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The NCAA is the organization in place to manage athletes as employees. Even if their entire existence has been dedicated to preventing athletes from being treated as employees, they need to hit the reset button and do their new job, which is to establish a framework of athletes as employees. If they really care about the students, they will set up a union as well. But they won't because they get paid by the colleges who will be on the other side of the bargaining table if a union is created.

Speaking of Bo and JPJ, I saw them front and center in an Old Spice commercial during a Netflix movie intermission! No other collegiate players, just the two of them alongside two former NFL players presumably giving them the tips on how to stay fresh in the NFL after they get drafted. Cheesy and cool at the same time. I'd call it a sign of NIL success Oregon is having.

I agree Jon. College athletics can adapt to revenue stream changes, but only if there is time to adapt. Getting hit over the head with a 4B dollar bill at the same time you are reacting to the revenue changes that are hitting over just a few years time puts the future of non revenue sport in great peril.

All it will take is one of those scenarios being made into a court case against the NCAA and it is goodbye eligibility limits on college sports. There is no compelling technical reason why you can't continue to play while you continue to go to school.

He also took it very well when Lanning took Samples. Impressive dude.

I'm saying that I don't think we had the superior roster to UW last year judging by the draft. I remember these Peterson classes and thinking there wasn't much separation with Cristobal's classes by star power, so it would come down to coaching. But it was worse than that as Peterson's talent evaluation was far superior to Cristobal's. Peterson found ballers, Cristobal found lunch pail guys.

How many scholarship players did we have on the roster yesterday before the portal opened?

Saw a you tube video yesterday from locked on big 12 saying Miami wasn't getting into the power 2. Although he has his biased to wish they end up in the Big 12.

What a loss to this world. My condolences to Mark and everyone who knew her personally.

I'm not paying attention to the B1G conference schedule past this year. I mean the B1G created and published 3 official 2024 schedules this year due to conference realignments. THREE in 1 YEAR! What are the odds there is no conference realignment to rejigger schedules by the time the 2025 hits? Pate seems to think the ACC losing teams is decided this off-season affecting 2025. 2026 seems like there is no chance to keep things the same, especially with the playoff changes forcing Notre Dame's hand.

I want nothing to do with Bama until all of Saban's players are gone. I'm sick of watching DeBoer work his coaching magic on inherited top shelf talent. In 4 years though? I want Bama!

I believe this NFL draft will essentially book-end the era of Cristobal recruiting. His talent evaluation got a lot of positive reinforcement from the recruiting ranking services, but my oh my what let downs with a few exceptions, notably along the line of scrimmage. If you look at our "ranking" of graduating talent being taken in the Draft for the first two years of Lanning's era, you will see Oregon is ranked low compared to other teams that finished in the top 10-15; regardless of Cristobal recruits or Lanning transfers. Whereas Cristobal's staff was good at recruiting, mid at player development, and hot trash at player evaluation, Lanning's staff appears to be good at all three, at least if we account for success of our portal players. HS recruits are still a bit TBD as they still have to develop and muscle their way through the experienced portal transfers to get playing time.

Looking at the list, outside Oregon and Georgia, the top 10 defenses were in the upper Midwest. Tell me that it isn't a factor to play football in bad weather and adapt your offense to that reality. I see Wisconsin as a test of that theory as they attempt to implement an air raid style offense. Will they face plant in November, or is it just a bad assumption that you can't pass in the cold?

I'm very curious just how good/bad the B1G offenses really are. Our stats could end up a better in 2024 even with no improvement on D. If course I hope we do improve.

It often depends on how much they knew and when. It's one thing to know of a verbal accusation, but it's another thing once formally charged.

Nix only drawback is when the moment is too intimidating for him he feels rushed and his technique really falls apart. He has shown a lot of improvement in that area, but it still came out a couple of games for little stretches his senior year. So the big question is the NFL going to be too intimidating for him or will he be able to mentally adjust and maintain his confidence?

Oooo. Eligibility limits. What gives the NCAA the right to restrict someone in college from making NIL money by banning them from sports after a predetermined period of time? Sounds like another antitrust issue. I guess that one will wait until 2025 maybe.

Yeah, but odds are, if you are picking 1-4 your QB sucks and you need a new one. lol.

I think it is a common misconception by those that don't care for track and field that it is simply a genetics competition, and there isn't much you can do to make yourself better. I was was already full grown my senior year of high school having done track for 4 years I never made the state meet in my jumping event at the 1-2A levels. But I walked on in college and ended up finishing 2nd in the Northwest region in NAIA nearly qualifying for the national meet my senior year. I wasn't a late bloomer but I trained at an Olympic level in college, to maximize the potential of my genes. That is why track is still a sport, and people don't just do one meet and retire saying I guess that's how good I'll ever be. Athletic ability is not a fixed value, strength endurance and speed can all be improved through hard and appropriate training just like any skill can be. So the speed coach working with strength and conditioning can absolutely impact a teams athletic ability on the field.

If the PAC 2 schools we really wise enough to see what is going on, they would take the windfall from the PAC12 collapse and set it up as an endowment to help fund athletics for decades. I fear they will squander it trying to make themselves relevant now.

4 Defensive starters were responsible for 70% of our production?! Imagine if the new 7 could actually pull their weight how good would we be? I think it speaks to how innefective out DL was at generating sacks and tackles. Maybe it's our scheme to have them hog bodies and clog lanes rather than go after the ball.

What is this? Being voted on by media only requires one factor: eye balls. University presidents: "Academic Prowessed" 50 factors weighted in stupid ways to get the answers you want is all this article is. Thanks for your OPINION Tony, but don't try to spin it as facts.

I find it bizarre Michigan is the standard for anyone let alone 3 teams. It's irrational to define success against the option that has changed the most. Michigan needs to be completely redefined based on how they do in every game this season. Then people can start comparing to them again.

The only close probability for OSU to lose is against us. Outside of that, any loss would be a massive upset.

The odds of OSU finishing 3rd or lower in the BIG10 has to be less than 5%. Then multiple that times the odds Oregon is in the top 2 and multiply that by the odds USC is in the top 2 and you get "slightly more probable than impossible, or about a 1% chance.