Thomallister1291

I really wish Rob Mullens somehow listens to us and schedules Alabama or any unique opponent like Notre Dame...

I just sent a message to Rob Mullens, hopefully he does see it. "Hey Mr. Mullens, I may not be a formal member of the University of Oregon but I wanted to let you know about this issue that has been of concern towards the Oregon fanbase. Over the next 6 years, including this upcoming season, Oregon has scheduled 3 consecutive home-and-home series' against teams from the Big 12, which include Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Baylor, I understand that these opponents shouldn't be underestimated and are great matchups for some people (Baylor has never played Oregon so it could gather interest), but, why haven't you made efforts to schedule teams from more diverse conferences like the SEC and the ACC? There's a huge list of games that will happen like for example California playing Auburn this year, Mississippi State playing both Arizona members of the Pac-12, and a huge list of Pac-12 games involving the Florida Gators, if we want to go even further, the Arizona Wildcats are scheduled to play against the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Virginia Tech Hokies in the 2030's! I know that you made your best efforts to schedule the three Big 12 teams in our future schedules, but I think there must a decision to be made, they won't gather many viewers especially since they aren't teams belonging to the largest leagues right now (the Big Ten and the SEC), just look at how many people watched our previous 2 games against Ohio State and Georgia, I'm not telling you to outright cancel those 3 home and home series', I'm just telling you to schedule more diverse teams that will indeed bring a lot of attention to TV viewers, as well as visits from both fanbases whether it is to Eugene or the opposing school's city. If you want to schedule a team that will bring a lot of positive energy and attention to the Ducks, I recommend scheduling the Alabama Crimson Tide, it's a very highly desired matchup that has never happened before and I wish that it happens someday, it should be discussed primarily as a home-and-home series with Alabama AD Greg Byrne, since he's already exclaimed the Tide has moved on from neutral site kickoffs, and if you want to safely schedule that series, it should be around 2035-36, I know it's a long time from now but I think that it should be enough to gather praise from both fan bases and it's currently the best years to schedule a series with the Crimson Tide. As for the empty spots in 2031 and 2034, I would recommend a series against either Notre Dame or Auburn, as both schools don't have opponents scheduled for the dates when you usually play the P5 OOC games. I don't know if you will ever see or reply to this but I do hope that you take this into consideration, I'm sure an Oregon vs Alabama series would be neat and everyone will love it! Yours truly, a young Oregon Ducks fan from Costa Rica." This is what I wrote to him.

Could you please tell me what's Rob Mullens contact? I need to tell him that I want an SEC home and home series, preferably against Alabama in 2035-36, I still feel utterly embarassed that we only have Big 12 opponents and possibly two future conference foes (Michigan State and Ohio State) as the P5 home and home series. I want the SEC, Alabama or Florida would be the best choices!

Yeah, please let the Ducks schedule an SEC home and home series for ONCE! I really wish I could see a series against Alabama or Florida, too bad no AD will ever reply to us, but we at least have hope. Go Ducks!

I have said this over and over, but I hate the fact that we haven't scheduled any sort of SEC home-and-home series ever since we destroyed Tennessee, yes I know we played Auburn and Georgia but I want to see an actual home and home series being scheduled against the Southeastern Conference, those home and home series against the Big 12 won't do anything good, the biggest opponent is probably Oklahoma State but that's not anything compared to potential home and home series against Alabama or Florida. Also if Mullens does leave (which I sadly doubt) who would replace him? I wish Alabama's AD would do it to increase the chances of my dream matchup coming true. Altman shouldn't leave imo.

Today I've been extra careful since it's April Fools, a USC fan tried to troll us and Washington by posting this, I know it's a lie tho:

I agree, if the Big Ten was trying to invite USC they logically should have also brought UCLA if they at least wanted to preserve a rivalry, there's no way USC and Oregon were the OG teams, it would have hurt the rivalries like USC-UCLA and Oregon-Washington/OSU

I think that if the Ducks announce their move to the Big Ten this year, they will move one year later than the SoCal schools, in 2025.

Don't worry, everyone makes mistakes. BTW that reply was a pretty interesting read.

If that rumor becomes true I believe the Big Ten will become the new Southern Conference, which at one point actually had more than 20 teams, I know that UO and UW are the most obvious candidates but I wonder what other schools could the Big Ten add, apparently they want Notre Dame to join, and I wonder which ones are the ACC schools being considered, I saw an article saying that Florida State and Miami could join the Big Ten, tho I believe the Hurricanes are more likely than the Seminoles since FSU wants to join the SEC and I'll believe they will turn down Miami, leaving no choice but to apply to the Big Ten.

Do y'all believe that if we and Washington join the Big Ten, the conference decides to stay put at 18 teams or they decide to add 2 more random teams to reach 20?

Yeah, I don't know why did I comment that thing about the Ducks indeed leaving, maybe we should do something to this thread?

At this rate I'm sure that Oregon will indeed leave the conference, but the question is, when? I'm sure that the Ducks may leave this year but won't join their new conference until 2025 or something.

I think that Oregon's only option if they leave the Pac-12 is the Big Ten, I'm sure that they don't want to be associated with the Big 12, and I personally would hate that, not only because of the amount of Big 12 home and homes we have for the next few years (I think we have played a lot of Big 12 opponents which is tiresome) but because it would be super weird, imagine being conference foes against a school located in Orlando and another one located in West Virginia.

Thank you for the warm welcome! I love how people here are

Off-topic but I wish we could make a thread about possible movements that don't have to relate to us, like for example Fresno State to the Big 12, which would be pretty neat imo. I also just had flashbacks reading about an article (that I think was deleted since it was published in about 2019-20) about Oregon and some other Pac schools attempting to join the Big 12 long before Oklahoma and Texas left for the SEC, it was published back when Larry Scott was still the Pac commissioner and I still remember a line saying that Larry would not allow that to happen, I also remember reading that article while I was in the hospital. There was a proposal back then involving the Four Corners schools (Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado) moving to the B12, which of course gained steam when USC and UCLA left.

Man, I wish we could schedule an SEC series, the last one was the Tennessee matchups that happened in 2010 and 2013, I would love a series against Alabama, Auburn or Florida, maybe one against Texas A&M as well (tho I won't forgive them for backing out from an actually scheduled series that was going to happen in 2018-19)

I still think that the Pac-12 would survive even if we and Washington go to the Big Ten, but only if they add four extra teams and no other team leaves. I've been thinking that the options would be San Diego State, SMU, UNLV (even tho they have been doing poorly in football) and another AAC member to be a travel companion for the Mustangs (hopefully Tulane).

Thanks for the very kind words! Anyways back on topic, I do remember being amazed at the Auburn loss because of how stupid it was, I know most people would say that we should have scheduled a weaker opponent but Auburn right now, despite being an SEC program, isn't doing very well like it was in 2010. I think we could have gotten into the playoff if we only had one loss.

Man I wish I were a good article writer, but I feel my grammar is weird and I'll never be able to do it.

I just found where the OG thread is (I would say the site but I want everyone to be safe), and I see that it's being replied to constantly, tho sadly I can't see anything due to the site being locked behind a subscription.

I honestly believe Fresno State is a secondary option in case the Big 12 can't add all of the Four Corners schools.

That would have the same energy as the Iowa vs Iowa State games, if Oregon State remains a Power 5 opponent when we join that conference, we will never be able to schedule another P5 opponent so meeting against contenders like Alabama would only happen in the playoffs, but hey, at least we will preserve our most important rivalry.

I would love to get a shot at ACC schools in football and basketball, but the problem would be that travel costs would be absolutely nightmarish in case the alliance is bigger than just scheduling a few games every now and then. Either way I'm all in for an Oregon vs Clemson game.

I think Oregon will be doing just fine in all sports, the only thing that would massively change are the travel distances.