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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.

The ADs absolutely let USC and UCLA off the hook. Chip Kelly gets to avoid Oregon and the Fuskies while the Condoms get two bye weeks (the second right before the Pac12 championship).

Nope. Associate HC and run game coordinator are the highest positions Klemm has had so far.

As someone who works in tech (software engineer) and also uses Amazon's cloud services, one thing you can always count on is technology adoption will always progress forward. Tons of people are already taking that extra step of moving to streaming-only services for their media, I know at least several of us here on the forum have ditched Comcast/Xfinity long ago for subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple+ etc. The key is, as with most things with it comes to retail services, is selection. The more sports broadcasting becomes available to streaming services, the faster the adoption will happen. Amazon Prime Video is already doing NFL and World Cup soccer while Apple+ has MLB. That's happened only in the last couple years. After 10 years we should see most sports available with large audiences to stream them. Remember, 10-15 years is basically a generation...younger folks are more likely to embrace technological innovation...that same innovation makes reaching these services easier to do each year. Smart TVs now make it possible to watch shows and sports on those same streaming providers in just a couple of clicks on your remote, not a lot more effort than flipping a channel on old cable.

You can definitely see the kind of LB's that Lanning is trying to recruit. Kids that are 6'2-6'3" and around 210 lbs...put them in UO's training program and they get up to 225-230 lbs, he basically wants big safeties backing up the DL.

I like Oregon's first half schedule. 5 games + bye week, toughest opponent would be Texas Tech. That will give the team some breathing room to get used to the new OC and figure out the defense. Plus the bye week comes right before playing the Fuskies so that extra prep time will come in handy.

The author also seems to completely discount the growth of streaming as a media delivery platform. In 10-15 years sports are going to be provided by just about every streaming provider, cutting into traditional channels in a big way.