Charles Fischer

I break rivalries into two very different categories; the first are the ones that bring the bile of vomit up my throat, and that is of course... Huskies Trojans Beavis (in Baseball) The second category is "want" to beat them, their arrogant fans, etc., and I really only get that vibe from... Ohio State Michigan I agree with HDuck, in that it takes more time to develop the hatred, more wins by Our Beloved Ducks over those usual B1G heavyweights. We are in elite company now, and we will be in some blockbuster games over the next number of years!

My Beloved Duck-Buddies, we have had an issue here on the forum since Saturday morning, and I was not able to get help until now. Pretty hard to contain my frustration, but without going into details...people on chrome often could not see the site and got an "Error" page when they came to the site. The only way to solve it was to clear everyone's Google Chrome cookies that automatically populated the password for you when you sign in. This means you have to sign in again, and mark "OK" when the password manager asks if it should remember your password. Please....email me for your password if you cannot remember it or cannot find it ONLY after you have looked diligently. BTW...if you put in for a new password, you will NOT receive an email as it says. You have to email me at charles@fishduck.com for a new password, and include your phone number, name and handle name for in case we have a snag. And once you are signed in, you do NOT have to sign out. Just leave and click out of the page, and when you come back--you are automatically signed in. There is no danger here in doing that... No problem, not frustrated at all...

The forum thread with the "Foundation" video--has some looks inside the video.

A great video, and contributed by a new member AIGoDucks, who we welcome! As he said to me about this video, "it makes me proud to be a Duck."

I think this might come under the category of "what we as fans don't know," because Danno knew Bear at Georgia, and we haven't yet had any issues with Bear thus far. In fact, he seems to be taking his last year seriously, and is currently slated as a starter. With the young, talented depth at defensive line? If Bear takes downs off--he will lose playing time, IMHO.

Damn. Good thing we left some sinking ships in the old Pac-12, as the NIL money has dried up at Cal, and thus why the mass exodus of their best players out earlier this year. But Stanford announced a $140 Million Budget Shortfall, and has eliminated 363 campus positions. (At Oregon, we gotta count our blessings!) The average home attendance for the Cardinal last fall was only 26,035? Good gosh, even Beavis at least averaged 35,799 in Corvallis! Way to go...'Furd.

Canzano reported that the benefits are both teams getting full stadiums, a short travel time, and for Beavis...a great TV game to sell every two years. Canzano admitted to putting the UO President on the spot asking..."after what Oregon did to Oregon State....what are you going to do to help?" Let's see....Beavis claims we did this for money...yes we did. Yet they retained the Pac-12 name to extract their half of the 300 million they are stealing from the departing ten former Pac-12 members, so they are doing that for money too, and did not consider doing the "right thing." Beavis claims that "Oregon broke up the conference," and then the Pig-2 proceed to destroy the Mountain West. You can't make this stuff up...

No sweat, trying to figure out the issue we have....

Great topic, Pitt. Even now...both would be worth the gamble, and both would have had a much better chance succeeding under Lanning than under Chip and Helf. In the end...I'll bet Cliff would have made it, but Colt's incredible talents would fall short of his demons. Touchdown...Lyerla.

Bama fans are smarter than some others....

Well, when the SEC decides to go to nine games, and we begin to set up non-conference games between the B1G and the SEC every year with the entire leagues, then we may see at Autzen... While that may not happen for a while, it is now quite possible compared to before.

I agree; those other traditional blue-bloods have their 'Nattys, and while Oregon is an elite team at this time, we will not be a blue-blood until we win a few. Hence those other programs have their traditionals established, and Dan would just be following in their history already built. The expectations would be high, and he would simply be trying to "match" what has been done in the past. At Oregon...he can establish a legacy unlike any other prior coach in Eugene, and I think he wants to. He has stated that he wants his boys to all graduate from the same high school, and the youngest is now 11 years old, thus I believe we have six years of him, minimum. He strikes me as the type of guy that once he has won a 'Natty or two at Oregon...he will have "done-it" at the college level, and will want to match the best defensive minds in the NFL. Although he could be a "Lifer" here if he wanted to! Recruits....Come to Oregon!

Yep, on August 7th, 2011....my web developer texted me and said, "we're live," and the site began with publishing articles. Since that time we have published over 7,000 articles, and yours-truly has written over 700 articles. This birthday is for the article site, FishDuck.com, although the forum did come into existence many years later, and it is very special to me. We serve thousands of readers and OBD members, and do it all for free, thanks to all the volunteers, and your patience with the ads, and backlink references in articles. We are all great at giving a spirited opinion, while not taking personal shots at one-another. It is a rare set of sites, and I thank everyone for being a part of this fun. This video was made right at this time....fourteen years ago! (I miss my Abbie!)

That game came down to the final play...where Cal could have won. They were knocking on the door to score, and it never should have been that close.

The fake smile in the news conference where he told the media he wasn't going anywhere... And he left the next day.

I dunno...I wouldn't mind 17 million to go away, as he got from Florida State. But for me...?

I would "refresh," and give it some time and try it again. That happened to me in the distant past, but have not seen it occur in some time.

I will give him credit for raising the recruiting ceiling at Oregon, as he proved it could be done. Just before he left, we had the No. 3 class in the nation, and Oregon had never done that before. Many recruits dropped off when he left, but Cristobal did do a good job of retaining most of that class for that year.

Because we stumbled out of the gate against Idaho last year...I'd like to think we'll be mentally ready this time.

Incoming Oregon transfer Josh Schleichardt is killing it!

He has unbelievable quickness, and I think...would have been a star last year if Derrick Harmon had not transferred in. I'm looking for a big year from him!

It is always here! Go up to the top of site as you see below and click on "Repository," and then click on ChileDuck Depth Chart. Very handy to always have access to!

What IS he thinking about...if it isn't about ME?