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Well said. Though some might argue UCLA having Sam Gilbert and a lucrative NIL program as early as 1964 helped too 🙂🙂

Cristobal's 2020 class. It still has 5 guys in year six of college ball: • Robbie Ashford (Wake Forest) • Kris Hudson (Arizona) • Justin Flowe (UNLV) • Jaylan Jeffers (UCLA) • Jonathan Denis (Louisiana Tech) Very mixed results for a class ranked #14: Noah Sewell seems to be doing well with the Bears, TJ Bass is a backup OG for Dallas, Harper and Manning were contributors at Oregon, I think Bennett Williams is playing in Canada. I think like 17 out of the 22 commits either transferred or washed out.

The economics game has two separate aspects of success. Your share of the pie and the size of the pie. Most people focus on their share of the pie which is the greedy aspect. Mine! Mine! Mine! I think the more important aspect is the size of the pie. This requires working together to build interest the most interest in the product to generate the most revenue. Weather it's pop music, auto sales or sports, consumer interest in the product needs to come before which brand of product people prefer. I've said this many times before on many threads but without the enthusiasm of the Northwesterns, Wake Forests and Texas Techs out there, the pie will shrink which will lower the value per piece down the road. Without scrappy underdog upsets or TCUs rising up to championship games periodically, the average fan will tune out and just watch the NFL. March Madness understands this and that's why college basketball has the best playoff format around. Every team in the country has a chance to make a deep run in any given year. Before the 80's the same eight teams basically played each other every year which is why UCLA won so many championships in a row. The ACC adopted the inequal pie slice model to keep their conference together but where would Ohio St go? The SEC? Does USC pull the same move next? Grow the pie and everybody eats. Hog the oie and watch it disappear.

College Football News: What to Watch for in the Big Ten in Week 3. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/big-ten-week-3-what-to-watch-for-2025

Will the Ducks Play Like America's Best Team Again? https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/oregon-vs-northwestern-prediction-preview-2025

Some dudes come back after being written off. Robbie Ashford is having a decent game tonight for Wake Forest (not counting the pick six). Sometimes all a player needs is a good coach and the right system.

CBS Sports - Harsh Reality for the top 25 ranked teams. OBD without a tough game before Week 5 is harsh? Hmmm. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/one-harsh-reality-facing-every-ap-top-25-team-cade-klubniks-rocky-start-texas-issue-at-wr-and-more/

With all due respect to each poster on this thread, and the one about Dakorian Moore, I humbly think we are all asking the wrong question. I think we should be asking “Did we underestimate Dan Lanning?” And “Expectations of Will Stein.” Coach Lanning has shown an obvious talent for learning from his mistakes, and coach Stein is one of the most innovative and dynamic coordinators in college football. Finally in year 4 Lanning has a full roster of “his guys”, who are familiar with his defensive scheme. On offense, he and coach Stein have a returning QB who is familiar with the system. With a dynamic WR who was here in the spring. All of these things are a 1st this year, which is why I believe we are seeing such great things so early. As a greybeard myself(52 and born and raised in Eugene) trusting a staff to have the best roster, have them prepared, and have them play to their dynamic potential is something I’ve never had the opportunity to do. The Kelly years were great, but we knew if we came up against the big boys, it was usually not gonna go our way. I’m trying not to care about the results and “trust the process” as coach says. I remember at his introductory press conference he said something like “Don’t judge us on what we say, but judge us on what we do. He’s done a whole lot from recruiting, to being a great spokesman for the university, to turning down Ala-freaking-bama!!! My friends the sky’s the limit and yes, I think even we have underestimated Coach Lanning!!! God bless you all, even if we disagree I know we agree on our beloved Ducks!!! Saturday can’t get here fast enough.

Pretty impressive, and to have both freshmen starting corners within an hour driving distance in Maryland, (how far is THAT from Oregon?) shows that Oregon's recruiting nationally is working due to the skills of this staff.

"In what capitalist enterprise does an entity that invests more money in its product and receives a better return than those that invest less agree to split its share equally with less successful competitors? Where and when this model has been tried out, entire economies have failed." I've always viewed team sports a bit differently. When you go full capitalism, you tend to end up with a few big winners capturing the market and maybe a few small niche or bargain brands gobbling the crumbs. Sports at its root is about competition and if that is nearly destroyed by allowing a few top schools have insurmountable resources, the other 120 schools will become the Washington Generals. With college sports people pay to enjoy that competition. With a stapler, no one is paying to enjoy the stapler manufacturing companies battle it out to see who can build the best stapler, they just want their papers stapled together dependably as cheaply as possible. Under Riley, Oregon State had some good teams. They actually were even decent as recent as 2022. Excessive media influence, NIL, and the portal have reduced Oregon State to a unwinnable game against Oregon next week. I mean, its nearly impossible to come up with a scenario Oregon loses this game. Just keep give more resources to the top teams and college football is going to be 8 Ohio States, 8 Miamis, and 120 Wake Forests. An alternative is recognizing top teams already have a huge advantage and work towards "a rising tide lifting all boats". NFL style. The top college football programs seem to be doing fine right now. Everyone else? Go check out the Oklahoma State forum and see what they are thinking their next decade is going to look like. With no balanced ownership, no true partnership with the players, or meaningful governing bodies, its easy to see the tendency for a money grab.

Change never occurs until someone proposes a new idea. Having a tiered payout where teams that play in bowl games, or the CFP, are rewarded makes sense to me. I could see trying to work out revenue sharing based on viewership being very messy.

Place your bets? Double Down with the Ducks! 😁 ESPN.comWeek 3 best bets: Lay the points with the Ducks at Northw...Pamela Maldonado breaks down her favorite bets for Week 3 of the college football season, including two for the Oregon-Northwestern game.

Oregon’s Dan Lanning Sends Telling Message on Assistant CoachesThe Oregon Ducks have raced out a blazing hot start to the season on the offensive side of the ball. Scoring over 50 points in consecutive games, Oregon coach Dan Lanning has credited his coaching staff for the fast start to begin the year. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon’s Dan Lanning Sends Telling Message on Assistant C...The Oregon Ducks have been nearly flawless on the offensive side of the ball to begin the season. After scoring 59 points in their season opener, the Ducks mana

Big 10 SQUAD - What did the Oregon Ducks do in Week Two?

What is tOSUs leverage? Leaving for the NFL? I’d politely tell them to sit and spin.

They can't go wrong if they stick to all one color: highlighter Yellow bright green that nearly black green oh hey, anything will be better than Penn State's choice. 😏

Maybe have it go to Dublin next year in the River Liffey to overshadow the TCU/NC game. What great publicity that would be!

We did try to trademark the word “THE”

I’d love a rubber match with the Ducks, although I have to admit, not playing in the B1G Championship game last year probably helped OSU.

Not sure North Western fans are that die hard....

It would be hilarious, but not so much for the local PD’s overtime budget when they have to place every available cop with binoculars looking to spot roof top shooters trying to deflate Puddles.

Oregon's colorful threads lead best Week 3 college football uniformsESPN.comOregon's colorful combo and Tennessee's classics lead top...The Tennessee Volunteers are sticking with their classically excellent combination of orange and white for a major SEC showdown with the Georgia Bulldogs.

Coaches address speculation about Oregon’s inflatable duck appearing in Chicago - oregonlive.com It would be great if he makes it there? Chicago river or the big lake though? 😀