Charles Fischer

B1G Recruiting Rankings No. 5 Ohio State No. 6 Oregon No. 12 Michigan No. 15 Penn State No. 17 Nebraska No. 18 Wisconsin No. 21 USC No. 27 Stanford No. 32 Iowa No. 34 Purdue No. 35 Maryland No. 37 Rutgers No. 40 Illinois No. 42 Minnesota No. 45 Washington As great a coach as DeBoer is...you eventually cannot overcome this.

By one of their own...

That tugs at my heart. I had two wonderful cats as well, but they would not let me dress them up!

Although I should not jump-the-gun on 2025 recruiting, but instead...

I'm talking about 2025 QB, who will be one of next year's highest rated quarterback, Akili Smith Jr. (Gosh I love keyboarding that name!) That first throw...wowsa.

Got a picture of your pet with Christmas garb? Share it! Or any pet picture for that matter, as it is fun. Don't know how to upload the picture? The directions are at the top of the forum and you can look at them right here for reference. Often I will just right-click on a photo, "Copy" and then "Paste" into a post. Takes seconds is all! My beloved Abbie (above) was such a sweet dog who endured a ton from me... My daughter set this one up, and she told me, "Dad, this is why dogs bite people."

1976? I was living in Corvallis still, (grew up there, and my father was a professor there) and I was loving to hate Oregon. Then I ended up going to Oregon and turning from the Dark Side... Don, it was great fun to meet you and the others at the OBD Get-Together and talk about Our Beloved Ducks for hours. So much fun, and I do look forward to doing that again. THANKS for your guest articles, as you, Jon Joseph and Mike Whitty came to the rescue when other writers had other life events that prevented them from finishing out the football season. I so enjoy the perspective of other fellow Greybeards, and your involvement adds to the rich collective wisdom of this community. Thank you. Charles and a 2015 FishDuck Student Writer

Funny how it all worked out. See my post from December 9th, (Post No. 11) and how I believed we were making room for better options, and that is precisely what happened. Pellum and McClelland were flipped from USC and Ohio State, and these are huge WR additions for Oregon. I admit that I too, can get twisted up from the changes in recruiting, but I need to trust DANO to get it done. I waited all year to see--and he got it done on signing day. Whew!

Trust me, Beavs will get the MOTHER of all Media Contracts...

Oregon is not going to be what they expected....

The new PAC-Conference is not a power conference, but simply a Mountain West+ in my view.

Great series of articles by Mike Whitty, that comes to a logical conclusion today. I've learned a ton from his research, and am grateful for all the time he put into creating these articles for us.

I have had feedback on this thread, and wish to update it. There is a time to discuss all the negative aspects of what college athletics is turning into, there is ALWAYS a time to go negative--when things are negative, as it makes sense and that is what we do here. But I have found over the years that a percentage of people are just "Negative-Nellies" who always look at the gloomy side of things, and when there isn't gloom--they pull from another topic to pour cold water on the good news or happy events occurring. I have had this happen a number of times over the last dozen years, and my mistake with those people was letting them "say whatever, and whenever" and thus coming to forum or to the comments below the articles turned into a buzz-kill. I had serious discussions with other key members about how to address it. I created the Rule No. 31c about venting. Writing negative when negative occurs is fine, writing about negative when negative events occur is fine, but pulling out the negative when you have a happy event is venting. The bottom line is that I have to protect the atmosphere of the site, as I do other behaviors, and hence why the rule No. 31c was created. My Mistake? Now it is the next day? My regret is doing this in public, as that is not our protocol. But I have a temper concerning my own personal "hot" topics, and people pulling negative out during positive events is near the top of my list. I lost my head and was wrong to denigrate DanLduck in public. I should have hid the thread immediately, and discussed things with him like the mature man that I was not at that moment. I made a mistake, and compounded it in the thread. I publicly apologize to DanLduck for the mistake, and resolve to get better. I make this mistake about once a year, and after doing it so many times--I should be able to recognize within myself when I am over-reacting at the moment, and need to take it private. This is why I say..."none of us wear halos here." We all make mistakes with the rules, and I am not exempt....which is crazy when you consider that I MADE THE RULES! It is humbling to realize my error, but as I tell everyone else when they make a mistake..."we acknowledge it, learn from it, move forward and forget about it." Age 67 and still learning...

And DanL? I did not say I LIKED IT, but I wish to remain an Oregon fan, thus will adjust to the new reality. And AllOregon crushed it with a fantastic observation... Amen Duck-Brother.

My prediction on Lanning remains; I believe he is here to win a 'Natty, and then he will want the challenge of taking on the best minds of the NFL. I could see him as a NFL DC trying to stop a DeBoer passing offense--who is also in the NFL by then.

He will have won a 'Natty at a place where it has never happened, and if that occurs--he will never have to walk again. People will carry him everywhere he goes!

Now...how about some reality going forward? Georgia has the No. 1 recruiting class; did you hear about ALL their transfers out? It was an incredible number, that is the way it is these days, and the way it will be at Oregon. Did Oregon lose GREAT STARTERS to the portal? NO. They lost players who for the most part did not play much, and looked to be passed on the depth chart by underclassmen or incoming players. The Lanning strategy is to recruit a ton at each position, find out who is best, and the rest transfer out. That is it, the strategy, and it will be a combo between the best of the HS players who emerge, coupled with portal transfers to plug a few holes. You will note Oregon will have far fewer transfers in this year than last, and as the cream of the last two recruiting classes rises to the top--thus there will be even less portal players brought in. This means we will lose half to two-thirds of the roster over time, as those who do not play a lot will leave. It is the way at Georgia, and will be the way of things here. Can you live with it? And can you live with ALL THE WINNING that will come from it? Meanwhile the players are getting paid AND a scholarship. Seems like everybody wins to me...

Oh brother. Yeah, this really hits the spot; with all the rain and fog in Eugene these days....I NEED MORE COLD WATER. Sure, let's take a happy time, and douse it with sour. DanL, you and everyone are free to share your opinion, but I will state that I do not care for people taking happy times, and LOOKING FOR THE NEGATIVES. There are times to be negative, such as the 2016 season, the offense of Cristobal, the leaving of Taggart and Cristobal, losing to Washington...etc. etc. Get the idea? Those are the times to dwell on the negative--when there actually is negative. This, to me, is a stretch of extracting the ugly from one of the happiest times of Duck Football in the year. Oh my...I might as well go to where everything else is headed! On to the CRAPPER!

The two we got from Washington? Platt and Crader are VERY good players that I am excited about; Fox Crader is very athletic OL, and could be playing immediately in the two deep next year. Platt is a stud linebacker who has the speed Dano wants to cover sideline-to-sideline. Brayden Platt

I agree with you: why do teams recruit from the portal? To get help RIGHT NOW, and thus a Gabriel should be rated ten times higher than an unproven Moore.

That article at the top? In all the years of following Oregon football and for years seeing ALL the great recruits go to USC? That article would have been IMPOSSIBLE to imagine. Lanning is pretty darn special....

Poor USC...it makes me so SAD! I NEVER said I was Noble...

My Duck-Buddies, as a dedicated fan--it does not get any better than this! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The problem is none of USC's recruiting wins over the last two years have come against Oregon. None of the Trojans' Top 247 prospects in 2023 and 2024 officially visited Oregon. Pellum, Fields, Laulea, Uiagalelei, Conerly and Florence all officially visited USC. The Trojans were in it with every one of those prospects, but came up short with all of them." "Oregon hasn't truly been in on any of USC's blue-chip signees." "When both schools have heavily pursued a premier recruit in the last three cycles, they've always chosen the Ducks. That's not a sustainable model for the Trojans, especially with both programs moving to the Big Ten Conference." Column: Oregon's recruiting wins over USC aren't sustainable for Trojans 247SPORTS.COM In head-to-head recruiting battles over the last two cycles, Oregon has swept USC when it comes to landing blue-chip prospects.