Charles Fischer

Pretty interesting sentence in that press release... "Since 2022, Oregon’s offense leads the nation in points per game (39.3) and passing touchdowns (109) while ranking second in scrimmage yards per game (489.5) and fifth in passing yards per game (304.2)."

EUGENE, Ore. – Oregon football head coach Dan Lanning announced multiple promotions and an addition to the Ducks’ 2025 coaching staff on Wednesday, including the promotion of tight ends coach Drew Mehringer to co-offensive coordinator. Lanning also announced promotions for current staff members Rashad Wadood, Kamran Araghi and Koa Ka’ai. Wadood will coach the Ducks’ cornerbacks, Araghi will oversee Oregon’s edges, and Ka’ai will move into a new role as assistant quarterbacks coach. Additionally, Lanning announced the return of Cutter Leftwich as the Ducks’ assistant offensive line coach and run game coordinator. Leftwich was on Oregon’s staff in 2023 before spending the 2024 season at North Texas as the Mean Green’s offensive line coach. “We are excited about our coaching staff as we prepare for the spring and the 2025 season,” Lanning said. “Our staff does a tremendous job of prioritizing the student-athlete experience and making sure we are putting our players in a position to succeed, both on and off the field. I look forward to seeing guys like Drew, Rashad, Kamran and Koa thrive in expanded roles, and we are thrilled to welcome Cutter back to our program to assist with our offensive line.” Mehringer joined Lanning’s inaugural staff at Oregon as the tight ends coach ahead of the 2022 season and has played an integral role in directing one of the nation’s most dynamic offenses over the last three years. In three years playing for Mehringer, Terrance Ferguson became Oregon’s all-time leader among tight ends in career receptions (134) and receiving touchdowns (16), and his 43 receptions in 2024 tied the UO single-season record by a tight end. Since 2022, Oregon’s offense leads the nation in points per game (39.3) and passing touchdowns (109) while ranking second in scrimmage yards per game (489.5) and fifth in passing yards per game (304.2). Araghi and Wadood helped Oregon’s defense put together one of the best seasons in program history in 2024 as graduate assistants while working with the outside linebackers and cornerbacks, respectively. The Ducks ranked 16th nationally in scoring defense (19.4 PPG) while also sitting in the top 25 for pass breakups (T-5th, 63), total defense (15th, 315.9 YPG), sacks (T-14th, 40), third-down defense (23rd, 33.70%) and passing defense (T-25th, 185.9 YPG). Araghi and Wadood have been on Lanning’s staff since 2022, with Araghi beginning as a defensive analyst and Wadood starting as director of community engagement before both moved into graduate assistant roles. A former tight end for the Ducks from 2011-15, Ka’ai has been on Lanning’s staff as an offensive analyst since 2022. He will now work closely with offensive coordinator Will Stein while assisting with Oregon’s quarterback room. Leftwich returns to Oregon after spending 2024 as the offensive line coach at North Texas. With Leftwich on staff, the Mean Green ranked third nationally in total yards per game (488.8), fourth in passing yards per game (328.2) and 23rd in points per game (33.5). Leftwich was on staff at Oregon in 2023 when the Ducks were selected as a finalist for the Joe Moore Award, given to the nation’s top offensive line. 2025 Oregon Football Coaching Staff Dan Lanning – Head Coach Will Stein – Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Tosh Lupoi – Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Ra’Shaad Samples – Assistant Head Coach/Running Backs Chris Hampton – Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs Joe Lorig – Special Teams Coordinator/Nickels Drew Mehringer – Co-Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends Ross Douglas – Wide Receivers/Pass Game Coordinator Brian Michalowski – Inside Linebackers A’lique Terry – Offensive Line Tony Tuioti – Defensive Line Wilson Love – Head Football Strength & Conditioning Coach Kyle Bolton – Director of Speed & Performance Taylor Porter – Associate Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Mark Davis – Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach Drew Jordan – Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach Kamran Araghi – Edge Rashad Wadood – Cornerbacks Dante Bartee – Defensive Assistant Connor Boyd – Defensive Assistant Kyle Cogan – Defensive Assistant Darrion Daniels – Assistant Defensive Line Donte Ellington – Assistant Wide Receivers Steven Haunga – Offensive Assistant Koa Ka’ai – Assistant Quarterbacks Cutter Leftwich – Assistant Offensive Line/Run Game Coordinator Jack Smith – Offensive Graduate Assistant Zach Tinker – Special Teams Analyst Ryan Walk – Offensive Graduate Assistant Dallas Warmack – Offensive Analyst

Jon...that is stunning for you to reveal; 15 of 18 B1G starters are NOT developed QBs, but transfer QBs? Maybe my article about going with portal QBs only that seemed to offended some--is not so controversial? Oregon QB Recruiting Strategy: ALWAYS Go Portal? | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM The changes in college football has left us behind what the coaches are thinking and doing, and often as fans we are catching up to the new ways of thinking in…

SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM Hellman and Neville combine for three homers and the Ducks get second shutout in as many games

15-0 Ducks, after seven innings, so I guess the run-rule doesn’t apply tonight!

11-0 Ducks! Damn...Our Beloved Ducks can hit the ball! Five innings gone, and now let's get the freshmen in there!

Good gosh, it is 7-0 Ducks after four innings from scoreless pitching by Ian Umlandt, and a three run homer by Dominic Hellman! His second homer in this game! Another Dom-Bomb...

The "Haves" such as Oregon, like the thought...

4-0 Ducks after two innings, as Dominic Hellman blasted a solo homer on a hanging breaking ball! A Dom-Bomb...

Game summary coming to the bottom of the thread later... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3-0 Ducks after one inning. So comforting to have veteran Ian Umlandt, an Oregon lad, on the hill. Mason Neville hit a home run as lead-off hitter! Did it at full-count, opposite field to boot. Jacob Walsh walks, and then Anson Aroz hits a difficult fielding double that scores Walsh. Aroz then scores when Maddox Molony hits a nice single. Off to a good start!

If they hire him, then they deserve what they get. There is so much online about him, that this should be an easy decision, as I don't know how he could have done worse for the conference than what he did. "I fooled those saps, and now it is your turn."

Up to No. 10 in D1Baseball rankings, the only B1G team ranked...Our Beloved Ducks have more surprises than I want to list here. Two of them were B1G Freshman of the Week last week, Burke-Lee Mabeus, and now B1G Player of the Week in Dominic Hellman. Mabeus is one of the heralded freshmen who are already performing, while Hellman is a great development story. I wrote him off, just as I did Collin Clarke, our Saturday night starter, but both have improved beyond what anyone anticipated. While the numbers are inflated a bit, we do have eight players batting over .300 at the moment! And that does not include Chase Meggers, one of last year's best still not back from injury. Ditto for Parker Stinson, a transfer that Coach Waz said was the best hitter in fall camp. Burke-Lee Mabeus A new OBD member, sports fan, noted that our Friday night starting pitcher and first relief pitcher have fallen off last year's results. I felt that two games was too soon to make an assessment, but both came up short of their best this last weekend as well. Grinsell, I sense, will recover. Featherston? I don't know...so that was a great observation by our new member. But boy...so many great pitching surprises and faces. We have a JC guy, Santiago Garcia, who had some scoreless innings, and while I was chortling about our four surprising freshman pitchers....Waz trots out another one, Tanner Bradley, who looked good. We DO have a lot of arms to turn to! We have a game at 4:00 PM PST Tuesday night at PK Park against Utah Tech on B1G+, and I suspect that the "Pride of Sherwood," Ian Umlandt, will be the starter. Fine surprises, and we DO have a shot at Omaha!

Hellman Earns Big Ten Honor EUGENE, Ore. – Coming off a series sweep of Columbia, Oregon designated hitter Dominic Hellman has been named the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week. Hellman (Mill Creek, Wash.) started all four games at DH leading Oregon to convincing wins that saw Oregon outscore the Lions 70-15 in the four-game series. Hellman slashed .500/.583/1.056 with a 1.639 OPS. He slugged three home runs, including a pair of grand slams in the series opener, while driving in a team-high 13 runs with nine runs scored and a double. In a 20-11 win in the first game of the series, Hellman went 3-for-5 with two grand slams, eight RBI, three runs scored, while also doubling and reaching on a hit-by-pitch. With the game tied 3-3 in the bottom of the second, launched his first grand slam of the day to give the Ducks a 7-3 lead. After reaching base on a HBP and scoring in the fourth and doubling in the fifth, Hellman broke open a four-run game in the bottom of the seventh with his second grand slam to secure the win. The Ducks’ DH had another big game in Oregon 35-1 win in the second game of the series. He reached base five times (3-for-5, 2 HBP), while driving in four more runs and scoring four times. After getting hit by pitches in his first two at-bats and coming around to score, Hellman picked up his first RBI with a ground out in the third inning. He added singles in the fourth and fifth innings, a sacrifice fly in the sixth and then a two-run single in the bottom of the eighth. In game two of Saturday’s doubleheader and game three of the series, Hellman went 1-for-5 in Oregon’s 8-3 win. He slugged his third home run of the series in the eighth inning to wrap up the Ducks’ win. In the series finale on Sunday, Hellman reached base four times (2-for-3, 2 BB) and scored once. He singled in his first two at-bats, before walking and scoring in his final two at-bats. The first run scored pushed Oregon’s lead to 3-0 in the seventh, while his second gave the Ducks a 7-0 lead. Hellman is the first Oregon baseball player ever to win the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week award and the second to win a conference award, joining Burke-Lee Mabeus who was the league’s freshman of the week last week. All-Time Big Ten Conference Players of the Week Burke-Lee Mabeus (3/3/25) Freshman of the Week All-Time Pac-12 Conference Players of the Week Jacob Walsh (3/11/24; 4/3/23) Drew Cowley (5/1/23) Gabe Matthews (4/13/21) Kenyon Yovan (3/9/21) Spencer Steer (4/15/19) Scott Heineman (5/25/15; 4/15/13) Shaun Chase (5/5/14) Mitchell Tolman (4/14/14; 5/6/13) Ryon Healy (4/29/13; 2/19/13) Aaron Payne (5/7/12; 4/29/12) Brett Thomas (4/9/12) Danny Pulfer (5/16/11) Aaron Jones (3/21/11) Eddie Rodriguez (5/17/10; 3/8/10)

My Duck-Buddies, If you ever thought of a road-trip with fellow Oregon fans...this is the one. The prices are better than I thought, and we can all meet and laugh together at a Tailgate that has been scheduled before the Penn State-Oregon game! It will be so much fun getting acquainted, and putting names (handles) to faces. Consider the time....not early September when it is too hot, not in November when it is too cold, but September 27th...JUST RIGHT! (Remember that you do NOT have to be an OBD member. Are you a reader? Cool. You are WELCOME to join us!) The Big Deal? Lodging can cost a fortune, but NJDuck set up a fantastic block of rooms reserved at $183.00 a night for the two nights of Friday and Saturday at the Hampton Inn of Du Bois, Pennsylvania. This is SO much less than the crazy rates we were seeing, and we still have rooms available before we lock in the reservation. I checked rental car prices, and a mid-size for the two days is $684.00 for the two days...but we can beat that price with the shuttle buses we have arranged. We can group together from Pittsburg International to the Hampton Inn, and back on Sunday morning in our arranged shuttle-bus. For the game...we have a shuttle picking us up in the morning and bringing us back that night to the Hampton Inn. And the shuttle takes us to within 200 yards of the stadium...an easy walk to football, but first to the tailgate we are all invited to! So our total costs of the shuttles look to be under $600.00 total for all three trips, and you don't have to drive the winding, mountainous territory for two hours to the Hampton Inn and back. This has turned out MUCH better than I could have anticipated, thanks to Joe, NJDuck, who put enormous time into the research and arrangements. Want to come? It is not too late, but it will be within days. Call me at 541-915-4541 or email charles@fishduck.com to reserve your room. (Each room has two queen sized beds, so bring a friend!) Once I hear from you on that--you get your flight arrangements and football tickets purchased on your own. Join us for this BUCKET-LIST event with Our Beloved Ducks members!

Do you think the B1G resentment of Oregon will grow? Oregon says...

Well, some Oregon praise from John Canzano! He reports that thus far in the academic year, (we are not halfway yet) that Oregon leads the league with the most B1G championships thus far. We won Football, Womens Cross-Country, and now Indoor Womens and Indoor Mens Track. He stated that no other program among the other 17 schools in the league are even close. (Talking to YOU, Ohio State and Michigan!)

SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM Freshman Will Sanford and three relievers combined to blank Columbia on two hits Sunday.

Unknown. USC is 9-2 and have beaten a good UC Irvine team, and No. 14 Vanderbilt, but UCLA is 9-3 with a win over the Trojans and is also a candidate. I figured USC would end up being ranked, so this is a big series for us. (Ducks are 10-2) Gotta have some hot bats...

7-0 Ducks, after eight, and then nine innings as the Ducks got to Lion relievers, and Oregon's held steadfast!

3-0 Ducks! Garcia put them down 1-2-3, and Oregon got to the Lion reliever to score two more!

1-0 Ducks, still, after six innings. The Columbia pitcher has been superb, but so has Oregon freshman pitcher Will Sanford holding the Lions scoreless for six. Can Oregon’s reliever Santiago Garcia keep it going in the seventh?

Game summary at the bottom of the thread! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1-0 Oregon, after two innings. Will Sanford has a nice start going for the Ducks on the hill, and I have to admit that the Columbia pitcher is the best we have seen thus far.

Geez, we start out way down...15-4 at one point, and fight back to a five point lead at halftime. This was a tough gritty game for most of it, and I noted that with 13:30 left in the second half...we only had a four point lead. With about nine minutes left it was only five. Then the Ducks exploded, and USC was clearly tired and worn down a bit. My gosh the threes were daggers..

I said this before about the football pundits last summer after watching their predictions of the impact of Oregon in the B1G....the time zone thing is real. They have not watched us, don't know us, and I declared that, "this fall will be the surprise B1G tour by Oregon." Looks like that is happening in the other sports as well...

No matter, because we have enough within our schedule, and we have established a reputation, and will keep winning, and thus I believe we will be fine. Not to mention, that bringing USC, and UCLA to the conference automatically elevates the B1G in baseball a bit.