Charles Fischer

You know the drill; give me who wins, the score, the number of turnovers that Oregon creates, the number of sacks that Oregon records and the number of Oregon passing yards. I'll go first... Oregon wins, 45-17, 3, 3, 240 yards. Turnovers could be a key again!

My friends, we are not going to have tons of posts about "other" sports often, but when they are excelling as the No. 11 Womens Volleyball team and now this Soccer team--we gotta feature it on occasion. Cristobal would love the way these women play, as they play tough defense and thus are unbeaten in this season! KEY STORYLINES • The Ducks are undefeated through their first nine games of the season (5-0-4) for the first time since 1981. • Dating back to last season, Oregon is unbeaten in its last 11 games (6-0-5). That is the second-longest streak in program history, behind only a 21-match unbeaten streak (17-0-4) over the course of the 1980 and 1981 seasons. • Oregon has scored 18 goals in 9 games in 2021. Contrast that to last season when the Ducks found the net 12 times in 16 games. • Last Friday, Oregon shutout No. 3 UCLA in a 0-0 draw in Los Angeles. It was the first time the Bruins had been shutout at home in more than three years. Leah Freeman (goalkeeper) and Chai Cortez (defender) were named Pac-12 players of the week. • Oregon notched several milestones versus the Bay Area schools a season ago. The Ducks won for the first time at Berkeley (1-0), defeated No. 3 Stanford for the first time ever in the first meeting of the year in Eugene (2-1) and shutout the Cardinal for the first time (0-0) in a game played at The Farm. Oregon went undefeated on the Bay Area trip for the first time ever. • The Ducks and goalkeeper Leah Freeman have four shutouts in the last five matches. Freeman ranks second in the conference and 17th nationally with a 0.45 goals against average. The Berkeley, Calif., native also ranks second in the conference and 16th nationally in shutouts with five. That is just two shy of the UO single-season record of seven. (Information and picture courtesy of GoDucks.com) The Ducks will face California at 7 p.m. on Thursday and No. 7 Stanford at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Both matches will be on Pac-12 Network.

My friends, everyone knows that the Cardinal are weak at run-defense, while the Ducks are weak in the Passing Offense. It makes sense to me, (if I was David Shaw) to pack the box against Oregon...get eight defenders in there to bottle up the Oregon rushing attack. Force the Ducks to beat you through the air with a QB who is barely completing half his passes, of which almost none that stretch the field and who have receivers who are not getting separation? Conversely, Oregon needs to come out passing to get the box count to normal, and then bulldoze them with CJ Verdell, (not Brown!) as they used to do so frequently to us. Thoughts on this my friends? We have tight-ends who can challenge Jacob Breeland's numbers for getting open and making the catch!

EUGENE, Ore. – Oregon will be featured in 17 national broadcasts by either the ESPN family of networks, Fox Sports 1 or CBS during the 2021-22 season, as the Pac-12 announced the league schedule and television selections on Wednesday. Season tickets for the 2021-22 season are on sale now, starting at only $165. Fans can use the link below to personally select their season ticket locations. The first nationally televised game is the Nov. 16 Phil Knight Invitational contest versus BYU, taking place at the Moda Center in Portland and airing at 7 p.m. PST on ESPN. On Dec. 18, the defending-champion Baylor Bears will visit Matthew Knight Arena to face the Ducks at 7 p.m. PST on ESPN2. Oregon opens its 20-game Pac-12 conference schedule as hosts to Arizona State on Dec. 5, before traveling to Stanford to face the Cardinal in the team’s only December road game on Dec. 12. On Jan. 1, the Ducks ring in the New Year at home against Utah, before traveling to Corvallis the following week as guests of Oregon State on Jan. 8. The first nationally televised conference game for Oregon is on Jan. 13, when the team travels to Los Angeles to face UCLA on ESPN. After the two-game trip to Los Angeles, the Ducks return for a three-game homestand that features the Jan. 29 contest versus Oregon State on ESPN2. Both Los Angeles schools visit Eugene to close out the team’s home schedule, with the Feb. 24 UCLA game airing on ESPN, while the Feb. 26 USC contest can be seen on ESPN or ESPN2. Oregon wraps up the season with a two-game trip to the state of Washington, including the season finale against Washington State, which is being showcased nationwide on CBS. (Press Release from Oregon Athletic Communications)

Kennedy Basham from Phoenix verbally committed to Oregon after turning down Arizona and UCLA (yeah!) in deciding to come to Eugene. They interviewed her over at Duck Territory, and it came down to the relationship she felt with the team, but in particular Coach Graves. She is good friends with another player verbally committed to Oregon, thus some team chemistry is working at several levels!

This article by Darren Perkins generated so much discussion, as we had posts/comments of over 100 in three day out of a four day period. Whew! I would say this community is very ready for a "safe" forum again!

Sorry Annie, I do not know!

If we stay on this path--we could be in the Top-10 again! Kind of a cool poster on the telecast the other night of Anthony Brown...

This is great stuff, as it explains why so well this play worked and what to look for in new variations of it later!

Isn't that the BEST answer Mario could have given? Just chillin' with the players after a Pac-12 Championship....

Annie...you are the first to post on the returning OBD forum and it is GREAT to have it back!

Charles, what do you provide us, the Members of the OBD Forum? --I provide the forum platform, (the thousands of dollars spent originally and now with reinstatement) along with a ton of work and time to get it back up and keep it going. --A free forum offering protection from those out there who are mean to others. This is a big gift to so many, as the absence of aggression and tension is nice to read in all our posts. --Directions on how to do everything, which is something you don't see on other sites. It is frustrating to me, in how easy everything is ... if you know how to do it. I am not "tech-intuitive," thus I need someone to show me. My directions are meant to help the vast majority, but you also have to do your part and check with them before emailing me please. (See link to Directions in upper panel on front page) --As Media Credentialed, I will pass along the official Oregon Sports press releases which will give you some of the “news” each day about Our Beloved Ducks. What to Know: --Everything is created for YOU, the OBD Forum member. So many of the rules, the methods with some of the tasks are all created to make your experience at OBD Forum that much more enjoyable and easy. --We have directions for using this forum where each task only takes 1-2 minutes to learn, and only seconds to actually complete the task—once you know how to do it. It really is easier than you would think, and do check out our short intro videos coming out soon too! --Don’t have a picture for an Avatar/Profile Picture? (What everyone calls an "avatar" elsewhere--this software calls "Profile Picture.") For those who do not have an Profile Picture--I will pop in an Oregon helmet, but there will be a ton of duplication. Yet it look will look better than the duplication of tons of capital letters for put in automatically for Profile Pictures. (A Profile Picture is the picture or letter next to your Posting Name when you post.) --The Moderators have light green colored posts, while your administrator will have light yellow colored posts. Forum Members: Will you do YOUR PART? --Know the rules and follow them. Make it easy on us as over 99% of all FishDuck members have. --Fill out your Profile and help me to help you. The public does not see anything but your Posting Name! --Bring Oregon Sports News to the forum for everyone else. Bring article links too! --Flag any posts that you see breaking our rules; you have to follow the rules, so let us know when someone else has broken them! --Start threads about interesting items you are pondering. Get a discussion going! --Post your opinion, don’t just read all the responses. Jump in, as the water in this Duck Pond is just fine! --Volunteer a little time. I work during the day and I can only provide my part of this; can you do your part? Are you retired? Can you spare a few hours out of the 168 hours available each week to help this special site? --Frustrated with a loss? Please read here, and remember we don't go after fellow devoted Duck fans who may disagree with you. Watch the Introductory Video below, as I GUARANTEE you will learn something! To see the full sized screen of the video...click on the "Watch on YouTube" above or click right here.

Look, I am not a big fan of his style, but he is an advocate of the "Conference of Champions" and some of his stuff can be memorable. I would bet that "Eugene-from-Eugene" will stick in the NBA... I gotta salute him.... (he does make me laugh on occasion)

I've been wondering about this, as I just heard another Duck fan chew on my ear over the phone about the Womens Basketball team. He has been critical of the coaching, and some of his complaints have been in the comments here as well. Nobody really knew what kind of head coach Mark Helfrich was in 2013 and 2014....because Marcus Mariota was here. The other players so respected him that they did their roles and all benefited....in spite of Helfrich. Then when Mariota left....the team fell apart almost immediately in 2015 and fully flat-lined in 2016 as Helfrich lost the team when Marcus was gone. Was Sabrina Ionescu the same for Kelly Graves?

Thank you Santa Rosa Duck, as I've given a hint in the post right here, as I and the writers of FishDuck are not going away. I have created an article to be published on Sunday morning, and in my research for the article--I decided to watch the Pac-12 Championship game again and was blown away at what I did not see before. We may not need the Pistol anymore! More on that in a month and over the spring and summer. Always fun stuff to discuss and the comment section below articles over at the FishDuck Article blog will be back up tomorrow morning. One of my favorite all-time pictures of the QB and RB doing the mesh...