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At the Zoo, predicts OBD's likely 1st opponent. These are Oregon's three most likely first-round playoff foes Bring It On!

Great post. T-H-E-Y in your first spot on sentence should be spelled E-S-P-N ESPN has owned the bowl broadcasts since the BCS days. As the exclusive broadcast partner for the BCS, 4-team PO, and the 12-team PO, ESPN is not going to compete against its big-time bowl broadcasts by allowing more than a 1st round home game. There is a lot wrong with the NCAA, but the NCAA manages college football playoffs far better than ESPN. The lower division football playoffs are played for the most part on home turf, and there is a single selection show broadcast of the teams playing in and the seeding for the upper-tier FCS playoffs. There are many reasons I prefer a 1st-round game for OBD in Autzen. The B1Ggest being rewarding students, how about that, and fans who cannot afford jacked-up airfare and hotel prices, with a home game. The players should also have the opportunity to play a game at home that they have earned. A home game also means $8 to $10M for businesses in Lane County. And the on-campus and communal joy that comes with hosting a significant contest in Eugene and in the State of Oregon. (I believe the only college football playoff games played in Oregon have been Linfield University games.) The home team controls ticket sales for 1st round games, except for 3500 tickets reserved for the visiting team. So, no interference in this regard from ESPN. Growing up in Boston, I played in and watched many games in the snow and had a blast. Green Bay Packers fans want to see PO games played at Lambeau Field right up to the Super Bowl game. Suck It Up! Dan Lanning has an amazing record that is not so amazing after byes and prolonged byes. Give OBD a home game after a reasonable bye. Knock wood that after a first-round home win, we will see OBD play three more games on a long and winding road.

Number 1 QB prospect Jared Curtis is said to be flipping to Vanderbilt according to insiders on DawgNation. I kinda saw this coming, but it’s still disappointing. Oh well, hopefully he is making the right decision for his future and his family.

The NYG did the same thing with Joe Judge in in 2020. He is now the QB coach for Ole Miss and will assume play calling duties for the first time in his career during the playoffs.

I didn’t think of Justin Burke and Jonathan Brewer. Burke being the UTSA OC puts him in the exact offensive lineage as Stein. And Brewer coming from the Rhett Lashlee offense puts him in the Gus Malzahn lineage. Same as Dillingham.

Going 4-steps Farther Down the Road - Odds for 25 PO Champ Game Scenarios Ranking the 25 Most Likely CFB Championship Game Matchups

Oh no, that’s fine! I thought maybe I had news mixed up with Sheppard.

Chip Kelly return to Oregon? No, never, not nowThough it may have been partly scapegoating, reports out of Sin City suggested cognitive decline, as if Kelly had lost his grip on the game and the intricate details of the job. He was calling plays the team hadn't practiced, plays from another time and place, or so the story went. Sports love a redemption story, but Kelly's won't be written at UO. He doesn't fit the meticulous, cooperative, player-led, team-oriented process of the operation.He's always been a bit of a maverick, a terse, outspoken loner who goes his own way. The mantra in Eugene is FEBU. Kelly's focus is more singular than that. If he wants it he'll have another opportunity in football because of the brilliance he's displayed in the past, but in no way is he a fit at Oregon on the staff of Dan Lanning, in a program with a much different focus and stamp. Autzen ZooChip Kelly return to Oregon? No, never, not nowFans love redemption stories and tidy solutions. Chip Kelly was recently fired in Las Vegas, and the Ducks need a new offensive coordinator.During Chip’s glory days at Oregon. Thanks for the memories, but today? No thanks.

Was more of a Beavis slam, not aimed at you my man! As far as I can tell, Beavis hired an HC who has never been responsible for play calling, which is hilarious to me.

One of the problems of a committee, is that it is a committee. I've heard it said God didn't make the Platypus. He left it to a committee. 😉

Until they publicly release a new, amazing equation (which everyone hated when we did it that way), at the end of the day it’s a beauty contest with more weight given if you’re in the SEC, not quite as much weight (but still some) if you’re in the B1G, and the rest can pound sand if they have 2+ loses…unless they’re ND. IMO of course! Easier to expand the playoff.

I don’t know if it makes you unqualified, it just hasn’t been the pattern. And didn’t he just get a HC position?

How about Jamarcus Sheppard? I hear…oh wait, he doesn’t have play calling experience. Not qualified. 😜

Oregon Offensive Coordinator Search ~ Duck Sports Central https://share.google/YRQDj3sITVbRNQ84Q This is a good read from a guy I haven't seen before. He states that DL and Malchow have likely been anticipating this for months and probably have a short list already. He has some of the same outside candidates as Eric along with a couple intriguing ones. He lays out the coaching pedigree and potential fit of each. And he has a list of who won't be considered, starting with the Chipster, who he succinctly dismisses as not a fit for Oregon.

While they are both most shotgun based spread offenses, they are quite different schematically. The North Texas offense is very much an air raid system, while Oregon has run a pro-style spread with a lot of west coast offense principles. Oregon has had much more variety in their run game too. At least from what I’ve seen from North Texas. Oregon also use quite a bit of multi TE and FB sets. And it’s not that I don’t think he’s capable of meshing the systems — Kliff Kingsbury has evolved his in the NFL — I just don’t know if Lanning hires outside the system he’s hired the last two guys to run. I could be totally wrong though.

Goodbye Sir Will Stein. Thanks for the memories of one of the most "balanced", and entertaining offenses in OBD history. Glad that you have secured a position back "home" and wish you all the success you have worked for, and deserve (except in our future meetings on the gridiron 😉). Thanks for sticking around to coach our offense towards its first national title 🤞. But as OBD has, successfully lived by for decades now...Next Man Up. (Hmmmm...isn't that now TWO Oregon OC under Lanning to secure Head Coaching positions, elsewhere? Beginning of Sir Lannings "coaching tree".) GO DUCKS!

I mean the biggest problem with a committee is how do you build a body of people who can be objective AND make it their only job for about four months to watch every single FBS football game? It's possible and I am sure there are people out there who could do it but is there the will or the desire to do it? No really. A whole new system needs to be created because with super conference playing your schedule is the only thing you can do and sometimes your schedule is weak. I do not fault the Aggies for winning 11 games but I do fault them for losing to 3-loss Texas in their very last game. A top three team shouldn't have dropped that game.

It literally has not changed. Per Josh Pate, the BCS computer formulas are still being heavily relied on by the committee (who have much more important day jobs), with the main difference this year being that the committee is doing a bad job of justifying the results the computer is spitting out. The committee with finally spend some time of their own these next two weeks, puting their heads together to make changes to what the computers tell them to do, so be prepared for real chaos with this week and the final rankings/seeding next Sunday.

NFL-Lite "growing pains". Problems are unequal/uneven scheduling during regular season (thanks mega conferences). Conference championship games becoming less relevant, and actually becoming more problematic for playoff teams (but gotta crown a conference champion on the field). Long-term (iron-clad?) Bowl contracts that many communities that host them, Depend on annually since the era of college football "pagentry" (making it rather unfair for most teams playing west of the rockies). Traditionalist dedication to 'ole timey college football mentality and Not willing to accelerate the push to full-on NFL-lite (How has that worked out for the NCAA over the past quarter century?). The continued and frustrating "manipulations" from media and conference power brokers in attempting to NOT have a level playing field, by advantaging loopholes and unforeseen missing "guardrails" to further their own agendas over the benefit of the whole. I could rant go on, as I imagine many of you could easily add to these...observations. But in the current iteration of these growing pains, combined with how very young this team is, I want that One game here, at home, in the weather, in front of us ravenously, delirious, "scream and 'O' till we are hoarse by the time "Shout" echoes out throughout the Willamette Valley" Game! What a way to "Prime the Pump" and get OBD's juices a flowin' to run through (literally) the final two games to our first "Natty" of our hopes and dreams! Said it before and will continue to say it again. 🦆🏈🪨's !

I wonder if the loser of the Ohio State vs Indiana game falls to four if Georgia and Texas Tech win. If that happens, and Oregon draws the five, that would pit Oregon vs one of them in the quarters.

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How Stein Departing for Kentucky Could Impact Dante MooreOn3How Stein Departing for Kentucky Could Impact Dante MooreWill Stein is leaving for Kentucky. Dante Moore's future at Oregon could have major implications on Dan Lanning's next hire.

Curious why you think this. From the little I’ve seen of North Texas, they run a spread offense with the QB in the shotgun and seem to hit a lot of big passes down the field. I also saw a lot of 2 back formations and some RPO plays. I didn’t see many heavy sets or QB under center, in my very limited observations, but perhaps that is something that Lanning would insist he added.

There’s also Mack Leftwich, the Texas Tech OC. I think his system would integrate well into what Oregon already does. He also uses some veer and shoot sets.

Oregon DC Tosh Lupoi is reportedly a candidate for the Cal head coaching job, while OC Will Stein's name is popping up for Kentucky.