David Marsh

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.

We did bees! Well we did what I call the bumblebee look in 2014... I personally like these uniforms as far as black uniforms go for Oregon.

Thanks Charles... This is the Moore commitment but I do feel Young is teasing us pretty hard and I think it may be genuine at the end of the day.

Conference realignment takes a lot more time than we all think. We only see the big moves and announcements. But those take months of discussions to reach those points. We are all waiting on ND for better or worse right now.

Getting a big is always important and star ratings are I think the most difficult to figure out for the majority of the big guys. There is one thing that can't be taught and that is raw physical size. So many of these big guys need to get to college and get the proper nutrition and weight training for them to really start to reach their potential. Some have it in high school but they are rare and those are the ones who are the five stars.

I think it is the same uniform but the lighting is doing something to it make it look a little different color wise.

It was over for the Ducks as soon as he announced his transfer to IMG for his senior year. In truth it was probably done before that anyways.

And every other stadium on that list is at least double the size of Autzen. Fear the Duck! We all know USC already does.

And they ran to the B1G... And let's see how well that works for them... And I'd Oregon follows them to continue to haunt them. Kinda funny how this school in the middle of nowhere Oregon is causing USC so many problems. But I think we all love it.

Yes. They were let down by a rigid offensive scheme that made everyone worse. The running backs were running downhill into linemen... The offensive line had to block some incredibly obvious gaps which resulted in the defense loading the box. This resulted in minimal gains and both runningback and offensive linemen looking bad. And then the defense ... I don't know why it underperformed as bad as it did early in the 2021 season when the team was at it's healthiest. Too many underneath routes were left open which allowed for easy outs for the quarterback and didn't allow for the pass rush to get home. And I didn't even get started on a lack of good receivers for 2018-2019 for Herbert and then the growth of a receiver corp that did t have a QB to pass to them. Ughhh...

Some strong hints that Young is next. This could be the best Oregon recruiting class ever....

I was under the impression that the NBA was already looking at (re) expanding into Seattle. The sad thing is that if the Blazers were to leave Portland I'm not sure Portland would get another NBA team.

This is big and now we also just gained a big recruiter for this class. I think our chances for some other big recruits just improved.