregon fans could think less of USC. But this makes it possible. USC Trojans Tease Oregon Ducks' Dan Lanning With Mark Bowman Commitment Video WWW.SI.COM The recruiting trail has been hot lately for the USC Trojans ans a recent commitment to the USC has prompted the program to tease the Oregon Ducks and coach Dan

It appears the Texas Longhorns are more than happy to play at Ohio State at Noon. Their reason? Well apparently it's because the AD doesn't want to play Sunday night because of personal reasons. I won't mock him for his reason because I understand. However I doubt it's true because Texas has played on Sunday before. Plus Texas has a private jet that could get him from Austin at 2 pm and get to Columbus in two hours. We love football in the South and we have traditional beliefs. But I've never hear of an AD making millions blow so much smoke. Texas is no longer burnt orange, they're yellow. I wonder if Ohio State will try something next year because we all know they're very touchy about slights. I'm sure they're still chapped about Oregon beating them last year off what they call a cheap play, but it was actually Lanning knowing the rules. I heard the Oregon at Penn State game will be a 7pm btw. That's going to be an awesome environment. Oregon should wear all black and come out to the Darth Vader theme.

A few years back I think the NCAA added the "Collision Rule" (8-7) which made nearly any significant contact at the plate by the baserunner to the catcher above the waist an out, unless the player is clearly sliding toward the base. The rule basically defines contact above the waste as an illegal attempt to dislodge the ball. As SmithRiver points out, I think if tagged out, there would have been obstruction. Taking a quick look at 8-7, there doesn't seem to be anything covering if the act of obstructing directly leads to a runner contacting the catcher above the waist (so I guess replay looked first to the runner having responsibility to approach the catcher in a full slide, not starting a slide, I don't know?). I guess now in this situation a player must potentially take the out and hope for obstruction rather than risk hitting the catcher up high. Tough to teacher a player to do. Sort of reminds me of the early years of targeting in football where players just had to learn they could no longer do certain things? Even if the catcher is doing it wrong, the baserunner needs to first make sure they won't contact up high (which I'd agree isn't always easy when a catcher is crouching down to try for a tag).

Speakin' of bright spots. The Ducks won 11 in a row at one point. I'm just not ready to count them out yet. I've seen too much grit this season. Here's hoping for the best.

Well…Oregon would have to win four in a row, and I am afraid we don’t have enough pitchers for that. Although freshman Tanner Bradley was a bright spot…

This was one of the worst calls I've seen in baseball. Why is no one (including the tv announcers) screaming about the fact that at the last second Aroz tries to get down into a leg slide, thus trying to avoid contact (read creaming the catcher which he did a nice job of)?! Yes, he creamed him anyway. BUT HE TRIED NOT TO! THERE WAS OBSTRUCTION! Home plate umpire had it right. Bottom line: We got screwed royally. Silver lining: Ducks got the stuff to beat someone twice. Women did it. Side note: I almost felt bad for the Mississippi pitcher after she walked in the winning run......Almost........

Don’t know whether to assign this to the Ironic or Academic Prowess Dept. - maybe both: During the game, the roving tv camera would occasionally pick out a Rebel holding a sign reading, “BEAT EVERYBODY!” Guess that Ole Miss fan didn’t quite understand that ‘everybody’ includes themselves.

In other news: Saint Mary's 6 Oregon State 4