Charles Fischer

Matt Scott II from Texas has committed to Oregon, he was a highly rated outfield prospect out of high school who didn’t play much last year. This feels very Mason Neville-esque, who came from Arkansas.

The word is...this guy is streaky, but perhaps can become more consistent at OREGON.

A new verbal to transfer is Blake Sandvik...and look at that ERA! At Everett C.C....in 28 innings pitched...his ERA was 1.93!

From DucksIrish44 on 247: Another HR highlight from yesterday, and this one's from a newcomer who could contribute next season with the possible opportunities in the outfield. Oregon baseball commit Danny Wideman homered for the Marion Berries (awesome name), a first-year Salem-area club in the West Coast League here in the PNW. Wideman's from West Linn and was 1st team 6A all-state three times (1x each as an IF, OF, and UT) and part of 2 state championship teams in baseball, and also a 1st team all-state WR for their state champ football team.

We got a transfer pitcher who will be a senior from George Fox; Ryder Edward's ERA in 2025 was 2.29, and in 2024 it was 1.41!

And we know that he is pitching for the Ducks for certain!

Whoa! Look where this player is ranked!

This is much more than I wanted to put in the usual Oregon Baseball thread, so let's get it going. First, we have not lost much leaving via the portal, but we did lose Cole Stokes and Santiago Garcia. Although Garcia was highly inconsistent...when he was on--he was tough and had four saves for us. Thus I believe his upside could have been realized by the new pitching coach, but alas...he left before the coach got here. But as for Stokes....I wish him well, but he lost his confidence in games way-too-often. Heck, he choked two game losses to Portland in 2024, and 2025, so I think we can do better than that. First of all--Oregon had some luck this time versus the MLB Draft, as usually our best HS players verballed to Oregon--get drafted high and sign with a professional team. But look below! I will be adding to this thread over the next couple of hours, so keep checking back!

USC lost a TON of experienced players to the portal, (Our Beloved Ducks have two of them) and at crucial moments--that lack of experience will hurt them in 2025, IMHO. He is their Mark Helfrich; a great OC and QB Coach, but he is not a leader...

I have been very pleasantly surprised to see the Rivals recruiting database being used for research and reference purposes over their own On3 recruiting analysis thus far at the local On3 site, ScoopDuck.com. I noted how On3 dedicated quite a bit to create their own recruiting rankings and analysis over the years, but I considered Rivals to still be the best as it was the most difficult to qualify, they are consistent, and their accurate data goes back 25 years for valid comparisons. So to see Rivals data being featured at the moment? A good sign for me... An example is looking at the 2026 team recruiting rankings of which Our Beloved Ducks reside at No. 7 at the moment. They have a category for "Average Rating," (the third one from the left) and you see that Oregon's is the highest; while our total number of recruits are below everyone else's at this juncture, we have the best quality in the nation! I read from a link provided by our wonderful Duck News Hunters that a D-lineman, Deuce Geralds, is deciding soon and I wondered what his Rivals ranking was? In On3 articles, they will have a link that shows a player's rankings by 24/7 Sports, On3, Rivals, and ESPN. I am always checking for the Rivals ranking, as again--it has been the most reliable over the 27 years I've been following recruiting. I see right here that when I go to player research and put in his name? This page right here pops up, and it is his Rivals ranking! He is a Rivals 4-Star for certain, and again--I am delighted that they are using the Rivals team for recruiting research and database thus far. Want to check Recruiting rankings, players, etc. on your own? You can without a subscription to On3! Go right here, (Save it!) and then click on the drop-down menu you see red arrow below pointing to, and for team rankings, click on the blue arrow, and for player research--the yellow arrow. Cool! Look at all the information you get from this free Our Beloved Ducks forum! As one UO professor said years ago as he held up his arms and looked skyward...."all of this for the price of tuition."

It will never happen….

The Big-12 media contract is 33 million per school, compared to our B1G media payout of 54 million. The Big-12 cannot afford to split it further... Imagine if we had taken the Apple deal at 24 million...or even ESPN's at 30 million. We would be like Beavis...

He seems to have some nice mobility around the basket, and he can sure dunk!

From an article in The Athletic... "Big 12 athletic directors recently met on the idea, and conference presidents talked about it on Monday. But the determination was that the league is not interested. One source said there was “very little momentum for this,” and multiple league sources expressed concern that adding Memphis could “dilute” the league’s value in the next television deal."

Omigosh! In an article today where John Canzano complains about the meager earnings from the ACC, coupled with the terrible travel for Cal/Stanford athletes...John refers again to the quote he uses often to soothe the feelings of his Orange followers. It is meant to offer hope... JS: I keep coming back to what former Stanford coach David Shaw told me when USC and UCLA bolted to the Big Ten. Shaw said he believed geography would ultimately win. I think Cal and Stanford both end up in a conference (or division) that is anchored in the Pacific Time Zone. “My heart of hearts tells me that in some point of time this will self-correct,” Shaw told me. Mr. FD: He is not a good guy to quote John, because if Shaw knew WTH he was talking about... ....he would still be the coach at Stanford.

It is not even three minutes long, but it is superb. Great stuff that gets me going!

It is like playing the Huskies...their win/loss record doesn't matter. You can't beat them often enough, or by enough points...

Thanks Alex, for giving us something to ponder. Is he going to have the great year that he and Oregon fans want?

I think being consistently ranked in the top-10 is elite, and most fans would agree with it. Now, are we a "Blue-Blood?" No, winning a 'Natty or two will generate that title, but not until then. And BTW...you have to be consistently in the top-10, and we have not been until recently. Top recruiting with a Blue-Chip ratio at 78% will keep us that way, IMHO.

“Even being an SEC guy, the Big Ten keeps getting better and better,” said Jordan Rodgers, a former Vanderbilt quarterback and now a college football analyst.

Jon...just know your word-play is great fun and I enjoy it!

The Blue-Chip article with the percentages are right here, but with Oregon at a new all-time high of 78% Blue-Chip....doesn't that truly make us elite?

"College sports leaders have met with Congress 13 different times in an effort to gain federal intervention in the NIL process..." Well...if we can't get help from the NCAA or Congress...?

Beavis: "Oregon is all about the money." (Then they steal 300 million from the departing other 10 Pac-12 members) Beavis: "Oregon broke up the conference!" (Then they go about destroying the Mountain West Conference)

The video is less than a minute, but what ELSE are they going to come up to feature The Duck? I think the Big-10 is beginning to enjoy his antics... How can you NOT laugh?