David Marsh

The facemask thing was dumb. However, there was a lot of pushing and proding coming from the Washington nokayer too that didn't entirely look legal as well. Not excusing it, Pittman does need to control his emotions a bit better because the facemask was a reaction to something and not poor technique.

He didn't say it... He implied that Oregon players were beneath Washington's standards. Which is not true because they recruit many of the same players. Also... Players and coaches get to celebrate wins. Especially right after the game. Most coaches, including MC, say they get 24 hours to enjoy the win and then they flush it and are back to work. Also WSU isn't the same kind of rivalry as Washington. The media can do whatever it wants... But MC does at least say the right things in front of the camera when speaking directly to the media. There won't be this drama next week because it is a different kind of game. Lake was undisciplined and made some unwise comments to the media. MC didn't say anything problematic directly into a camera. We got a private moment after a game. I wonder what was said in the Washington locker room? I'm sure there was some unsavory stuff there too.

Let me go check the replay of the replay and I'll get back to you. Oh wait.... We can't check the replay because another play has happened already... But let's talk about it anyways. Oh wait... The game is over ... But the refs are still talking?

If there is one thing Cristobal wants to promote it's that he has his players backs. I think the "academic prowess" comment made by Lake earlier this week really cut deep. Lake implied Oregon players are dumb... Oregon isn't as big of a research school as many schools in the pac-12 are but it is still a quality school. Coach speak exists for a reason... It's to be a good sport and look respectful to all opponents. It's annoying for fans sometimes when you hear coaches playing an FCS school say "they are a good football team and they have great coaches and they execute well" when that may or may not be true... But it's what needs to be said publically. You don't call another teams players stupid.

This may be the excuse Washington's AD needs to fire Lake at the end of the season. Especially to avoid a buyout because they could become firing with cause.

Cristobal hates the huskies and Lake. He gets what is important to Oregon football. Comments like what MC said I am sure are common after coming through rivalry games. They just don't always get out there. Also let's get real... Lake has been taking shots at the Ducks for years. Last year he even proclaimed winning the pac-12 north because they avoided playing Oregon. MC doesn't respect Lake and Lake has earned that with his public comments. I am 1000% sure Cristobal respects Oregon's other rivals head coach Jonathan Smith because Smith doesn't spout garbage about his rival in public. Now lets turn that passion into a pac-12 championship.

In fairness the passing game has been pretty crap. The last thing you want to do is have brown throw a pick and Washington have a shot at scoring before they get the ball at half. Ideally I would love to see Oregon push it down the field and score more. However, I can see the logic about just running the clock out at half. I don't like it ... But I can understand the logic behind it.

In fairness Washington called the one right before the punt so we can to punt the ball with 1 second.

Time for some half time adjustments! The run game needs to get rolling. Granted it does feel like Washington is stacking the box to stop it ... But this isn't really passing weather... Especially with Brown.

Life! Now just need to do that a few more times and let the defense continue to get stops.

Ok... I'm saying it now... I have gotten comfortable with Brown the last couple weeks but I'd this is his play today... Bench him.

Yes they just showed how Oregon is playing into the wind right now. That's why Washington has the better kicks right now.

Lots of help for Oregon today. Now they just need to take care of business and win! Wake Forest went down as well. They were the ACC's only undefeated so getting them out of the way helps.

My hands were getting tired from writing at that point. But absolutely a great point.

The pac-12 is the most geographically diverse conference in the country. We cover more biomes than any other conference by far. Where most conferences are pretty much laid out east-west they sit on relatively the same lines of latitude... Or at the very least within a very narrow bandwidth. The PAC is laid out across a much greater range of latitude. Just think we have the LA schools AND the PNW schools in the same conference. The range of temperatures and weather alone is pretty great from that alone. The only other conference that has a similar north-south layout is the ACC where it goes from Miami Florida to Syracuse New York. However, the ACC is pretty closely tied to the Atlantic coast and coastal temperatures tend to be more stable with less variance than continental temperatures. Now the continenantal conferences are the B1G, and to a lesser degree the big-13 and SEC. Though all these conferences are really laid out as states above east-west so the variation isn't so great on the whole. Then there is the final thing that makes the variation of climate and weather in the PAC so great... Mountains. Mountains act as a great divider and change weather themselves. Where Oregon, Oregon state, Washington and the California schools are all coastal we have one set of variations in temperature and weather. Cross the mountains and the biomes change to high desert or in the case if the Arizona schools... Just desert. Then on top of it all Utah and Colorado are so far away from the coast that they are Continental and suffer from the wide range in temperature variations across seasons. In short the pac-12 has the most range in longitude and latitude which creates the most variance for our teams to play in. Well ... That might answer your question. At the very least is allowed me to use my UO geography degree for a few minutes.

I did write and article that said that Frost was absolutely right about the difficulties of recruiting to Oregon. MC makes it look easy but he out works everyone.

Good to see refs from other conferences can be blind and miss obvious calls. That was definitely pass interference and may determine the outcome of the game. Granted if Nebraska didn't miss to fgs it would be tied.

I just root for Oregon. Anyone else I root for is only temporary.

Right now braska is playing hard... Now they just need to finish. They are still down but a TD will tie and extra point the lead.

Anyone else watching this game? I'm torn who to root for this game. On the one hand we need Ohio State to win to make our win look better... But some B1G chaos is also what we need. If OSU loses a second game and then takes down both Michigan teams and Oregon takes care of business Oregon is pretty secure. Also there is a part of me that wants to see Frost succeed. He is a duck and that is enough to want him to do well. Unless he is playing against Oregon that is.

My wife went to UW... our relationship works because she doesn't care about football and basically backs the Ducks by default because it makes me happy (also I am way better to be around when the Ducks win). There was a Brital Shower quiz about her that I took so I could be compared with her friends to determine who knows her best... I tied but would have won outright if I could answer the question "Ducks or Huskies?" accurately... I couldn't check Huskies.

I think Lake is around for another year regardless... 2020 didn't count for the majority of coaches out there and it didn't for Lake.. after all he "won the North" LOL! But there is one thing Washington fans want more than anything out of a coach... beat Oregon... and well... Petersen manged to do it twice.. but he caught Oregon at our lowest point in quite some time. I don't think fans will tolerate him for much longer though... especially when he starts Hate Week off talking smack about Oregon and he ends up losing to Oregon.... really looking forward to seeing this happen tomorrow.

And if this is the truth I'm ok with it... We have been screaming on message boards and articles for years that we want a more dynamic offense. Oregon fans really do love MC. Our biggest frustration has been the lack of points. So if we get more points then we will be even happier with MC.

I would take Helfrich over Kelly in all honesty.

Chip just struggles in rebuilding a program. He was given an ampted up and ready to go Oregon and ran with it. But trying to take a failing program and turn it around... that is very difficult for most coaches and requires a different skill set than what Chip has. Though here is a follow up question... Moorhead will probably not be at Oregon forever... so how would people feel about Kelly returning to Oregon as OC?