I moved to the beautiful state of Oregon in 2001. It was supposed to be temporary but I loved it and decided to stay. I went to college football games during Joey's senior year. I have always noticed that every time either the Ducks, or Beavers went to a bowl game, it seemed as if the opponents fans outnumbered us 70-30 every time.
I saw how Oregon was a really small state population wise. The fact that a state with only 4 million people at the time had two major college football programs was insane. This whole market realignment with the B1G makes sense. This state is really only big enough to support one major program. In reality, the Beavers and the Ducks just happened to be at the right place at the right time 108 years ago.
Oregon won the lottery having PK donate a fortune to the UO in athletics and academics. As the owner of this site has laid out, Oregon started to turn it around before the major donations started rolling in. I feel bad for Beavers fans, but they never ever were proactive in "anything". Their predicament has been a long time coming. OSU Is 20 years behind UO in my humble opinion in the marketing department.
Go Ducks!