Charles Fischer

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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...

How do their fans feel about it? I sure wouldn't like it!

Agreed. If they could do more--they would have done it by now, right? (Now watch them prove me happily wrong!) I never get tired of highlights from wins over Washington...do you?

In the past we usually had spring football begin in early April and finish with the Spring Game on May-Day or thereabouts. In some recent years--they started sooner, but it sounds like a delay would be best for all..

I will offer to share a little time in my Oregon Duck ManCave with you during your trip. And maybe a little sipping of an Oregon Craft Beer IPA.... Created a decade ago in the ManCave!

THAT is what I am hoping for and waiting to see....

I think we can make a case that the closest thing to a perfect coach does reside at Oregon... The number of Indoor/Outdoor Track and Cross Country National Championships under him has been staggering. A GIANT in his sport....

Seeing how Alabama did it in basketball--is disquieting, disjointing, disturbing, disrupting and disconcerting to the rest of us!

He is a very good college coach, but perfect? I think the jury is still out on him, as the sample size is still too small. We need an offense that matches the times; will we see it?

What-the-heck. Why not have some fun with this? Womens NCAA: Out first round (Sorry!) Mens NCAA: Out second round Softball: Makes the WCWS! Baseball: Finishes fifth in conference and makes the NCAAs. Mens Outdoor Track: A serious run at another 'Natty that falls short. What are your predictions?

Boy I don't know...even though the picture is in black and white....I don't think it was actually lime green then. The 1916 team.... There was even a couple of years in the 1930s where Oregon had a metallic gold helmet! Bobby Moore, 1972

Oregon was the original national trend-setter introducing black as a new uniform color. After widespread criticism....nearly all the other teams have adopted this over the last decade. Any time I saw the Washington Basketball team play on the road as I flipped through channels this year...I never saw a single purple uniform, just black as their away uniforms. When even Stanford is wearing black? It is no longer unique. Oregon is carrying it to extremes, and I want our actual colors now and not black or grey uniforms. We played at Oregon State recently with black uniforms and yellow trim? We are not Iowa, but Oregon! The baseball game yesterday was even dumber....OSU was wearing orange, while Oregon wore black tops with black helmets. You would have thought you were watching a Beaver intra-squad scrimmage! Green-yellow-white please. If you want to be "different" than have throw-back uniforms and different green and yellow colors, but let's begin to honor what the Ducks are again!

I wasn't crying about it, but I've always felt that the conference tournament is an attempt to "game" the system, and reduce the value of the prior conference season. In my own bizzaro world, Oregon would not have gone that year, and while it would have been too bad--I do not like these games...

Boy....the Ducks are looking like a Top-Five team, and freshman Alyssa Brito is just killing it with her hitting right now. Whew!