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    Interesting Quotes About Dan Lanning by a Recruit...

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    In the past many athletes, including LDS, who consider themselves persons of faith have openly acknowledged the sensitivity shown by various coaches to their personal needs, whhether it be supporting mission trips, or accepting the limitations created by a given faith,. 

     

    Oregon has grown in stature because of this in recent years. Many of our Poly players are openly LDS or muslim. 

     

    Some coaches use religion as a recruiting tool. 

     

    It's a fact.

     

    Abusing that can be as bad as proselytizing young men.

     

    Oregon has a chaplain available (Former Duck and NFL kicker, Josh Bidwell is one), but it's a service to the young men, not a tool.

     

    I see nothing threatening in that fact, nor in the comments made by the young recruit.

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    Sanders May Lose Foot. Affects CO Football?

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    I don't care if you like or dislike any person, this is the sort of thing that demands attention, immediate care, and thoughts/prayers for a strong recovery.

     

    When you think of the history of Sanders' sports career, it's hard to imagine this sort of outcome, yet, is probably much more common than many of us realize.

     

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    SDSU Gives Notice to Leave Mountain West Conference

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    On 6/16/2023 at 1:58 PM, Charles Fischer said:

    A paywall article today by Canzano was suggesting SDST to do this, since--the Mountain West would certainly take them back if things did not work out.

     

    What was interesting is how the loss of the LA market was 5.7 million households, but the SMU (Dallas/Ft. Worth) and San Diego markets would fill in 4.1 million of that divot, which really helps.  The end result would be about a million more households than the Big-12, hence the confidence that the new Pac-12 media contract can meet or exceed the Big-12 contract.

     

    Media Market Numbers:

    Big-12:  15.1 million after all are on-board.

    Pac-12: 16.5 million after SDST and SMU join us.

    B1G:     33.9 million after the LA schools join them

    Sad part is, had the PAC had the fortitude and foresight to expand several seasons ago when the opportunity presented itself, the numbers could easily have matched what the B1G currently has available, assuming that USC and UCLA stayed in the fold, and SDSU/SMU, or some similar market schools had joined.

     

    what a cluster.

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    Ranking the Pac-12's Schools by Excellence at the Quarterback Position

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    Posted · Edited by woundedknees

    Perhaps some of the omissions weren't considered because the qbs in question preceded their respective schools admission to the PAC12?

    Sixkiller and Van Brocklin definitely would have been earlier, PAC8 members, but Danny White was not.

     

    Acknowledging their accomplishments would still have been cool.

     

    Those guys were definitely special to the fb legacies and traditions of their teams.

     

    Sixkiller shoulda beena Duck or Beav... That's like going having a Mariota in your neighborhood,  and not even stopping by to shake his hand.

     

    Program defining, for the right team.

     

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    Future Conference Scheduling - The B1G Nails It!

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    So, the Ducks could be saving the cost of nearly 7500 travel miles per season, just in football, let alone all other sports combined?

     

    How many travel per game... 70 players, plus coaches, equipment managers, and other support staff?

     

    An additional fifty to 60 individuals seem right?

     

    Seems like the cost of travel alone would be daunting. 

     

    That comes to at least 1,000,000 individual travel miles just for the football team.

     

     

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    WWII: When the Fighting Ducks Came Marching Home

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    My Uncle George was on the Arizona... one of the first explosions knocked him overboard, and he survived. He was in the water for hours, using a floating spar he pushed around to assist in bringing injured to shore, then returning for others. 

     

    His only major injury was the broken ankle he suffered when his oily boot slipped on the tailgate of the evac truck. It was his worst injury of the entire war, despite losing several other ships.

     

    Dad was a starting D lineman on the Beaver football team that year. Within hours of learning about the attack  he, like millions of his compatriots, quit the team and enlisted in the army, eventually serving in Europe for the duration of the war.

     

    When I was a boy, in the 60's, I remember sitting with many of the veteran survivors of that conflict, watching the movie "White Christmas"... I saw more than twenty of the toughest men and women I have ever known were crying openly as their memories were triggered by the film.

     

    We may never fully understand what their sacrifices protected us from, but it's important to respect and honor that sacrifice.

     

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    Pac-12/Big-12 TRUTH...

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    On 5/27/2023 at 2:32 PM, Jon Joseph said:

    And give thanks to those like the maternal uncle I am named after who was a tank commander with Patton and KIA at the Battle of the Bulge. 

    My uncle was knocked on the Arizona... one of the first explosions knocked him into the harbor. He spent most of the battle using a floating spar to pull other survivors to safety.

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