Charles Fischer

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...

You know you have made it as a humor writer when I see simply an "Axel Top-Ten" and LOL without even reading it yet! An involuntary bodily reaction created from so many epic ones in the past...

If....if he actually does it and the HC lets him. After getting burned with Mari (I don't include it because he doesn't know what to do with the "O") I am more inclined to believe it when I see it.

Somebody wrote here that he is buying the former mansion of Mark Helfrich of which is pretty big....probably a while before it closes and they move out?

I know many were asking this and John Canzano found out! (I do believe this is an "interim" home until they move into another....) The team gathering was charming. It appeared to feature food, card games and some backyard corn hole. Lanning’s wife and children were present. The scene was really cool and unifying. It also sparked a tangential discussion in our home given what we’ve learned about celebrity homes in the last couple of years — how many bathrooms do the Lannings have? Mario Cristobal and his wife, Jessica, recently closed on a 8,829-square-foot estate in Coral Gables. Purchase price: $7.9 million. The new home of the Miami football coach includes six bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms. Russell and Ciara Wilson purchased a home in suburban Denver last month for $25 million. It has 20,060 square feet, four bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. Lincoln Riley’s new $17.2 million home in Palos Verdes sits on 3.17 acres and includes seven bedrooms and also has 12 bathrooms. I don’t mean to focus so heavily on the number of bathrooms here, but I grew up with three siblings (including two sisters) and we shared a single bathroom. A dozen bathrooms feels like a modern-day homeowner flex. When former Oregon coach Chip Kelly arrived in Eugene in 2007 as offensive coordinator, he bought a 2,500-square foot home for $525,000. After a promotion to head coach, Kelly sold that house at a $100,000 loss and went bigger — buying and quickly renovating a 6,281-square foot home in Northeast Eugene. Kelly’s new place in Eugene included six bedrooms, five bathrooms and an indoor meeting space where he could gather as many as 80 players for a sit down. I always thought that meeting-space area was brilliant and the most Chip Kelly-thing ever. Incidentally, when Kelly took the job as football coach at UCLA, he bought a home in Encino, Calif. that had 10 bathrooms and nine bedrooms. Then, Kelly sold the home to Dodgers’ outfielder Mookie Betts for $7.6 million. Kelly told me last summer that he and his wife, Jill, moved closer to the beach and he pointed out “I’m the least famous person in my neighborhood.” I reached out to Lanning on Thursday via text message. That backyard BBQ scene from his new home looked like rich and connective team building. It casts the entire Lanning family as approachable and down to earth. Still, I wondered, how many bathrooms does the new estate have? 6? 10? 12? Lanning humored me. “LOL… 2.5 bathrooms!!!” So now you know.

Fantastic news for Oregon fans--thanks for posting it!

That is ME to a "T." I, so, WANT TO BELIEVE! Such a cool screenshot off an episode....

I don't think he will change at all, I mean why would he? He has been positively reinforced for what he did at Oregon to the tune of 8 million a year. He is smarter than everyone else, and he has the checks to prove it!

80 plays is not a “must” for me either, but with all the talk from the two coaches—I would hope high scoring returns again.

Placing USC ahead of Oregon just makes me ill. Didn't see that coming! Four opponents on our schedule is in his top 25...

I agree with you and would assert he did not trust his assistant coaches either. I do not believe we saw the "real" Joe Moorhead or Tim DeRuyter...not when their track records were so much better than what we saw.

OK, there is an assumption in your post that they WILL carry out the offense as we anticipate--due to what they have said. It is just that...there are lots of things they could say later as to "why" they did not carry it out, both real and imagined. I hope they stick to the impression they have given us...

Thanks! I always wonder if people notice some of the extra work I go through on an article, as I found myself saying over-and-over..."I want to believe," and realized it came from X-Files. Then it took a LONG time to find the right photo that was not copyrighted and available for an article. For the forum--we can bring in any photo, but for a published article--much more difficult.