Charles Fischer

"...they would learn about it, and never want to play for any school associated with making a game of it." Again....what you write makes sense, but only if other schools are actually engaging in negative recruiting to the smallest detail, such as the rivalry game name. I have read THOUSANDS of posts about recruits over the years, and I am quite confident that it has never been a factor in deciding to come to Oregon or Oregon State. I would need to see proof that it is actually an issue to recruits. In fact...this is the first time I've seen anyone bring up recruiting in the name-change discussion. Its a new STRETCH to me!

Looks like the brother has been offered...

I think I understand history; hundreds of thousands of men died to stop slavery and preserve the union. Over 186,000 black soldiers fought for the north, and over 40,000 over them died for that noble cause. It comes down to how each person chooses to view it; it was either a name that represented slavery, or a name that represented the first fight for the rights of black Americans. Or is it just a name we use that we don't think twice of over the years because it is just a moniker. No matter how you think of it...the vast majority of both fan bases of UO and OSU disagree with the name change, and it was brought about by the former players of both schools. Getting back to the premise of this thread and my article....the former players are 0-2 with the fans at Oregon, IMHO. Is Lanning spending extended time with a former prominent player who was instrumental in those episodes a good thing?

Now THAT is what I would like to see happen.

I think that is a "Red-Herring." I have been following recruiting for over 20 years on the subscriber sites and with the thousands of recruits interviewed....NOT ONE of them ever mentioned their objection to the name of our Rivalry game.

My FishDuck Friends....I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I think rebuilding the bonds with former players is a good thing and it can help with recruiting and contacts in the NFL. On the other hand...it is the former players that wanted Justin Wilcox hired and got the Civil War name change done--without any input from those who pay the bills. (The season ticket holders!) Considering how the former players have NOT acted in the best interests, (IMHO) of the fans--part of me wants him to stay away from them, or at least--don't listen to them? Your thoughts? (A prior article about this topic is below) Former Oregon Players Are NOT on the Fans’ Team by Charles Fischer of FishDuck

I had to bump this up as I thought we would get more entries! Where are all of you?

Ducks Finish L.A. Sweep with Small Ball, Long Ball LOS ANGELES, Calif. – No. 18 Oregon swept two games in the UCLA Tournament using both small ball and the long ball on Saturday. The Ducks scored runs in six different innings to defeat UC San Diego 10-2 in the early game and then got home runs from KK Humphreys and Hannah Galey to top Loyola Marymount 4-1 in the afternoon. “That was awesome,” said Vallery Wong, who not only watched Humphreys’ big fly from third base, but also laid down a sacrifice RBI bunt in the first game Saturday. “I knew it was coming. I told KK as soon as she got up to bat she was ready and that she was going to hit the ball hard and she did that. It was just a great part of the game to do that and I was really excited for her.” The Ducks went 5-0 on the opening weekend of the season. How it Happened (Game 1): The Ducks scored two runs in the first inning, one in the second, four in the third and then added single runs in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings. “I loved how we kept scoring inning after inning,” said coach Melyssa Lombardi. “Even if it’s just a couple, we’re constantly getting runs and putting pressure on the opponent.” The small ball against UCSD began in the second inning when Wong executed a sacrifice bunt to score Allee Bunker from third. “It felt really good,” said Wong. “Executing for my team feels really awesome every time.” The Ducks saw additional productive outs in the third inning. Wong scored on a sacrifice fly from Jas Williams before Kai Luschar scored on an RBI groundout off the bat of Paige Sinicki. Two of Oregon’s last three runs against UCSD came via the sacrifice. Wong scored on a Tehya Bird sacrifice fly and Hanna Delgado came home on Ariel Carlson’s sacrifice fly. Bunker went 4-for-4 with three RBI against UCSD, while Delgado was 2-for-3 and scored three runs. Wong and Galey were also 2-for-3 in the first game. Stevie Hansen started against UCSD and went 3.1 innings before coming out after yielding a home run in the fourth. Jordan Dail (2-0) came on in relief and struck out six in 3.2 innings to pick up her second win of the weekend. How it Happened (Game 2): The Ducks found themselves behind for the first time all weekend when Loyola Marymount strung together two hits and took advantage of Makenna Kliethermes’ wild pitch to plate the game’s first run. The Lions kept the Ducks at bay until the pivotal fourth inning. Wong reached on an error before Williams doubled to right center, giving Oregon runners at second and third with one out. Humphreys then sent the first offering she saw from Logan Caymol over the wall in left for her first home run of the season. “KK’s got great power,” said Lombardi. “KK’s a great hitter so it was nice to see her come up big for us.” One out later, Galey smashed an opposite-field blast out to right centerfield for her first homer of the year. The 4-1 lead was all Kliethermes (2-0) needed. After the first inning, she gave up no runs and just two hits over the final six innings to wrap up the weekend with her second complete game of the season. In three games, Kliethermes struck out 21 batters with one earned run on six hits allowed in 15 innings. Noteworthy: Bunker matched her career high with four hits. Oregon’s pitching staff finished the weekend with a 1.08 earned run average and 40 strikeouts. Quoteable Head Coach Melyssa Lombardi “I thought overall our pitchers did a great job in giving us an opportunity to win every single game this weekend.” On Deck: Oregon heads to the Lone Star State to face Texas State Thursday in San Marcos before a three-game series at Baylor.

Still no Brooke Yanez, and I have to assume she must be injured?

Yep, it was stopped after five innings.

Details later after the second game; in the first game Stevie Hansen got the start at pitcher, with Jordan Dail coming in to close. Allee Bunker went 4-4 hitting with 3 RBIs!

Yep. Lanning Laws: "That Won't Last a Week at Oregon" by Charles Fischer of FishDuck

I noticed that too, and while she is not the player Graves said she would become....she is helping the Ducks and the sport with her play and her honorable conduct. It makes me proud...

Good topic ICAMEL! I see four wins on the low side and seven on the high side...so yes, I think we can get to 20 wins, but if it is just four wins...we would also have 11 losses at that point and double-digit losses never look good.

This is quite an impressive group that Coach Lanning as assembled, and this is a good article discussing them. I would put Lupoi as No. 1 though... Ranking Dan Lanning's Six Most Important Staffing Hires With the Oregon Ducks by Zachary Neel of Ducks Wire

In my conversations with Bulldog fans...even they admit that their program is hard, and they lose a lot in transfers. Five-star players and high four-stars leave the Georgia program on a regular basis as many cannot adjust to the life of not being coddled and given preferential treatment. (You saw high profile players transfer out of Athens this year too) So yes, some Oregon players may find that they are no longer at the top of the pecking order, and must fight to retain it--and don't want to. I don't think it will be a ton of players, but I do think we will be very disappointed with some that decide the new culture is too demanding.

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – Oregon’s pitching staff continued to impress, while the offense awakened in the second game of the Ducks’ doubleheader sweep of CSUN Friday at Matador Diamond. Jordan Dail overcame a rocky start to pitch the Ducks to a 9-3 win in the opener. The offense erupted in the nightcap as home runs from Ariel Carlson and Tehya Bird powered Oregon (3-0) to a 16-0, five-inning, victory over the Matadors (0-3). “Little bit of a slow start and you can see as the game went along we picked it up,” said head coach Melyssa Lombardi. “I liked the amount of runs that we scored in the last inning of the first game and I felt that inning just took us right into the next game.” How it Happened (Game 1): Dail (1-0) allowed base hits to the first two CSUN batters but retired the next three Matadors to keep CSUN off the board. She allowed only one more hit, a two-run homer in the sixth. Dail had six strikeouts and walked just one in six innings to keep CSUN at bay until the Ducks pulled away with five runs in the top of the seventh. At the plate, Terra McGowan set a career high with four hits, including a career-best three doubles. Jasmine Williams, making her first appearance since the 2020 season, went 2-for-3 with two RBI and scored two runs. Freshman Paige Sinicki added three hits, while Hannah Galey had two. How it Happened (Game 2): After a slow start at the plate in game one, the Ducks got on the board early and often, scoring 14 runs in the first three innings. In the seven-run second, both Ariel Carlson and Tehya Bird smashed two-run home runs out to left field. Carlson went 3-for-4 with three RBIs. Sinicki and Williams were productive at the plate for the second straight game. Sinicki only had one hit, but scored three times and drove in two runs. She also stole two bases. Williams went 1-for-3 with three RBIs. Hanna Delgado and Vallery Wong also had two hits in Oregon’s season-high 15-hit attack. Noteworthy: Freshman Stevie Hansen made her season debut in the circle in game two and struck out seven in three innings pitched to earn the win. Raegan Breedlove struck out two over the final two innings to preserve the shutout. The 16 runs were the most scored by the Ducks since had 16 against Portland State on March 7, 2021. McGowan’s four hits were the most by a Duck since Allee Bunker had four at Oklahoma State on Feb., 29, 2020. Quotable Head Coach Melyssa Lombardi “We need to start games the way we’re finishing games.” On Deck: Oregon’s tour of greater Los Angeles concludes Saturday. The Ducks will face UC San Diego in a neutral site game at Loyola Marymount at 9 a.m., followed by a game at LMU the Lions at 11:30 a.m.

I will post the official press release later as it will have more information, but freshman Paige Sinicki got on base eight straight times over the last two days? Freshman pitcher Stevie Hansen had eight strikeouts, and Raegan Breedlove came in to close and only gave up one hit. What a start!

I agree with you, and apparently the new S&C from Ole Miss has really won over the players already. Lanning does not talk about physicality all the time like you-know-who, but I think his defenses were physical enough... It will be very interesting to see how many injuries occur during this next season. Wilson Love at Ole Miss

There will be more details later, but Oregon won the first softball game 9-3 where Jordan Dail got the start, and Makenna Kliethermes finished up. The star of the game was catcher Terra McGowan, who had three doubles, four hits, and four RBIs! You can listen to the next game that will begin at about 3:00 PM by going to the schedule, and then clicking on listen and then clicking on "Stream 1," and then with the window that comes up...click on the arrow on the left. You can start another tab/window and come to the schedule and then click on "Live Stats" and check on the scoring/action.

Right off the bat...the issue is that we really do not want to face an opponent from the other two Power Conferences that are among their best. I would prefer to save that for a bowl game or the Playoff.

SWD1...you are new and this is information, a perspective, we have not heard and really needed as Oregon fans. THANK YOU. Please do post often, and WELCOME! Great stuff--thanks again.

Hello my FishDuck Friends, For those who want to play...give me the items below and let's take a shot at it for fun! Since the Rams defense is being featured often...let's structure the tiebreakers in that direction. If you do not have all the tiebreaker items...the entry does not count. 1. Game score and winner? 2. How many passing yards the Bengals have? 3. How many rushing yards the Bengals have? 4. How many turnovers for the Bengals? 5. How many sacks do the Bengals suffer from the Rams? Mr. FishDuck: Rams, 38-31, 294, 118, 3, 6 No. 58 Justin Hollins for the Rams

It used to be my FishDuck Friends, that every week you had the conference standings published in the local paper, but not now. Add the other major sites don't publish them, so perhaps I should do this once a week? It helps to know... The women and the men are tied for second? Whew! Wouldn't have thought that in mid-December! Pac-12 Womens Basketball Standing TEAMS CONFERENCERECORD OVERALLRECORD LAST GAME NEXT GAME STANFORD RANKED2 STANFORD 10-0 19-3 W 82-59 ORST VS UTAH2/11P12M CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION OREGON RANKED24 OREGON 8-3 15-7 W 83-30 WSU @ OREGON STATE2/11P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION ARIZONA RANKED6 ARIZONA 7-3 17-3 W 73-61 ORST @ ARIZONA STATE2/11P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION UTAH UTAH 5-4 14-7 W 91-69 USC @ STANFORD2/11P12M CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION WASHINGTON STATE WASHINGTON STATE 6-5 14-8 L 30-83 ORE VS UCLA2/11P12L CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION UCLA UCLA 5-5 10-7 W 59-54 CAL @ WASHINGTON STATE2/11P12L CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION ARIZONA STATE ARIZONA STATE 3-3 11-8 W 55-49 ORE VS ARIZONA2/11P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION OREGON STATE OREGON STATE 4-5 11-8 L 59-82 STAN VS OREGON2/11P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION COLORADO COLORADO 4-6 15-6 W 66-43 WASH @ CALIFORNIA2/11P12B CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA 1-4 10-6 L 54-59 UCLA VS COLORADO2/11P12B CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION USC USC 2-9 9-12 L 69-91 UTAH @ WASHINGTON2/11P12W CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION WASHINGTON WASHINGTON 0-8 5-11 L 43-66 COLO VS USC2/11P12W CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION Pac-12 Mens Basketball Standings TEAMS CONFERENCERECORD OVERALLRECORD LAST GAME NEXT GAME ARIZONA RANKED4 ARIZONA 11-1 21-2 W 72-60 WSU @ WASHINGTON2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION UCLA RANKED12 UCLA 9-3 17-4 W 79-70 STAN @ USC2/12ESPN CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION OREGON OREGON 9-3 16-7 W 68-60 STAN VS CALIFORNIA2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION USC RANKED21 USC 9-4 20-4 W 74-68 PAC VS UCLA2/12ESPN CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION WASHINGTON WASHINGTON 8-4 13-9 W 87-64 ASU VS ARIZONA2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION WASHINGTON STATE WASHINGTON STATE 7-4 14-8 L 60-72 ARIZ VS ARIZONA STATE2/12ESPNU CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION STANFORD STANFORD 7-7 14-10 L 60-68 ORE @ OREGON STATE2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION COLORADO COLORADO 6-7 14-9 W 86-63 ORST VS UTAH2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION ARIZONA STATE ARIZONA STATE 3-9 7-15 L 64-87 WASH @ WASHINGTON STATE2/12ESPNU CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA 3-11 10-15 W 63-61 ORST @ OREGON2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION UTAH UTAH 2-12 9-15 L 77-80 ORE @ COLORADO2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION OREGON STATE OREGON STATE 1-10 3-18 L 61-63 CAL VS STANFORD2/12P12N CLICK TO SHOW MORE INFORMATION