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  1. I was born in Portland 1965.....my Uncle was a UO SAE and bought my folks a Duck baby blanket.  Uncle Ken wears Duck clothing everyday of his life.  Needless to say every gift I ever received had a logo on it.  My cousins and I joke that when it came time to choose colleges, we had no choice since we had an entire wardrobe full of gear.  

     

    Needless to say, none of us dared go to Oregon Agricultural College.

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  2. On 2/11/2022 at 6:39 AM, McDuck said:

    I wonder if the brother is expecting a scholarship?  Looking at the Liberty Flames site he hasn't recorded a stat in his three years on the team.  No information if he got in a game last season but he didn't play during his first two years (one redshirt).

    A good enough NIL deal may be able to pay his tuition to stay on the roster as a Preferred Walk On, plus room and board, and some "leisure funds"?

  3. On 2/5/2022 at 1:06 PM, Just Ducky said:

    The biggest problem I see with NIL , trust me there are many, is how much some of these kids change after they achieve the big money. Pro sports are full of players that sigh the big contract and their production goes south. Kevin Duckworth is just one example and the list is too long to list here. Many of these kids will be weeded out way before they get to the pros for just this reason. It is Certainly nice of the NCAA to do the job for the pro owners so they won’t have to waste the money.

    Yep, the current Duckworth is doing the same thing now. 

     

    Those that would argue that somehow the law of unintended consequences will not apply to what amounts to a revolutionary change in the NCAAF system, are not being realistic.  

     

    There is likely a smart way to share the revenues deservingly.....the current "break everything" model doesn't seem like it.

     

    Signed,  Chesterton Fence Repair Co.

  4. On 2/3/2022 at 5:09 PM, AnotherOD said:

    I always think back to "what might have been" 2003, when the Ducks opened the season up from with:

     

    6-6 310 Igor Olshansky

     

    6-5 345 Haloti Ngata

     

    6-5 340 Junior Siavii

     

    6-4 262 Devan Long

     

     

    I think 6-1 310 pound Robby Valenzuela was in the DT rotation (and the "little guy" in the group, Long, I believe still is 4th all-time in Duck football career sacks and 3rd all-time in career tackles for loss).

     

    These many years, it has stuck with me the TV analyst, in the pregame, prior to the kickoff at Mississippi State, saying he walked past the Duck DL warming up and thought he was walking past an NFL DL.

     

    Of course Haloti gets knocked out for the year in the first half, and the Ducks end up with an up-and-down 8-5 year, and that monster front never gets to completely show itself off.

     

    Igor goes on to be a second round NFL draft pick and is a multi-year starter over 8 NFL seasons, Haloti of course goes first round and plays 13 seasons including five Pro Bowls, Siavii battles injuries but plays five NFL seasons; and, I believe Long even has a cup of coffee as an UDFA and his career ends in injury while trying to make his way back to the NFL playing in NFL Europe.

     

    Didn't Haloti's season ending injury occur in the first half of the first game of the season on a special teams play and was an unflagged illegal hit?

     

    I remember thinking to myself....Haloti on special teams, why?  But I am old and may be hyperbolizing the event.

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