Charles Fischer

Doing critical analysis of player and coaching performance is what we do here as readers. As long as we do not get personal, (and you never do) then we are fine. We can discuss the negative, and what needs to improve and this helps other readers know what to look for. Your posts are very helpful to the layperson trying to learn basketball, so please continue. It sure does feel like Parrish is the shooting small forward replacement for Boley in the future? They brought up in the telecast how Dugalic was a monster rebounder when looking at the number of minutes played....so they all must be looking at those metrics. Fun stuff to discuss!

My friends, you have to trust me on this--his article is simple compared to everything else out there that digs into the Xs and Os of his defense. Coach Boles makes it far easier to understand than anyone else explaining it, because usually those other people are coaches explaining to other coaches. In fact my own analysis articles years ago were much longer and "heavy" and thus it was harder for readers to get through them and learn. We now do the "Boles Method" of breaking down the subject into smaller pieces and making an analysis of each small piece for the benefit of the reader. We work hard to make our analysis articles easy to understand, and easy to have read in less than five minutes. This way a reader did not have to work too hard to learn something and it did not take long. I want to thank Coach Boles so much for the beginning of a series over time about what to look for with the Coach DeRuyter defense, and we will be creating a section for it in the Oregon Football Analysis Library on FishDuck for quick and easy reference.

Great post and contribution 30Duck...thanks.

CJ...below is what I wrote in another post a week ago that might provide some information about pitching... It is interesting looking at the Oregon Baseball roster and seeing QB Robby's Ashford's name there! He is a 6'3" 225 lb. outfielder from Hoover Alabama... Oregon actually returns a pretty good baseball team for this next year with the most great players from the state of Oregon in years with the Ducks. Robert Ahlstrom, North Eugene, (walking distance to my home) Pitcher Kolby Somers, Hillsboro, Pitcher (did not allow a run in his COVID shortened time on the mound in 2019) Nico Tellache, Canby, Pitcher, (A lefty for key moments) Peyton Fuller, Ashland, Pitcher (Dean's List, and was 1-0 with 2.84 ERA before season ended) Gabe Matthews, Salem, Infielder, (On base percentage at .400 and Golden Glove winner!) Aaron Zavala, Salem, Outfield, 3rd Base, (3rd Team All-American in 2019 batting .418!) Kenyon Yovan, Beaverton, Relief Pitcher, Outfielder and 3rd Base (Preseason 2021 All-American and picture below) George Horton's best teams were filled with players recruited by current head coach Mark Wasikowski, who came from rebuilding Purdue. (Assistant at Oregon prior to that) He is a coach that I believe will make Oregon highly competitive again! CJ...I think we return an excellent pitching staff along with the newbies for relief!

Cool! And what surprised me is that this is true for the Rivals rankings as well right here.

The biggest indicator to me in the value of a recruit--is who else offered him? (Link is right here for schools that offered) ACC: Florida State, Virginia and Notre Dame Big-10: Michigan, Nebraska and Penn State SEC: Auburn, Florida, LSU, Tennessee and TAMU Pac-12: Oregon, Cal, USC, UCLA, Washington, Utah, Arizona State, Arizona and Washington State. (9 of 12 conference teams!)

Yovan Named To ANOTHER Preseason All-America Team OREGON ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 Eugene, Ore. – D1Baseball named Oregon designated hitter/right-handed pitcher Kenyon Yovan a third-team preseason All-America pick on Monday. Last season, Yovan earned Collegiate Baseball first-team postseason honors as a designated hitter after leading Oregon in hitting (.429), hits (24), home runs (4), runs scored (22) and walks (15). He also topped the team in on-base percentage (.556) and slugging percentage (.714), while finishing with nine RBI, two doubles and a triple. Yovan finished the season with six multi-hit games including five 3-hit games. In the Pac-12 Conference, he finished in the top three in seven offensive categories while ranking in the top six in two more. Yovan was second in the league in slugging percentage and runs scored, third in batting average, OBP, hits, home runs (tied) and total bases and sixth in the conference in walks and hit by pitches. The Beaverton, Ore., native is the only Oregon player ever named an All-American as both a hitter and a pitcher during his career. Yovan earned a spot on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (first team) and the Collegiate Baseball (second team) All-America Teams following his freshman season in 2017 as a pitcher. The Ducks’ closer that season, he was also named to four different freshman All-America Teams, and was one of Collegiate Baseball’s Freshmen of the Year. D1Baseball is the second organization to honor Yovan with preseason honors. Collegiate Baseball named him a first-team preseason All-American in December. (Excess formatting--the italics and bolding I am guilty of...) Are there any Oregon Baseball fans out there? I would love to discuss a bit of baseball from time-to-time...

I have to hand it to 30Duck and BigDucksFan who are just killing-it with the GIFs. Pretty entertaining...

Cristobal would love that toughness, but would never run the offense. (as we have seen) GREAT memory--thanks.

The Oregonian is really not a great place for this kind of pronouncement, IMHO. I think it is great for us to see it, but in the end....the difference between No. 3 through No. 7 is razor-thin, and thus these standings could change dramatically with the upcoming signing date. It is quite possible/probable that Georgia and TAMU will pass Oregon in the standings unless we snag some more...and USC is not done and they could pass us. Hence the conference title is not secured yet, IMHO. Thibs at his signing...

Yeah, I don't like that when recruits put on an Oregon hat and then take it off and put on another school...so it goes both ways. I wish they would not do that.

It's all good, my coaching friend. Great readers here will disagree and the important thing is, regardless of our differences...each of us can state our views, (no matter how far out) and everybody still has to be nice. It is refreshing to disagree in a civil fashion with no downside and it is fun.

I completely agree with you on both counts with this sentence. And Aliotti coached Justin Wilcox at Oregon, and loved his brother Josh, so there is a real loyalty issue there that clouds his judgment too.

Ouch, Ouch, Ouch! I am feeling... You make a good point, but we have not had a GREAT running back since Royce Freeman, but perhaps Benson and Cardwell will change that.

Priceless. Every Oregon fan should see that! Funny, funny, funny....

Without that great defense and Sedona Prince....where would they be right now? How would those games lost have gone if we'd had the Sedona we saw yesterday? Great stuff and THANKS!

Heyward would not be the full DC, but Co-DC with Sirmon as DeRuyter was. Coach Sirmon is lining himself up to be DC somewhere as well eventually...

The two facts still stand out to me....he effectively shut down Oregon for a full game between the last two contests, (first half of 2019, and the second half of 2020)...think of it; not scoring for a full half in each game? The other fact is how he has already game-planned for each team in the conference, and thus there will not be any learning curve for him in game-planning for opponents. Huge...

Your post is both very funny, and yet profound....if you can't beat 'em, then hire 'em!

That is fair, and both teams have very high upsides yet this season and that will be fun to watch.

Southern Duck...you are new and I love your participation in these discussions about Womens Basketball--great observation about Dugalic. She does play a very quiet, but impactful game for the Ducks. What I loved about that game is how FOUR FRESHMEN were in double figures! Paopao, Dugalic, Prince and Parrish; beat the Huskies with four freshmen? Gotta love it!

It is official as Byron Cardwell committed to Oregon! He signs in a few weeks...

Makes sense, but we do not know for sure and I still have all these questions...

The Head Coach of Kansas City is also a former offensive lineman who played for Brigham Young along with Jim McMahon in 1978-1980. Yet he is highly innovative with his plays coming up with new constraint or variations at key moments that surprise the defense and win. I'm sure he thinks his team is "tough" but he would also rather win, than demonstrate that toughness. I was impressed with how last week--he needed to run out the clock with a reserve quarterback and did so with innovation to preserve the victory. Now yes I know how important the QB is, but it is also game-planning and plays. Coach Mosier just told me on the phone a few days ago that when he went back to the Kelly-Helfrich games recently, he was stunned at how innovative Mark was compared to what he sees now. I wish he would look to Coach Andy Reid as an example to follow....

I was quite surprised to see in the telecast of the UO-OSU Men's basketball game the two players held out due to COVID protocols sitting on the sidelines at the game in MKA. It was said that the players were asymptomatic, but can't you still spread the disease when in that condition? If you have tested positive....shouldn't you quarantine from EVERYONE until the time period passes and you test negative? Yes I know they were wearing masks, but that is another issue as so many of them are a thin cloth layer of which serve more for appearance than effectiveness. It just seems to me that they should not have been there possibly infecting others? Could they have worn those masks and played since they were there anyway? (I do not think they should have been there at all) Or perhaps I do not understand and would love to be corrected. What is your understanding and how should that have been handled in your opinion?