Charles Fischer

For more information about today's opponent... San Diego won the West Coast Conference this year and is 40-13. They won series 2-1 over Michigan, and Arizona, who won the Pac-12! They beat USC, who we went 2-2 with this season, and they split with UC Irvine, who was ranked No. 18 in the final poll. They are on a 10 game winning streak, so they will be a very tough out for Our Beloved Ducks.

SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM Logan Mercado was elite out of the bullpen and Bryce Boettcher homered in the 11th inning as Oregon beat San Diego on Friday, 5-4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are tougher teams than you would think, and the article below is a good review of them. But still--it could be a ton worse as this is a regional that Oregon can WIN! Scouting reports for Oregon's opponents in the Santa Barbara Regional 247SPORTS.COM Here's what I see from Oregon's opponents ahead of the Santa Barbara Regional.

Now THAT is wisdom for us all to accept. His words are true....

Late games and Peacock?

Two of the top ten receivers, and two of the top ten offensive tackles? A ton of talent on that offense!

Wow Jon, so much to ponder with your post. Meanwhile I am completely distracted by your Dean Wormer comparison.... (And I love it!)

Oh come on..."SkoBuffs?" Have some originality...PLEASE! (As the late-great Bill Walton would say)

This is a very real possibility, IMHO.

"I do try to temper my joy though, it's not good to rejoice at others misfortune, but laughing, that's fine." Rejoice...laughing....

I agree with this. In fact I believe the difference will be obvious before the first half ends of the Civil War this fall. I am REAL curious to see what Beaver Baseball players do, because thus far--each sport is moving to Mountain West quality, and the question is whether Baseball goes the same way.

You are BRUTAL, but...

Keeping the sponsors happy is great performance. Everybody wins. I am not wild about it either, but I gotta roll with the punches because just as fans see great racing regardless of patches...we will see great football.

Oregon State Athletics...

Holy Toledo! I guess the West Coast Conference is not to their preference next year? But 19 leaving? Wowsa. Oregon State move to West Coast Conference results in 19 softball players leaving for transfer portal WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM The Beavers must heavily rebuild during the next few months to replace a roster that includes only three players plus four high school recruits If I were Beaver Baseball fans...I would be holding my breath when the season ends.

Another revenue stream helps the budget....especially when you have to pony-up a new 20 million per year to players!

AMEN and Damn Right! (They probably don't go together)

I really believe the combination of all this experience on offense will be frightful for opponents. Think of how good and experienced Gabriel is, and Stewart, Tez, Ferguson, Cornelius, Connerly....I have some other observations from the Spring Game to share later, but this offense could be in same strata as the 2010 offense, or the 2014 offense, IMHO.

Yeah, Baby!

He was the best player in Idaho when recruited, and the coaches made a very big deal about it. Since then--Will Stein has mentioned often how he creates difficult matchups for defenders; Sadiq can block the smaller, faster defensive backs who can cover him on pass patterns, but Sadiq can burn linebackers on pass routes when they are assigned to him to stuff the run-blocking. He is quite the hybrid-player, and I expect do see more plays with him.

My tech guy was supposed to do that and a couple of projects a month ago. But some more urgent projects were jumped ahead of me, and I have to wait my turn. He dropped everything to help me when the site went down for two days in April, so now I have to let emergency situations with his other clients stand ahead of me in line.

Oregon was not the only one hosed by the NCAA again, as Oregon State was given a No. 15 National Seed, when they had been No. 5 or No. 6 for most of the season? No. 15? Oh wait...wasn't UC Santa Barbara, where Oregon is going the 14th National Seed? They were ranked higher than Oregon State? And within that Corvallis Regional is UC Irvine, who hovered between No. 12 and No. 18 for most of the season....placed in the same regional?

The picture I referred to as "perfect" is in today's analysis article on the front page. Just so gorgeous!