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David Marsh

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  1. Not surprising. Teams don't formally leave the PAC and join their new conferences until August. This makes sense even if it's not desirable.
  2. I don't see the Pac as a name going away. But I could see a Pacific Coast Conference emerge some day if the West Coast powers want to play on the West Coast again. I don't see them wanting to rejoin the Pac-12 if it is full of mountain west teams so they'll just remake their own conference if it comes down to it. And I'm pretty sure the Beavers and Cougs wouldn't be invited.
  3. And to add to the context on this one... Oregon a better prep class in 2024 than everyone on rivals except Ohio State. But on 247 Oregon is ahead of Ohio State. This is super impressive and Oregon is the highest ranked team on 247 in BOTH of these rankings. Lanning is investing in the future with high schoolers but filling areas of need now with the portal. No one is doing BOTH better.
  4. That feels like the Oregon basketball team this year and the fact they are putting something together down the stretch is impressive.
  5. There are some coach pairings that just make magic together. Here's hoping we get a duo that gave Oregon a lot of incredible teams is reunited.
  6. It's cover... They'll counter with something more "reasonable" and then the B1G and SEC will say they can't find a working format and make their own. And they have already been chosen by ESPN and Fox as the big winners in their media contracts. They don't need the other conferences and their overlords would agree with them.
  7. I'd like those conferences... But it'd never happen. Not unless there is a mindful restoration of regionallity to the sport which there won't be. That would require a massive change in how revenue is generated.
  8. Thankfully we didn't go with lumberjacks, pioneers or spearsmen. But we'd fit in with the B1G with their array of terrifying human mascots. Human mascots are the worst!
  9. It's going to be reruns of every game that Oregon State and Washington State beat Oregon. It will be an absolutely awful network for Duck fans.
  10. Absolutely! It has history and meaning to the Oregon football program. Nike has been essential to Oregon's rise as well but in truth it feels tacky in college football to have things named after companies. After all... we don't want to be like the Huskies with Husky stadium's field being Alaska Airlines field. I also agree that Knight has his name on plenty at UO and before he passes his name will probably be on a few more buildings as well. As a Duck fan and UO alum, I am forever thankful for his contributions.
  11. What's interesting with both Oregon basketball coaches if that both Graves and Altman lost one of their prime assistant coaches a few years ago. For Graves it was losing Mark Campbell and for Altman it was losing Tony Stubblefield, who is no longer a head coach so possible reunion maybe? There are some coaching combos out there that just make each other better and that's the chemistry. It seems like Campbell may be the better half of the duo with Graves as his program is doing well while Graves' is floundering. But what's certain at this point is that the basketball magic is gone in Eugene right now. I think Altman stands a better chance of figuring out how to regain that lost shine for his team but I don't have any confidence that Graves does at this point.
  12. I think Graves has had enough time to get this team rolling again and it has continued to be a disappointment. When players consistently transfer to other programs and do better that is a good sign that the program is flopping. He brought in too much high quality talent for the results to be this bad. \ Personally, I believe it is time for a change.
  13. I saw that too... But it would be another signing day so there would be three. I don't hate the idea but with the coaching carousel what it is these days it feels like a mess waiting to happen.
  14. Forward, back, eliminated... It doesn't really matter because it doesn't work where it is currently. December is broken right now in college football and early signing day is part of the problem. December Is Too Busy and Bowl Season Suffers | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM College Football has changed so much in the past decade. In the early 2010s, the value of bowl games was...
  15. The thing is to me the automatic bids really only work with a smaller field. If the playoff field was like... six or eight then winning the conference would be a HUGE deal. It is significant under the 12 team format because of the potential of getting a bye but that's about it. With a small field getting a conference championship is signficant because its a mini-bracket of its own or it should act like one. We didn't need both Michigan and Iowa in the playoff because they already played each other and we saw the outcome of that game. By extention we had Georgia v Bama and we know the outcome of that game and don't need to re-see it. Granted, we still got some SEC only National Championship games in this 4 team playoff so it turns out that a Conference Championship game was just a hoop to jump through. Additionally... even getting the bye in the current 12 team playoff format is less significant because teams had to play that conference championship game. They aren't being spared a game in the grand scheme of things because the teams at the lower end of the bracket didn't play in a conference championship game or they did and lost and are being punished for it by still having to play another game. With a larger playoff field Conference Championship games become more and more pointless. It's time for them to go away because they don't mean anything. Or if the playoff becomes B1G v SEC then just built the bracket with a B1G and SEC bracket like the NFL does and get a champion that way. Right now though they are pointless and many conference champions have been left out along the way for non-conference champions in the playoff. So dump the game already.
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