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Today marks the first of the early signing day period, but nothing hangs heavier on Oregon football’s future than the potential loss of both coordinators to head coaching jobs. Now, if there’s anything the Ducks have learned to deal with this season, it’s adversity. Our Oregon football program has been dealing with injuries all season, and forced to step up ... Read More Source Read the full article here...

Penn State may very well be the big early signing day story tomorrow. I think they are down to 5 commits and all 5 I guess are either on flip watch or at least not expected to sign early. There seems to be the possibility they have 0 early signings tomorrow.

They have a good wrestling program as well. This search is starting to resemble the 2017 Tennessee debacle, without the whole protest that got a job taken away. Oddly enough that protest of Schiano was connected to his time at Penn State. Tennessee ended up hiring the worst head coach in their history, Jeremy Pruitt.

Satake is staying at BYU. Candidates out there who have won conference titles or coached PO teams and have not retired? Dan Mullen, Brian Kelly, and Boise State's Spencer Danielson. He may have been Little Game James when it came to defeating ranked opponents, but Franklin won many football games. I think PSU AD Pat Kraft is on this ice, even though Penn State has a very good ice hockey team. 😁

That would beat Andy Ludwig or Mario Cristobal.

Penn State is the last P4 job open.

Hats off to Tosh, By Gosh! Will went close to his alma mater home; Tosh is back at his alma mater in Berkeley. Danno worked for Saint Nick. No coach went through more assistant-to-head-coach hires than Nick Saban. I believe in Danno and his hiring prowess.

Thank you, EBDD, for posting the latest tease from the Gurus of Grapevine. The loser of the B1G champ game will be 3rd, if not the 2nd, PO seed. If the Commish Brett Yormark's 2 B12 PO teams fix is in, the Cougars defeat Texas Tech, and so long No. 10 Notre Dame. I do not see BYU winning the B12 champ game. Texas Tech has a significant Big 12 roster advantage.🤑 That No. 10 Notre Dame dropped below No. 9 Bama is telling. The Irish and not Bama, Bama is in the field unless the Tide is eviscerated by Georgia in the SEC champ game. BTW - DeBoer just figures out ways to win football games. 🤬 Alabama 280 total yards of O. Auburn 411 yards. No. 5 OBD 😁is positioned to host (and hopefully hoist) JMU, North Texas, or Tulane. All three of these teams have their head coaches leaving for new jobs. JMU Chesney to UCLA, North Texas Morris to OK State, and Tulane's Jon Sumrall to Florida. Opening against one of these teams will not be a walkover over but it would be a huge upset for OBD to lose to one of these three in Autzen. And playing against No.4 TT in the 2nd round? Bring it on! Red Raiders, Cage the Cougars! Again! BTW, BYU coach Sitake says that he is staying with BYU. Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire just signed a new seven-year deal. PSU? Up to me, and thank goodness, PSU fans, that it isn't, I'm taking a hard look at keeping interim coach Terry Smith or going after Brian Kelly (will Kiff have a better record at LSU?), or Dan Mullen. Mullen has UNLV playing back-to-back MW title games on the Blue (lunch) turf vs. Boise. Man, it's so nice to sit back and relax. 😍

Lots of scenarios can happen this weekend that could potentially move OBD's into the Top 4. Bama could beat Georgia, then Georgia falls out of Top 4. BYU beats TT and TT falls out of Top 4 OBD's could move up and get a dreaded bye. I feel like Georgia and TT will win those games. If so, thrm Bama falls out of CFP. That sounds so nice If BYU wins they are in and ND could fall out. Even better! Can't until this all plays out Saturday night.

Slightly bigger image to go off of 😀 If Oregon ends up at #5, that's not a terrible position to be in. Face off at home against #12 (whoever that is) then fight with Texas Tech (assuming they beat BYU) who lost to ASU earlier this season. Ohio St would have an interesting match up with the winner of Alabama/Oklahoma. I kind of want Oregon to stay at #6, not only to avoid Ohio St until the last possible game but also possibly getting DL a rematch with Smart and Georgia. I think everyone agrees their first head to head wasn't really fair to start out with.

We will survive, I'm certain! I wish Tosh well..

Guess Hampton becomes the new DC. He's done a great job with the DB group so it's the next logical step. Now DL needs a dynamite defensive line coach to come in.

Hopefully, we don't move up any!

Im good. Nice to have a home game. Would nice to have a bye.

Now that OBD is #5, this projection is muy bueno.

I'm happy here. How about you?

Theoretically, the DC is Dan Lanning, so I’m not too worried about this. I’ll definitely miss his recruiting prowess.

That will hurt recruiting for sure....Tosh is a legend on the West Coast.

That’s a good observation. Experience/time in the system definitely impacting things.

So it’s official, Curtis decides to stay home and play early as a Commodore.

Will will not have a relaxing honeymoon. OOC - Youngstown State, South Alabama, and Louisville, all in Lexington. Home - Alabama, Florida, LSU, and Vandy. Away - Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas A&M. Piece of cake, right? 🤪 🤮- Someone please, let me know where I can find a double shot of Bourbon.

Seems like expectations are that Chris Hampton gets promoted, and a new position coach is then needed. That seems to keep things tidy. We will see if any underlings are prompted to follow.

It isn't simply little old me. For what it's worth, the CFB world at large ranks the 5-seed as the Golden Ticket. I agree. I think Texas Tech will be the 4-seed. I'd prefer 5-seed OBD to play the Red Raiders in the 2nd round instead of Ohio State, Indiana, or Georgia/Bama. Coming off an extended bye has been no fine for Danno's Ducks. TT is a solid football team. But the schedule? OOC TX Tech played Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Kent State, and Beavis at home. TT blew out BYU at home, won large at Utah with both QBs dinged up, and lost at ASU with its starting QB, Behren Morton, not able to play. With the B12's top roster, TT ran roughshod over the rest of its B12 opponents. When OBD was under the gun for playing 'no one', did the 'experts' look at TT's schedule? Ditto, A&M's in-conference weak schedule. In the knock wood, second round, give me the never-played-a-PO-game Red Raiders, after OBD defeats the G5 PO representative, or UVA.

I prefer they come out and compete with passion this year.

Dan gets a new OC and DC next year! https://duckswire.usatoday.com/football/