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5-0 Ducks after two innings. Toby Twist was really getting his control going--even in the rain. He put them down 1-2-3... Drew Smith walked, and Angel Laya hit a jammed single blooper in short right/center field as Smith jets to third. Burke-Lee Mabeus hits a high-hop infield single to get on base as Smith scores. Brayden Jaksa does sac-fly to move Laya to third, and the Ryan Cooney bunted perfect down the first base line to beat the throw! At this point we have Ducks-on-the-Pond! (Bases loaded) Then Jax Gimenez hits over the CF wall for a GRAND SLAM!

0-0 after one inning. Toby Twist is the pitcher for Oregon, and he has quite a sweeping curve from his left-handed throws. Between a walk, a plinked batter, and some controversy over another play--the Musketeers loaded the bases. But Twist created two pop-ups to finish the inning! We have position switches for this game as CF Jack Brooks is taking a break, while Jax Gimenez moves from LF to CF. Angel Laya moves from RF to LF, and Brandon Jaska comes on the field to RF. Jaska is hitting over .350 and thus a good reason to get him on the field with Burke-Lee Mabeus catching. Oregon left stranded again...yikes!

Might also force teams to be somewhat less conservative running the clock in some situations at the end of half, or game.

I luv the Ducks. And, I understand the injury situation. But, that first half was beyond bad. As Chas Man said, these guys are not junior high vs varsity - they have spent countless hours in gyms during their lives.

Like Schmidt...I know nothing about our starting pitcher or the opposing pitcher, so it will be part of the entertainment today!

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It seems like Dana would have to opt out, and up to this point, that is not the message he has been sending. Is he seeing his future through rose colored glasses? This team is really bad, and he is the head coach. It's his product we are watching flail away with a rather astonishing sense of futility.

Is this Altman's last game? OBD are down 12-33 at halftime against Maryland. We are 3 of 22 from the floor (all 3 makes from Bittle) and we're being outrebounded 26-14. Altman deserves a glorious send off in front of the home crowd, but I don't see any indications that next year gets better.

The game between Oregon and Maryland would be fit for an Aesop Fable. The Tortoise and the Duck. The Ducks have yet to lift off. 31-12 Terps at halftime. Do college sports really need a postseason? At least for the Moneyball sports. 🤬

As the Oregon Ducks take the field for the 2026 Spring sessions, the buzz around Eugene isn’t just about the explosive new offence under Drew Mehringer or the arrival of blue-chip transfers. Instead, the coaching staff and the “analytical junkies” at FishDuck are obsessed with a technicality buried deep in the 2026 NCAA rulebook: the reinstatement and refinement of the ... The Fair Catch Kick: A Bizarre Rule Change for Lanning to Exploit?

3 minutes left in the half and OBD just scored their 10th point. They are shooting a collective 12% against the 11 win Terps. How can these guys spend their whole lives in the gym and still be that bad at putting the ball in the hoop?

A look at the DBs this Spring. Previewing Oregon Ducks' CB room ahead of 2026 spring football season

Wow, practice starts Thursday. Just two, then Spring break, then back at in in April. Oregon spring practice kicks off Thursday, Pro Day to be held next week

How will Drew's o differ from Will's . . .no sweeping changes, just maximize roster aka feed the studs!! New OC Drew Mehringer outlines vision for Oregon’s offense in 2026

"uniform investment in football programs" I understand the desire, but the reality is stadium size for ticket sales, location, number of alums/donors, etc. just makes it unlikely. Then, add in what will very likely be a tiered structure for media revenue share with the next media negotiation. Ohio State is going to demand a greater share and take it from the hide of programs like Maryland, Rutgers, Purdue, Minnesota....how could those programs ever reach uniform investment.

Too convoluted? I don't think so. Especially if the B1G and the SEC break away and the 'Super Conference' has 34 teams, possibly as many as 40 teams with the addition of Notre Dame and other immediately accretive teams. When looking at where the teams are located, pods in the NFL more or less make sense. However, every team in the NFL has a Blue Chip + roster, and the goal of the NFL is parity. Teams that underperform, like New England without Brady, play easier schedules than successful teams. Mike Whitty's goal is to achieve parity in scheduling in the Big Ten. As Mike the Hiker notes, the B1G has too many teams, as does the SEC, to achieve parity. Without salary caps, differences in budgets for football, no restriction on player movement, and the differences in money available for NIL, I don't believe any CFB scheduling model, and Mike's is as good as I have seen, will produce balanced schedules. If players are not deemed to be employees, and there is no uniform, enforceable, bargained-for agreement with the players, and uniform investment in football programs, I don't see a Northeast Pod of Maryland, Rutgers, an add-on UVA, and Penn State, being competitive with a West Pod of OBD, UCLA, USC, and UW. In a given year, a team or three in today's mega conferences will get the short end of the scheduling stick. Perhaps if one of the scheduling goals wasn't having every team in a conference play one another over a period of years, parity could be achieved? But parity would have to depend upon a team's performance in a given season, or over a few seasons. How do you factor in an Indiana? College basketball uses disclosed metrics to balance out teams based on the strength of schedule (SOS). 31-0 Miami of Ohio is not likely to be seeded higher than 9th. The college football committee simply wings it. And the CFB committee is not helped by a media company with rankings tease shows, and not the NCAA, managing the playoff. All of the supposed improved metrics in the hands of the committee still equate to how many losses a team has, except for Bama, of course. Mike's goal is worthy, no doubt. But without systemic changes modeled on the NFL format, including a draft of high school players, I don't believe we will see equity in CFB scheduling. What we could and should see is a CFB Playoff committee making its decisions based upon disclosed metrics that, among other things, make SOS a determining factor when deciding on and seeding the PO field. Good luck.

💯 agree. I advocate a football only super conference once the current grant of rights deal(s) expire…until then we deal with it.

That would really muddy the water. It is unrealistic to think that every Division 1 team is financially capable of competing at an elite level in football, basketball, and Olympic sports. NIL is a game changer, and creates a huge void between the haves, and have nots. NIL is not going away, any interference will be challenged in court. If they truly want to save Olympic sport competition at the college level, Universities need to have the financial ability to provide elite level training and facilities in those sports. Sprinkle in a few more Universities, and two mega conferences probably achieves that financial viability. The biggest hurdles are the BIG and SEC agreeing on anything, and then getting the media networks to work together.

Peyton Bair with the huge projected point get! Football helping T&F...

All my bags are packed; I'm ready to...? Is it time for the Power 2 to take a powder? https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/03/10/what-did-sec-big-ten-learn-at-president-trump-roundtable-its-time-to-go/89072802007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_cam

Heading into Spring practice, CBS Sports has B1G questions - OBD - Will all of the talent show up? https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-football-spring-2026-burning-questions-each-team/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=531873&ET_RID=52482716

GatOrlando I'm having a problem wrapping my brain around four five-team pods, assuming the B1G expands to 20 teams. I expect that expansion to happen. I have this old-fashioned idea that to have a fair regular season every team in a division or pod, if you will, should play the same teams in a round-robin format. How do your pods address that standard?

Agree on the obvious dilemma created by a conference with too many teams, but divisions could make matters worse by locking in the schedule imbalance year after year. At least the current situation allows the imbalance to rotate around. I have no sympathy for this topic. Each school is raking in cash no matter the schedule or the results. Unbalanced schedules is a 100% predictable result of having too many teams in one conference.

Tough to make it fair when you don’t play half the conference every year. Conferences/leagues of a certain size need to have divisions to at least try to make things “balanced”. This isn’t some new radical concept…there is a reason the NFL has 2 conferences and 8 divisions for only 32 teams. We have a nationwide conference with 18 teams and no divisions. Probably not a good model for fairness.

There are many things we can say about the NFL, but there are many things the college game can take from it as well. As Mike wrote in the article, giving higher performing teams tougher schedules is a great step. Of course you can't always have Purdue missing out on playing Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, or Oregon. They need to play at least one them in addition to Indiana (as their protected rivalry). But since the CCG may go the way of the dinosaur if Petiti gets his play-in weekend passed. You could do four pods, and a two team relegation where those teams have to play their way into a pod to get a shot at play-in weekend, or just add two more teams to get to a five team pod. You could have a heavyweight in each conference, and then do the rest by strength and geography. The relegation model is a bit tricky, but you could base it off a two year stint. I think the five team pod is just simpler, and no I'm not for the B1G kicking out programs, as relegation usually means doing just that. I simply think programs should be forced to at least use their resources, and not just be comfortable being a B1G member. The five heavyweights would be the best five programs over a five year period. For example, USC would've been one in the late 2000s, but Indiana would take their place as of today. Maybe my idea is too convoluted, I'm just trying think outside the box.