Charles Fischer

This has been a fantastic thread for perspectives and information provided....and your research and observation adds so much to the discussion. But some humor thrown in as you did--makes that it even more enjoyable. No Nachos please...

Having Logan Mercado, (below) and the six other fabulous freshmen pitchers in relief is awesome!

Gosh I hate what is going on. Since the media contract for the B1G is rumored to be in the 70M+ range in a few years--it would behoove Oregon to consider taking less...like 40 million from the B1G for five years, and then move up to actual value. It would be more than what the Pac-12 could pay, and would position the Ducks in one of the SuperConferences. Yet the way it will feel--stepping through that doorway forever and playing back east in all sports....

It's getting near closing time, and there aren't many options left...and in the darkness....Charles...

Duckman1 posted this below in another thread (thank you!) and I am combining them. Apple emerges as potential landing spot for Pac-12 football NYPOST.COM Apple TV+ is emerging as a potential landing spot for the Pac-12 college football rights, The Post has learned.

From the Eugene Register-Guard this morning: Former Oregon football player Traeshon Holden will not face charges stemming from his arrest last week. Holden was dismissed from the team after he was arrested Wednesday on charges of alleged unlawful use of a weapon, coercion and menacing. The first two charges are felonies and the third is a misdemeanor. Lane County District Attorney Patricia Perlow wrote in an email Monday morning that after further review, “The evidence does not support charging Mr. Holden with any crime.” Eugene Police responded to a fight outside of an apartment at Gordon Lofts in downtown Eugene just after midnight Wednesday. Police said Holden had a firearm and threatened to shoot after one of two bystanders intervened in the fight. Holden was arrested without incident and officers located a handgun inside the apartment. "Traeshon Holden did nothing wrong," his attorney, Jacob Houze, wrote in emailed statement. "The Lane County District Attorney’s thorough review of the evidence has confirmed that. Now that he has been exonerated, he deserves to have his good name back." My comment: We do not know the circumstances of what occurred; was the player feeling threatened, and the handgun threat was for protection? We don't know, so we hope Lanning makes a good choice.

Excellent summary Alex, and I like how tactful you were with the play-calling involving QB runs. We gotta be smarter, especially when we have an entire playbook that features other great players on offense.

That would be FishDuck.....

The purpose of the game is to break the 0-0 tie the teams are in, thus I would not want "ties" to return to college football.

EUGENE, Ore. – After leading Oregon to a four-game series sweep of Xavier, Josiah Cromwick has been named one of Collegiate Baseball’s National Players of the Week. Cromwick (Las Vegas, Nev./Palo Verde HS) is just the third Ducks’ hitter all time to earn a Collegiate Baseball Hitter of the Week honor. He accounted for much of Oregon’s offense in the three games he caught over the weekend. He slashed batted .444 (4-of-9) with three home runs, a double, six RBI, four runs scored and a stolen base while reaching base at a .500 clip and slugging an impressive 1.556. After doubling in Friday’s 3-2 win, Cromwick hit a pair of home runs and matched a career-high with five RBI in Oregon’s 9-2 (7-inning) win in the first game of a Saturday doubleheader. Cromwick put the Ducks on top in the first inning with a 3-run blast before adding a 2-run homer in the third. After sitting out the second game of the doubleheader, Cromwick returned to the lineup for Sunday’s finale and hit his third home run of the series. With Oregon trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the seventh, Cromwick led off the inning with a solo home run to tie the game. Oregon would add two runs in the eighth to clinch a series sweep. All-Time Collegiate Baseball Players of the Week Josiah Cromwick (2/20/23) Brett Walker (4/5/21) Kenyon Yovan (3/8/21) Spencer Steer (4/15/19) Kenyon Yovan (4/30/18) Parker Kelly (3/12/18) David Peterson (5/1/17) David Peterson (3/13/17) David Peterson (3/7/17) Cole Irvin (5/2/16) David Peterson (3/6/16) Shaun Chase (5/5/14)

I have enough on my plate. If those who are retired can take the time to research it and get the information to GK--that would be best. It's not a good fit....

The solution? Watch the Softball team at 8-2 right now, or the Baseball team who started 4-0 this weekend. Some great talent that is well coached...

Well, I can make a prediction that has high probability; it will be both TV and streaming, and the amount will be not only come up short, but far behind what the SEC and B1G will pay their schools--especially four years from now.

Outstanding post--so much that I believe will play out as the truth.

Those numbers are pretty damning to our conference, yet Dan Lanning pulled in the second best recruiting class ever among high schoolers in the entire 100+ history of Oregon football. (He had the BEST of any first year HC at Oregon) Because of the Oregon brand you referred to--I think Lanning will get more than his fair share of top recruits, as we gradually become what Clemson used to be in the ACC.

I am shutting this thread down, since I’ve already had two posts written that either were political, or could quickly start a political argument. What part of “no reference of any kind to politics” do you guys not understand?

This might be another "learning lesson" for our young head coach.

Jon, I did like your past suggestions of a 16 team conference with the “Surf” and “Turf” Divisions, but that is now ruined by loss of the LA schools. None of it is happening now since the Big 12 has a media contract signed.

This would destroy the budgets of all schools, and the vast majority of non-revenue sports would have to be cut. Opportunities for females and males of all race and ethnic groups would be massively diminished, and I can only picture the upcoming lawsuits over that.

We heard from so many on this forum eight months ago how the portal and NIL would be the death of college football and Oregon...yet the Ducks are now winning in them. Let's not do a post-mortem until the patient is dead. As for Oregon?

That loss last night was absolutely disgusting. All the talent, all those experienced players being beaten by some Husky hacks?

Oh NO! Poor Bruins and Trojans...

I cannot imagine this is the first time for this fellow, and I'm sure things were buried at Alabama, and because he was a star in high school--he probably always got the pass that others would not. This is a challenge I wrote about with transfers; with HS recruits--our coaches get to know them over two years with tons of conversations, facetimes and meetings. With a transfer--it is a very brief time where anyone can be on their best behavior. The portal is also a way for schools to dispose of their "problems," and at places like Alabama--they have tons of great talent to replace the troubled players. We picked up someone else's problem, but the good news is that he showed us early on his character, and allowed Lanning to end it before it infected the rest of the team. That is a very big hole at receiver...but you can't allow this.

It also depends upon how the Zone-Read play is designed; if it is meant for the QB to read the defender on the playside, (where the play is going) then there will be a congestion of players and the QB has greater risk of injury. If the Zone-Read is of a defender on the backside of the play, such as a defensive end or LB--then if the defender charges the running back and the QB pulls--he is running into open field down the backside of the defense where he can go out of bounds or slide easily. Thus why the QB runs between the tackles that are playside Zone-Reads...are plays I don't like. As Chip Kelly used to say, "I want the running backs carrying the ball. The QB runs only when a lane is wide open." In other words, only when the defense has given the QB the open lane to run. That does not happen very often, but the threat of the QB running helps to keep that defender "sitting," thus an extra blocker on the playside. BTW...in the Super Bowl in the first half--the Eagles twice ran a play that we popped on Stanford, and twice Hurts made the wrong read and pulled the ball. Or did he simply want to run the ball?

If you can’t make it at Clemson? You’re going to make it at Oregon State instead? Right.