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College football is all about money. If you want top coaching you have to pay the money for them. Can the Pac-12 keep up ?? Steve Sarkisian is guaranteed to make at least $34.2 million through his 6 year contract. $5.2 million his first year +$200,000 raise each year, 2 cars, 20 hr of private airplane use per year, a $250,000 relocation/temporary housing allowance and $1.2 million if he is still head coach on Dec 31, 2024. Most of his coordinators and assistant football coaches will exceed $1 million per year all with guaranteed yearly raises. You can read more here with Ksat.com.

It was over when it started. A tough watch.

Interesting

Steve Sarkisian the HC of Texas has received a commitment from 5 star QB Maalik Murphy of Gardena California. Steve also hired Jeff Banks, a former Washington State punter with recruiting ties throughout the Pac-12. A few days later he hired Pete Kwiathowski a Washington defensive coordinator. It's clear he's "Out for Blood" on the Pac-12 and getting his revenge. You can read more right here from Fansided.com.

IMO, the Ducks should look toward the future starting now. The Ducks still have a couple of issues that need to be improved in order to make a run at the National Championship. 1) The Ducks defense needs time to settle in with its new DC and to get injured players back on the field and caught up with actual play time. 2) The Ducks still have a QB problem. Brown IMO will not get them a playoff win. He may get them there but that is as far as he can take them. Also keep in mind that if Brown starts the season Butterfield will transfer out in a heartbeat. 3) For the Ducks to win a National Championship they have to "make a run at it", rather then be a naturally part of the championship rotation. They have to have the Sun, the Moon and the team in the right position to get thru the playoffs and into the championship game. 4) The Ducks need a heavy weight running back that can take a beating and get the TD's. The two light weight backs we have now won't hack it thru the playoffs and a championship game. A run at a National Championship would better fit in 2022 then in 2021. A third Pac-12 title in 2021 would be a solid goal.

The California state assembly has started another bill to focus on college athletes rights. AB-609 "The College Athlete Race and Gender Equity Act" This would require California universities to pay football and men's basketball players big dollars in royalties for the use of their name, image and likeness. It would also prevent universities from building athletic facilities just to keep up with other schools. Things like locker rooms, weight rooms, arenas, and other. This bill is an extension of the radical requests made in the #WeAreUnited demands signed by Pac-12 football players last summer. More details can be found in the Dallas Post right here.

Yes, the HC is the backbone of any program.

You are a true Duck for sure.

How long did it take for the girls to get down by 20 ?? Not long.

We should have an improved year but a monster year will depend on how smooth the improvements are. For example: Will our transition to a new QB be without squabbles ?? Will Flowe be healthy and has he been keeping up his own development ?? Will MC let Moorhead call all the plays and not interfere by demanding "dives up the middle" on 4th and short ?? Will our lightweight backfield of Verdell and Dye hold up, stay healthy and produce ?? I don't see us getting into the playoffs in 2021 with a one loss season unless USC and Washington are highly ranked and of course we beat them both. If we can take another Pac-12 championship 2022 looks very promising for a "monster year" and a National Playoff run.

Nice video, thanks for posting it.

As you point out in your article, QB's from top college teams go higher in the NFL Draft then those from lesser college teams, but that doesn't mean they are actually better QB's. Time will tell about Tua Tagovailoa but I'm glad Justin plays for the Chargers.

If that guy does announce the game the best way to watch is with the volume off.

He's just taking a different transfer portal.

Clear that UW doesn't have the same "Football Program Culture" that UO has. It use to be we would read stuff like this regularly at UO, but not much since MC.

Your so right. And to think it's been like "forever" since a Pac-12 team ran the table.

Yes, Jordan Dail is good, but Yanez, not so much.

It's hard to keep up to date but a great idea to "Pin" it to the forum.

Excellent article Ryan, you hit the nail on the head with every sentence. Thanks for putting it together. Your point of the Pac-12 undoing the damage that Larry Scott has made (like you said) "is going to take a significant amount of time and effort" to correct, if it can be done at all. Your points of - the Pac-12 being out-recruited by the East, - going 6+ years without going to the playoffs, - getting the snot beat out of them in bowl games, - having fewer players taken in the NFL draft, - playing their games in the middle of the night, - having the best team in the Pac-12 being no better than the third or fourth best team in the SEC, - having incompetent refereeing in all sports, points to the bulk of our problems that Larry Scott and the other Pac-12 leaders have put us in year after year. Yes, unfortunately Larry has not been the only problem over the years but the Pac-12 only has one other president to weed out still. (Can you guess who ??) The way out of this mess is not going to be easy for Oregon fans to swallow. Having USC and Washington be better then they are now is not something that we fans will like, accept or enjoy but it has to happen for the Pac-12 to get back to respectability and back to the National Playoffs and a National Title. This choice of who will be Larry Scotts replacement is so darn important and it can't be wrong or the Pac-12 will implode and be gone for good. We will only get one chance at it and the nation of players and fans are watching.

And why is this guy still employed at the Pac-12 ?? And getting paid for months after he finally leaves ?? Could it be so he can pay off his loan that he received when he first started and never made a payment on ?? Why oh why do we still have to put up with him ??

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Yep, that about sum's it up correctly. Please note that some schools can do great recruiting and great coaching. Oregon can do great recruiting . . . . . . . .

The color of the uniform has nothing to do with the scoreboard.

Yep, that's about right.

You said it all in the last statement "Perhaps Shough saw the writing on the wall and thought it was better to move on. I don’t know, but wherever he goes, I wish him luck.