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I will remember Mark Helfrich as the guy who recruited and coached Oregon’s first (and so far only)Heisman Trophy winner. Mariota attended an Oregon football camp in the summer of 2010, which allowed Mark Helfrich, Oregon's then offensive coordinator, to be one of the first recruiters to discover Mariota.[8]After the camp, Helfrich visited Mariota in Hawaii to watch the somewhat unrecognized quarterback practice going into his senior season.[17] Helfrich called Chip Kelly during the visit and they made the decision to immediately offer Mariota a scholarship, despite never starting a varsity game.[17]

Ever since playing for a national champion instead of voting for one, the system has clearly been slanted in the SEC direction. Start with only 8 conference games. Add in preseason biased rankings and top with ESPN being conference broadcasting and very unclear committee voting, you get a definite SEC advantage. When Natty's were voted on more conferences won more frequently. Now that everyone can throw $$ around, it should make it more difficult for the SEC to win it all. Until every conference plays same number of games in conference, the SEC will get the preseason ranking advantage. Got to admit, reading about their 'panic' is hysterical.

“The SEC is different. The Big Ten, you’ve just got your big three: Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon. That’s it. Penn State? They’re mediocre.”

“Even being an SEC guy, the Big Ten keeps getting better and better,” said Jordan Rodgers, a former Vanderbilt quarterback and now a college football analyst.

Jon...just know your word-play is great fun and I enjoy it!

Interesting to see how fan attitudes in the SEC are turning to panic. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/sec-college-football-panic-860533f4?st=HrBfWt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I think we would look more kindly on these if we won that game. I don't think we would like them or even love them... I think we would simply not hate them. But because we lost we hate them because they remind us of losing to Colorado and that was their only win over us in the Pac-12 era. Also it was Colorado's only good team. They made the Pac-12 champs game.

SEC - Oklahoma fans would Sooner see their team on the list and are giving the bird to the Gamecocks. South Carolina and Ole Miss just missed. Greg Sankey insists that because they are in the SEC, close Means More and Means inclusion. ESPN talking heads agree. 😁

So, SEC- Alabama, Georgia, Texas, LSU, SCAR, Ole Miss, A & M, Auburn, Florida B1G- Oregon, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan USC ACC- Clemson, MIA, FSU IND, Good ole, Notre Dame

Not so much with NIL as that comes from outside the program and cannot come from the program itself. However, with revenue sharing becoming a thing soon that will put strain on them.

I again note that IMO the demise of the SEC in football has been greatly exaggerated, and that there is a CFB Power 2. 18 BCR Teams. 9 - SEC 5 - B1G 3 - ACC 1 - Independent (No, it's not Oregon State 🤪) B12 - ZIP Add Notre Dame to the B1G and the three ACC schools to the SEC, and are any other teams needed to decide a 'True Champion '?

Book it! One of these 18 teams will win the CFB title in 2025-26. Since the inception of the BCS in 1998, no team without a Blue Chip Roster has won a championship. No, having to win three or four games to win a title means you have to have a deep and talented roster. OBD has a Blue Chip Roster, but will not be considered to be Blue Blood before winning a Natty or two. 2011 and 2015, SIGH 😧

Oregon is absolutely the elitest team without a football Natty; U-Dub is the non-elitest team with a football Natty.

The Blue-Chip article with the percentages are right here, but with Oregon at a new all-time high of 78% Blue-Chip....doesn't that truly make us elite?

The majority of Oregon's roster is made up of blue-chip recruiting talent, giving the Ducks the fifth-best ratio in the country for 2025 The Ducks come in well above that baseline this fall. Oregon's roster is the fifth-best in the country from a blue-chip ratio perspective, Elliott concluded, as a program-record 78 percent of the players on this year's team qualify as blue-chippers. That figure surpasses last year's mark of 76 percent for the best since Elliott took up the practice. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/oregon-ducks-football-2025-blue-chip-ratio-251828541/

The football program that pays for the non-revenue sports is getting the most money? Shocking! Oklahoma has laid off athletic department employees. This will likely be the norm and not the exception.

Spot on. Teddy is credited with saving CFB, which was understandably too rough for the Rough Rider. https://www.history.com/articles/how-teddy-roosevelt-saved-football

Someone said in another topic that the 2015 and 2016 seasons were when OBD had officially Jumped The Shark with the uniforms and I have to agree. Oregon's design team and Nike had essentially been given carte blanche to make whatever they wanted and the result was, at times, absolutely insane. The Lewis and Clark uniforms wreaked of desperation The Green camo for the 2015 Civil War and helmet had zero flow and looked like something the All America Bowl teams would wear The Oregon Duck uniform against Colorado. Nothing more needs to be said... The Oregon Webfoots getting rolled in 2OT against Cal Not saying Helf got fired because of the uniforms, but someone definitely did.

The money being spent for a winning college football team is crazy. Apparently, the wealthy, and Corporate America, need an immediate intervention. They are asking for someone to impose a subjective NIL “salary cap” to save them from themselves. Once a collective secures the commitment of a 5* recruit with a stupidly priced NIL contract offer, the collective is expected to continue to offer millions to kids just out of high school. It’s an addiction, and we all are wondering when someone finally intervenes. Whether we like it, or not, sports entertainment is BIG business.

Good luck, yuck, yuck. This is 'speaking softly.' Only Congress carries a 'big stick.' Hats off for trying. Soaring to GloryHere we go again. President Trump wants to insert himself...Name, Image and Likenesslegislation is one of the few things that has some level of bipartisan support in Congress. Currently, the House of Representatives is w

For instance, they have invested a significant amount in Lincoln Riley and the football program. Now, they need to be careful with NIL expenditures and success on the field. Reports also suggest that the university’s football is getting more financial resources as compared to women’s basketball, which has been a high-profile program the recent years.

I don't know if creating a trust is communist or fascist or whatnot, but that's a gem. Athletes knew they were being screwed 100 years ago. I definitely am not super interested in an executive order due to its temporary nature, which will just create more stuff to adapt to. Although maybe we should be for this constant churn as UO seems to gain an advantage by being innovative in adapting to these changes better and quicker than anyone else, giving us an advantage with roster building.

Tough Pull Out of Georgia. Four-Star Recruit Nick Abrams Announces Commitment Decision To SEC Powerhouse

California has and will be Oregon's best recruiting grounds. Oregon Ducks On SIIs Oregon Ducks Recruiting's California Pipeline Stronger...The Oregon Ducks and coach Dan Lanning are recruiting around the country for the best athletes and have had a ton of success recruiting in California in recent