Charles Fischer

As I ponder it...I do NOT like what Canzano is doing. He is beginning a narrative that will be used later blaming, "Oregon was the reason the Pac-12 folded." It will play well with his Oregon State readers.

"USC has been opposed to the idea of adding more teams from the West Coast to the Big Ten - they are set to join next year, along with UCLA - but the Trojans do not have a vote on expansion yet." "The Big Ten could vote to add their former Pac-12 rivals without even consulting them."

I am assuming it is a pay-wall article, and frankly he does not say much other than he feels that Oregon is in charge making the decisions and the other schools will react to what the Ducks do. Do you agree? (I don't) It seems to me that Colorado and the other four-corner schools are on their own path--regardless of Oregon. Yet Canzano feels that if Oregon sticks with the Pac-12, so will Washington and the other schools.

The new USC theme song...is about Oregon!

Omigosh! Read the article below... "The Big Ten move was supposed to clearly reestablish USC as the top program on the West Coast." "The Trojans were adamant with the Big Ten that they did not want to be followed to this exciting opportunity by their Pac-12 brethren. They singled out a specific school they found to be most distasteful. If the Big Ten thought it had to add Stanford or Cal or Washington, USC could probably live with it. But not Oregon." "No, no, no. Anybody but the Ducks. That preference, shared by UCLA, was certainly understood, and the L.A. schools assumed it would be honored." "Oregon waddling around with a Big Ten swagger would be dangerous." Commentary: USC may not be able to escape its Oregon problem in Big Ten after all WWW.LATIMES.COM USC wants to establish itself as the West Coast power again in the Big Ten, but Oregon could make it difficult if it's invited to join.

The heck of it is...I don't know of any Oregon fans who feel good about this at all. We want to bury Oregon State on the field, but not like this. We are not like USC fans...

Oh, this is good...

And yes...this business of going to the B1G is all conjecture, but when it comes to the Trojans...

The problem is that Oregon did not value the conference's true Golden Goose? Nice people....

Karma is a Duck...right?

Sure, we can debate all this as to "who" is right, but a week from now--with all that is unforeseen and may happen--we may realize that....

If the information in the post above is true, then the Pac-12 would probably dissolve. Where would Cal/Stanford go, and why would the B1G let the one chance they have get them on the cheap get away? (I know none of us know the answer, but just pondering. Or what is above could be all-crap)

Sorry, but I don't have sympathy over 40 bucks...not when I put out the crazy amounts I have over the years as a fan and for the benefit of other fans. When I hear others complain about small costs....I shake my head. They'll miss the Ducks, but make sure they watch, "The Bachelor" and have that station. Those are the choices people make, thus again--no sympathy here. If that is their choice--so be it.

Why they do not show height and weight anymore--I don't know. Just lovely... 2023 Football Roster GODUCKS.COM The official 2023 Football Roster for the University of Oregon Ducks

If Our Beloved Ducks rank below the other streaming packages--then that is quite a choice. This person is not a big fan IMHO, when it is only ten bucks a month for four months of the year?

I believe Cal has more 'Nattys in all sports than we do, and the 'Furd trade places annually with UCLA for the most 'Nattys in all sports. Their Olympic sports adds cache' to any conference...

Damn. This may be legit... "A group of four Big Ten university presidents began the preliminary process on Wednesday"

Loved watching his dad...

Wow. This will be fascinating to watch, as his offer group is entirely from Group-of-Five schools, with Oregon being the only Power-Five conference school to offer this unranked (Rivals) prospect. Will he have a great senior season and be offered by other P5 schools and be upgraded? Is this a super-interesting diamond-in-the-rough player to watch?

Precisely.

So much for us to learn about it yet, as we don't officially have anything...just hearsay of those in the room.

All the wins over the years over the Trojans between on the field and recruiting has really got into the heads of USC fans. Their forums are full of Oregon threads, and they do NOT like how well the Ducks are recruiting. Even with the set-backs lately, Oregon leads USC in recruiting, and to them? It is just not right! (No. 6 vs. No. 18) At the bottom are posts about Oregon, and before that are quotes from our departing friends in the south... --------------------------------------------------- "Their recruiting is weak now, even with NIL, they can’t secure the 5 stars that visit them, then they cry and call themselves bridesmaid U, they have 4 more commits than usc but still have a lower average per player rating." "Respectfully, too many posts about a program that has no national championships! This is ridiculous. Oregon this, Oregon that, who gives a chit. Lol!" "They’ll still land solid players. They’ll be the team that punches above their weight class given NIL & a strong recruiting staff. (regardless of HC) Nevertheless, they won’t bring in top 5-7OVERALL recruiting classes on a consistent basis when they're not in one of the two dominant conferences." "I would say for every one USC thread on the Oregon board, there are 3 or 4 Oregon threads on the USC board. It’s a little embarrassing." "As much as we don’t want to admit it, Oregon has come a long way. There are about 10 threads on the 1st 2 pages related to them….you guys wouldn’t do this if they weren’t a threat to us. If I’m a Duck fan, I’m using our obsession of them as fapping material." "Division street is arguably the best collective out there since it’s inception. Oregon will be fine with player retention. Although I don’t think they’ll recruit well enough to be a perennial power given that they’ll be in the non power 2 conference." "Oregon recruiting will never be a problem .Meanwhile, we keep making them our bar and rage when they get one of our targets. Looking forward to the new receipts of unbearable excuses when the flip happens. It's time to pivot from comparing ourselves to a team that will not matter to us in '24 and finally install the '24 B1G bar to see where we stack up." "The best payback will be beating them at their Duck pond. All this other stuff is just smoke and mirrors."

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