David Marsh

But at least USC beat food... Granted I still want them to lose. And Stanford beat toothpaste. So that's good I guess.

Certainly not a good day for the PAC ... But this is just week one. Still plenty of games to play and plenty to play for.

We saw some of the potential of this team. There were some very good individual plays. The thoughest thing to string them all together. This was a really rough first game for a first time head coach and a team with new offensive and defensive schemes. We know where this team needs to go now. It needs to be able to beat a Georgia. But we have a long way to go.

I was expecting this game to be far more competitive than it actually is. Lots for this team to learn. Lots for this staff to learn.

Good way to start the day!

Who knows when Oregon will play Georgia next. So after tomorrow you can be a Duck fan as your second team. That works too.

It was probably a bit early in the game to make that sort of call. But that is probably a major part that made it work. But THAT is playing to WIN. Fan's don't always agree with it the calls but you can tell when a coach is playing to win or just playing to not-lose. Also if I recall... Helfrich didn't tell his punter that they were doing a fake punt. That way they could really sell the confusion of the punt... or lack there of.

Around the 40 is no man's land for punting. I'd go for it personally... But being up by 7 maybe playing to not lose was the right call. Turning it over on downs around the 40 would also be a huge momentum swing. But if they were to convert on 4th down then it could take a lot of the air out of Pitts offense and defense.

I had to look up where Stonybrook is last year. And Oregon was just shy of covering the spread on that one. I fully anticipate Miami to win by multiple scores. But Cristobal will burn a whole lot of clock and leave points on the field and as a result will fail to cover a spead that big. If it was a number more like Miami -28 I'd take it. 45 feels like the total amount of points Cristobal will want Miami to score. So if Miami shuts them out I guess it'd be good... But I saw that Miami defense in their spring game. It's still squishy underneath. Miami will give up a few points.

I'd take Miami to not cover that spread. Cristobal failed to cover the spread way too often last year.

Or in most cases really... the subscription mindless drivel... or just a less inclusive atmosphere.

For now anyways... I am sure there will come a time where the bigger powers at be will want to change things. I'm not saying it happens this year or next year but there will come a time when there is a push for unequal revenue sharing.

I feel Cristobal really just wanted bigger players from the strength and conditioning program and not really faster and stronger players. Oregon during the Kelly-Helfrich years had issues getting out muscled but they always had the speed. In the Cristobal era they had the muscle but couldn't always seem to leverage it to their advantage as they could be beat with speed. Or often just be too predictable and counted because the opposing team just knew what to do to beat them.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dillingham wants to take a shot down field right out the gate to test the Georgia defense. A deep shot is a test on the pass rush and on the secondary. It's risky but if it works that is one hell of an opening statement.

All green is good. I read on one of the other forums out there that Georgia might be wearing their red uniforms. This would be awful for those who are red-green color blind. However, for the rest of us it would be fun to see that much color on the field. I kinda doubt we see Georgia in red because of the colorblind issue, I don't know if any players on either team are color blind but if they are that would be a big problem for them.

The first attempt at putting some rules and regulations on transfers. I do believe players as student athletes should have the ability to transfer once. Many regular students have that right. However, as student athletes also get all the scholarship and sports related perks and are apart of a giant sports apparatus that gives them value, NIL value at that, there need to be some rules around this wild and crazy free agency.

Here we go... Looks like we might start seeing a push by Ohio State for some unequal media rights sharing. The Great College Football Schism is Coming FISHDUCK.COM The great college football schism is coming, and it will fracture college football in a way that will shake the...

Frost wasn't playing to win... that was reckless. Sometimes playing to win requires playing it safe and playing to not lose. That is why every team works on running a 4 minute offense. Playing to not-lose isn't inherently a bad thing because sometimes it is the very thing you need to do to finish a game. But the playing to not-lose philosophy shouldn't be used until the VERY END of the game. Frost just took a meaningless risk.

2012... Our kicker missed the field goals needed to secure the win. Also DAT missed a block for Mariota that would have been a touchdown. Also... It was another instance where Stanford got a little help from the refs as their call for a Stanford touchdown to tie the game was dubious at best as it looked like the Stanford recievers was out of bounds when he had control of the football.

Other note... Cristobal would frequently go for it on 4th and short. But that didn't feel like it was part of the play-to-win philosophy because it was more about the "must be more physical" philosophy that surrounded the Cristobal era. I feel Cristobal always wanted the other team to cave to Oregon's run game, and in fairness with a winning record they did. But teams also caved to Oregon's run game under Kelly and Helfrich because of tempo and putting so many points on the board it caused the other team a whole lot of stress. The opposing defenses knew that they had to stop the Oregon run game or else the offense would be in a bigger hole, one mistake and that runner could be gone for a touchdown. If I may throw a little shade at Travis Dye, he never had the break away speed to score those long touchdown runs. He would find himself in the open field and running free and be caught just shy of the end zone. If that was a runningback from the Kelly-Helfrich eras that runner would be in the end zone for a score. I do feel there was something going on with the strength and conditioning program that was not helping Oregon's overall player speed.

I've never counted. But I think that is always a call about feel. I watched quite a few games from that era over the summer and I found it all came down to how he got into the red zone. If they got into the red zone fast with big chunk plays then going for it on fourth seemed inevitable. If they had to fight to get down the field and they got to fourth and goal then it felt like taking the three and getting something was the choice. But you always got the feeling the Kelly-Helfrich eras that the Ducks wanted to walk away with points and not leave them on the field.

For the next couple of years I think USC (and to a slightly lesser extent UCLA) take the top spots for most hated in the Pac-12. Washington is still hated by Ducks fans but I know personally I have some special hatred for those LA schools right now. Right now it feels like Oregon and Washington are in a situation where we have to team up to survive, we don't like it but we know we have to stick together so for the time being we'll hold our noses and do it. While USC and their B1G move and Pac-12 backstab have us all actively rooting against them no matter who they pay. I know this year when it comes to USC, I will not back the pack. I want to see USC lose as badly as possible. I want them to to feel like they can't compete in the Pac-12 and as they look over the edge and reflect on their decision of leaving for the B1G, I want them to think about how much worse things are going to get for them with all those hours of travel just to play half their conference games. I want USC so suffer the next two years they are stuck in the Pac-12. As for Washington... I want them to beat the LA schools but lose every other game they play. Those are the only circumstances I will root for Washington these upcoming years. Once the LA schools are gone then I'll go back to rooting against Washington for all twelve games. So for me personally, Washington gets a slight respite from my hate, for only one week this year.

USC fans are absolutely the worst right now. They are relishing how they have "defeated" Oregon by running off to the B1G and stabbing the rest of the conference in the back. They really seem too happy about it.

It's more interesting in terms of how the program is being managed and the personalities involved. Dillingham is in the booth as he is most likely the play caller anyways for the offense. If speed is desired we really got the sense that the play caller typically needs to be in the booth. Moorhead was on the sideline the last two years, until his medical emergency put him in the booth. But speed wasn't ever a meaningful part of the Cristobal offense. Then on the defensive side having Prowledge in the booth is not that surprising at all. Tosh really feels like a sideline motivator type of guy. I am sure with the Lanning defense the desire is getting the information in to him quickly with he play call and he has the ability to change it if he wants to. I'm sure Lanning could do that with the offense to as he is the head coach. But it's interesting in just getting a feel for how the Oregon command structure is going to run.

Cristobal has lots of flaws and he's gone. I figure most of this is directed at Cristobal and not Oregon as an institution. Cristobal builds great relationships but his culture was certainly wearing thin with last season.