Charles Fischer

OK...that is not a pleasant visual, but pretty darn funny!

You know what I wish I would have asked for? Everyone to post a picture of their Christmas decorations, as I really enjoyed the pictures of the snow and decorations in this thread. Next year!

What are the probabilities that this hiring of Dan Lanning is not an upgrade to what we've had with Cristobal? Vote and give us your thoughts if possible. (I have not done a poll before)

We had a similar light dusting in North Eugene... Nice decorations Wounded Knees!

On Christmas? Nice touch on the gut-punch... After I let it soak in...I realized that this is probably because our new OL coach is not available for recruiting until after his NFL team, Pittsburgh, is done for the season. That won't be until January 3rd, but if the Steelers are in the Playoffs--it would not give the recruit enough time to check out other teams if he does not bond with the new OL coach. So he has to act now... (But he could have waited until the 26th?)

Cool. Welcome back and do post often. As you have seen--we work really hard to protect everyone so they can post without any concerns of getting nasty backlash.

It is a good thing I disabled the negative response emojis, otherwise my own impulse control would be severely tested...

idontrollonshobbas! You returned yesterday for the first time since last January! (Yes, my administrator control panel tells me all that stuff) Great to have you back, and I must confess that there are tons of people like you who signed up during the first three month life of this forum in the first quarter of this year. And many of you would not know it is back, and I have not yet sent emails to everyone. How did you find it alive again? And WELCOME!

We are supposed to have a bunch of snow tonight, but I don't know...

Wrong. The best you can say is half a championship, but the reality is that it was a poll, that declared them half-champs. One year later they were slapped with penalties by the NCAA and the conference for cheating so vast we do not want to waste time on it again here. Thus their championship was won by cheating, and only the Huskies would claim otherwise. In the modern day--those trophies would be returned as USC had to do in 2004. Herb....It would be nice if you would explain your relationship to the Ducks, and why an ASU fan would hang out here. Not complaining, but puzzled. I would not hang out at another school's site unless I was 19 again and wanted to Troll. You do not appear to be Trolling, so...what is your story? My thanks.

It is only logical...

I was thinking about this....as an entertainment feature here...a regular thing? Keeping track of the negative stuff of a team, and passing along their delusional stuff is highly entertaining. This has been common on the pay-forums for the over 20 years I've been on them. Since most of you are NOT on them...I might just start bringing more to you. Because for example I'm a member of 247...then I can read the Husky equivalent for free and copy-and-paste their silly stuff as I did this morning. I pondered..."what teams would I want to follow on this?" Only the Huskies and Trojans, since they seem to be most obsessed with us, and Washington is such a long-term hated rival. It really is great entertainment.

Husky fans can unintentionally be quite entertaining and sometime enlightening on their own forums! --I am not sure about the coaching quality, but the ducks are sure filling out their staff with seasoned Pac-12 recruiting-centric position coaches.....Tosh, Klemm, Martin etc. Its an interesting strategy....... --Hiring dirty recruiters. Klemm dirty Meat Dirty Tosh. --So am I missing something with their staff? Who is the adult in the room? --But they’re great recruiters. Isn’t that all matters? --Duck fans are pretty delusional, they’re pretty sure they’re putting together the greatest coaching staff in college football. --A lot of guys known as recruiters 1st and coaches 2nd, to go along with a first-time head coach… --I'm looking at this Oregon strategy: Recruit like mad, have a party atmosphere, fill your roster with top-line talent, figure that "development" is something lesser schools do, and believe that "coaching" is vastly overrated? --I don't know... that sounds a lot like the Cristobal approach. Which makes me think it's just the Oregon approach. --I don't think 0regon is going to get good coaching out of Demetrice Martin, but they will at least get talented recruits. --Oregon could end up just being flat out awesome, or they could end up like Florida State the last few years. I'd be laughing harder about Klemm, but we still have Huff. Meat Martin also hasn't been known as much of a DB coach. Tosh is a decent coach, so is the guy from Nebraska. --Without a pay for play program you're done !!! UW is the poster child for what’s going on in recruiting right now...Greenhorn staff with zero cash. It’s going to be a struggle just to compete with UO for the north. CFPs? It’s over! I want to party with this frat house they’re putting together down there.

You know....Oregon has open scholarships at defensive tackle and receiver from portal transfers recently....wouldn't that frost our friends to the north?

Poor Abbie would do anything for cheese! Merry Christmas to all!

A four year defensive tackle starter Sam Taimani (6'2" 330 lbs.) is entering the portal along with star receiver Terrell Bynum, who was the only true Husky deep-threat. Lost to the NFL is star tight end Cade Otton, and the Huskies are reeling... Bynum Reportedly Enters Portal, Becoming 5th Husky to Exit by Dan Raley of Husky Maven (The sixth-year senior is the second UW receiver to transfer this year, seventh in two years.) Is this very noble reporting Washington woes? No. Will I continue? Yep.

As soon as I published that comment...I began to have second thoughts because I did not add all the disclaimers and full disclosures that should come along with a rigid policing policy. Because the fact is...I banned someone this last week on the first post! You see, I use my judgment and experience of working with hundreds of people on this over the last four years of rules. For the typical "regular" here...I send an email "notifying" them. It is not a ban or even a warning, but a gentle reminder that we all have to stick to the rules. Nearly 99% of those I send the emails to turn and apologize, resolve to not do it again, thank me for "keeping things clean," and urge me to "keep doing what you do." ICamel...these are good people, and we then just forget about it and move on. If there is a second violation...we do have to have a serious discussion, as I cannot have repeat offenders take up my time. But that rarely happens. Of the 1% that fight back? That is shouting trouble over time for me, and I draw the line in the sand and let them choose, because a second violation for this type of person gets the trap-door. And then there are the "Drive-by Trolls," who sign up and within ten minutes have written a nasty post about their views on a topic or blasting a writer. There is judgment used in the severity of my response, but those often are an immediate ban. I do send an email explaining why, and if they call me and we chat--it is possible to re-instate them, but I need to have a really good gut feeling from the chat. One of the bans this week was a "Drive-by Troll" who gets no additional strikes or chances for redemption because he wrote a nasty public post directed at yours-truly. You have really question someone's judgment when they intentionally "poke-the-bear." Dealing with violators takes a lot of my time, but sometimes I enjoy the debate, and many times I make new friends in the process as you can never have too many Duck-Buddies! How smart is it to whack the Founder?

That is how it looks at this moment, but there is a full month of recruiting before the February signing day. He may make this an "Adequate" class, and considering all that happened...that would be pretty good.

Actually it is more than that. Studies show that people will not read four lines straight of text or more...they just skip the post and go on to the next. So if people want their posts read...hit the "return" or "enter" key twice after every three sentences. It is easier to read, but also assures that you have not wasted your time writing.

As for those wayward students?

Oh yes he did. Big dude, too. Big-time nine-year punter in the NFL for nine years with a 42.7 yard average. When a placekicker went down...Bellotti asked him if he knew how to kick a field goal. He lied and said, "yes," and Coach put him in there and he kicked it through! Had a 46 yard punting average his senior year in 1998...

Remembering Christmas past....

MaiTai....I really do not see this as that bad a problem. His build is the opposite of what is needed at DT, as he is tall and slender. So it is much harder for him to have a lower pad level that the offensive lineman striking him, and the low-man wins in the trenches. I thought when they brought him here that perhaps he had the fast-twitch and could convert to DE or TE, but he does not have that speed/quickness or they would have moved him. He is a "tweener" who would not play much anyway. With the scholarship now, perhaps the Ducks can get something better in the portal? BTW....when there is a red line under a word when you write it? It means it is misspelled, and if you right-click on the red line...a menu pops up with correct spelling options. Click on the right one and it replaces it for you.

It is your opinion, (above) of which everyone can state (and I want them to) and since Mario is no longer a current coach at Oregon, so we can say anything we want to about him. (Goodness knows I have and will!) Just a side note Duck1984...I am not everyone's "Editing-Maid," as I have too much to do as it is. My process is...I edit once, (and let the member know) delete the second time, and if it goes from there we have a chat about the future. The whole purpose of this thread was to ask for feedback about the difficulty with impulse control, not to condone it when it is not applied. I provide the majority of the money and a boatload of hours to make this forum happen, and to keep it free. Everyone has their part too...