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Possible 2023 CFB Rule Changes: Help Limit Injuries, Shorten Games
That would be FishDuck.....
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Possible 2023 CFB Rule Changes: Help Limit Injuries, Shorten Games
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.
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Cromwick Earns National Player of the Week Honor
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)
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THE PAC-16 - Time to Go to a 'Super Conference?'
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....
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Duck Basketball Thoughts...
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...
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Pac 12 Media Deal Losing More Ground
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.
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Realignment, NIL, Playoff Expansion: The New-Look College Football Is Here
Outstanding post--so much that I believe will play out as the truth.
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SEC and B1G Conferences Will Dominate 1st Round of the 2023 NFL Draft
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.
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All Charges Against Traeshon Holden Dropped
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?
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All Charges Against Traeshon Holden Dropped
This might be another "learning lesson" for our young head coach.
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Dreaming of the Great West Conference
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.
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Federal Appeals Panel: NCAA Amateurism Claims "Unpersuasive"
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.
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Pac 12 Media Deal Losing More Ground
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?
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Mens Basketball is "Getting There," Right?
That loss last night was absolutely disgusting. All the talent, all those experienced players being beaten by some Husky hacks?
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tOSU Cancels Home and Home with Washington Football
Oh NO! Poor Bruins and Trojans...
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Traeshon Holden Gone
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.
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How Much Should A QB Run?
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?
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ESPN's Bill Connelly's Initial SP+ Rankings Top 10 - Pac-12 Rankings - And a Few Others
If you can’t make it at Clemson? You’re going to make it at Oregon State instead? Right.
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Lanning Finds His New OL Coach
More about his background in this article.... A'lique Terry Returns To Oregon As Offensive Line Coach - University of Oregon Athletics GODUCKS.COM Oregon football head coach Dan Lanning officially announced A'lique Terry as the Ducks' new offensive line coach on Tuesday.
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Lanning Finds His New OL Coach
Boy...I don't know. I'm going to close my eyes, take short breaths, gulp and say to Lanning...
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It’s Time to Feed the Beast – Get Bucky Irving the Ball
Irving saved the day at Washington State; on 4th down he made an incredible catch across the middle--and this was after dropping the ball twice against Georgia. I would scream at the TV...."don't throw to Irving!" Err....great catch! (The video is qued up right to that amazing play)
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Klemm and the Steelers
Great example of, "we fans never know the full story." A falling out between coaches does happen, and it is almost never discussed or known. The way that DCs Avalos and DeRuyter left Cristobal....no thanks publicly, not even acknowledgement to the fans. Just gone in the middle of the night; we call that... ...an escape.
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Canzano: Pac-12 Punches Back with Statement on Unity
Right. And as a very intelligent group...are they responding to what has been written, or to what will emerge? We will find out soon. Here comes one of the smart guys now... (With ESPN in the background)
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It’s Time to Feed the Beast – Get Bucky Irving the Ball
Another way of looking at this, is that the additional 1.2 yards Bucky got per carry divided into the 5.6 yards the other running backs got is a bonus of over 21% more yardage per carry out of Irving! That is a big margin. Great read and sound logic, David. I still like having fresh legs, but will concede at times Irving should not have been taken out.
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Canzano: Pac-12 Punches Back with Statement on Unity
Since George is a Media-Man, I will assume he knows how bad this is looking for the conference and for his image. What I do not know is whether this is in reaction to what has been written, or he is being pro-active to something new emerging?