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Just ask Mariota, Herbert, and Nix. They all came back and they all improved their NFL life.

I'm sure the NIL will come in and get close enough. The bigger question is that does Dante feel like there is still just to learn and grow from college ball? I think his current NFL evaluation is on his potential. He has a lot of potential. But if he feels like he can develop mentally and in his leadership with another year of college ball then he'll come back. Because if his potential doesn't catch up fast enough for the NFL he'll flame out real fast. Another year of college probably solidifies his NFL career for the long run.

In his first season at ASU, Dilly had it a bit easier than what Will has signed up for: 2 Krispy Kreme cupcakes, Alabama, at A&M, at South Carolina, LSU, at Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, at Tennessee, Florida, at Missouri, and Louisville. Better go hunting for and fill your Stein with, Wild Turkey! 🤪

Players following coaches isn’t an exact science, but doesn’t seem like a mass movement to SEC bottom dwelling Kentucky would be a real thing, be similar to what ASU poached I would think.

And....I have just confirmed that FishDuck.com and the Our Beloved Ducks forum will have two photographers on Rich Brooks Field for our first home Playoff game, and will have former local TV Sports News Anchor Mike Ostrom reporting for us up in the Press Box. Mike is a long-term veteran of advertising and sportswriting, who has set the valley on fire in the past with articles like this one. Whew!

And now the defense. Football: Defensive Front Recruits | Addicted To Quack

An in depth look as some of the '26 class on offense. Football: Offensive Front Recruits | Addicted To Quack

Good for him. Just leave all the players behind. Oregon Ducks' assistant OL coach Cutter Leftwich hired by Kentucky

Talk about a "STORIED PROGRAM"! This is gonna leave a stinky mark on the AD's expensive carpet that Stanley Steemer can't wash out! Maybe swap Michigan for a squeaky clean program like, er... Miami?

Thanks for all the behind the scenes work you and the tech team do to make this site so great, Very much appreciated.

Last summer in July we had to move the forum to their new platform, and so much of the customization we had before was lost and had to be reapplied to this new platform. The challenge was that my web developer has had too difficult a personal schedule to work on them...until now! OBD Members....See If You Notice... We have two small changes done, with many more coming. The first is when you want to delete a post that is a duplicate, or you just decided to start over later? Just click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the post, what they call ellipses. We use that drop-down menu to edit a post done in the first hour, but they now have also added a "Delete" option when we want to remove a post. Yay! The second one is a small one, but bugged me anyway. When you want to add a emoticon to a post, a thumbs-up, a laugh, etc....the ones used the most used to be the closest ones to the Duck on the right that you click on. With the change in July....the order was reversed, and the most common emoticons used were at the end and more cumbersome to add. The order is right again, and it was great a moment ago for me to place one in a post so easily again. When you donate--you help these changes to occur, so those who have lately....THANK YOU.

Great news obviously, but besides DM the biggest get would be Poncho coming back IMHO. Regardless, if we got every eligible player back next year (yeah unlikely but we can dream), holy cow would we have an experienced group of starters.

Thank you, Drake, for the take on the Real Bo Jackson and not the Ohio State freshman RB, Lamar 'Bo' Jackson. The Real Bo's career ended far too soon from a hip injury that, with the improvement in medical care, most of today's players recover from to play again. Along with Prime Time, Bo played in the NFL and MLB. Bo is one of his generation's greatest athletes.

Right now, mock NFL drafts generally have him going as one of the top couple pics. And since this kid just keeps improving by the week, I think over the next couple games, his stock is only going to rise. If he goes number two, obviously the downside is that he would go to the Raiders. But, if he is picked as one of the top two or three players in the draft, he's going to immediately have a contract worth about $50 million dollars, with about 60% of that coming in the form of a signing bonus. And while I definitely do not love money, I certainly have a strong appreciation for what it can do. I just can't see him turning down that kind of money, unless we could possibly could come up with some heavy duty NIL cash-o-la, and make sure he gets one hell of an insurance policy. So, if he doesn't come back, who are we thinking that we might be able to pick up to backfill his role?

In FCS PO news, last night our friends, the Montana State Bobcats, defeated the SFA Lumberjacks 44-22 to move on to the semifinals against the winner of today's game, South Dakota at Montana. And 'they' said OBD played a weak schedule! 🤬 Go You Hairy Cats of Bob!

Bear has truly been the standardbearer on that defensive line. In many ways, he has been the loadbearer out there. I'm highly confident that next season that he will bear even more fruit & success by coming back. Clearly he has been able to bear some hardship given that he started at georgia, transferred to USC, and finally found a home here at Oregon. I am highly confident that one more year in Oregon is going to allow him to bear & reap some significant fruit leading into the draft next year. (Sorry, but I just had to try and get in on some of the corny and funny "bear" crap flying around here),

The Athletic reports that he is open to new coaching gigs outside of Utah...

Would you expect any college football playoff semi-final game to be an “easy game”? Oregon will be by far the most talented team that Texas Tech has faced all season and they will have had an extended layoff heading into that game (which we saw was not an advantage last year). I like their defense front 7 but their offense does not scare me one bit. Their QB is prone to turnovers from what I’ve seen and Oregon has a good secondary. If Oregon executes well and Dante Moore is on, we can beat any team in the country, IMO. I know the team needs the rest and recovery, but the playoffs cannot come soon enough for this fan…

Bear got his revenge against USC, now let us hope he gets revenge against his other former team in the national championship game… [Note: I don’t think that Bear had anything bad to say about Georgia or the coaches during the interview I posted above but he was clearly unhappy with what went down at USC…]

There is a lot of tragedy in all this. Moore’s family is caught in the fallout with their lives being turned upside down and inside out. The current Michigan players and incoming recruits must now decide whether to stay or go.

I think it's likely that Moore is clinically depressed.

He was a great coach......will be missed by those that love college football.

Rivals have one rule over everything else. Never give your opponent their full due. Doing that is like hugging a porcupine.🤮