David Marsh

Every conference will rue the day the Pac-12 died! The Pac-12 is Dead; Let Chaos Reign | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM The Pac-12 was the conference of cannibals and usually the most chaotic conference in the country. It...

Umm... How did ALL the coaches who left Oregon do in their post-Oregon careers? Brooks was unremarkable.... Kelly was fired from Philly and San Fran and left UCLA in a tenure that generated about a 50% win rate. Now he's an OC. Helfrich was fired and spent a year as an OC in the NFL and was fired... But that felt like a scapegoat firing but he hasn't dipped his toe into coaching since. Taggart... Taggart who? Cristobal... Doing the same thing in Miami he did here but with less success. As you said this is a hit piece. Oregon is a destination and the coaches who left all left for a dream job. Kelly for the NFL, Taggart for FSU and Cristobal for his alma mater of Miami. Lanning is building his program and building his loyalty to the institution.

That was 2017... The year of Taggart and he left like 2 weeks before this bowl. Cristobal and Co were scrambling to retain what they could of the recruiting class as the early signing day was the same week as the bowl game. The Ducks were grossly under prepared for that one. Also quite a few players sat out of the game, I know Royce Freeman was one of them.

Interestingly enough I watched part of an interview with the head of Fox's sports broadcasting and how they went about game selection. The way game selection works is basically just a draft. Fox gets the best picks and the most.picks because they have the biggest stake in the B1G. So they get the first 3 picks. Fox wants their big game of the day to be noon for their big noon kickoff. The first pick is always Ohio State v Michigan because it has the highest viewership. I forgot the second pick they discussed. Then they were stuck with a problem for the 3rd pick. They wanted Oregon v Ohio State but they believed they couldn't broadcast it for their noon slot (eastern time) because that's a 9am kickoff in Autzen which they felt was a no go. So they opted to trade their pick to NBC who will play that game in their prime time slot which is much later in the day for the west coast. I don't think we'll see too many 9am kick offs for the Ducks if any at Autzen. Now if we are playing at Penn State or Ohio State... Maybe. We did play Ohio State in 2021 in the big noon slot so that was a 9am slot for the west coast. But Oregon State is being thrown into a garbage time slot because of their situation. Oregon State v BSU is not a prime time game. And the only network that has a 9am (PST) slot is Fox and that game won't be on Fox.

I took would have liked to see more deep shots. But could that also have something to do with our wide receiver corp? It felt like Franklin was really our only deep threat. I love Tez but he's more of a short to medium range target who will get the ball and go get more. Could Stewart be the true deep threat we've needed? With Nix it never felt like his deep balls were placed badly but always a bit too long. Looking forward to seeing how this receiver corp develops as well.

Personally... I can live with corporate logos on fields. I don't like it, mostly because I feel it looks tacky and diminishes from a cleaner look. But corporate logos on uniforms is something I absolutely hate the look of entirely.

A lot of the B1G media might not know anything about the new arrivals. But the coaches seem to.

I get the desire for schools to put sponsorships on the field... But it feels tacky. Kinda like many of the bowl names these days. Didn't the Ducks play in the Foster Farm Bowl in 2018 or something like that?

For either track or football. I feel he may be a kid who will be forced to decide one over the other. Right now he'd be buried in Oregon's WR room by the look of it.

McCarthy looked serviceable but never a game breaker. I don't quite get the hype all around him. But what gives me confyfor the ducks next year is that we have fantastic lines and our defense should be better next year. Our defense last year struggled with air raid styles of offense. Not a lot of those in the B1G. And Oregon has the best QB room in the conference with stellar play makers. They are going to put up points and challenge the opposing offense to score. Only problem with that is Oregon's defense isn't going to let them. The pac-12 was a though conference in so many ways and it was in part through its diversity of play.

Tyler Van Dyke I think is a better quarterback than he was the past year or two at Miami. As we all know Cristobal handicaps his quarterbacks. But Wisconsin isn't loaded with top end wideouts to support him.

This is DucksWire's list of opposing quarterback the Ducks will face next year. Oregon Football’s top quarterbacks to face in the 2024 college season DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Who is the best QB that Oregon football will face in 2024? Who is the worst? Here are our rankings. For the most part I tend to agree. I think Ohio State's Will Howard is in an interesting spot, if he does secure the starting job. He will certainly have the best supporting cast of anyone (other than Dillon Gabriel) in the conference. But my big take away is that this isn't a terribly threatening list. The Pac-12 in the past couple of years had far more talent at quarterback by a long shot. This may prove to be a great opportunity for Oregon's defense to feast! Thoughts?

As a writer having a wonderful library of photos to look through and find the right image for an article is incredible. I've spent loads of time looking at video and getting screen shots and those pictures are usually worse and don't fulfill what I was looking for. So thank you Charles for getting the photographers and thank you to everyone who has donated to make these pictures possible.

I feel if there was ever a human who seemed to embody the Pac-12 it was Bill Walton.

I think sign stealing was he driving force behind the headset move. One of the things I love from the Kelly era are the bonkers signs the players held up. Everyone assumed they meant something but the reality was they were just there to divert attention. I think a few teams spent a while trying to decide those signs.

I went back into my very first articles at FishDuck to find these two. I think these were my 3rd and 4th articles. The creation of the Pac-12 from the Pac-10 was just a failure on so many levels. A Failed Fan Experience: Pac-12 Expansion Diminishes Rivalries |... FISHDUCK.COM Take a moment and think of this year’s conference schedule and pick out the top three games you want to see. As Oregon fans... A Failed Fan Experience: the Pac-12 Championship Anticlimax | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM The expansion of the Pac-12 conference has not been to the benefit of fans. In my previous article I argued that the... I'd say the last two years were an improvement in terms of the Pac-12 championship game. But too little too late.

I had 247 Duck Territory for a couple years and found there wasn't that much value in the inside information. Scoop Duck I feel is far better value. However, I do find that a lot of the inside information really comes concerning recruiting. If you're not super into recruiting it doesn't do you much good. The only other time that inside information is potentially nice is during great coaching instability. Sometimes you get nuggets about hirings. However, with Lanning's hiring Mullens kept everything super under wraps and there were no real nuggets coming out about that. And Lanning himself doesn't reveal any real info about a potential hire until it leaks elsewhere. Also... We are hopefully back in an era of stability where there will be relatively few coaching hires. This season there were two. One internal promotion for the new inside lbs coach. And then the RB coach hire if Samples.

I only see 2 ACC teams getting in if Clemson and FSU both have 10 wins at least. Both are big enough brands that they could warrant the inclusion. I don't see the Big 12 having enough brand power to warrant a fringe second team.

The media payouts for the ACC are awful and their contract goes until 2036 I believe so a really long time. Outside of media rights payouts a lot of money comes from different sources. Making bowl games and doing well in tournaments get the whole conference money as it's split among the members. This is usually paid out over several years. This is the money the Pig 2 are really keeping. The ACC has those big brands that are enabling these bigger payouts. Next year I suspect there might be a significant gap between the ACC and Big 12 because the ACC has better teams and brands. In terms of the college football playoff I see the B1G and SEC getting at least 2 teams a piece in easily if not a third. The ACC and Big 12 are guaranteed 1 each but I think the ACC could get 2 inif things go well but I doubt that's possible for the Big 12 without a whole lot of luck. But this still doesn't change how FSU, Clemson, UNC and Miami all feel they are being undervalued and carrying their conference. Well Miami is probably being carried in truth. Their media deal stinks and that is what is creating resentment. The Big 12 is a conference of left overs and definitely the no. 4 conference on the power 4. If the big players leave the ACC for the power 2 then the ACC may restructure to look more like the Big 12... Or they just merge with the Big 12.

I put up with a bunch of things that she likes right now because that's the way life is... but Bluey is an adult cartoon dressed up as a kids show. It's quite good.

Is the Pac-2 even worth mentioning on any of these lists? It's a coin flip as to who wins it's literally a 50-50 shot. WAZU might be slightly better on paper but it's not enough to make it any more than a coin toss. Putting out predictions for every G5 conference is a better use of time than the Pac-2 at this point. Either WSU or OSU will need to go 12-0 in dominant fashion to make the playoff. Then to make any sort of "splash" they'll have to make it to the semi finals which isn't going to happen. Good laugh though.

I'm fine with this... But when fall rolls around I'll have a 2 year old and a 6 month old at home... Let's just say having night games at least means my girls are in bed. My eldest isn't took keen on me watching anything but Bluey... Granted Bluey is pretty good. But it isn't Duck Football. So for me a night game means I get to watch in mostly peace.

And if they make that bowl game how many opt out? You get the sense that it's playoff or bust. Or perhaps that Colorado is entitled to a playoff berth for just who they are.

What should follow is a de-recruitment like what Georgia and by extension Oregon, as he learned it from Smart and Saban. You need to play the hype game in recruiting and evaluate talent and personalities. But once they're on campus they get knocked back and they either conform to a culture of the team and community or they transfer. It feels like Colorado is a group of individuals and not a cohesive team. Getting high level talent to buy into the idea that they aren't special is tough. But what i love about Lanning era Oregon football is that it really does feel unselfish. I mean Nix could have had better stats last year and maybe it could have propelled him to win the Heisman if he wasn't sitting on the bench for the 4th quarter. Bucky Irving had to share touches with Jordan James. Just think how much greater either player's stats would have been if they were the featured back. But they shared and the the team was better for it.

Based on the question as to what has changed my opinion on the program the most... Chip Kelly because it was the blue offense that made me interested in football. Before that I didn't care about football.