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"...since 1967 and don't remember the Ducks ever having the most fans at a bowl game." It would be a very slim list. Maybe the Vegas Bowl vs Air Force (1997)? Seattle Bowl vs Wake Forest (2002)?

"ACC hasn't fallen apart yet, but the Clemson and FSU settlements set the stage for it to happen" Likewise, why would potentially UCLA, Cal, UW return to the Pac without demanding the biggest portion of revenue for themselves? Certainly if Notre Dame joined the B1G or SEC they would request a bigger share....though the B1G and SEC would tell them to pound sand. The New Pac would be in no position to do that with those Canzano Three. The benefit to the other 8 members of the Pac would be limited to better ticket sales, not media contract revenue increases. Those 3 are going to join a conference with Texas State, Utah State, Colorado State? And, Cal/UCLA joining with Fresno, SDSU, Boise State just seems improbable on its face.

Jamari Johnson Announces Return to Oregon, Giving Ducks a Star Tight End for 2026 Oregon tight end Jamari Johnson announced Tuesday that he will return for the 2026 season after a breakout 2025 campaign, solidifying the Ducks’ tight end room and bringing back one of their most productive offensive weapons.

Oregon tight end Jamari Johnson announced Tuesday that he will return for the 2026 season after a breakout 2025 campaign, solidifying the Ducks’ tight end room and bringing back one of their most productive offensive weapons.

Great thoughts Alex, and I chalk this up to how MOST of my judgements are about the program come from knowing nothing of the truth on the inside of the Oregon football program. I can have an opinion from a distant view, but I and we do not know any details. With that being said....our coaches are human and make mistakes too on occasion. This Raiola move will provide plenty of entertainment and discussion here on the OBD forum!

Fan since 1967 and don't remember the Ducks ever having the most fans at a bowl game. Any willing to spend the money were probably hoping to get to the Championship Game.

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I really don't know what to make of this, I don't like getting another QB who can't move around and extend plays. This is more of a personal preference, but I like athletic QBs who can make plays when things break down. If you look at our history we usually do our best when we have a dynamic QB who can freelance when things break down. Moore really struggled to do this against the elite defenses, if he had a bit of escapability then he might have been able to produce a bit more offense. You are putting a lot on your O-line if you don't have a QB who can at least step up in the pocket. Moore strikes me as a someone who can do this when things are going well, but is very fragile once he takes the first hit. If I had to pick between two I would rather have Leavitt just watching the two of them play. I obviously don't know the finer details about the two, but I know that just watching the two of them play, Leavitt is the one that makes me get out of my seat more often. Guess it's just wait and see at the point.

I think we can include the Fiesta bowl as well as a west coast bowl. So we have two which is probably what we should have considering the amount of teams out here compared to rest of the country. The problem is that the Rose Bowl is a much more attractive bowl compared to the Peach, Cotton, or the Orange bowl in my opinion. Better city to visit, more historical prestige, better venue in terms of pre-game. I think playing historical blue-bloods is also more attractive to the common fan. For instance if we were playing a historical team that we hadn't played before I think the game would have attracted more fans even if it was thought we would most likely lose. Our fans have been asked to pay a lot of money compared to others over the years considering the distance of both bowl games and conference championship games. In the end though the solution is to have games at college sites until the semi-finals. It only makes sense.

Amen! Far fewer Hoosier fans would have been in attendance. Using the NFL format, Indiana would have hosted Miami, and OBD would have hosted an SEC ream for the first time since Tennessee came West, Ole Miss. Sigh. Even with the game in Miami, I think Indiana has the chance to win Monday night's champ game attendance battle. With apologies to Charles Dickens (not Fischer 😁), this is likely CFB's worst of times and also the best of times. It's not Ohio State vs. Notre Dame. Instead, a somnambulant championship program with the chance to be the lowest seed to win a title, and a program that only woke up for the last two seasons since 1887, are playing for The Prize. A team with the composite 72nd-ranked roster is in the running for a championship. Huh? 1980 Miracle on Ice redux? Nah. The team without a Blue Chip Roster is the favorite? This will be a battle between the hometown Heisman winner versus the homegrown head coach, who happened to play high school football with the Heisman winner's Dad. This unrealistic script would be rejected by every studio in Hollywood. After all, the Hickory High Hoosiers, coached by Norman Dale, not Gene Hackman, and led by Jimmy Chitwood, did win a championship. Will Curt Cignetti measure the field before kickoff? Forget the Buckeyes and the Irish; ticket prices for this game are at an all-time high. And there will be millions more viewers tuning in on Monday night than watched last season's Blue Blood championship battle. Go Hoosiers! Make it a B1G Three in a Row!

Thanks for this article Alex. I have had the same concerns as you. How does this really work with both of them on the same team? FWIW I asked CHAT GPT what was the length of the healing process for a male athlete with a broken fibula and it seems to be completely healed within six months.

I'm going to 'Wait a Minute' before grading Raiola's signing. I'm going to wait until I understand the plan. Will Dylan be an understudy for a season? If so, or if he starts in 2026, I'm going to wait until I see him playing in the Oregon system surrounded by better players and with better coaching. Dan Lanning and friends identified Raiola early on as the guy they wanted. The deal to bring Dylan to Eugene was probably (wink, wink) agreed to before or shortly after Dylan entered the portal. Otherwise, I think Dylan would have taken a few visits, no? No fault directed at either party; this is how portal picking works. Three of the Final 4 QBs are one year (subject to Chambliss' suit against the NCAA) starters. Dante is a transfer who basically went to school last season and learned on the job this season. Until there is a collective bargaining agreement between 'management', as however defined, and a players' union, it makes sense to go with an experienced QB, even if he has only one year of remaining eligibility. This is simply the name of today's game at every position. Talented young players not assured of starting at any position will be poached, as is the case with OBD's youngsters on the D-side of the ball. Dante's maturity in spending a year in training, and possibly the same decision by Raiola, is the exception and not the rule. However, Dante in 2024 and Raiola this season, should he sit and wait, are not doing so for free. Oregon hit on every transfer it brought in for the 2025 season. Looking at programs, Florida State and Penn State, for example, OBD once again received an excellent return on its portal investment. Clemson and Penn State started QBs developed within the system and played one another in the Pinstripe Bowl. Danno 'gets it.' And I trust his judgement.

I think it probably would have been better just to hold the game at Indiana and probably more Oregon fans would have shown up.

Fundamentals for me to mentally deal with portal world 2026: 25% roster churn is normal Don’t get attached to any HS recruit not good enough to start from day 1 I don’t even learn most HS kids names until fall training camp Our players that leave typically leave because they will never start, and by never, I mean next season My memory of Bo Nix being announced was fans mostly being perplexed and skeptical - I trust this staff with recruiting

Here’s a nice quote today from a Beavis site that illustrates how confused they are with reality:

The ACC hasn't fallen apart yet, but the Clemson and FSU settlements set the stage for it to happen. The ACC exit fee declines every season through 2029 to a far more reasonable number. Miami is the team initially benefiting from the ACC agreeing to teams keeping the lion's share of postseason revenue and media money will be distributed based on the number of fans watching a team's games. With the B1G's on-field results in football, and also this season in basketball to date, Miami, with its deep-pocket boosters, is now a more viable candidate for SEC membership than before 'It Just Means More' started morphing into 'It Just Meant More.' And the SEC could bring in UNC without upsetting an existing in-state program. UNC has deep pockets. Unfortunately, the football money was thrown at a guy who only performed at the highest level when he had TB. (Cough, cough!) Unless CAL, UCLA, and UW leadership go completely bottom-line brain-dead, there's no way they are leaving the P4 for a little league program. Also, even if these three joined the Pac-8 + Gonzo, what would the incentive be for the P4 to promote the Pac-11 + Gonzo to Power conference status? Canzano is not a bottom-line, brain-dead individual, so he feeds his customers this propaganda. Like Conference USA, the reconstituted Mountain West, now known as the Pac-12, is a media and nationwide afterthought. I like the idea of OBD kicking off next season with a blowout of pac-12 Boise State.

Oregon Football Roster Tracker: Tracking the Ducks’ 105-Man Limit Entering the 2026 Season A complete breakdown of Oregon football’s roster as the Ducks head into the offseason, tracking the 105-man limit, position- by-position numbers, and where depth is strong or still needed for the 2026 season.

I was wondering the exact same thing. Perhaps too many visits to one of the plethora of available Oregon 'dispensaries.' John may need to be reminded to not hit the stuff and then write after 8 p.m.

I sure hope Dante comes back for another year. 20 starts! He is still learning how to read defenses at the college level; let alone adjusting to pro caliber speeds. As for Raiola, I believe he knows there is a chance he sits for a season and is okay with it. Dan needs find an excellent QB coach to help not only with Dante's progress, but the rest of the QB room. I'd very much like to see Akili Smith Jr. start to emerge from the pack. A high level QB coach could really bring the best out of him!

Which Oregon Duck players will be going to the NFL in 2026? Players are making decisions about what to do with their futures. For many, this means deciding between an early declaration for the 2026 NFL draft or a return to school for one more year. The Ducks have a number of players trying to make that decision this year, with several guys possessing Day 1 or Day 2 draft grades, should they choose to jump to the pros. So far, we've already seen a couple of guys announce their intentions to return for another year, while more are bound to make their decisions in the near future. So far, no players with remaining eligibility for the 2026 season have announced that they will forego their final year with the Ducks in order to enter the 2026 NFL draft. Here's a look at what we know so far, and who we are still waiting to hear from over the next few weeks. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/12/24/oregon-football-nfl-declaration-tracker-2026/87903938007/

I think, as always, it can be for the "haves". It is the ever-evolving world of college football . . . adapt or become a beaver. Slowly the "haves" are increasing. Texas Tech and Indy have now joined the club. Who's next? The more in the club, the more chaos and that in itself is entertaining both on and off the field. Of course, personally I love a good train wreck.

Sarcasm!

We just have to wait until Moore announces and Raiola responds to see where this is truly headed.

Also, Indiana has 805,000 alums, Oregon about 205,000.

Isn't it foundationally inaccurate to put Oregon State and the word 'intellectuals' in the same sentence?