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The predictions for both McMillan and Moss are for "not Oregon": Moss to USC, McMillan to Arizona.

Exactly...it appears that the SEC thinks they could exist as a stand-alone league, having nothing to do with the rest of college football. I suspect they're correct in their thinking.

Sure! Shakana Santa, Shake It by Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias Rebel Jesus by The Chieftans & Jackson Browne White Christmas by Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters Getting Ready For Christmas Day by Paul Simon

It ain't just the portal, college football in general is in chaos.

Gotta admire this kid. Hope it works out for him in the years to come.

Charles, are there not a host of regulatory and legal requirements for charitable organizations? This one would seem ripe for its statements, it seems to me. Salaries, overhead, donors, expenses, donations, etc.

Excellent move.

Yeah, saw that. Apparently, Riley and USC are not going to sweep every loose playing rattling around in the portal.

Why stew? This isn't Watergate or a 60 Minutes corruption investigation, it's a press conference introducing a new football coach. It's not like there are deep, dark secrets that need to be ferreted out and revealed, or hypocrisies to be exposed, or vital information to be unearthed. Besides, as we see in politics, press conferences are for mostly for show. Hard questions are never really answered, deflection and diversion are the orders of the day for anything uncomfortable. Real reporting covers what is done, not what is said. All will be revealed in time.

Well done, coach!

Maybe. Remember when he had his Cal players fake injuries to slow down the Ducks?

Why would something else be going on? You would interview for the job to get a feel for the situation and the offer; it's your alma mater and big money is in the room. Who wouldn't interview if remotely interested? Then, you decide it's not for you, for whatever reasons, personal and/or professional. People turn down job offers all the time.

The piece is clearly a swipe at Canzano by Crepea. The click-bait columnist getting his comeuppance from an actual reporter who is more concerned with context and accuracy than eyeballs.

I just have to give props to the Photoshop work that got Lanning in a Ducks' shirt for the site background. It's really well done.

In the house!

Canzano is a professional pot-stirrer and click-baiter who is sometimes right, but who would rather be wrong than be ignored.

Re-watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix; I forgot about the episode where Mike Leach (yes, really) appears as a crazy man at a gas station who rambles on about Coach Taylor needing to figure out how to swing his pirate sword. Leach does a convincing portrayal of a crazy man.

Wait a minute...the latest received wisdom is that every coach is waiting for nothing more than a return to his alma mater. Wilcox has disrupted the narrative!

Today "reports are suggesting" and "sources are saying" that Lanning (who is 35) is after Kenny Dillingham, the OC at Florida State for his OC. Dillingham is all of 31, which is not a lot older, really, than Anthony Brown. This could be the equivalent of "my buddy who knows a guy at work whose cousin says", but if it pans out, the Ducks could be a new-school, youth movement leader among coaches. There's something exciting about that, to me.

He's actually at another major Washington university, one located in Seattle.

Can I get an extension and post my grade in a couple of years?

"We're a forward-looking operation". My favorite Chip quote of all time. Now, Oregon is again forward looking, for better or worse. Bold hire, gotta give it props.

Those who know, don’t talk. Those who talk, don’t know.

This idea rests on the assumption that Oregon could make a home-run hire after waiting a year. I don't know why that would be true.

FYI, that Atlanta J-C article is still up on their site, without any updates or corrections.