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"When I first came here… we weren't a great hockey team, maybe getting five to 10 fans at our games,"

Thinking about the no.1 receiver takes me back to USC and Marqise Lee, and the connection he had with Matt Barkley. If the Ducks could develop a tandem like that, or what Mac Jones had with DeVonta Smith, the offense reaches a brand new level.

I have become a big fan of Kylee Watson. She plays with an aggressiveness that will only become more of an asset as she becomes more experienced. Hopefully a lot of her practice time is at the free throw line.

This is the component that has been ignored by the committee and needs to be the determinant of the new Playoff.

I agree. That kind of defense has playmakers, while the bend but don't break, was passive by comparison.

Mikesell has not been as effective since her great first game. As Graves goes about paring the rotation, I could see her minutes being reduced.

With a completely different Oregon team it doesn't matter what happened between Arizona & Oregon last season. One point of comparison: Stanford 70 Oregon 63 Stanford 81 Arizona 54 @ Arizona

This is key. As the title of the article says, this will be a new opportunity. Avalos left, this isn't a change for change sake, it has to be done. Hopefully the players will embrace the ideas the new DC brings, and carry them out enthusiastically.

I would argue that right now the, "qualified" teams are far too limited, you know who they are before the season starts. The 5 conference winners would be qualified to play for the championship. The expanded playoff won't turn the CFP in to March Madness, there won't be a 16 against a 1.

So many ideas, and all of them would be better than what is in place now, which is nothing more than an ESPN production starring the teams whose conferences have deals with them...they'll let Ohio State & Oklahoma drop in.

You know, I was fine with that too. The BCS was formed to to clean things up, to avoid controversy. The controversy would be a whole lot better than what we have now, when the championship is down to 4 teams, out of maybe the 8 that have a chance before the season even starts.

I really like this idea, and one step that could, and should be taken, is to get rid of the championship game by getting rid of the divisions, there are no need for either. Set up schedule requirements between all conferences, and the team with the best record will advance to the Playoff. This expanded playoff, consisting of the 5 Conference champions, and 3 at large to be decided on the field, not by a committee. All the teams would, "Be In" one loss wouldn't eliminate their chances, players would want to play in the bowl game instead of opting out.

Game Notes

Soon, Cristobal won't be able to prevent the offense, unless he simply doesn't want to score. The WR corps that Oregon will have in 2021 is unlike any the team has ever had. Getting the RB's up to the same level is still a work in progress, but they will come.

The head coach wouldn't let the OC run the offense the way he wanted to. Sound familiar?

The Ducks’ junior guard, Taylor Mikesell, has been a strong competitor since day one.

These, "Way Too Early Polls" are all about perception, What level of recognition a team has built is what gets them in a poll like this. ESPN, in this case, believes that Oregon will have a competitive team, their past success shows that.

Bow Down, and stay, Washington! What a great tweet. The arrogance in Washington has devolved in to white noise as their programs become irrelevant. That Oregon has supplanted them, not only in the Pac-12, but nationally, and Washington never had a National Brand, makes it all the more unbearable for them.

Justin Herbert’s rise to prominence in the football world feels like a sports movie script: