Charles Fischer

We have the hitting and relief pitching--just a couple of recruits away!

Softball swept the Beavers!

I'd be butt-hurt too....

I am not sure how I feel about this...what say you? USC would benefit from Pac-12 football title game reforms TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM If the Pac-12 does change its conference championship game format, #USC and #Oregon would stand to gain the most from such a change.

Holy Crap!

My FishDuck Friends....I cannot make this stuff up. The Trojans are quite serious....about challenging the Huskies for the most delusional media and fanbase! USC football: Mark Sanchez champions Lincoln Riley; says Trojans are now 'on par' with SEC thanks to NIL 247SPORTS.COM ...

Great tour, and I learned a ton. Better times coming for Oregon Baseball, and it can seat over 4,000. I noted how Oregon State had a new record crowd last night at just over 4,000 to watch a close game. We can get there eventually!

Interesting, as I did not see that coming. Kind of almost inverted as to how it should be...

I love that...seven conference games that would be tough with USC, UCLA, Washington, etc. and add three cupcakes and one medium-tough team for a schedule. The SuperWest 24? (SW24)

This year it kinda feels like...

How about we add four teams and have two eight-team divisions, and one the "Surf" (as Jon coined) has the original Pac-8. Thus we have seven conference games is all and meet the winner of the other division in the Championship game! SEC...want to play only eight conference games? We'll play seven with a medium-tough team or two and then cupcakes. We'll make the Playoffs much sooner that way! SEC, how would you like them apples? (Unfortunately, I do not think there are four teams left to create the Mountain division)

That, Steven A., is “good-or-good.”

Holy Crap! Oregon only had two of the 13 come to Eugene? Geez... BTW...fantastic research, and thanks for taking the time to shed light on this AnotherOD.

Washington doesn't play who on their schedule? What was the amount of payoff on that one?

The Pac-12 Conference football media poll won’t be revealed until July 29 as part of the conference’s media day festivities in Los Angeles. Utah is the pick for conference champion, right? The Utes have top-to-bottom continuity on the coaching staff and a returning quarterback (Cameron Rising) who has big-game experience. I like the Utes to win the South Division, for sure. But there are some potential wildcards. The Utes lost a ton of leadership (see: Nick Ford, Devin Lloyd, Britain Covey). Also, the nine-game regular-season conference schedule wasn’t favorable to them. Utah skips playing two programs (Cal and Washington) that aren’t viewed as title contenders. USC is intriguing, but I think Lincoln Riley’s liftoff won’t be without growing pains. Still, the regular-season schedule helps Riley. The Trojans don’t play Oregon in the regular season. The Utes not only have to play the Ducks, but they’ll do it in Eugene in what will be billed as a payback game for Oregon. My current South Division top three: Utah, USC, UCLA. The North Division is much trickier. I think Oregon, Washington State and Oregon State could all make a run at the division crown. I won’t be surprised if there’s a two-way or three-way deadlock down the stretch. And while Washington is starting over with a new head coach, the UW regular-season schedule is unusually favorable. Oregon is the most talented team in the division, but the Ducks will have a first-year, first-time head coach in Dan Lanning. I like Lanning a lot. He’s down to earth, recruits well and the spring game was encouraging. Also, Oregon skips playing USC in the regular season. But will Lanning’s relative inexperience play a role at any point? We’ll soon see. Washington State is poised to matter next season, too. Transfer quarterback Cameron Ward was given a $90,000 deal by the Cougar Collective to come to Pullman. Offensive coordinator Eric Morris is bringing back the Air Raid offense. While Oregon skips USC next regular season, the Cougars have to play at USC. Also, WSU misses Colorado, which is amid a full-blown rebuild. That feels like a distinct disadvantage for Jake Dickert’s team. Oregon State’s case in the North Division is built on continuity. The Beavers were 6-0 at home last season. They return the coaching staff, the starting quarterback (Chance Nolan), and add a terrific freshman running back. The Beavers, however, play the three most talented teams in the conference — USC, Oregon and Utah — in the regular season. That will slow OSU down. My North Division top three: Oregon, Washington State, Oregon State. Washington could be disruptive, though. The Huskies have a new head coach, but skip playing both Utah and USC in the regular season. That’s an advantage I don’t take lightly. Nobody should be surprised if UW ends up a little higher in the standings because of it. Here are the opponents each Pac-12 program “skips” in the 2022 regular-season schedule: Arizona — skips Stanford and Oregon State ASU — Oregon and Cal Cal — Utah and ASU Colorado — WSU and Stanford Oregon — ASU and USC Oregon State — UCLA and Arizona Stanford — Arizona and Colorado UCLA — Oregon State and WSU USC — Oregon and Washington Utah — Cal and Washington Washington — USC and Utah WSU — UCLA and Colorado

Why doesn't the massive state of New York have more football talent? How does the state of Oregon have more NFL Draft picks than Arizona, Washington and Mississippi? How did those draft picks get out of Oregon? Trying to keep them here is harder than it looks...

So, at this rate Texas is going to do real well in the SEC?

Amen Duck-Brother. "Hero-Ball" is not needed.

On offense the key question is, "is there great speed at receiver and running back?" In my mind, I think we might have at least two running backs who have breakaway speed we did not see last year by the two starters. At receiver...I think Thornton, Franklin and McGee are much faster than who we had starting last year, and we saw evidence of that in the second half of the bowl game and in the Spring Game. My perception anyways!

I think you make a good point that this thread went off on a "weather" tangent, away from the original topic of an ASU defensive lineman transferring. That is what we call in the biz as "thread-hijacking," and while it happened gradually--I agree with you that we should have stayed on topic. But on this forum...we can discuss anything, especially in the off-season when there is not much Oregon football news, and these other subjects are ones of human interest and actually can pull the community closer together by knowing one another better. As long as we don't go into politics or religion, or slam the current coaches and players on a personal basis--our rules allow for discussion in other areas. You have seen topics in the past about the weather, my favorite seasonal craft beer, big fish caught, etc. I actually want to encourage that... In the future...if you don't like a post--just send me a personal message or a text, or take 30 seconds to write an "Inappropriate Post" report that lets us know you object to something, and then the moderators and I can look at it. We like to keep these kind of things off the forum, as it is a buzz-kill, and privacy for all parties is preserved. My thanks!

GREAT POINT. Now either he is an inexperienced coach who just leaned out too far over this skis, or he will cement the trust of the fans when we see an exciting offense on the field in 2022. I'm hoping for the latter...

I thought I would bump this up again because there are many who did not read it before, and it would answer a BIG question for them.

I cannot decide who is the better recruiter....the WR coach, or the Defensive Line coach! This has been stunning already...

You make a good point as Dillingham wants to make his case by scoring, and not by "being tough?"

But this is very positive in the right direction...between the NCAA, the federal legislation AND the discussion to limit portal entries to a couple of times a year...the combination can begin to reign in the Wild West of Recruiting that exists at the moment. In that article they are appearing to recognize the problems and how the delays can no longer happen. NOT a solution yet, but in the right direction! The new rules CAN'T end this bad...