David Marsh

A lot of his own recruits for starters... Then it will be a real battle with Oregon and MC after he fights his current program.

It looked Oregon was pretty ready for it but that ball bounced PERFECTLY. An Oregon player should have been more aggressive jumping towards the ball but most onsides kicks don't have a bounce quite that beautiful. However, I will agree the coaching should have had the whole team ready to more aggressively attack the football.

Does USC even understand what the Trojan horse was? I mean honestly... The Trojan horse is something you DON'T want... Is this implying that Riley will destroy the USC program by brining it completely to the ground? In my Latin class at UO we did discuss how USC's classics department wasn't brought in to consult with their athletics. So I suppose the trend will continue.

Oklahoma has been a big fish in a rather small pond... Oklahoma has been the Clemson of the big-12. Going to the sec would make his job a lot harder for the same expectations. Going to USC means he just has to contend with a rising Oregon which isn't as intimidating as Bama, TAMU, or Georgia... Or whoever takes over at LSU.

Probably will end up at USC... I was thinking he would end up there no matter who they hired. They got his older brother into the NFL and that's all that Mycah wants.

Lots went wrong with the Utah game. Here's hoping that Oregon gets back to form in round two.

Wait... We have backups? I'm pretty sure we have used all our backups up this year to date. This is the most injured Oregon team I can remember... And I remember way too much about Oregon football sometimes. We may not have lost some ultra-critical players... Like quarterback which can destroy an entire season ... Granted we actually have quarterback backups right now. But we have lost so many starters across the board it's insane right now.

I think this offense will be more focused on Friday. Also playing in neutral Vegas will definitely make things easier for Oregon. SLC is a roughy environment for many reasons... Also I think this young team was probably pretty shaken up by the loss of Johnson, Redd and Pittman's nonsense. If JJ3 and Redd didn't suffer their injuries with the Pittman stuff going on, I think we would have seen a different team last week. Also... Need our defense to show up. Hoping to get DJ Johnson back and hopefully Swell and Wright are feeling good. Need to scheme against those 2 TE packages better... Those are stopping our front 7 from being disruptive.

I do wonder how much the 2020 season messed up the trajectory of the program. Yes... We did win the Pac-12 but with all the opt outs, it does raise the question of how much mentorship was lost because we started having to press freshman into service earlier than we would have otherwise. Starting to see some very good things out of the youth... Right now we are just hampered by injuries so bad it's difficult to see the growth.

I held my breath when I saw the deep ball on the move on 3rd and 3. It was his best pass all season a 50 yard bomb to Williams and it dropped right in his hands. Brown was getting the ball out right where it needed to be this game. Besides the big deep ball the rest of his deep balls were a bit overthrown. But I don't remember him throwing behind receivers on the crossing routes as much. These recievers are going to be GOOD next year with a better passer running the show.

Oregon going for 2 just for fun is now a thing of the past. It was fun when we did it though.

Can't have any more injuries .. we are out of reserves at this point. There isn't anyone left.

Oh... And I guess Campbell doesn't need to get used to a new color scheme I just realized that USC and Iowa State basically wear the same uniforms.

The problem for any team playing Ohio state (besides MSU) isnt scoring... It's scoring enough to keep up with their offense. So far only Oregon has managed it this year.

At best it's just a proofread... The model of a vast majority of journalism out there now is just get it published. Very few places even have editors. So a huge credit to Charles for having put together a great group of editors who have always made me look a whole lot better.

He is a good coach and one who has proven himself in Big-10 and Big-12 country (Iowa sits in both conferences). He strikes me as a mid-west guy. Now that doesn't mean he can't succeed at USC but we will just have to see if the culture he wants to build can materialize with the talent he needs. Or does he dip into the three star pool to find the players who will buy into his desired culture... if that's the case he might be good but won't meet USC's standards. It will be interesting to watch...

And this is why I can't care about the NBA playoff... yes I am going completely 1000 percent OFF TOPIC with that statement but I think it proves a point. The NBA playoffs are super boring because after a 72 game season we know who are statistically the best teams are... and then they play a best-of-seven torment where the statistically best teams tend to be the ones to win it. March Madness on the other-hand is glorious with best-of-one games where a team can get lucky or just play better. Now College Football on the whole has four tiers ... top tier (Alabama, Ohio State, ect.) a second tier (Oregon, Wisconsin, ect.) a third tier (the vast majority of all the Power-Five Teams and the better teams from G5 Conferences) then a fourth tier ... the crap teams that are constant basement dwellers (the Arizona's right now). Why we love sports is because the unknown can happen. We all want an outcome but the narrative isn't written so we have to watch it unfold. Sometimes the results are frustrating (Utah) and sometimes they are magnificent (Ohio State). So now... it is time for the Ducks to show up tomorrow and get their ticket to Vegas... and then show up in Vegas and beat Utah to show the College Football world who owns the PAC!

Let's also have the whole team show up to actually play! And by whole team I mean those who are heathy and actually able to play ... Not the 30 some who are injured at this point.

Same here ... The only Washington games she has senmen since she met me are the ones where Oregon is winning. She has seen more Oregon games than Washington games at this point. It only works because she doesn't care about sports.

This I think would be interesting... I do think MC and Co. need to take a really deep dive into their game management and pre-game prep. As a classroom teacher I know some days I have to bring the energy for everyone to keep students engaged. Other days they bring enough themselves to help feed me. The Utah game neither the coaches or the players were bringing the energy or urgency to the game. This team has a really high floor... but the coaches need to find a way to get them off the floor and playing to their highest levels.

It doesn't... and it's not even close.

I would like to say that MC has gotten better as a head coach since taking over. Does he still have problems? Absolutely... but the product he is putting on the field is better than what he started with. Don't compare him with Saban because there is only one Saban and he is an absolute anomaly in the football world. In his first two years MC was really dependent on Herbert to make the whole team go and lets be blunt... Herbert didn't have much of a supporting cast around him. Sure we saw some nice games from Verdell and Dye and the offensive line was ok to good on average but Herbert really ignited that rebuilding process. The 2019 class is the bedrock of his team right now and to say it once again... in terms of games played.. they have played 2 full seasons and are only NOW into their third as a class because 2020 was a mess of a year. 2020 was a practice season for the Pac-12 and it had mixed results for Oregon. The 2020 class is starting to come into their own. Then this year has been so riddled with injuries that the majority of the 2021 class has been pressed into service and burned their red shirts. We tested our depth... we are out of depth now. That is the type of season it has really been. We made it this far into the season and survived wave after wave of minor and major injuries and now we don't have any more actual depth but freshman who would be otherwise red-shirted. Realistically... most teams play for conference championships and make the playoff with STRONG 3rd and 4th year classes with some youth sprinkled in as high flyers. Oregon this year is the opposite.. they are a super young team (50% of the team are still at Freshman eligibility and KT is a sophomore!) who have some 3rd and 4th year juniors and seniors sprinkled in... and I am going off FULL SEASON experience which includes a FULL OFF-SEASON. Is Cristobal the coach to bring us to the promised land? Maybe, maybe not... but you know we are stuck with him for better or worse for the foreseeable future. Just think what this team can do next year with this year's experience and we don't have as many injuries to deal with.

We got through one gauntlet of injuries only to face a whole new set this year. This year's team is horribly snake bitten. Also... we weren't going to win a National Championship with Brown leading this offense so lets not kid ourselves there either. Thompson has played in 3 games, so he has one more game left before he burns his redshirt. As fans we would have burned it ages ago but we don't make the calls and we are obsessed with the star-rating beside his name. I think the coaching staff learned a lesson last year with Shough. He was the starter going into last season, he didn't have a full spring or fall camp and he performed, ok actually, but Brown started taking over because Shough was struggling to stay calm and make the right reads. Pulling Shough and replacing him with Brown is probably the reason he transferred. If we had a full off season in 2020 and a full season maybe Shough would have been prepared enough to keep the job and would be our QB this year... he throws the ball better than Brown. So I think the coaching staff is cautious with Thompson right now, let him develop on his own time to make a real run next year. A Pac-12 Championship and a Rose Bowl are still in play this year which for a team composed of 50% Freshman is still a big deal. If Oregon wants to be Clemson of the West (well not this year's Clemson... but typical Clemson) then we have to own the west first and then go for the Playoff.

Just when we think we weathered the injury storm... It comes right on back to bite us.

Nice to see refs from other conferences mess up big time. Nebraska has been one of those teams this season where they just can't put a fill game together. Oregon has had a bit of that problem at times too.. bit Oregon comes out with a win.