David Marsh

Strange how Oregon's offensive line played the better last year than they did during the Cristobal era. You know when our HC was all about the offensive line and was an Offensive line coach. Problems innboth scheme and coaching. This year is posed to be a monster year for the Oregon offensive line.

Academics is a huge sticking point with Boise State. I know I'm beating a dead horse... Or Bronco? At this point but Boise State doesn't meet the academic standards the PAC has and is looking for. From a business standpoint BSU might notmmake a ton of sense due to market size right now but it is growing but it will take quite a while to grow to a big enough size to be considered worth it. The quality of their football is good enough. Granted it has dipped since Petersen left and they aren't the same level of giant killer they used to be.

I do feel like the Holiday Bowl had at lot of moments that showed growth. Sure the win was only by 1 points and it looked pretty darn bad for the Ducks for the majority of the game but they made it work. I feel like Bassa really had a chance to shine. Brown did as well but he transfered out. Looking forward to seeing where this team can go this season.

I find Pate is reasonably knowledgeable but his knowledge takes a sharp dip for anything west of Texas. He generally has a lot of good things to say about Oregon, he generally doesn't comment much on any other schools besides Oregon, Washington, and the LA schools. Lately Colorado has gotten mentioned more... Well not really Colorado so much as Deone Sanders. Pate is big on the SEC and he tends not to hide the fact. He was born and raised in SEC country. He was all over SEC media days with interviews and all sorts of stuff but hasn't done any other conferences. I think he has some good points but again... West of Texas he doesn't comment much on. As for Justin Hopkins he runs the Scoopduck (on3 duck site) and I would say he knows the Duck program quite well. He isn't a pac-12 guy per se but he gets Oregon. I would agree with him though that the PAC was wearing an ACC of B1G badge the media coverage would be very different.

The ACC won't be... But at least the B1G, the PAC and the Big-12 will be around that time. Probably the SEC as well but not sure on their deal. Though I do think if the PAC were to take on SDSU and SMU their brands can grow a bit by then.

Leave it to Camden Lewis to make an extra point suspenseful. Yes, he has massively improved over his freshman season but still. One of my favorite Oregon sounds is the fog horn for scored points. Its powerful but it's low pitched so it's not in your face but at the same time it's in your head! Much better than that obnoxious siren the Huskies have.

Oregon doesn't need the PAC the same way the PAC needs Oregon at this point. Oregon is interested in access to the CFP and they can have that in a slightly smaller conference. Oregon also has some of the deepest doners in the country and can easily make up the revenue difference. That is in part also why the ducks aren't pushing for the B1G (it also doesn't pencil). Another thing for Oregon is that they were the school in the PAC (at least public school) that brought in the most athletic revenue and MADE money for the year. Oregon doesn't need conference expansion to get what they want. Now as a greater fan of the PAC, I would like to see a little expansion and keep this conference healthy. But Oregon's needs aren't the same as the rest of the conference. They may be opposed but it probably won't matter for conference expansion because there will be enough to push expansion forward.

If they want to make this move by 2024 they need to act fast because scheduling an additional OCC game is going to be tough and no one is going to schedule anything too interesting because of it being so late in the cycle. Well unlikely to schedule anything interesting. And it wouldn't just be fire 2024 but probably through 2026 the PAC additional OCC games would also be pretty underwhelming. And that's not even getting into the potential chaos of looking at rescheduling a bunch of Ooc games with SDSU if they become a member of the pac-12. Yes, I'm aware that those games could still just be non-conference games of neither party could schedule a true OOC opponent but still. I also think the SEC is slowly being nudged towards a 9 game conference schedule. But the SEC has been able to really get away with their 8 game conference schedule and then add an extra FCS opponent at the end of the season thing because they have done a great job saying they are the toughest conference and that makes things "fair" for them. I'm not sure the PAC can get away with reducing their number of conference games. Especially if they replace those conference games with lesser completion.

Defense needed a bit of an overhaul for Oregon after last year's problems. It looks like that has and is being addressed. But I'm going out on a rather strong limb here and say if Nix was healthy Oregon wins both those games against Washington and Oregon State. This person makes it sound like Oregon got smashed both of those games but both of those games were lost by less than a touchdown. A healthy Nix puts Oregon over the top. It's also why I HATE the empty set! Never ever ever ever ever ever run the quarterback from the empty set! It's too easy to diagnose and stop!

If there wasn't anit-pac bias... Yes.

It will be interesting to see if Oregon's narrative changes when the LA teams are out of the conference. I feel it's USC bias and hate for Oregon that is leaning through.

I think he handled the questions about it well enough. Nothing spectacular... But also nothing that is going to draw any controversy. It was pretty bland though informative.

Really for a coast to coast conference to work would be to have really two 8-10 team conferences (or divisions I suppose) on both coasts. That way they can play the majority of their games on their coast. That would keep travel expenses reasonable. Then you could reasonably have 2 cross over games a year... One home and one away and the travel expenses would still be good. Winner of each division plays for the championship... Or you go real crazy and turn it into a mini playoff. Atlantic Division Championship game and a Pacific Division Championship game. Then you get the Coastal Championship Game. One of the things I kinda linked for the mess that was the 2020 season was how at the end of the year there were cross division games between teams that had similar records but didn't play each other in the shortened season. I would like this to be built into a coastal conference to get another interesting cross division game in place as well. But to make a coastal conference work it would really need to be two conferences that meet up for some regular events but it can't be too frequent because of the cost.

And UCLA has one of the biggest fan bases??? Then why can't they fill the rose bowl every Saturday? Or even just some Saturdays. The cameras work very hard to not show how many empty seats but you can still tell the thing is maybe only half full. No idea how they did that study ...

Both have to take out Utah and UW. Oregon has to take out USC and OSU UCLA. Then Oregon will beat OSU in the rivalry game. So... Oregon goes undefeated and OSU has 1 loss to Oregon. I can get behind that. That's the cleanest way it can go down.

I think I called it in another forum thread... So I'm all for it. Granted for that to happen it will require some craziness to happen.

Has Lanning Fixed the Duck Defense's Soft Underbelly? FISHDUCK.COM The Oregon Ducks' defense has maintained one major problem for the last three years. Simply put, it has a... I feel that the defense will take a major leep. It already looks like some of the major improvements already took hold during the spring game.

I feel confident we will probably have a top 30 defense this year. The way they played in the spring game with mixed squads showed some massive potential. They did better in their assignments... That is one thing that will carry over into actual play.

SILENTLY SURGING! Let them put Oregon back there... all the better when Oregon kicks all their butts and takes the conference! USC is a hype machine and always has been. They are almost always picked to win the conference and since the conference went to 12 teams they have only manged to do it ONCE. Oregon is coming for them but let those USC fans relish the idea of being conference champions because it isn't going to happen. Washington is certainly not going to be the No. 2 team. Can't wait for the season to start so we can see these Ducks prove just how good they are. It's also a pretty trendy pick to not pick Oregon as well based off a lot of these media polls.

I'd say this isn't something that should be done in front of the team. It actually makes it super awkward for everyone even whitnessing it. There could be a brief team meeting after the player is removed from the team where the coach goes over why this had to happen and explains why the rules are important so it turns into a learning opportunity rather than something dramatic and scandalous. I would also like to know what rules this kid broke and how did Sanders address those incidents? Did he call him out and punish him in front of the team or sit him down and talk about it? Also was there a team meeting going over team rules at the start of the season? Did Sanders explain the rational behind the team rules? My teacher side just crindges at this sort of thing. I leady schools Constitutional Law Team (there is a whole competition and complex questions and it's a cool thing) and every year I seem to have one student who never participates in team meetings (it's a class but also an after school program). So I have to have conversations with students about being present and basically team rules or expectations. I've had to kick a few kids off the team, I'd never do it in public. It's always a private conversation after a series of conversations.

That would be the worst thing for the conference. Right now I'm hoping for Oregon v Utah or perhaps even Oregon State (wouldn't that be something).or Washington (vomit). Utah has Oregon, Washington, OSU, USC and UCLA on the schedule. The California focuses scheduling is going to end because that is ridiculous how this currently protects those LA teams. Utah, Oregon, UW and OSU all get to run a real gau tlet right now with Utah getting it a bit worse because they have to play both LA teams. Everyone else on this list has to go through each other. USC gets to skip OSU this year and UCLA gets to skip Oregon and UW. Talk about convienant. Yes, I know scheduling is done often years in advance but I'll be happy to see this end. Especially since the championship game isn't bound to divisions anymore. But I'll throw out a bit of a long shot prediction... Oregon v Oregon state in the conference championship game. Oregon wins back to back against the beaves in the same season too. But for that to happen some crazy things will need to happen.

Utah has been a power in the Pac-12 no denying that... however, Utah hasn't been able to break through and win a NY6 game though they have been to the last two Rose Bowls. UW hasn't been any better with their NY6 trips (back when Petersen was there) and they came away with a couple losses. You know which team in the Pac that actually won a Rose Bowl recently? Oregon!

ESPN now has a report up... Source - Pac-12 media rights deal expected in 'near future' - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM The Pac-12 will not announce a new media rights deal Friday, a source told ESPN, but the conference's patience "is about to pay... Nothing really in it that hasn't been said... but its another source.

Probably not... Oregon had had 4 presidents (including intern presidents) all be in office for the deal. I'm sure whoever takes over will be briefed and given marching orders.

I had a good laugh at some of the comments from that tweet. Some trolls think the deal is going to be worth 26 mil or less per school. That doesn't seem like a deal that would be accepted and does not match all the reporting from the more credible sources.