David Marsh

Even if Colorado wins... they are in for a rough time in Eugene next week. Oregon's pass rush looked good tonight. We only got one or two sacks because Hawaii was getting that ball out super fast. But also if you watch a lot of those incomplete passes those were hurries because the defensive line was coming in hot after him. Colorado's offense just doesn't get the ball out as fast which will mean more sacks.

Colorado and Colorado State are in a dog fight right now... wasn't Colorado supposed to win this one by a healthy margin? I know still first quarter... But I guess this "it's personal" motivation stuff can cut both ways.

It would be great. What I think may be coming through is that Bama is not a Bama-quality team this year. And maybe Texas is just Texas...

Canzano had a proposal for what OSU and WSU may want to do for a year... keep the conference at two and do a home and home series with each other and then scramble and pick up 5 other non-conference games. They get to live off the leftover fat of the of conference for a year while setting up who to bring into the conference for 2025 and beyond. I get some of the logic... but I feel that it is pretty pathetic and sad and everyone is going to see it that way. If they do pursue this too that schedule they are going to have it going to be so bad that even if one goes undefeated they'll not get a playoff invite. It'll welcome ridicule. Also... other thought... if we do see a conference de-alignment happen where a Pacific coast conference reemerges with all the classical powers and the pac-12 is still around though as efficiently a G5 conference... would Oregon, Washington, Stanford, Cal, USC and UCLA join a lesser pac-12 or create a new conference of real power teams? Yeah... they'll be making a new conference if that scenario comes to pass and OSU and WSU may be left out again. Let the pac-12 die for now so it may be reborn later.

Sometimes teams need some extra motivation to dig deep. But I don't think making everything personal and having to push back against someone else's words or narrative is sustainable. At some point players need to dig deep and play to win because they want to win. Do you think Saban, Smart or Dabo get their players hyped to play a game by saying the other coach said mean things about them? No... they focus on their business and take care of business. This stuff I think works in the short run and may help build a team up and believe in themselves but when do things stop being personal and a team just needs to take care of business and win?

I also don't think MSU was all that good before the off field distractions. They downright stank last year.

Also... I'm feeling better about Oregon's offensive line as I'm watching Bama's line getting torn to shreds by USF.

All fan bases start to lose it when you have wins like that. Right now I think some Bamanfans may be calling for Saban's head with how they're performing against South Florida. I do think that Saban will be gutting his staff by year's end regardless.

The Big 12 has been give their role to play and accepted it... they are a tier 2 conference. They lack any of the big blue blood major brands and have a bunch of good but not great teams. They will be included for the playoff but it will be a long shot if the conference can ever win one. The ACC is currently a mix of a tier 1 and tier 2 conference .... they still have their big brands but they are feeling the pressures and they won't last long. The ACC Is Next on the Chopping Block for Conference Realignment FISHDUCK.COM Last year I wrote an article about the Coming College Football Schism where there will be two conferences...

That's what they actually want... they can talk about how they want to save the conference but at best they are just saving the name. ACC is probably more likely at this point... as the Big 12 did what their masters wanted and consumed all the programs they wanted.. Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State. Their media overlords had no interest in Cal and Stanford which is why they went to the ACC... and no one has shown any interest in WSU and OSU which is why they are discarded. Other programs will be discarded soon enough as well, we are still only at the beginning of this process it feels like or maybe just at act 2 of a five act play...

Not sure I agree with that opening line... "their colors were basic" ... We don't wear red and white really only appears when we play away games... Green and Yellow are hardly basic in the college sports world.

I wasn't aware that was the rule... I just know that in the past when I have paid for the network and Oregon only being on it for the first couple of games was frustrating only because I was still paying for it. Now... I use a VPN to connect to Canada and watch the games on Pac-12 International for free on youtube. I just don't remember seeing this many games slated for the network for one weekend before. A couple of teams are being thrown onto their local Pac-12 network channel which just seems absolutely crazy.

I can say them all right in my head... but I struggle with them verbally.

So tomorrow there will be SEVEN games on the pac-12 network. I don't remember the last time there have been so many games on the Larry's loser network in one day. Many of these games will only be on their regional networks. Thankfully the Oregon game is going to be on the main channel (and the Oregon channel) while Stanford will be relegated to the Bay Area only channel. So there will be a lot of people (even people with the network) who won't be able to see at least half of these seven games tomorrow. Talk about awful...thankfully we won't have to deal with this next year.

Right now I think OSU and WSU are hoping that rebuilding the pac-12 means they get to keep the "autonomous" or power status. They won't... the other four won't let them. With autonomous status they would get access to the playoff by being a well ranked conference champion. But I don't see the B1G, SEC, big 12 and ACC going for that. At best they keep the brand... but it's a brand everyone knows is toast.

I wouldn't declare the sky falling yet but I am not saying I don't have my concerns. 1. Last year's line had some big time veteran power to it. We have replaced 4.5 starters this year. I give the .5 to Harper as he does have some starting expirence with injuries last year. So lots of youth that needs to work together. Sure we have Cornelius who started elsewhere but he didn't stay with this offensive line. 2. Waiting on injuries... will this be the final version of our offensive line? Nope... we have a few transfers who are healing from injuries, will they best out the starters? Maybe... but they'll add depth. 3. Texas Tech did sell out to stop the run... which is why the slants and other passes were there. If the offensive line looks bad against Hawaii, Colorado or Stanford without any improvement I'll start to worry. Just not quite yet.

70mil over time is still different than 20 mil up front. Not saying MSU wouldn't be interested in making that move but I feel there are probably cheaper options. Perhaps poaching another Colorado coach? That would probably be cheaper.

But still not what doomed us... We were down Pharaoh Brown (Utah Game injury), Bralon Addison (for the season), Devon Allen (Rose Bowl injury), Ifo Ekpre-Olumu (Pre-Rose Bowl inury) and those are the only ones I can remember right now.. So yeah Carrington failing a drug test out another level of stress... but there just werent the bodies available to compete with Ohio State that also just had us beat on both lines of scrimmage.

That one could have been a bigger problem. But in 2014 Oregon made it to the national championship game. We just didn't have a deep enough roster to win it.

I'm going to be "that guy" ... But isn't that really the Oregon identity? Aren't we the bombastic upstarts who routinely piss off the blue bloods? I mean USC loathes us because we are innovative with uniform designs and we played a huge part in the most recent innovations of the game with the proliferation of the spread offense. I want to see Sanders and Colorado be brought down a peg as much as anyone... but I still believe that we are the upstarts in the room. Colorado is trying to reclaim what theyvd lost.

These I like. Part of me would like it more with a yellow helmet so it feels like it pulls the yellow through a bit better. It kinda feels like green with some yellow pants. But that's nit picking. Green and yellow all day!

I know Canzano has said he wants to cover anything of interest on his readers. So that's at least both Oregon schools and a mix of anything else. We'll see what happens. I mean even covering the Big 12 isn't that great of an option because it's still the Big 12 minus it's current two biggest brands. Sure there are lots of other schools but the Big 12 is clearly a tier 2 conference.

There is one potentially two holds in that picture alone.... if those were called Oregon would have held TT'S score down.

And that school wants to pay something like a 20 mil buyout?

The PAC has finally put together a overall good coaching roster and a coaching roster that is taking advantage of the transfer portal BIG TIME. As a conference we lost our on a ton of talent as high school recruits but able to get them on the rebound through the portal. Sad this is the end of the conference but going out in style at least.