Charles Fischer

My FishDuck Friends, This is how we protect you from reading more of this nonsense, as I noticed this new member had written more than one of these. He just signed up last night... I just sent an inquiry email and received confirmation that no...he is not an Oregon fan. He was here to troll, and is now banned. You gotta take the trash out once in a while! Charles

Oh my....I headed to where Oregon recruiting is....the crapper!

OK...maybe this has been around awhile, but I was not aware of it. It ranks teams in terms of recruiting portal transfers. Interesting to add to the HS rankings... Oregon is No. 6 this year thus far, but last year was No. 24? I thought we did really well, and would have thought we would have had a higher ranking? Oh well, we loved them.... 2023 Transfer Football Team Rankings 247SPORTS.COM In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.

No, actually Wednesday will not, IMHO. That day is for the signing of high schoolers, and only Proctor or the JC fellow below might be able to help right away. The major help for the offensive line will hopefully come from a portal transfer between the players from Utep, Rhode Island, Texas and Stanford. They are experienced and can step right in. With the players we have--I am confident about the interior O-Line, and I assuming Josh Connerly playing at left tackle. Between the JC guy below playing some, and just one portal offensive tackle--the OLine should be in good shape. But we will not know about the portal prospects for a while. George Silva | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM George Silva - 2023 3 Star Offensive tackle for Fullerton C.C. (Fullerton, CA) on Rivals.com Late note to add: The Rhode Island O-Tackle is announcing on Wednesday, so you could be right about Wednesday if he goes our way!

So...it isn't about the money? Quote from the article below..."I’ve been told he’d follow Dillingham to Arizona State since he’s going to flip to a PAC 12 team in that part of the country, but the NIL there isn’t close to what UCLA or Oregon can offer." The Latest in the Dante Moore Saga MIKEFARRELLSPORTS.COM Mike Farrell shares the latest intel he's getting on five-star quarterback Dante Moore's recruitment

Whoa! I LOVE that scenario! Card for two years? Cool!

Perhaps you do not know how it works; free sites like mine that have ads get paid very little. The pay sites thus do NOT get paid by clicks, because while they also have ads--I know what the ad rates are, and they suck. Thus the ads there help to pay a touch of the expenses, but the vast majority of their revenue (95%) comes from paid subscriptions. I give On3 credit for having inside contacts who supply amazing information--and that is what people there pay for. Keep in mind that I am not promoting them, since most over there hate me for first declaring Mario's offense would not take us to the promised land in September of 2018, (the beginning) and now they hate me because I was right. They have 20 times the number of members we do, and yet we have more posts every day....why? Because people feel safer to post here (because of my rules and immediate enforcement) than they do over there. Just reading over there in the last couple of days made me shudder at the terrible things people write to each other. So I've been maligned over there beyond what anyone can imagine, and thus most of my rules were designed to avoid that here. But I digress--I give them credit where due, and grief where it is deserved. They are not throwing stuff out to create clicks; at Ducks Wire, yes, but not the subscription sites.

You are right, as there has been no official announcement, but for those of us who have been watching this for 25 years--we don't need breadcrumbs to assume the higher probability ending. It looks most likely like Dante wants Moore opportunity immediately at UCLA.

It has become evident on other sites that Oregon was upfront and honest with Dante Moore in telling him that Bo Nix was returning. Thus, Moore thinks he has a better chance beating out a Kent State transfer QB, while with Bo...no way. Moore's choice does make sense to me. 1) I am glad Lanning was honest with Moore up-front. Are you? 2) Lanning lost a 5-Star QB, but got a Heisman candidate QB instead. I certainly believe he made the right choice--do you? Yes we missed out on "having it all," but who knows if we don't get a 5-Star transfer next year? On Wednesday we sign a GREAT Recruiting Class like Jurrion Dickey

Now that Bo is coming back?

By the time we are done with portal recruiting--I believe we will be fine on the offensive line. 2023 suddenly looks to be very exciting!

As I wrote my post above--the announcement about Bo came out, so that should help clear the air. We will be fine...

Yeah Baby...this is big. Huge, and I will celebrate with an extra Oregon Craft Beer IPA tonight. (Not that I needed any other reason)

Oh no! This is ruining the narrative! What are these guys going to say?

I disagree. Bo's decision should not impact high schoolers at all...except at QB, of which is understandable. Even then--we have other portal options if Bo leaves. Things have changed dramatically in the past with these kind of things concerning top players, and Wednesday morning is a long ways away considering the attention span of an 17-18 year old. I am quite sure Dano is working on backup options, such as the visit by Hudson Card last weekend. And if the connection between Dilly and Moore was that strong--I cannot blame Moore for reconsidering things. And Dilly leaving is not Dano's fault, although people want to blame the coaches--even after all the work put in to secure the verbal. But all the other positions on a team? Bo is here or not for one year, and you are coming to Oregon for the program, for what your position coach will be teaching you, and the life lessons.

Analysis of him at On3 is very uplifting, as he would have been starting at nearly everywhere else, but was sitting behind two first-round NFL Draft picks at corner at Alabama, and that is no surprise. He will help us...

Nope, not a hug! I will admit that I am surprised at how so many of you are surprised--like you haven't been through recruiting before? Gosh, there are so many stories I have over the years (Online with Oregon sites since 1997) of the gyrations with major players in the final couple of days--and we are not even at Tuesday night yet! Yep, two good ones might be lost....but that does not count what is coming our way. And some of you are being an Eeyore with almost every topic; c'mon...it is not that bad! At the moment, Oregon has 12 of the 4&5-Star recruits (Rivals) and ten teams in the conference (not USC) have an average of two of these coveted recruits. Being a Duck doesn't suck! There are times to be down-in-the-dumps, such as losing twice to Utah, losing your head coach, losing to both your rivals, etc. This recruiting ride is never perfect for any team, and to me--this is not a time for a long face. We're going to be winning, my FishDuck Friends! Just a heads-up on what I'm thinking? I am already working on a FishDuck article for later this week extolling how this recruiting class is the best or one of the best ever of a new head coach at Oregon. And you know me--I do not wave the Pom-Poms all the time; I do plenty of Critical Analysis of our coaches. But this will be a time to enjoy and savor... A Stud Verbal Recruit Who Chose Oregon...

Oh my, nothing is going our way? I guess Oregon's recruiting is going into the crapper! (I think I will wait until Wednesday night before making a judgment)

Good point about Lok Wur, as he has had some key rebounds on simply drive and hustle. Love it! And he hit a three in the last game!

For most of this early season--we only had three starters who could reliably score in Quincy Guerrier, Will Richardson and N'Faly Dante. But two games ago--Brennan Rigsby at shooting guard got his shooting touch back (after missing most of the early season) and then last night we saw Rivaldo Soares score 16 on 4-5 three pointers. Whew! Now everyone on the floor is a scoring threat, and that generates a good offense. This team has a high upside--especially when three more return from injury for quality depth. Let's go Ducks! Rivaldo Soares

I have a couple of comments: --Like all of you, I do not like the direction that college football is going, but I have to admit that Oregon is benefiting from the portal movements, as it frees up scholarships to bring in a plug-and-play replacement. The success of the portal transfers that came to Oregon last year was astounding, and its incredible to think how it was Lanning's first year in dealing with it. AND he convinced many key players to return from the portal... Again--Oregon is winning the portal battle. Risk is MASSIVE for Both Sides Jordan quoted a stat of an incredible 41% of players who go into the portal do not get a new scholarship and school? I've heard that the number was 48%, but no matter...it is bad. It is a terrible risk to a player to go into the portal and lose his scholarship, and clearly--most are not seeing that risk. For schools...once a player transfers in--you are locked into supplying his scholarship for the remainder of his college career whether he pans out or not. The rules state that if he transfers again--he must sit out a year at the new school, and most players won't do that. Ditto to the potential new schools considering this player; they have to supply a scholarship for two years for only one year of playing contribution? They will pass... Thus players will never leave the school they transferred to. Thus the school is screwed; they have not solved their position problem they brought the player in for, and they have tied up the scholarship that could go to a HS player. Remember...with HS players--they leave, and you can recycle the scholarship. With a portal scholarship granted--it is for the remaining years this player wants to be in school. The risk of portal scholarships to both parties is so much more than most fans realize...IMHO. Noah Whittington

For those who have read the article thus far--the political comment referring to Twitter has been removed. Editors missed it!

Khyree Jackson is an Alabama transfer at corner that could really help Oregon--replace the loss of transfer Christian Gonzalez. (I have added him to the article) A ton of our transfers have ended up at Nevada, so if that is the the trade--we get former Alabama players and send our transfer-out players to Nevada--that is a good trade. Losing a player like Travis Dye to USC, now that was a real loss at the time. But our coaches killed-it in the portal last year, we won the portal battle by a mile. I suspect we will do so again...

My apologies to all the good Used-Car Salespeople of the world...