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This very unfortunate, both her and Nyara have been plagued with leg injuries. Thankfully, Nyara has been able to play this season and has shown what a tremendous player she is, a shame that he couldn't have played with Satou. In the brief time Sedona was able to play this season, she showed us a lot of game. I hope she is able to get some PT this season, and be a major part of next season, along with 6'8 Phillipina Kyei.

I believe that Gruden will have him on the field Sunday, and I think he'll play well and some other teams will be interested. The Rams, with Goff injured, are going this weekend with an undrafted quarterback, Washington is in dire need of one. FWIW, Marcus is the highest paid back up, and I believe a lot of teams will be interested this offseason.

As the saying goes, "If you have two QB's, you don't have 1 QB". It's great if you have two great quarterbacks, like the 49ers had in Montana and Young. But Montana had to leave before Young got his chance. I don't see how it really works, using them interchangeably in a game.

The two best coaches Oregon sports has ever had, with all due respect to, Bill Bowerman, Bill Dellinger and Robert Johnson. are Kelly Graves and Dana Altman. Both will end up in the Coaches Hall Of Fame. Altman came to Oregon when the big names weren't interested, and has turned the Ducks in to a perennial contender. When Graves took over the Women's team, it was in terrible shape. It's now elite.

Being a GOM myself, I join you. I love the recruiting success Mario has achieved here. But it gives us a front row seat to the show that college football has become. All these recruits use the recruiting process to build their brand, and as the Texas player showed, they continue to do that through out their time in school. It's all about I now. The team's success is fine, it makes their showcase bigger, but they really couldn't care less how the team does overall. Back in 2006, Florida won the basketball championship. Their 3 big stars all stayed for their senior seasons, and they won it again, though if Tujuan Porter hadn't chosen that game to not be able to make a shot, the Ducks would have beaten them, in 2007. It meant something to those players, for the team to win it again. Basketball is fundamentally different, for the better, than is football. But the loyalty for the team is what is important here. I've always discounted what Royce Freeman accomplished here, when I'm going through the great RB's, he's far down the list. And I'm certain it's because the lasting image I have of him is the one of him standing on the sidelines after opting out . I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now, when Breeze and Holland and Graham left, and I hate it most of all when they end their announcement with, "Once a Duck, always a Duck". That is as disingenuous as it gets.

Thanks for creating a place for this to be discussed, BDF. Ironically, the best way to save college football is to make it more like the NFL. Not in the sense of paying the players, which is going to happen in some manner , sometime. But rather in just making each game matter for more teams and the players. The NFL is going in to its final week, and 7 teams still have a chance at making the playoffs. The Kansas City Chiefs are still the betting favorite, but there are plenty of teams with a legitimate shot at winning the Super Bowl. The NFL is all about parity, every team goes in to every season with a chance. The only way a team won't make the playoffs is because it didn't win enough games. Even the winner of the woeful NFC East, will have a better record than the other teams in the division. Even when a team reaches a point when it can't make the playoffs, it can still be a spoiler, take another team down with them. The players and fans stay motivated, and have every reason to believe that next season, they'll be playing for the championship. The 49ers played in the Super Bowl last season, they won't even be in the playoffs this time.

Clearly, John has been lurking here and at FishDuck, and reading our posts! What he calls for is what we have been saying for months now. Oregon is carrying the conference. A win in the Fiesta Bowl would obviously be better than would be a loss. But, either would have no real impact on the national perspective of the conference. Getting rid of Scott is mandatory. Not only would his absence be a plus in itself, it would show that the Presidents are aware of the horrific mess he created and acted to correct it. The conference needs a hajor overhaul and it has to start at the top.

If Oregon wins, more about how, "they backed into the whole conference championship thing", and who is Iowa State anyway? If they lose, it will discussed for about :30 of precious ESPN time. It would barely get that if it was a Pac-12 team not Oregon.

Today it's Duck vs Duck as the Memphis Grizzlies & Dillon Brooks invade the Garden to take on the Celtics and Payton Pritchard. With Ja Morant out with an ankle sprain, Brooks is getting more time and carrying more of the load for Memphis, and Payton is definitely earning his time for the Celtics.

One of the consequences of the messed up season that was 2020. Credit to Colorado for winning its games, and they probably are the 3rd best team in the conference. But, unfortunately, that game revealed what we've been saying for a while. In Pac-12 football, it's Oregon, then USC, then all the rest. Georgia, and Florida & Texas A & M, don't really have a chance of getting invited to the Invitational. LSU can drop by, with Ohio State and Clemson, and because of that, the SEC & B1G get talked about, and on TV. Clemson & Notre Dame have their own Networks. The Pac-12 is Oregon & USC, most of the country can name the other 10.

So true. So what does Alabama do this season? Its defense allowed 20 points a game, and the offense, under Frank Broyles Assistant Of The Year Award Winner OC, Steve Sarkisian, averages 50 points a game! WR, DeVonta Smith is the favorite for the Heisman. The message is clear Mario. Recruit great players, establish a culture, maintain a presence, but get out of the way of your Coordinators!

Great article, David. As much fun as CK's blur was, TD drives that took 38 seconds. A dominating defense that it looks like Mario is building, will be a blast. Getting a sack, knocking the stuffing out of a receiver daring to run a crossing route, stopping the running back cold. These are the sights we can look forward to. And, there won't be any, "gimmick" or "finesse" attached to it. It will be flat out physicality that Oregon uses to demolish its opponents. KT got it started big time against USC, and it spread to the 10 others, and now they have their eyes on Iowa State.

David, you have your wife and in laws, I have cousins who are obnoxious Huskies, that's actually redundant. But, to the point, you did a good job showing just how delusional the Husky fans are, Washington IS NOT a historic program. Never were, never will be. The Don James era teams were good, they even have a championship? But that does that a historic program make? I say, nay! Now, they look at Oregon and its brand, the fact that it's Oregon dominating the Pac-12 across its breadth, and it makes them sick! There are two top 5 recruits in Washington, 1 already picked Ohio State, the other isn't going to Washington either, and again, I say, next season, the Beavers finish ahead of the Huskies in the North!

The comments are great in this article. One poster is your stereotypical Husky, convinced that Oregon is lucky, only good because of NIKE, believes that Washington is a historic football school. It's great reading the two commenters go over this, here's a sample: You know I like and respect you, but statements like this are just so useless. Husky has gut feeling that Husky coach is better than Oregon coach? Call the papers! Now, we have issues with Mario, well basically, one issue. The Huskies can keep Lake.

I absolutely noticed that, and quite frankly was bothered that until you just brought it up here, it hadn't seem to have been noticed. I have a lot of respect for Figueroa, and hope he does well. But watching him out there on the court, wearing 30 will never be right.

Wow, that looks good! A full course meal to be sure. What other school has teams ranked in M & W basketball and football?

Fortunately, that hasn't been the case for Payton most of the season. He seems to be integrating himself in to the team successfully; no small feat considering this is a veteran filled Celtics roster. Payton is having to transform from being The Man @ Oregon, and really the 5th option for the Celtics. But by passing, rebounding, playing defense, and making his shots when he gets them, he is making the 26th pick the Celtics used on him, look great. In his last game, Pritchard got 23 minutes, hit 3 of 3 on 3's, and his current career high is @ 13.

The Men are the only Pac-12 team in the Top 25, while the Lady Ducks trail, Stanford, #1, and Arizona, #6, in the Top 10,, and have games, @ Stanford on the 8th and @ Arizona, on the 14th.

Unfortunately, Verdell has been "iffy" for pretty much every game since he's been here.

Now, do we really care what Udub thinks about the U of O? Not really. But there is always something to learn from hearing opposing views, and surprisingly I know, there is some good discussion going on here. This is a great example: Oregon won 11 games six times in 10 years prior to this season We’ve won 11 games three times in our history.

Okay, Charles actually took the player I was thinking of, I already said I wanted a DT to show up in the transfer portal topic, and if Ngata could show up for the Fiesta Bowl? So, I thought who else is there that could really fill a need? Could really make an impact? One player immediately came to mind, and it was from just last year! Brady Breeze! With Breeze it wouldn't have to be a player coming back, he just wouldn't have left. His two game stretch of Pac-12 Championship & Rose Bowl is one of the most dominating any Duck has ever had. Not only did he make play after play, he just wasn't going to let the Ducks lose!

My first Favorite Duck was Billy Gaskins, he was the 2 guard for the Ducks when they played, and beat, #1 UCLA 78-65, ending a UCLA 25 game winning streak, that game, Feb.21, was my intro-Duck-ion, and have bled green & yellow ever since. I also want to recognize a Duck I will always remember. Her name is Janelle Lindvall, and she was the catcher on the softball team, from 2013-16. She was a good, not great hitter average wise, but if the Ducks were coming up and needed a hit, it was always nice to see that she'd get an at bat. What really drew me to her though was on defense, and just how she handled her job. I don't recall her ever having a passed ball, and very few wild pitches, and she always looked calm, had to be a confidence builder for the pitcher. Janelle has a sister, named Lauren, who played 2nd base for the Ducks, 2015-18.

With this latest news it looks like the job is Choat's, if he wants it. I don't know why Avalos or Moore would even interview now.

It looks like a great schedule. Right now, Stanford is #1, Arizona is #6 and Oregon is #8. Pac-12 Women dominate basketball, and pretty much softball, and it doesn't look to be changing anytime soon.

Hold your horses! Or Broncos in this case.