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It always struck me as strange that they would try and negotiate a media deal BEFORE expansion. That just means you're trapped in a weak position during the talks. Expansion should have happened first and very quickly last year IMO.

Oh definitely! Having to fly across the country for almost every road game is going to get old real fast. Other teams will absolutely point this out when recruiting against these schools.

It will depend on the performance of the defense. If it can be average (maybe top 50), Oregon has a good shot at a CFP appearance. If it remains terrible like last year then the ceiling is the Pac12 championship game.

In other news I just won the Powerball and Natalie Portman agreed to divorce her husband and accept my marriage proposal. Oh and my dog just discovered time travel.

We all knew the sheer delirium that the Trojan fan base swims in, equalled by no one except perhaps Fuskie fans. This is just more evidence to toss onto the heap.

The defensive line is what I'm watching for next season.

I think it'll be important for the conference to expand back to a minimum of 12 teams (I'd argue 14 would be even better). Getting into a 12 team playoff isn't enough, we need to also think about seeding. Higher seeding for a Pac12 champion helps get them further into the playoff instead of a first round knockout.

They'll need multiple years of that to recover from the extreme drought over the last two decades.

I'd be inclined to agree that keeping Klemm on staff might have been the biggest win. He's such a great recruiter and development coach, it would've been a pretty big hit to Oregon if he had left.

Or Utah!

"If not, we will be a version of what Oklahoma was under Riley in the Pac-12/Big 12." One (or many) could argue that USC is already there. They'll get to the conference championship or sneak into the CFP but never get any further. Once the team moves to the B10 which has become a meat grinder, they'll be Wisconsin v2.0.

It'll be interesting if Pleasant somehow becomes a legit Olympic hopeful while Harbour twiddles his thumbs on the couch at SC while giving his mom and girlfriend the side eye...

That's a nice OC pick up and should benefit Justin's development. Unfortunately that doesn't address the porous OL and bad defense. Until those are fixed Justin's going to continue to get beat up every year...

I'm going to guess the Comcast overpayment fiasco caused by Champaign Larry has caused a late snag in negotiations. It's going to take some time to fix that.

If he's really serious about Olympic track, he'll need Olympic training facilities. Not many places compare with Oregon's.

He must be cheesing off Altman awful bad for the coach to call him out like that publicly. Yeesh!

Oregon commits see changes in final release of the Top 247 247SPORTS.COM The final rankings for the 2023 recruiting class are in for the Top 247, and the Oregon Ducks have seen plenty of movement. Here is a recap of the big moves for the Matayo Uiagalelei took a pretty steep drop from #17 to #47 overall, losing his 5* status. Who's in, who's out: Final Top247 5-star edition 247SPORTS.COM In years past, 247Sports waited until this final release to crown 32 five-star prospects.But with a shift in philosophy (explained here), we released a penultimate top-32 in According to this article, it seems that consistency is what's holding him back. Either he has an issue with his motor or with sufficient motivation possibly?

How many OCs will Miami go through before the AD figures out Mario is the issue?

True. But toiling in mediocrity or even bad performance for years also has a toll on the psyche.

Seems like a lateral move to me at best. Go to the NFL and be "just" and offensive line coach on a Pats team whose best days are behind them or stay with Oregon with multiple job titles and fielding some of the best OLs in the country.

There needs to be lawsuits filed against Leisure Suit Larry. Definitely claw back all those ill-gotten gains he's accumulated at the conference's expense. Some serious jail time wouldn't hurt either.

Oh man, I knew this was coming at some point due to his age but it still doesn't make it any less sad. Had so many fond memories listening to him on the radio and tv broadcasts for all those Blazer games I grew up watching. Portland just lost an icon, I hope they put some kind of permanent memorial somewhere around the arena.

OL is probably the group that will have the most inconsistency the first half of the season while the new starters settle into their roles and develop chemistry.

He's apparently visiting Dillingham and ASU this weekend: Source: 5-star QB Jaden Rashada visiting Arizona State this weekend 247SPORTS.COM Five-star quarterback Jaden Rashada will visit Arizona State this weekend for an unofficial visit after being released from his NLI with Florida...

Expect a lot of mistakes on the field in year 2 of the Lanning era but it should be interesting to see how they improve over the course of the season.