David Marsh

I'm not sure if that individual is being sarcastic or not... Either way it denotes a major failure and delusion.

I'm cool with a throwback uniform. We saw it in 2014 against Washington for the anniversary of the pick. I also wouldn't mind seeing the uniforms from the early 2010's come back. Those were real nice looking (granted I really started following Oregon at that time so there's my bias). Granted the early 2010s was really peak bonkers in a lot of ways. Also... Chrome helmets... Wouldn't mind seeing those again.

It sounds like it's a third and short situation with the media deal right now. Just need to get everything lined up correctly and it's done. It doesn't sound like it's a 4th and 5 everyone poo your pants moment.

Would I like to? Yes Will I be able to? No idea... but hopefully.

Did that Washington board say they were going to flip Franklin? And like every other player at Oregon?

My reading of that is that they aren't panicked... That can either mean they have a good deal that is being ironed out or a deal they can live with... Spin it however you want.

Last year all the MC era runningback decided they wanted to mortal before the meat of the season. The fear of the portal is certainly a factor. Irving and Whittington are both juniors so they can enter the draft at the end of the year. I can see Irving being good enough to make the leap potentially... Whittington I could see needing an extra year but that comes with the risk of being overshadowed as he isn't really built to be an every down back of a featured back. So keeping players engaged is going to be difficult.

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.