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This is wonderful news, assuming it's true. (Who is the "insider" who released the information?) Well, I suppose it's not so great for Nate who hoped for an NBA stint this year. But Nate, it's really good to have you back. OBD will have your back. GO DUCKS!

Very glad for this.I don't think he was NBA ready, but after next year, he could be.

Oregon Ducks Star Center Nate Bittle Forgoes NBA, Returns For Fifth Season WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks and coach Dana Altman received good news today about center Nate Bittle. It was announced by college basketball insider Jon Rothstein that Bitt

For the last two days, my desktop had something very weird going on when I tried to read a post. The black FishDuck header at the top would appear in the middle of the page, and you had to scroll the page to be able to read the post around that black column. Throw in ads that would pop up, and it made reading posts difficult. Of course it was the advertising platform again...just as it was a month or so ago. They implement new stuff often and fix things when they get a complaint. Our web developer for this forum in England provided them the error code for them to change--and it worked. I have not had it happen now for a few hours, and if you have...please email charles@fishduck.com and let me know. Any time you have a problem...please let know. BTW...you have heard about my "Backlink Orders" from around the world where gambling links are placed in FishDuck articles to help pay the bills. We publish articles this week on Thursday and Friday, and the SEO companies that contracted the orders are as far as away from each other as they can be. The SEO company behind the link Thursday is in the Philippines, while the Friday order is a company in the Mediterranean Island nation of Malta, near Italy. That is on opposite sides of the globe with Mr. FishDuck in the middle in Eugene, Oregon. Digital is global! Malta

Canzano has a core readership that laps up his woe is me Pac2 columns. They are repeaters on every column he writes on the subject. They consistently comment about how terrible Oregon was to abandon the Pac while ignoring the sequence of USC>UCLA>Colorado being the first to head out the door. Rarely do people who affiliate themselves with WSU complain about the defectors (which I call escapees) and almost never solely target UW with their ire. The Beavis readers have PTSD (Pac Terminal Separation Disease) When the $21M CFP shares kick in during 2026, Oregon's Big Ten conference share will be well worth the jump even during a period of partial media share. archive.ph ARCHIVE.PH

"A stopped clock is right twice a day" Yes. Come-on B1G, B12 and SEC, do the right thing, Say NO to Notre Dame!

Oregon was killing it in football recruiting over the past three years. Now this offseason, something has clearly changed. They have missed on a 1/2 dozen top level recruits and had multiple key decommitments over the past three months. Oregon has 7 total commitments and is in danger of dropping out of the Top25 recruiting rankings, all while most teams are nearing 3/4 to full capacity recruiting classes. I am not convinced that Oregon wants to participate in the market right now in any sport. And I agree with your point. There is an article a while back that I linked here that indicated that Oregon’s basketball NIL budget was in the neighborhood of $2M. Michigan, Maryland and other top teams in the BIG are spending $8-$10M on their roster. Sure sounds like a fast way to the bottom. The worst part, is that Altman will probably take the blame if this team misses the tourney this year. It doesn’t seem fair to give a guy a Yugo, then expect him to win the Indy 500.

Without Staci Chambers and Dezianna Patmon, Oregon's season would have ended last week. SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM They came to Oregon with one year of eligibility and looking to help the Ducks reach OKC, and each played a huge role the past two...

He actually writes great articles about Oregon...sucking up to that audience, while writing "Poor-Me" articles for his Pig-2 subscribers. He is straddling the fence pretty well! I'm sure he knows what he's doing...

It's looked like Oregon will not put the $$ up for basketball, Oregon is a Football School. UNC, though it did hire BB, Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, are Basketball Schools. Michigan is trying to be both.

Not to mention very low viewership being only on Apple streaming. That would have been a brand killer for Oregon.

Exactly! Oregon should, should have done the right thing? Stayed attached to Beavis and battled it out for space on The CW?

"By Jove, I think he's got it!" Back in the day, when AP & UPI decided the winner, that was fine, sometimes controversy, finer still! Washington split a championship in '91, that was a great team. But then BCS came along, and telling, Oregon was involved in the first mess. Now, we have this. ESPN has made it clear that it's all about the money. When the format was agreed to, ACC & Big12 weren't pushing for their teams to be represented, they wanted the money being a Top seed brought. Yes, not playing the CCG's would put more value on the season, but that is not the value that matters.

I used to read Canzano until he decided to be un-objective about the breakup of the PAC. Now it seems like most of his columns are either behind the paywall or PIG 2 centric. I wonder how much his audience has shrunk since the almost nonstop pouting about the breakup and "insights" into new media deals for the trash left behind.

As I reflect upon it....each team in the B1G, even Purdue, Northwestern, and Rutgers are receiving 21 million a year just from the college football playoff? Wowsa. It sure pays to be in the right conference!

Right on. IMO - As soon as things moved to a playoff instead of a massive bowl system by invitation, the notion of a “league” with 130 teams for the “big boys” became ridiculous.

I won't waste your time with very much of Canzano's recent article where he is declaring that the B1G and SEC should, "do what is right." You mean like letting two Pac-12 schools get paid a massive amount more than they were worth for decades by the conference...but now you want to do it on a national scale with all Group-of-Five teams? No, the Super-2 Conferences deserve to finally get what they contribute to college football, and they are finally being strong about it. The stat that caught my eye was..."Those two conferences already control 58 percent of the CFP revenue, or about $21 million per school. Think of it...the Pac-12 media revenue that the Pig-2 wanted us to accept was what...22 million per year? And now we receive nearly as much just from the Playoff revenue alone? Looks like we made the right move, getting our fair share of what our brand deserves after all the work creating it for years. No, we did not just sit there and receive an over-sized portion of the pie for doing nothing. It is payoff time for Oregon, and the projected 54 million+ per year is needed to survive in the future. Sure the little guys want to survive, and I don't blame them for that, but they really just want to pull us down to their level.

PO format thoughts from the SEC's Saturday Down South - These are the 2 dumbest arguments related to Greg Sankey’s expanded Playoff stance - Saturday Down South WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM SEC commissioner Greg Sankey raised some eyebrows with his comments about Playoff expansion, which yielded 2 dumb arguments.

Let's get This On! LSU's Brian Kelly says SEC coaches want game vs. Big Ten - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM LSU's Brian Kelly said "the wish of the room" among SEC coaches is to add a game vs. a Big Ten opponent in a scheduling agreement, but they "need a partner" to do it.

Oregon 1B Jacob Walsh looking to 'enjoy' potential final weekend at PK Park Friday marks the beginning of the Eugene Regional for the No. 12 seed Oregon Ducks and may be one of the last time Jacob Walsh steps foot on PK Parks turf. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/oregon-ducks-baseball-jacob-walsh-eugene-regional-looking-to-enjoy-final-weekend-at-pk-park-250354403/

Florida AD Stricklin is not alone in wanting changes to the CFB PO selection process. Scott Stricklin on College Football Playoff system: 'A committee is not ideal to choose a postseason' WWW.ON3.COM . It's not that difficult. See the CBB selection process. Granted, there are not as many games, but metrics, including those used by the CFB committee and not revealed by a committee that prefers to do its business in the dark, provide a guideline. Boise State, ranked 9th last season, was based only on the Eye Test. I'm sending out an SOS on the idea that SOS matters to the committee.

The state of Oregon's CB room following the conclusion of spring Here is a rundown for what the Ducks have at cornerback entering the 2025 season https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/oregon-football-linebacker-ducks-football-jahlil-florence-theran-johnson-ify-obidegwu-250354531/

There is disagreement over the future PO format, but I believe all P4, G6 conferences, and Notre Dame want to see restrictions on the portal windows. Greg Sankey reveals SEC coaches prefer 10-day transfer portal window in January, against April-only portal WWW.ON3.COM .

The rub is not that these games devalue the season; they do, but not playing the games devalues the media money that will be paid out. I find it interesting that the Ivy League does not play a football conference championship but does play an 'Ivy Madness' post-season basketball tournament. Why when Ivy League schools play all other Ivy League basketball teams home and away in the regular season? I don't know whether the Ivies get additional broadcast money for the postseason CBB title.

Michigan ($3 million) is spending large for a B1G man. Projected first-round pick Yaxel Lendeborg to withdraw from 2025 NBA Draft, will transfer to Michigan - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Yaxel Lendeborg entered the transfer portal after three years at UAB Does Dana have the budget to compete with this? Are OBD basketball boosters willing to step up with 3 Mill for one guy? Direct payments to athletes will not end the NIL arms race. Who's to say that this young man is not worth the money, and that the money is a recruiting tool and out of line with "market value?" If the 'Deloitte committee' were to find that this deal exceeds 'market value', the decision would be challenged in court, and a hand-picked judge would stay such a finding pending a trial on the merits of the case. What is 'market value' for men's basketball? The amount that can be paid by Wake Forest and Cincinnati boosters? Or the amount that can be paid by Michigan and Alabama boosters? What's an 'average' Men's basketball NIL deal? Shouldn't top drawer players be allowed to obtain a better ROI on their NIL than average players? This is just one reason why the House settlement is far from a long-term solution to what ails college sports. What will move Congress to provide relief? Perhaps the Power 4 threatening to call off the 2025 football and basketball seasons unless Congress provides protection from antitrust suits and other litigation? Short of this, what will move Congress to act?