David Marsh

I do feel that Oregon is going to rotate through probably 3 backs regularly this year. We'll probably see the freshman play against PSU in the opener and a few other games in garbage time. I personally think Irving needs more snaps per game than he got last year... I also feel that he needs to be in the field running touchdowns in around the goal line. He only had 5 rushing touchdowns last year because he wasn't on the field around the goal line.

I do love the idea of using a huddle to just disguise stuff in general. Basically what if a huddle isn't actually a huddle sort of thing.

Or a summons to a trial because Taggart encouraged more sketchy behavior we didn't know about...

Return to sender? I mean Taggart wasn't in Oregon long enough to have a permanent address... I mean he never moved his family here.

Not saying this will happen... But I think it might be their plan. It's easy for this whole thing to get blown up. I think it's just as likely that everything gets divided up into the big two and everyone else. I wrote about that scenario last year. The Great College Football Schism is Coming FISHDUCK.COM The great college football schism is coming, and it will fracture college football in a way that will shake the... And how everything could see a major reset of sorts. The Eventual College Football Renaissance FISHDUCK.COM The Great College Football Schism is Coming, and it will leave College Football divided between the... But as with all things it's highly speculative. I also think that the financial game would have to change dramatically because it doesn't really pencil as it stands for Oregon to join the B1G. For that to work and make sense on a financial level there would have to be a willingness for whatever that contract looks like to help alleviate travel expenses for teams that have to travel the most. I highly doubt that would be the case as it stands right now... Or they add more west coast teams which would cause new problems.

Pretty much guarantee this was it... A big time in state talent for Arizona. Worth throwing the bag at. The rest of their class will be three star talent and maybe a couple of four stars.

And I'm sure that will be a follow up pitch. Though the flip side of things... KT was still a top 10 draft pick even when he was constantly double and triple teamed here. So for Rushing as long as he has some good film showing his potential he'll get drafted. Though... He'd be on a team with a lot higher ceiling at Oregon. Downside is he'd have to work harder to see the field... Which again would benefit him in the long run. It isn't over yet.

A lot of these posters are just highly reactionary. Anything good or bad comes with extreme responses. It's kinda the nature of the internet... The most extreme response garner the greatest reactions. Granted I do think most get caught up in the immediate moment and never take a wider view of what is going on. Oregon is going to keep recruiting Rushing and they will probably take another good run at him leading into December and will probably take a shot with an updated NIL package.

Oh yeah scoop duck has some crazy people who lose their minds when Oregon misses a recruit. They were calling for Tosh to be fired the other day as "he serves no purpose other than to recruit" which is just false... Tosh is a very good positional coach, we're still learning about his coordinator skills. Losing rushing hurts... But that group also doesn't seem to understand that Jedd Fisch was an INCREDIBLE hire for Arizona. Sure the results aren't there at the moment but he is a dedicated and diligent coach. I love how his team played the last two years, they never gave up on the field. He's not going to win the vast majority of his recruiting battles.but he is going to win enough. Also... There is a scoop duck crowd that gets annoyed that Phil Knight and Division Street don't just out bid everyone for players with the NIL potential. I think the NIL game is pretty solid at Oregon. Right now they seem to have their numbers set and it really does seem like division street doesn't want to get into bidding wars, at least not this early in the cycle... But we have seen them get more aggressive down the stretch. Josh Connerly comes to mind as he likes Oregon more but USC had a bigger package and Oregon closed the gap at the end of the recruitment and landed him. I browse scoop duck all the time... But I never bother posting. You'll get drown out out there real fast.

A much needed quack... Part of the fan base, that I question if they actually watch games or just recruiting by the way, has been losing their minds over a couple misses. The rushing missing hurts and this doesn't solve that but it's good to secure another high end recruit.

Not sure if they'd get enough people buying in for the year. I'd probably only do it for the season. However, the biggest problem right now is access to the network so I'd there was a streaming option that you could buy and stream the network that would be a huge lift. I don't have cable, nor do I want to buy cable for the football season, there are plenty of options right now to get all the foot all channels via streaming, even if it is YouTube tv which is basically streaming cable. But what I can't get is the pac-12 network easily... I think FUBO has a low resolution version and sling has it but I haven't heard great things about either avenue. Now, if you have a VPN you can access the network by going to another country and then streaming it on regular YouTube. But otherwise ... You're really out of luck. And this basically applies for other who have dish and want access to the network but can't. Access is key, however that access works.

I've only watched college game day ONCE and the first time I watched it was this last season for the Oregon v UCLA game. And that was only because I was up with my daughter, who was 6 months old at the time, so I was actually awake for it. Otherwise I can't be bothered to get up for a program that has all its focus on the east coast. You brought up a critical point... It's a program designed for the east coast and it excluded with west coast. It's also a timely program in that there is 0 pointing watching a rebroadcast because actual football is on. I think FOX is slightly more cleaver with their big noon kickoff because if there is a game that the west coast really wants to watch, relatively rare, we'll be up for it because it's an actual game and not just talk about games, which we've had all week and potentially all off season. This all does highlight how the potentially break up of the PAC could be a killer for west coast football on the whole, it's all focused on the east coast and we've been pushed more to the status of an after thought and late night filler content than a market.

Arizona seems like they are dumping all their NIL on Rushing. Division Street isn't going to over pay or get into a bidding war. Especially not in July. Doesn't mean recruiting is over just yet. It's not even over after they've signed with the portal these days. We may just have to wait and see here to see if Lanning can win him over by signing day.

I would agree that getting a second PAC team into a 12 team playoff would be very difficult. The PAC has been the best conference at canabalizing itself for some time now. However, there is still talk about changing the number of conference games to 8. The ACC and SEC are at 8 so we wouldn't be alone at 8 conference games. Also... We are losing two teams that have been in the middle to upper conference fairly regularly. USC and UCLA haven't been good in the last ten years outside of a couple seasons but they have alwaysade the schedule more difficult for the eventual conference champion. Replacing USC and UCLA with SDSU and SMU would ease the schedule a bit for at least the next five years (5 years being roughly the time for these programs to adjust to a bigger conference). I could see a pac-12 champ and a runner up making the playoff in the right circumstances. 2019 being the most recent example where this would have happened in a 12 team field. Oregon won the conference and Utah was runner up and both were ranked in the top 10. Utah was a near lock for the playoff that year if they won the conference, which they didn't. Neither were anywhere near good enough that year to sniff at the national championship game. Oregon's prevent offense saw to that even though we had a fantastic defense. So I believe it is possible to get 2 PAC teams into the playoff but it wouldn't be an every year occurrence at this time.

I'd say that is a changing pattern. But I'd also say that Florida scheduling with Utah has a lot less precieved risk of a loss for Florida. At least on paper at the time of scheduling. I think Oregon probably has a real struggle because traveling to Autzen can definitely come with a loss. I mean even Oregon traveling can be scary... Look at Ohio State.

This has been a long standing problem. The SEC does not like to travel west of Texas, so playing them doesn't always come with home and home benefits. I do think more scheduling with the ACC would be good.

I think short run... More money as a PAC-10 .... Long run I think they'll need SDSU and SMU who will both start as a bit of a drag as neither are going to field power five teams in football right away and football is the biggest moneymaker. But given 5 years, I think they'll both be on good shape with conference and building fan fan bases. Utah took a good 5 years to build up their football program. Colorado... Well they had a good season... And we'll have to see if they can have a second good season since joining the conference... But the funny thing is that Colorado was already power five!!!

Uncle Phil is the great equalizer... For the ducks anyways. Oregon will have the money to stay competitive and without the added travel.

Good Washington is favored in all their games... Will make them losing to Oregon and Oregon State hurt all the more!

Depends on the deal. . From the sound of it the NIL money and bidding wars have gone down a lot this year from last year. A lot more money is being thrown at portal recruits and that makes more sense because they're the ones proven at the college level. Division street continues to play a smarter game when it comes to NIL from everything I've read. They are aiming at team retention (or at least retaining the Ayers they want) while bidding on recruits they want but not over paying. It sounds like Oregon will lose our on a few recruits this year because other team's NIL groups are dumping everything to grab a recruit and Division Street isn't playing the bidding war game, even though they could probably win it. In the end if you over pay for a 5 star who doesn't pan out... Is that winning? I know there are fans on other sites right now that are losing their minds that Oregon's nil isn't just going all in on every recruit but if we want to be competitive year after year... It's choosing those thresholds carefully.

Oddly enough this could work out just fine for them. If the PAC gets their media deal together and announces it and then goes ahead and invites SDSU, SDSU can just leave the MWC. In a strange way it might even give the PAC more leverage with SDSU... They can potentially dictate how some of the payouts will work for them in the first year or two and SDSU will probably happily go along with it to ensure they have a home.

I browsed the article and I get so annoyed that it's all about games on primetime on east coast time. It seems to be a put down of the entire west coast.. Yes, there.are perception problems when west coast teams are always on after east coasters have gone to bed. I know for fans in the stadium 7pm start times suck... At home I kinda like them because I can do stuff during the day and then end my day with the ducks. And guess what... That's what it's like for east coasters at their primetime. Instead of bad mouthing how the pac-12 starts late ... Maybe these pundits should be saying "hey, the PAC starts late buts it's worth watching and staying up for" because it's called pac-12 after dark for a reason. It's a great product... It's just not an east coast product.

Jimbo Fisher had a problem at FSU that reminds me of this. Jimbo didn't fix his program... He just left for a bigger paycheck. They hired Willie Taggart from us... So I'm cool with that. Granted, I've never really thought about it until now how bad that programs culture must of been when he took over it.

It's really hard to teach vision. I can see why the coaching staff wanted him. He's also a big back and with some training could be a real thumper on top of having some explosive speed.

Lanning's defense is a high end defense. It has proven to be one of the best in the country. However, it has some requirements and one being it needs those freak athletes to make it all work. So getting those athletes is key and the portal has helped fill those areas of need and its amazing how well Oregon has done via the portal so far. Looking forward to a top tier defense pair with a top tier offense. The dream of Oregon fans... a defense and offense that are both highly ranked. Could it finally happen? I really hope so.