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To the mid, even late 2010's the SEC was the League of Defense. After Tua won the NC with his arm in 2018, the transition to a League of Offense began in earnest. I think the B1G has been in dinosaur mode using bad weather as a crutch to refuse to change (I just saw an amateur YouTube video where a group of guys rated Ohio State as the best offense for 2024 primarily because of their "two amazing running backs), which culminated in them being the League of Defense (it takes 2 to tango, meaning they had bad offenses help make their defenses look better). Ohio State has been the lone driver of high powered offenses for a decade, but other teams just dismissed it as a talent advantage, not worth trying to replicate it. I think the addition of the West Coast teams' offensive aggression, the changes taking place at Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska, that 2024 will be the year the B1G begins changing to a League of Offense. If you can't score, you can't win against offenses that can't be stopped. This is the year those that haven't learned that will certainly learn it, and those that have seen the writing on the wall will be implementing necessary changes.

Best away game uni ever.

The stupid part about portal ranking is they really weigh how many years you have left. Since Dillon only has one year left he was rated lower than Dante Moore.

Stewart has 2.4M followers?! Looks like that is worth a million in NIL all by itself, compared to Tez who is arguably going to be more popular to Ducks fans.

I think the primary goal of the regular season for the Ducks is to play in the conference championship as that will get you through the first round one way or the other.

I understand your perspective, but I'm with Charles that I think the cup is half full. Nothing wrong with maximizing your current value after all the other boxes are checked.

I remember the home and home with Nebraska was fantastic for both fan bases, with them appreciating each other and wishing they could do it again. Now they get their wish.

I still feel like our 2019 Avalos defense was better than last years D. Maybe it wasn't and last year was offset by incredible QB play. I just remembered that in 2019 if it was 3rd and long it wàs a guarantee the opponent's offense wouldn't get a 1st down. Avalos was an impeccable play caller, with an amazing scheme, although too complex for noobs. I really miss him. Levitt was overrated and DeRyuter was hot garbage leftovers from Cal.

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I can't argue with this list, I think it is pretty good. I'm wondering about Pleasant possibly being one of those guys as a DB over one of the transfers/JCs but we'll see. It hadn't dawned on me that Payton Woodyard is actually a 2024 recruit, not a 2023 recruit, so he's a 100% true freshman without a spring camp at this point. We'll have to see if he is able to live up to his ratings in time.

First time I've noticed Lanning saying this will be his last job. Can you imagine what it would mean for the program to have Lanning for 30 more years? That kind of stretch as a relevant powerhouse football program, likely with a few national championships, would cement the Ducks as a true blue blood forever.

This actually extremely noteworthy if true. We just reset to the next generation of kids where "Oregon was my dream school growing up. I remember playing the game as the Ducks and always dominating." We've got as many as 12 years ahead now to cash in this check. We don't have to worry the recruits won't remember and idolize DAT and Mariota and James anymore with our current relevance, swag, and this video game.

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Fall camp starts on the 31st then our first game exactly a month later! This has felt the shortest off-season ever, although every year seems to go by faster than the last one the older I get.

This is my favorite uni of all time. The GOAT. That is my thought. Why? I love the all green unis, and I love that it has both the O AND Puddles' bust on it. The old school yellow block letters with the white outline really pop too. Yeah it doesn't have wings, diamond plating, or eggshell textures, but if there is a traditional Oregon uni that would be timeless, this is it!

Just yesterday I posted how I thought the late drama is bogus and they know where they are going all along. Maybe these kids are benefitting by make all sides reconsider their final NIL offer in the heat of the moment of the player's self imposed deadline, then just go with the highest bidder to a place you are confident will be great even if not your true top pick. And for all this, nothing is final either way until signing day.NIL offer can be changed and player can change their commitment.

It's hard to believe these discussions of last minute decision making around a self imposed deadline. There is zero benefit to doing that from the athletes perspective. Once they set a date they've made up their mind. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I think most of the time it is the recruiting media that fans the leftover coals to maximize eyeballs on their websites and subscription renewals.

Since they can kick the can to 2026 there is no reason for them to worry. I expect the ACC to become "The Conference of Leftovers" by then and would probably be willing to bring them into the fold. Not ideal for travel but 4 west coast teams could form a pod to mitigate that.

It's a pretty close match on paper, close enough that it is reasonable the game at Autzen is a tossup. But if we have to play OSU 3 times this year they should beat us more than not. A lot is TBD though with the change of QBs and Kelly as OC. Lanning's teams have typically made excellent improvements early in the season so playing OSU at the point in the season we do and having home gives us our best shot to win.

The public also seems to ignore the most unique selling point for Oregon: Once your football career is finished, Nike will give you a nice white collar job if you want it. Basically we'll take care of you for life one way or another. It may not quite be a guarantee, but it's pretty close to one, and for top shelf recruits to hear "We've got you covered financially right now with NIL, we'll give you as good of a shot as anywhere to be developed to make the NFL later, and if that doesn't pan out or you pro career is semi short we'll get you a good job." Easy to sell the parents on that too!

I'm still in show me mode about the B1G's statistically tough defenses, as in show me it wasn't just that your offenses statistically suck. Also, I think the bad weather thing is a little overrated too. With exception of the PO games we are talking about late fall Midwest weather for at worst, which isn't that bad 95% of the time. I'd strongly prefer 20-30 degrees and dry vs 40 and raining having played football in both. I think they use the weather as an excuse for archaic offensive systems. As in we have to have a strong running game in case the weather is bad. Ok but what about the other 95% of the games where you can't keep up? Even Fickel at Wisconsin has seen enough to feel confident to bring in the air raid.

I am shocked how good DeBoer is doing recruiting at Alabama, which reflects really poorly on UW as a program inclusive of their NIL. So Fisch does have an uphill battle recruiting to UW, but he hasn't made it any easier on himself telegraphing so clearly that UW is a pit stop on his way to bigger and better things. At the slightest wiff of success at UW he will be gone.

Seeing how violent players were with their own teammates in the spring game backs up the talk from my perspective. Ohio State speed with Michigan physicality is a scary combination for opponents. Just like last last year "Oregon is team nobody wants to play."

"The pair (James and Whittington) averaged better than seven yards per carry last season." I don't think people are truly letting that sink in. Those are 1a and 1b in the country respectively. I do expect B1G DLs to be better on average, but I also expect Gabriel to force defenses to respect the QB as a runner more than with Nix and Stein making sure to take advantage of that with read options.

FSU vs. Georgia enters the chat.. Agree, Alabama will continue to be a problem with DeBoer at the helm.