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Oregon Ducks Trending for Four-Star Running Back RecruitThe Oregon Ducks are contending for one of the top running backs in the 2027 recruiting class. With the recent success that Jordon Davison and Dierre Hill Jr. experienced in the backfield, more running backs could be on their way to Eugene. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon Ducks Trending for Four-Star Running Back RecruitEUGENE – The Oregon Ducks are separating themselves as a program to beat when it comes to securing a commitment from one of the top running backs in the 2027 re

2-0 Ducks after two innings. Collin Clarke gave up a hit and plinked a batter, but got out of it scoreless. On offense...Ducks stranded two on base!

2-0 Ducks after one inning. Collin Clarke gave up a hit, but dispensed with the rest, although freshman Angel Laya leaped above the RF fence to rob a Penguin home run. Whew! Ryan Cooney walked, and steals second base. Jax Gimenez gets plinked, and both runners move up a base on a passed ball. After two outs...Maddox Molony gets in a 0-2 hole as a batter, and works it into a walk! Bases loaded and two outs... Drew Smith comes up and nails a zinger between the 3rd baseman, and the shortstop for a hit that scores Cooney and Gimenez!

It seems to automatically renew every year whether I pay for it or not.

OK here's the map. Geographically there's a natural break at Lake Michigan, 10 teams west and 8 teams east. Take your pick of Wisconsin, Northwestern or Illinois and move them to the east side and you have 9 on each side. Easy geography. HOWEVER, this in no way works competively with Indiana, Michigan, OSU and PSU all on the east side. You can swap some border teams around to try and get some competitive parity, but it's a real problem because Michigan, OSU and PSU sit in the center of the east side. It's hard to split Michigan and OSU, but it could be done with a rivalry guaranty. I just think it's a hard sell. Similarly that applies to Michigan/MSU. That said, I think the best split would be: West East fuskies Minnesota OBD Northwestern USC Illinois UCLA Indiana Nebraska Purdue Iowa OSU Wisconsin PSU Michigan Rutgers MSU Maryland Not sure why my columns didn't work, this is a little cluttered but you get the picture.

What?? I thought the home to do list was something that hangs on the wall by the calendar for decoration. I've barely touched it in years!

It's not just the talent coming out of high school that matters. Indiana proved that the last two years. How good are the players now? How well do the units play together? How good is the team as a cohesive whole? Bryce Boettcher didn't add anything to Oregon's star ratings, but he will be drafted into the NFL in a couple months. A talented roster doesn't just mean what the team members were 3 years ago. How are they today?

The biggest travesty was not including Justin Herbert in the list. Top 100 since 2000, and he's not on it? As noted, that would have made Oregon 3rd on this list. JH stats at Oregon: Passing yds. 10,541 Comp rate. 64% TD. 95 Int. 23 Rushing yds. 541 Rushing TD. 13 wth kind of criteria did the ES(ec)PN "brain trust" use to exclude him? Same as the idiot that claimed before the draft that Herbert would get some coach fired.

Oregon faced a great starting pitcher yesterday who only gave up one unearned run in six innings. Today we face Penguin pitcher Jack Messmore, a senior RHP, who also had an incredible game last week against Auburn where he scattered six hits in six scoreless innings versus the Tigers. This will be a tall-test for Oregon's starter Collin Clarke to keep up, and it looks to be another low-scoring nail-biter today. In the end, it was the relievers for Youngstown State yesterday that gave up the most, and I hoping for the same today--and I think our batters are better. Collin Clarke

AMEN! And how about Babe Parilli, who played for coach Bear Bryant and won an SEC title at Kentucky! You can't have nice football stuff at basketball schools, right? What's that? I thought I heard you say something about the Hoosiers and a Cig? 😁

Oregon Ducks sent strong message with transfer class, per The Athletic https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/02/21/oregon-football-2026-transfer-class-message/88796531007/

I can report from Indiana they lose a game to UNC in extra inning when their relief corp can't hold a lead after the 7th inning. They did the same thing against LSU when leading the game in the 8th. The most bizarre loss though was that extra inning game at UNC. IU has the lead in the 9th, routine ground ball to 2B and he did a "Steve Sax Dodgers" throw ... where the ball didn't even make it halfway to 1B for the out. UNC ties the game after that throw and wins in 11 innings with a walk off HR. I don't think you have to worry about the Hoosiers being "a contender" in baseball.

Why Oregon Might Already Have the Best Cornerback in College FootballThe Oregon Ducks have tons of talented players on the roster headed into next season, but there's one major name to keep eyes on at the cornerback position. Oregon Ducks On SIWhy Oregon Might Already Have the Best Cornerback in Coll...The Oregon Ducks said goodbye to a ton of talent this offseason both due to the transfer portal and the pursuit of NFL Draft dreams. It's no surprise that Duck

I know "stars" don't mean anything to Cignetti but I would die for recruiting classes like you have over the years.

The thing that has helped Cig compared to other coaches, his DC and OC have been with him for over 10 years. He did lose his strength and conditioning coach last month to Tennessee and then replaced him with another that had been on his previous staffs as an assistant SC. Then what he talks about a lot "alignment from the top to bottom". He means from the school president down to the janitor in the football complex. Everybody on the same page. How many of you know that in Cignetti's contract from the time he stepped on campus in 2024 it states that IF either the AD or school Prez leave for any reason, fired or otherwise, then Cignetti is a free-agent and his buy-out is cut in half immediately. The AD has been there since he was a Bob Knight basketball student manager. Their school Prez just got a huge pay raise and contract extension this past week. So things look good in that direction. I guess it took IU over a 110 years to realize that good football teams make a LOT of money for everything else on campus. You cannot have anything closer to compare with Cig's success than this year or next two years than UCLA ... Chesney comes from JMU like Cignetti, brings 10 players with him and 7 of those 10 were All-Conference players. Two differences though ... Chesney has not been a head coach as long as Cignetti and UCLA's football history is better than IU's was. For example ... I use to buy tickets from my scalper friend outside the IU stadium and sit between the 40's, no higher than row 20. I'd have enough room to stretch my legs forward in the row in front of me and lean back like I was in a recliner watching IU football. That is how bad some years were. In all honesty ... from beautiful Southwestern Indiana ... Oregon has more than any team in the nation to win the 2026 Natty. The coaching, the returning players, the portal class and an outstanding ranking recruiting class. IMO it will not matter who wins that game in Columbus OH because by the end of the year the Ducks will be clicking on all cylinders for their Natty Run. Yes, as a Hoosier alum and life long fan ... I believe the Ducks are the team to beat for the 2026 Natty.

How could they have ever left off a QB with a name like Babe? Babe Laufenberg - Indiana - recruited by Lee Corso - NFL journeyman QB

From a view from the Midwest, that Oregon at Ohio State game is going to be monumental. UO has 8 of 11 back on defense and Ohio State imported every SEC player they could find for their portal players on both sides of the ball. Should be a beautiful fall day in Columbus with one of you having 1 B1G loss by the end of the night. A little west of that game I am 100% confident in IU replacing 6 starters on defense, some with the young players that played and return, plus possibly an Edge from Kansas State that will be better than the three Edges they had this year. Ponds may never be replaced at CB but I like their chances with AJ Harris from PSU, a 3rd Team All-B1G in 2024 and playing 11 games in 2025, missing a game due to injury. It is not so much the history (stats) of the players the transfer portal brings to IU but it's what DC Haines and HC Cignetti sees in those players to bring them to IU. No doubt they will be better at IU than where they came from after seeing two years of data. I will miss ragging on Thieneman on X. I know Duck fans have a different view of him as a player but in Indiana "once a PUke always a PUke" ... I will never forget seeing him bowled over in the end zone in Eugene by Hemby or him chasing Sarratt across the end zone in Atlanta for an IU TD. But that enjoyment is not really directed at the Ducks or their fans. It is enjoyment seeing those images with a tint of black and gold up in Laughingette. (Last night in basketball does not count 🤯) This FishDuck forum makes it harder for me to get through the off season for college football. A lot of good information, a lot of good discussions by fans that know ball and we all have one thing in common ... not only do we want to win we want to win natty's. Yes, I honestly think with Cig's "process" they can win another even if it's not back to back. My prediction for surprises in the B1G in 2026 .... watch out for Michigan, I hated seeing a coach like Whittingham take that job.

21ST CENTURY QBs... it sort of skews thi gs

Thanks for the post, Steven A., and for all of your other great posts. I cop to losing interest when I saw Bo's name next to Auburn and Fernando's name next to Indiana, and not Cal. Yes, Mendoza won the Heisman playing at Indiana. Indiana is appropriate for Fernando. But wasn't Bo a Heisman finalist when he played at Oregon, not Auburn? No Justin Herbert? Where are the Dutchman, Dan Fouts, Akili Smith, Joey Harrington, and other impact QBs who played for OBD? No Joe Namath? For that matter, where's Bart Starr? Oh well, consider the source, and also consider that in today's wired world, everything that happened before 2000 is ancient history. Watch out for the waving cane! 🤬

That is exactly what happened as I have posted before, when the B1G "tried" division. It didn't matter if the split line was horizontal for a north south division or vertical for an east west division, the three best teams were in the same division. That did not include Indiana because at the time MSU was very legit as was PSU. Of course that might change a little adding the four west coat teams. Honestly I am not sure there is any answer for a conference with 18 teams. I like the idea of moving it back to scheduling every three years instead of five years. I was thinking yesterday that the least travel a west coast B1G team could do, would have those four teams play each other every year. What would leave five B1G games where alternating years west coast teams would travel east twice and three times in a season because dome of those team would also travel west for games. Yet that is not fair either, with the four west coast teams playing each other every year and only traveling up and down the coast highway. Yet it wouldn't be any different than those teams in the Midwest and East play a lot of the same teams every year. As mentioned in posts above, there are a lot of intangibles that can throw a monkey wrench into scheduling. Cignetti, PSU easy schedule, a better coach at Michigan, injuries ... All I can do is sit back and continue watching 14 hours of college football on Saturdays, some during the week (especially that new SacState vs BallState game 🥳). Schedules will not affect me but I will still complain about those with the "easy route" to the CFP. I guess that is where the focus is now, the CFP and only 10 slots open for the best teams. I probably need to spend more time researching robots. Not just the vacuum kind but one that can serve food to me during those long Saturdays, feed the dogs, let the dogs in and out of the house and even walk them. After all I don't want to miss a minute seeing Oregon playing in a driving snow storm some November at Rutgers, Maryland, or up north at Wisconsin, MSU or Michigan.

Jon, I take the "Cig lead" and Penn State "bust" into account by adjusting the Divisions every two years. What bothers me most about Divisions is that one of the primary benefits of belonging to a Conference like the B1G is playing against the best teams in the country like Ohio State, Michigan and Indiana. My current thinking about the first two years of Divisions in the B1G puts those three teams in the East. May have to reconsider that.

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Why are the Ducks ahead of both Indiana and Ohio State on this list? In my mind, it's all about the continuity. Oregon returns eight of its 11 starters from last year, and replaced one of those departing players — Dillon Thieneman — with one of the best transfers of the offseason — Koi Perich. Where the Oregon Ducks stand among Big Ten's best defenses in 2026

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