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By the numbers it certainly appears that KD has a similar approach to Chip Kelly to be very particular about who he signs. One can argue that he has a strong bias towards the portal is the reason. As of now he only has 4 transfers to go with the 15 recruits. Perhaps he likes to take his time to sort through the portal and find the diamonds in the rough, but other people can grab diamonds while you're analyzing them. Whatever it is he is playing with fire from a talent acquisition perspective. Maybe he is banking on a lot of people sticking around for senior seasons.

We're still living in their heads and we won't be paying rent anytime soon.

This. Most guys want to slay their own Dragon, not keep their boot on the neck of someone else's Dragon. If he wins a Natty at Oregon it will be his and nobody else could take that away from him. At Georgia he could end up being a Ryan Day, on the hot seat as soon as he loses to Bama or misses the final 4 of the playoffs.

I will say he's right about some of the position coaches. Taggart didn't recognize a good thing when he saw it.

I noticed how Dillon Gabriel is rated out of the top 10 best portal transfer rankings, then saw Dante Moore in the top 3, then it dawned on me how much years of Eligibility remaining affects the ranking. I think this is misguided. Coaches don't primarily go into the portal for development prospects, the go to fill gaps with people that can start right away, which usually means they've already got a lot of experience and have fewer years of Eligibility remaining. And I think this weighing of eligibility also mis-values risk. Dante Moore could still be kind of a bust, never good enough to start for a national title contender, whereas Dillon Gabriel elevates you to a title contender with little doubt. Therefore I think portal transfers should be rated with no consideration of years of Eligibility and let each year take care of itself. What do you all think?

Imagine 20+ 4/5* who were properly evaluated, rather than the Cristobal 2019 class that mostly flamed out.

I read the title, first response was "wow! really? second response"wait, which conference is that? Final response " oh the PAC2" HaHaHa! I'm a little slow today. Holiday vacation can't come soon enough.

When I saw the title of this post I immediately knew what it was about. My mom always loved it. Thanks for spreading the word on it.

Because a degree has value, and making it part of the deal helps take care of the kids future whether they want to or not.

Here is my annual joke regarding the transfer portal: OMG! EVERYONE IS LEAVING AND NOBODY IS SIGNING UP! Is it time to panic? - Signed every college teams' fan Just gotta trust the process to play out in our favor like it has in the past with DL.

At some point meritocracy gives the existing B1G and SEC coat-tails rider programs the boot, to make room for Utah and other ACC and Big12 schools that are better.

If the NIL and student athlete agents structure the contracts to each other's satisfaction then there would be no issues. But with NIL signing families I'm doubtful these NIL contracts are consistently equitable.

It will conform to Title IX. I think this may be a non-starter. This is a dangerous period in college athletics.Thry is so much money flowing around that came from media deals that will not be worth as much in the future in a streaming paradigm, yet people are trying to set up a new framework that assumes the good time will continue. If that ends up being the case, ALL the changes occurring for conference realignment and program investments will blow up in their face and will be undone. I don't think we will settle on a long term via ble approach to college athletics for more than a decade.

Huston portalled the right way. He stuck around on the team being a great teammate, even participating on the practice squad. During one of the receiver scores in the CG the receiver ran over to Huston first for a chest bump. He did all this while preserving a redshirt. Probably got his degree too. Now he can go somewhere else and ball out as a starter. Maybe he'll join up with DGU, his HS buddy that had fantastic chemistry on the field.

He was my top choice over Cam Ward. This is the type of individual we should be looking for in the portal. Experienced, high floor individuals. Let our HS recruits come in being judged by their ceiling. Let player evaluation and development take care of the rest.

https://www.si.com/college/oregon/history/marcus-arroyo-joins-kenny-dillinghams-staff-as-asu-offensive-coordinator Maybe I'm being too harsh on Arroyo, that he perhaps was another victim of MC imposing his will. Dilly is going to find out.

Just by the numbers we will be 3 times more likely to make the playoffs. The PAC12 with Utah was never easy and the B1G won't be any easier. We trade Utah for Penn State and add Ohio State and Michigan. Gaining respect will be MUCH easier. Road games will be harder due to longer travel travels, very different environments/climates, which means home field advantage will be worth more than 3 points, maybe 5 or 6 points. As far as Oregon as a team goes, having a top 3 or top 5 QB every year is tough. Look at the blue bloods struggles this year. Outside of that, if we keep recruiting top 10 classes with our coaches' player evaluation ability and development we should be in the thick of conversation in November every year.

Getting trained in sports psychology should make someone react worse. I interpreted Holly's statement as Bo started doing it between end of last year and start of this one, not something he start this past week.

I wonder if FSU would boycott their bowl game as a protest? I'd like us to boycott the Fiesta for the obvious fact there is nothing It's just such a massive let down considering yesterday we thought our opponent was going to come out of a pool of Texas, Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and FSU. But your right, and furthermore if this was the 12 team playoff format we could very well have this same opponent as the top G5 team.

I'd like to play Bama simply because we never have. Already played Georgia and Ohio State.

He wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't say those things. You've got one spot left for 1 loss Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. This is the most likely scenario there was for the SEC to get left out based on Committee preferences so far FSU is undefeated and was impressive on the defensive side enough to earn a spot, Texas has been boxing out Bama all season and their destruction of their competition and a conference title doesn't give Bama an excuse to jump them with their barely-a-win in their conference game against Georgia. It's really going to come down to how much the committee values a Conference Champion. Given their clear bias towards deserving vs. best, I think conference championships are a trump card. OSU and Georgia are out. Bama can't jump Texas and FSU ain't dropping, being undefeated.

Hearing Caleb Williams allude to possibly playing in the Leftover's Bowl makes me wonder if the NIL folks have leverage in different forms to get NFL-bound players to play either by contract requirements or by extra cash incentive. You can certainly envision boosters saying "Hey! We payed you a million dollars to play this season, and you're gonna play the whole season!" You can also envision players forced to play treating it like the NFL Pro Bowl where injury avoidance to the n-th degree takes precedence over the quality of their play.

Playoff selection is shaping up to be a mess where only the fans of 4 teams are actually happy with the outcome. Frankly, even if we'd somehow managed to sneak out a win yesterday despite our horrid start I don't think it would've been enough to get in, which would have just made us the ultimate spoiler of PAC12 participation in the playoffs. Of course we will never know. The only outcome that would make me truly happy is to see the SEC left out. I'd get a laugh out of that.

Reasons I saw: UW felt like, and played like the underdog that had play their hardest to win. Our defensive players were reactionary instead of anticipatory in every facet the first 20 minutes. They were even slow reacting to the snap. Bo turned into nervous Bad Bo for the first 2 series. Happy feet, poor reads and poor throws. Poor first 20 minutes got our defense worn out hands on hips by the end of the first half. Every UW route tree was specifically designed for our coverage schemes to generate blown coverages and mismatches with crosses and screening, jumbling our guys five yards off the ball. Their run game plan was classic Chip Kelly. spread the DL horizontally and shoot a gap vertical when it opens. We did not ride the hot hand James when Bucky was ineffective. In short we played not to lose, and UW Coordinator's were two steps ahead knowing what we were going to do schematically, and our coaches didn't conceive that was possible. What went right consistently? Penalties didn't hurt too much. Tez, Ferg and... LEWIS -Dude came ready to play and kick a game winning field goal. Every kick was dead center with distance. Never got his chance for redemption.

It's not just you. Our coaches could have totally dropped interest in him, and he took the hint. I'm glad that cleared space for someone else with more than a 2% chance of ever being the starter.