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Make sure you're sitting down before you read this article from 247sports.com

It is, but as David mentioned earlier, it does narrow the competition which could prove to be beneficial, Best of luck to Tyler and to the quarterbacks who will be competing for the starting position.

Payton announced that he owned Seattle last season, and after their win over the Huskies there earlier this season, it's still under Oregon's ownership. Now, Payton has added Toronto. From NBC Sports Northwest

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This is really a great article David in how it points to just how important a coach and the culture is to a team. Mario is not perfect, but we can all see what he has developed at Oregon and where he's leading it. Helton has yet to build a culture at USC, and now he's hung his hat on, "Air Raid". An offense, that WSU, the most disadvantaged school in the conference used. Leach never won the North at WSU, never finished in second place, but at least their quarterback throwing 70 passes a game for 600 yards, in a loss, got the Coug's on SportsCenter. If Helton, at the most Advantaged school in the Pac-12 really wants to go that way, I say, "Yay!".

It was a game time decision for Chris Duarte, and it turned out to be a good one. Duarte hit the first shot for the Ducks, scored 5 of the first 8. He finished the half with 18, more than half of the 35 the Ducks scored, while holding Arizona State to 28. Duarte didn't score in the second half, but he had plenty of teammates to pick up the slack. Duarte and Omoruyi finished with 18, Figueroa, 16 and Richardson 15, completed the double figure scoring for the Ducks. Figueroa, finished, 4-7 on 3's, Duarte, 4-8, Richardson, 3-6. The Ducks hit42,4% overall, 40.0 overall, the Ducks really moved the ball well, finishing with 22 assists. ASU, for whom only Remy Martin, 30, finished with double figures, had 13 assists.

If you go back 50 years, Washington might have more wins.

I'd like to meet Franck too.

Well, as the article pointed out, the notables of Washington's recruiting was getting a legacy to come in at quarterback, but even more, the two extremely highly rated in state players who already left, and the best one that will later.

He played a season high 15 minutes in the win over the Huskies, scored 8 points, picked up two rebounds and blocked two shots. You can learn some more about Franck Kepnang in this article from GoDucks.com

Depth is always good. Softball pitching and relieving is much different from baseball. I'm still not sure of all the rules, but, while in baseball once a pitcher is removed he can not return to the game, a softball pitcher can be removed, and she can return to the game. I don't think a pitcher can be removed for one batter, but that's about it. Mike White had great starting pitching, and didn't use many of these relieving rules. Cheridan Hawkins, Megan Kleist, Miranda Elish, were rarely taken out at all. In 2019, Lombardi didn't pull Jordan Dail very often, but she was pretty much the only pitcher that team had! It will be great to see How Lombardi handles this deep pitching staff.

It will be great to see some big bats, way back, way, way back, Earl Weaver of the Baltimore Orioles, was a proponent of Big Bats, Walter Alston of the Dodgers, was more Small Ball, the joke was, "Koufax just pitched a no hitter. Yeah, but did the Dodgers win?"

No, 10 in the country, but 5th place in the conference, right under No. 15 ASU in the country doesn't make a lot of sense. Except, it does show how, like basketball, Pac-12 softball is very deep and competitive.

This is very encouraging, it seems that more than anything a defense can do, creating turnovers, is the most positive. It also identifies a defense as being active and aggressive.

Precisely. I agree, After games, preferably 3 or so, it will be a ranking based on performance on the field, not projections of what might happen,

Sometimes, but remember that USC is the poster child for preseason darlings.

After seeing this last Saturday, I don't know if even the most optimistic would have thought that there was a chance that Chris Duarte would be playing against ASU on Thursday. But, in this article from Duck Territory, there's a chance that Duarte and Eric Williams could be back.

Maybe, but it's a poll based wholly on speculation and whatever else, to generate a response in February.

Justin is doing us proud! This is just another example of what a great kid he is. He comes in to the season, not even expecting to play, he ends up setting NFL records, wins the ROTY, and rather than sit back and relax, he's working to get better!

I don't know. I think that if Belichick got Marcus to New England than he would scheme the offense to suit Marcus's strengths.

I'm fine with it. It's a "way too early poll" and as the saying goes, "any publicity is good publicity". I'm much happier seeing Oregon at No. 5, then down at No. 23. I don't know how much players/teams are affected by these rankings. I certainly believe that fans care a lot more about them then do the teams, players and coaches.

Bring on the Heisman! KT is in a position where he can dominate a game and amass stats. It sure would be great to have JTT with him!

Sports live on statistics, but it's a perilous way to go. When you say, "50% of the time it works" you are also saying that, "50% of the time it doesn't work". Shough's season is the perfect illustration, the first 3 games, he played very well, by the 4th game his performance was slipping and it just got worse. In this case, the eye test is not flawed, we aren't imagining a hypothetical outcome. We're simply remembering what Shough looked like in the last four games of the season and weighing the season stats accordingly.