Charles Fischer

Not really. Mountain West games will be shown....Oregon State versus Utah State, and Washington State versus San Jose State...you know, what EVERYONE wants to watch! Yep!

So Canzano interviews the new Pac-12 Commissioner Gould, and she says that in terms of their plans going forward, "everything is on the table." WHAT is even available for you besides stealing what the other 10 members earned? What is left? The Crucial Component: Every power conference rejected you, even at nearly for free. Not even a Stanford-Cal deal. This means that the free-market has decided that you ARE a GROUP of FIVE set of teams, and the closest is the Mountain West. You can pretend you are going to build something...but what would it be? Combining six other G5 teams into a new conference and trying to pass it off as ANYTHING other than just another Group-of-Five conference? How long are you going to pretend that YOU WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING other than a G5 conference? And yet you try to justify why you are stealing money from the ten other teams, when in fact YOU OWE for the millions overpaid to you over the years for your "fair share." We were generous to you to the tune of hundreds of millions, and now you take more?

Doubt we would be on the B1G Network, as we do not officially leave the PAC-12 until the end of June. Beside, the PAC-2 has to steal as much revenue as possible. No matter that they did not earn it..,

Can any of you who have watched Oregon softball explain what is going on this year? Going into today’s game. The team is 9-7, when normally we would be 12-4, or 13-3, something like that at this juncture. We haven’t even entered, brutal conference play yet, and I hope this isn’t a rerun of what we saw with women’s basketball? Give me your analysis!

This year's pitching staff is large, and we are just beginning to get acquainted with them. One thing is evident; we ran out of arms at the end of the season, and it kept us from Omaha, and Coach Waz worked very hard to keep that from happening this year. Quite a few Surprises.... He successfully recruited the best ranked high school lefty in California last year in Toby Twist, who is already showing us some big upside. He has a nasty sweeping pitch that can arc downward like a slider, and then he throws a fastball with the same motion and will blow it by you. BIG recruit for Oregon... He pulled in our new Sunday starter in Kevin Seitter, who transferred from little Quinnipiac, yet he created an amazing 11 strikeouts in the last game. Another is Michael Freund from Umpqua CC in Roseburg, of which has been kind to Oregon in recent years with pitchers. He is still adjusting, but has some upside that Waz identified. Moorpark College provided Oregon with another pitcher in Jaxon Jordan, that everyone is excited about. His combo of Fastball, Slider and Changeup has impressed in his relief innings thus far. The most fascinating pitcher from a small college is Brock Moore, (above) from Menlo College. As another senior, he is trying to take advantage of our coaching and resources and is already getting everyone's attention. He looks like an edge-rusher at 6'6" and 230 pounds, and he did something I have not seen at PK Park before; he threw six pitches in a row at 100 MPH or higher. Whew! Then, he really set me off when he threw a breaking pitch that dropped from a high zone into the batting zone, a "front-door" drop that left the batter and all of us gasping. REALLY high upside here, and perhaps a closer later? While Gonzaga is not a small-college compared to those others above, Oregon got another left-handed transfer in Bradley Mullen, who has a fastball, but also a breath-taking breaking ball that got me shouting at the live-stream already. Throw in new freshmen Ryan Featherston, (impressive) Collin Clark and Cole Stokes, and it is hard to not be excited about Oregon's bullpen for this season. Waz has done a great job recruiting high school players, but has done an exceptional job scouting upside in pitchers that are clearly overlooked by other programs. The new pitching coach "Hawk" has been killing-it with the players as well. They love him... The Biggest Surprise? Where ARE They? We have FIVE pitchers from last year that we have not seen yet. They are starters and relievers who won games for us, and while there are rumors of injuries...there are also rumors of players not working hard enough in the off-season to improve and retain their place in the rotation. They are: Matthew Grabmann Leo Uelmen Jackson Pace Austin Anderson Dylan McShane I do not know what the story is, and of course...none of the journalists showing up to the press conferences ask the tough questions. Quite a curveball at us, and if these pitchers return with a vengeance? Oregon could be a very daunting team to hit against!

If the real ‘Natty contenders will play three or four games in the Playoffs in addition to the regular season games? A conference championship game stacked on top is too much. Dump them.

For that one year of purchasing the tickets...yes. And he will be replaced by another B1G fan next year? The additional revenue from joining the B1G will not fully be known for years. I just know it will be HUGE for the Oregon Athletic Department.

This last year....I could have sold my tickets to the USC game and the proceeds would have paid for all the other home game tickets, and the donation required. I think you will see some crazy prices for the Buckeye game by mid-summer, IMHO. I think B1G fans will bid the prices up of available tickets in a big way, thus season tickets might be the best approach? Versus Michigan State in 2014...

Hello my Duck-Buddies, I have not been on the forum much in the last three weeks or so due to the sale of my house, the clearing out of 43 years of stuff, and moving to a two-bedroom apartment in Eugene of which is very close to my office. As you know, I like to start a number of threads every day, but it has been quite hard lately. I am back, but not in a normal mode yet. So if any of you can post articles like Jon Joseph has in assisting NJDuck...the community would greatly appreciate it. Bizarre, Desperate or Telling? I finally got caught up on a week's worth of threads and learned that the expansion of Autzen will not take place until the new indoor practice facility and grounds are completed first. Since this project will take a couple of years to complete--the notion of Autzen adding 10,000 seats anytime soon is simply a wish. So, that means that tickets to games are going to be much more difficult to score in the next few years. You will see much fewer ticket packages sold at a discount, and far more season tickets being marketed so fans can secure a decent location. What I did not anticipate was the interest by B1G fans who want to attend games at Autzen, and the following might be a telling sign? An Ohio State fan emailed me explaining that he bought Oregon Season Tickets at Autzen....just so he can be certain of having a pair of seats at our upcoming game this fall! Whoa, how desperate is that? He was asking all kinds of questions about tickets that I have no time to research for him--and referred him back to where he is buying the tickets from. (He did not take that well, and thought that I somehow was obligated to him, and should spend the time to find the answers to his questions.) Is this fan's actions symbolic of where ticket availability is headed? It feels to me it certainly is, and we might all want to take note. If you have ever thought about buying season tickets...do it NOW. Availability and prices are certain to change... When we last played Michigan at Autzen...

Thanks again Jon, for a superbly researched article where I learned so much about the many interesting non-conference games in the B1G next season. To think of the Civil War game as non-conference? Whew!

There are few people in the world like Kim, our own Pennsylvania Duck. She has given SO MANY hours to us all posting articles in this forum, and she just loved doing it and this community so much. We were a part of her life, and she was a big part of what made this forum unique. She has been incapacitated first by the recent version of COVID, and then adverse reactions to medication. She is unable to use her hands presently, and has difficulty concentrating as well, and thus why you have not seen her posts in weeks. These afflictions have required she retire from her profession in education--working with disabled children. She loved them, and because I could feel her love for everyone when I spoke to her--I am sure she is heavily missed at her school district. Besides being upset about the level of her illness....it hurts me to think that she cannot even enjoy her retirement, that she may not even have a retirement that all of us assume. She misses working on the forum, and misses all of you. For those spiritually inclined, please add her name for those in your prayers for healing, and do think of her and wish her love and recovery. I know life is not fair, but something like this happening to someone who is so loving to all, and giving of her energy to the world--is so wrong. She deserves the best that life in retirement can offer, and she planned to spend a chunk of it in service to all of us on this forum until this all began last March. We love you Kim, and may your health turn around soon.

People seem to forget that before the days of NIL....the estimated value a couple of years ago of the education and services provided at Oregon for the football players was nearly 2 million dollars over their total time at Oregon. Pac-12 Football Players: All for Them, and NONE for All | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM Do Pac-12 football players really get it? While that may seem to be insulting to them, it is a question that many of us who do the donating and buying of… Nearly two million in value? You know, that doesn't suck.

Some very interesting perspectives in this article that gives an alternate view to the semi-professional league being bantered about. The problem? It would be the NCAA running it. But the alternative of having the media companies control things is even worse, IMHO. More to ponder--THANKS Mike!

My Duck-Buddies....I am pulled a number of directions as my house closing is coming soon and I just finished moving. But I've been keeping an eye on our Diamond Ducks, and am delighted with the pitching that was recruited into the team over the off-season. Below from one of the above articles... "If Oregon is that deep on the pitching front, and a lot of that will depend of Friday’s starter RJ Gordon and Saturday's starter Kevin Seitter continuing to improve, then Oregon, picked to finish fourth, will have a real chance to win the Pac-12 in their final season." These newbie relievers to Eugene got into some jams with two on base often, and even bases loaded against them, (twice) they managed to get out of it and keep their innings scoreless. Amazing! This is the third game, and we are up against the best hitting team this weekend, and yet we have not seen the following pitchers yet: Toby Twist (highly acclaimed transfer) Matthew Grabmann (Big fastball) Ian Umlandt (From Sherwood, Oregon with good upside) Austin Anderson (Stud senior reliever from Roseburg) Turner Spoljaric (Freshman starter and reliever last year) Leo Uelmen (Freshman starter and reliever last year) Dylan McShane (Raw power from 6'9" frame) Brock Moore (The senior transfer who could be our closer?) And there are some freshman pitchers I know nothing about, but I feel fantastic with the depth of pitching. Oregon looks to have a good team this year!

Remember, when Chip was hired at UCLA, I predicted that he would be a solid eight or nine win kind of coach, “Mora-or-less.” It turns out he was a 500 coach, even below what I projected. I maintain my recent prediction, that the Ohio State offense will not average over 35 points per game in 2024. He is not terrible, but I would take Stein over him in a heartbeat. For greater scoring now, and higher upside, IMHO.

What an incredible crock. They wanted out, just like 10 other teams, but the final two were rejected by all P-5 conferences in the free market. Thus no matter what picture they tried to paint, the reality is, they are MountainWest teams, and have been for decades. They have been overvalued, and massively overpaid for what they provided the rest of the PAC-12 conference, and thus should actually be penalized for the drag on the rest of the conference they have created, due to their lack of building, their brand and their audience. Because they could not be accepted by any of the power five conferences, they re-retreated into the only position left available, and instead of sharing the PAC-12 revenue by those who actually earned it, they choose to try to steal it. Why, nobody else in any other media source is not calling this the greatest sports con of the century, is beyond me. Think of it.., the president of their university is willingly participating in an attempt to deceive everyone of the truth, without taking any responsibility for creating their own results. it epitomizes the victim culture of the day, where you can be completely in the wrong, and yet successfully portray otherwise. It’s sickens me.

I do. Love it.,,

Don...I am with you all the way on this. People who attend games with me are puzzled when I do nothing as the wave goes by...

Oregon is READY for the B1G...

The murmurs from inside the program are that Oregon is having an overall update of the football uniforms--for 2024 as a splash into the B1G! Apparently there are some throwbacks in there? Would they go back this far for a throwback? (So pure...love the leg stripe!) Who remembers Lew Barnes?

Two BIG tackles for Arik Armstead in the first half! I believe that announced that Lenoir caused a KC fumble as well!

Let's get it going!