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You're correct ther is no guarantee if success in the NFL. But he can prepare the best he can and that's his decision to make. Has he learned everything he realistically can from college ball or not? I'm not answering the question just posing it. I would like for him to come back for another year personally but I also don't have a day in the matter.

Can he learn Moore from the new OC? As well as learn more by playing more reps. What does this QB class look like compared to 2027? I have no doubt NIL $ will be there. Not on the scale of a top-flight NFL draft pick, but if he stays, he will not be on a Ramen Noodles diet. 😁

It does seem as though the locations of the playoff games are largely slanted south and east. Why not have more balance between the coasts?

There might have been an agreement, spoken or unspoken, that Stein and Tosh not take a bunch of assistant coaches and players with them. I don’t recall Lanning doing either when he left Georgia.

$50 million now is better than the potential for a second contract worth $100M+. Invest wisely and he’ll be set for life. It’s more than most of us will earn over the course of our careers.

There is no guarantee that he’ll have success in the NFL, even if he used all of his eligibility though. As much as I’d like, as a Ducks fan, to see him return next year, $40-50 million is a lot to turn down and potentially risk.

How many junior QB's get used up by a bad team and then discard to become a backup or never play again. The best things that could happen to him is to fall in the draft to mid first round and sign with a team that has a chance like Bo. A big rookie contact is great but play the long game and the endorsements and contact extensions will payoff big time. Not to mention not getting thrown to the wolves playing for the Raiders or Browns.

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...