Charles Fischer

My criteria is how many 4 & 5-Star players out of the class we have, and I've written many articles about it over the years. I am not as sold on Top 100 due to the wide variance of player personalities, work ethic, coaching received, etc. But if you have the 4 & 5-Star players....the percentages of great talent work out in your direction. I believe you need a minimum of eight of these coveted players to have a "good class" and a dozen will put you in or close to the Top 10 of which is a GREAT class. My MO anyway...

All three QBs were Rivals 5-Stars, which is harder to obtain, and all three had 6.1 ratings. The only comparable QB room I can think of is when we had Akili Smith as a senior, with freshman Joey Harrington and AJ Feeley as a sophomore in the room. Whew! This QB room now is what Alabama would have....in three 5-Star QBs. This is elite territory! Thanks for the great article DazeNconfused!

And you sir, are well worth the time invested. What you have done is what we want from Bo Nix; get some coaching and take-off! I do appreciate very much your public acknowledgement of the time it takes in just this one area of the two sites, of training a new writer. But the end result is wonderful, and yes, I mean the articles...but also the satisfaction I get from watching people learn, grow and then kick-butt. I have become pretty picky about who I put time into, as I let go a new writer recently who had just one article. For many reasons--I will not put any more time into him. But you have been fun to work with, and another benefit is having a new Duck-Buddy to talk Oregon Sports with. It all works! My thanks...

If I make it green...nobody pays any attention to it because the last announcement was in green. It really is a dark Fuchsia, but I will change it. It is hard to put up a color that one of our rivals does not have, and yet gets everyone's attention. So ya got pink...

It was reported that Coach Boles has joined another website a few months ago, but has decided to return to FishDuck and create analysis articles for us beginning the last week in August, and continuing every two weeks through football season! I cannot convey my gratitude to him enough, as he is a peach to work with, and passionate about football and Our Beloved Ducks. Get ready to learn-more-football!

On one of the pay sites...their inside source reported that Dante Moore was the No. 2 QB in the nation to Dillingham, behind only Arch Manning. But we pursued as many as possible to get ours, and it turned into a dream scenario for the Ducks. GREAT article BTW...

Amen Duck-Brother, and I'll bet a ton of Big-12 fans would agree with this two. The "Big-Pac!"

Wowsa.

Look at the bright side…while you were worried, yet we are now ahead of Washington in the recruiting class rankings. And it did not take long….

While it is despicable how they portray Phil Knight, if he is working the phones, that is what we need from the most influential source in the world for the University of Oregon. Calling him a Cold- Caller is pretty egregious, as everybody knows the contacts he must have in the sports world. The only thing in that article that made me gulp, were the ads at the bottom for the G-String panty sets.

Amen Duck-Brother. The lives being disrupted, the opportunities lost from the inevitable cuts in sports--it is disgusting.

You and I both. If I had my way...

OK...I am not wild about the eggshell uniform, but the players like it. Then I noticed this Instagram of Richard Young....and I have to admit that the Gold in the shoulders and numbers is kinda cool.

Looking better...

He's a 3-Star on Rivals, but a good one with upside...

I believe the noise level is lower due to when Field Turf was installed. The turf has millions to tiny rubber pellets inside it, and that rubber absorbs the sound coming at it. Before field turf, we had AstroTurf over cement, and the sound of the crowd would bounce off this cement, and echo back inside the stadium. I'll bet it has cut the noise level by 25-30%?

Please note that the number on the player in the first post is No. 5, Dante Moore's number....and Young was indicating that Moore was committed. The number that Young wears is No. 9...and I'm sure he took it all down to prevent further confusion.

You were taking the facts as a personal upfront. Nobody was putting down private equity, but the fact is $1 billion for 15% ownership into the Pac 12 media rights, would have been a boon to the Pac 12, and a boondoggle to those who invested. Do you disagree with that?

We cannot see it--please summarize for us?

He made so many millions off the Pac12 for so little, and I’m sure he is realizing he should shut the “blank” up now. Everyone, see how we can avoid that word if we want to?

It is true that they could have wanted more money, but a BILLION for only 15% stake is pretty darn good. I cannot believe that Larry made this happen...or that our presidents declined it!

No. 21 on Rivals, while looking prettay, prettay good with only 11 verbals thus far. 2023 Team Rankings N.RIVALS.COM The definitive source for all Rivals news. And we moved ahead of Washington! How did that happen?

Look...I dislike Larry Scott as much as anyone else...but he pulled this together and the idiot school presidents turned down a BILLION? For only 15% equity? Good grief, Larry pulled off the "Con-of-the-Century" if the presidents had agreed to it. He really fooled the private equity people, but.... Canzano: Pac-12 turned down $1B offer to sell equity stake in conference WWW.JOHNCANZANO.COM Conference ADs say they're galvanized. How much do they get paid? And they're smarter than us?

I would agree that it looks great, but I've been surprised before!

The article hints that the loss of the Cowboys could be a fatal blow to the Big-12, and perhaps the Pac-12 could attract a few Big-12 members to join us?