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I suspect Crow will be eating a lot of…crow.

I did it for free. Is the $20 million offer still good?

This is brilliant. I hope it could be made to work. Seems as if athletes are truly employees, then all sorts of labor laws come in play.

NFT auction raises over half-million dollars for Oregon players. I guess I'm glad it's for our team, but I feel as if we're standing at the top of a slippery slope. Let's sing along!

I need a translation from Kliavkoff obfuscation-speak to English.

"...there isn’t many schools where the coaches will lift with the players so that was cool to see.” Come on now, I can tell that Mike Leach never stops lifting.

Good piece about Kupp.

Great post, Smith72. It's totally plausible that too much contact in practice was a cause of some injuries I wonder, too, if "filling the sleeve" came at the expense of flexibility in conditioning.

Open the Overton window wide!

Hmmm...I'm no employment attorney, but I was an employer for a long time. An employer/employee relationship would raise some questions to me, like Kliavkoff"s. Would an athlete's job be employment-at-will? Could he/she be fired? Would individual employment contracts be negotiated? More money for lawyers! Could employers demand non-compete clauses? No portal for you! What would prevent Texas A&M from hiring all the best employees? Will we have the Public Sector Champion and the Private Sector champion going head-to-head in the Scott Boras Bowl? I need to go lie down now.

Keep it up and keep it the way it is, Charles. You can tell from the page views that the policy is working. It's not hard to rephrase, "If you believe Mario is a great coach, you're delusional!" Just change it to, "I don't think Mario is a great coach for several reasons, such as...". It's not that hard, just requires a bit of...decorum.

Don't know if y'all know, but Junior Siavii has met a sad end.

Home talent stay home? Remind me again where Dave Iuli is from.

Always, always, so much talk about USC. So much potential, so much hype. So little achievement. They're like the Notre Dame of the West Coast. I wonder if people under 40 are puzzled about what all the eternal USC chatter is about. They haven't seen much actually happen while they've been old enough to pay attention. I'm not saying USC can't be good, but just wake me up when it actually happens.

But, what about toughness? And physicality? And toughness and physicality? And toughness?

Excellent analysis...Moorhead may have thought, "holy crap, my career has taken a big hit at Oregon. I'm not allowed to do my job, but it will be on my record anyway. Get me outta here."

Jarek Broussard picks MIchigan State over Ducks.

I sent this link to Mario: 11 Signs You're a Bad Boss

Sounds like a lack of institutional control.

That tweet by Florence was last night from Eugene, was it not? Gotta be a good sign.

FWIW, Ducks have picked up the latest four predictions for James on Duck Territory.

Even one of the Mario supporters in the comments section on that article has it figured out: "At the end of the day, Mario might not be an elite coach. However, he is an elite recruiter..." It will take some time, but the water will seek its own level.

What's with Husky fans and this obsessive notion that the Washington program develops "character"? I mean, where's the evidence for that notion? I think it's a claim that really can't be refuted and wouldn't be mentioned at all if the program developed a thing called "winning".

Logan Sagapolu heads to Miami.

Wisconsin state motto: "We'll deep-fry anything".