David Marsh

I'm super excited to see Flowe play. The small taste we have had ... 1 game special teams, 1 mostly full game and a spring game... Have shown his potential and it's high. But yeah ... Even if he stays healthy and has a good year I think it would be bad for him to leave for the draft. The injuries are too high of questions for most teams to want to use a draft pick on him. He's probably be taken as a free agent or very late pick. He needs to stay healthy, ball out, and he patient. Lanning and co won't let him down if he does what needs to be done.

Once you have multiple generations that don't know why such-and-such U matter and we're a power they have lost the blue blood status. Miami has really lost that status. However, in both Nebraska's and Miami's cases they hired coaches who remind them all of when they were relevant.

That basically sums up Tom Brady.

no... but the game has changed completely. You can really see the Pac's decline is mirrored by our lack of playoff berths. Larry did a lot to help make things worse too by not getting a good flow of money into the conference which hindered on field results. Getting to the playoff = revenue And how many teams in the pac can do that?

If the current criteria of making the playoffs remains... Basically be a power five team that goes undefeated or with one loss and a conference championship... Oregon will do fine with a weaker conference. I think the rear comes I'd this criteria changes. Even in a finished no la schools PAC the PAC is still way way way way better off than G5 conferences. Remember Boise State and the mountain west only makes about 4mil odd media rights annually. The fear comes from being in limbo between the super conferences and the G5s.

Agreed... USC has only won the south twice since it became the pac-12 and the conference once. UCLA has only won the south twice and never won the conference. You can move one of those division wins to USC if you like as USC was disqualified from post season activities in 2011. But still... The la schools have not been anywhere near dominant and they have been barely relevant.

The answer is yes... But a better answer is yes because the scheme will create more opportunity for explosion plays. Hard to have too many big time deep ball plays when your QB only throws bubble screens. Hard to have many big chunk yardage run plays when you want to force all the runs right into the a-gap and the big defensive lineman.

It was before Smart was the head coach and before Georgia really changed their scheduling policy with a new athletic director but Georgia did back out of playing Oregon previously, which is why Oregon got to schedule Bowling Green or some other uneventful opponent. Texas A&M also backed out of a home and home agreement using the conference realignment clause in the contract as they joined the SEC and decided they really didn't want to play Oregon anymore. I'm not taking a shot at anyone currently at Georgia or it's fanbase, who have no influence on the schedule, I'm just making a point that on the whole the SEC doesn't like to travel outside of their footprint. Atlanta Georgia is hardly a neutral site of a "neutral site game" but I'm happy Oregon will have a chance to play Georgia in a big time non-conference game.

And they didn't even talk to their classics department about any of their naming procedures. The Coliseum is Roman and their mascot dresses as a Roman. And rides a horse out into the field. Now the Trojans were bronze age so they certainly would not have dressed anything like a Roman and the bronze age is ore cavalry so they should be coming in on a chariot instead of a horse. Now if you read your Aenid by Virgil you may say... But didn't the Romans claim they were eventually founded by some of the refugees if Troy? Well ... Yes ... Sorta... But they still wouldn't have looked roman. Oh... And one more thing ... Troy was sacked and burned to the ground all because the prince of Troy stole another kings girl. So I guess that part feels more USC like because that feels like something they would do ...

We kinda had that in 2020... Washington forfeited to Oregon, as they couldn't field a team due to COVID protocols though it wasn't called a forfeit. And then we beat up USC. We made BOTH absolutely miserable. One of the finest moments under Cristobal.

I would say it is generally similar.... Though I think we'd all be happy to see Washington go 0-12 regardless of how it makes the PAC look. Otherwise I'd say there is a general "back the PAC" mentality... Or at least there used to be before the LA schools stabbed the whole conference in the back. Now I just want everyone, including Washington, to beat the crap out of those LA schools. As for Oregon State I tell all my beaver friends that I want them to go 11-1 and I genuinely mean it. They have to lose to Oregon but they can beat everyone else. Washington though... I'll only root for them if it helps Oregon. And even then i still want them to suffer in the process. My wife went to UW ... Thankfully she doesn't care about football or our marriage never would have worked.

I expect USC to have a few embarrassing losses next year from "teams that wish they were USC" because of USCs betrayal. "Back the PAC " meant something at some point.. however loosely.

I agree. I do think we may see a stratification and division one football split into two. One being a focus on football and maybe basketball, though the g-league is becoming a way for players to jump from high school to the NBA without college. This league would have teams really detach from the schools and be semi pro. The other league and focus would be on the more traditional student athlete side of things. Now where would Oregon want to fall if this divide comes... That's tough to say. A big part of me would love to see Oregon be a more traditional model of student athletes but that would come with not playing against the best of the best because a school like Alabama would want happily detach football from the school side of things as long as that team still bares it's name.

I don't think it will effect football too badly... At least not at first. I think it will start to hurt their recruiting and their holding onto good players after a year or two in other sports. Even professional athletes say that the travel can be grueling, especially on a series of away games. And professionals don't have homework or classes they have to maintain their work on in order to stay eligible. Yes.... College sports is look more and more like professional sports but they still have to fulfill the student element of student athlete. I think we could see a major drop off of interest in the LA schools when some of their sports see players defect because it's just not worth the travel. It's also not like that travel comes with a lot of fun either... It's a business trip. I think the Midwest schools on the other hand will love having an away game or two in LA, especially in the middle of winter and that would be a benefit for them.

I wouldn't want Oregon to join the SEC to be honest. It's the B1G or something else. The SEC also would loath having to play any games in Autzen. They already don't like signing home-and-home games.

I would rather keep the PAC. This conference is one of the oldest if not the oldest in the country, party due to our isolation. Oregon and Oregon State are both founding members of the PAC or the earlier names of it. College football is all about tradition and though the new trend is to ditch it for the money I would rather keep a few things. I don't believe everything is sacred in the college football world but rivalries matter and rivalries don't form overnight but take years to form. I would say it has taken the last decade of playing Utah for there to be a rivalry building between Oregon and Utah. Oregon and USC hate each other for loads of reasons... By the way their fans are hilarious as they would like nothing more than to never play Oregon again. I would like to stay more local for conference games ... I wouldn't mind a few outside our traditional footprint but I know things are changing and what I care about most is that Oregon football survives.

I feel confident at landing 3 with reclassifications. Four or five I won't know what to do with myself I'll be so shocked. But I do feel like it is possible.

Both?

Now if we can get a quack it would be perfect. Right now I'm placing the over/under for five-star recruits this class at 2.5 (I feel Oregon could actually get 3) Who's taking the over?

Conference championship games are here to stay for better or worse. 1 they make money by extending the season by an extra game and that game is between two good teams it is usually entertaining.... Or it's supposed to be anyways. A Failed Fan Experience: the Pac-12 Championship Anticlimax FISHDUCK.COM The expansion of the Pac-12 conference has not been to the benefit of fans. In my previous... 2 if teams want to make a playoff run they have to show off how good they are at every opportunity and an extra game gives that team the edge. It sounds pretty but a 13-0 team is more likely to make the playoff than a 12-0 team when both teams are conference champions. The Big-12 adopted a championship game because of those two reasons and they were determining their champion via a round robin and season winner. I would love to see round robin come back because it is far more interesting than divisions.

These are the two overlords of college football. They have built themselves an incredibly lucrative media package and the biggest thing that could spoil it for them is getting other media companies involved and creating more competition.

The post on the front page is too purple! I think Coach Boles deserves a better color!

Welcome back Coach Boles... I look forward to your next article.

We'll just have to keep watch... Moore is working on him as well but Young will want to have his own moment. Let's just hope this isn't just him messing with us. I don't think it is but people want their own moment and it to be theirs.

Up close they do look like egg shells... But if you get any distance at all it does look like mud. Add in a grass stain like at the UCLA game last year and it looks like the Ducks just played in a muddy field which seems extra silly in southern California.