Charles Fischer

Ha! I forgot about that, and thank goodness for the coach to point that out. Yep, the Counter is a constraint to the Inside Zone going one direction, and the running back begins that direction, and the pivots and goes the other direction following the pulling linemen. For linebackers following their keys of the RB direction--his steps get them going to one side of the LOS, but with pulling the linemen--the other side of the LOS has a nasty overload of blockers over there. So the Counter is a constraint of sequential play, and this play in the analysis is a constraint off that! Love it.

The time of the year when the topics to write about are scarce, thus a click-bait type of article. Stein will have Gabriel doing just fine with the best receiving room in America, one of the best TEs in the nation, with one of the best offensive lines in college football. And a Will Stein offense? I predict....

Probably one of the other Pac-12 teams joining, as USC is coming back strong. They should have been in the playoffs this year, IMHO.

Wowsa. This is SO IMPORTANT, as frankly the OL recruiting has not had the same level of success as all other positions in the past two years under Lanning. Portal? Yes, but high school recruiting has been OK, not great compared to the trenches on the defensive side. Remember, Rivals is a tougher ranking, and he is a 4-Star with them and was offered by 13 teams of the SEC, including Georgia and Alabama, Oklahoma, TAMU, etc. Most all the biggies including Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, and even USC offered as well and Our Beloved Ducks prevailed! Whew! Ziyare Addison | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM Ziyare Addison - 2025 4 Star Offensive tackle for Carrollwood Day (Tampa, FL) on Rivals.com

Everyone is entitled to an opinion here, and note I was not disagreeing. What bothers me are four months of posts about the sport, and I never see some of these "fans" until Oregon chokes in a Playoff game. Then they gotta come in drop some negative that is obvious to all. The loss hurt me bad in how our pitchers collapsed, but having fans who I never see post about the sport now coming in to pile on? Geez.

So for 60 games I am cheerleading nearly to myself about Oregon Baseball....but let something bad happen? The Boo-Birds emerge. In 84 years before Coach Waz...we made the Regionals a total of 7 times, but have four times under Waz already, and back-to-back Super-Regionals, of which has not ever been done at Oregon before. He has not solved the pitching problem; he gave young men a chance to be the hero, and they crumbled. It happens in all sports. There are times I am very disappointed in Oregon fans, as fans that do not support a sport...except to come in and dump on it during the playoffs? Be better.

So for 60 games I am cheerleading nearly to myself about Oregon Baseball....but let something bad happen? The Boo-Birds emerge. In 84 years before Coach Waz...we made the Regionals a total of 7 times, but have four times under Waz already, and back-to-back Super Regionals, of which has not ever been done at Oregon before. He has not solved the pitching problem; he gave young men a chance to be the hero, and they crumbled. It happens in all sports. There are times I am very disappointed in Oregon fans, as fans that do not support a sport...except to come in and dump on it during the playoffs? Be better.

8-4 good guys after six innings!

Same score after five innings.

7-4 Oregon after four innings!

Omigosh! Oregon is up 7-2 after three innings! Anson Aroz saved a home run!

Good gosh! What a start! Oregon up 4-1 after one inning with back-to-back-to-back home runs by Chase Meggers, Drew Smith and Anson Aroz. Whew!

Right. If anybody has been reading what I’ve written 50 sometimes over the course of the season, they would know that I have been critical of our pitching. And I say again earlier in this thread, that the next step is improved recruiting in the pitching. I am not saying we don’t have room for improvement at all. As I too am critical. But I just wonder where all these critical fans have been for the last four months… ”We love you when you’re winning.”

This is an impossible discussion. Why? Because I've said the same thing umpteen times, and was yelling at the TV to "pull the damn pitcher!" But Waz leaves him in, and the pitcher then is awesome and doesn't give up any more runs. So I was wrong and Waz was right. Other times the pitchers left in gave up more, and put the game out of reach. Or the relief pitcher brought in stinks it up, and walks his first three batters? (Like TODAY) So we should have left the starting pitcher in? How do you know? Being a Baseball coach is harder than it looks... We've been in four straight Regionals, and two straight Super-Regional, and that has not been done at Oregon before...

Right. The pitching we went up against was superb, but for that weekend...we were even better. 94 home runs for the year does not suck. (Look it up) Where were these Oregon Baseball fans through 50 games of the season? So now I see them, and they're critical in a Super-Regional?

I don't share that pessimism. First of all, there are two Baseball programs in the B1G that are good right now and were in their Regional Championships in Nebraska and Indiana. Add Washington, USC, and UCLA....and Oregon State in nonconference, as Waz has said he wants to continue to play them--and you have a good start to a tough slate. Waz has also been very conscious of scheduling teams that can help RPI, and he will certainly do that with his scheduling next year. I do not look at the B1G dragging us down, I look at Oregon having a great opportunity to be the B1G dog, and with tournaments in the south, inviting good teams to PK Park....we can do just fine...IMHO.

Oregon is on the rise, as we have made the sweet 16 of Baseball two years in a row. Now that is not championship level yet, it is quite respectable and the last challenges for Waz to solve are going to be recruiting great pitchers. I believe he will get it done!

I cannot complain, as we certainly had our chances. We had great pitching in the latter half of the game, and if we had had not even a fantastic performance, but a routine one from our first two pitchers, we could’ve won that game by a 6-3 or 6-4 kind of score. None of us are perfect, and sometimes pitchers have a great day like last weekend, or a tough day like today.

Still 10-6 Aggies, after seven innings.

Same score after six innings.

10-6, bad guys, after five innings. I can’t believe how bad our pitching has been today…whew!

As incredible as the pitching was last weekend, we are starting out the opposite today. It makes me appreciate the performance last week, but I almost wonder if today’s pitchers aren’t a little wowed by the atmosphere?

7-6 TAMU after four innings.

6-4 Ducks, after the end of three innings.