Charles Fischer

Don...this is a great article to get our juices going about visiting B1G teams. And midwestern people are the best, and thus I believe Oregon fans would have fun going to mutual tailgates. Note to all: A few of us are planning to go to Penn State in 2025 and hang out with NJDuck, and Pennsylvania Duck and go to the Oregon vs. Penn State Whiteout. It would be cool to get a group of OBD members and readers to join us! I plan to visit most of the stadiums of the B1G over the years. Such a fun article and THANKS to Don!

So, the HC passed on a gimmie Field Goal, and then lost by three. That would rip my guts out if it happened to my team... Take the Damn Points! (Funny how that happens to rookie coaches...)

So true. I did not know that irony has a color, but you sure pointed that out!

The remarks about Jabbar Muhammad do not surprise me, but the delusion of beating us next year astounds me. "The vast majority of transfers: I wish them well, but not this guy. I hope that on the football field--you struggle in 2024." "Look forward to taking him and the Ducks down in Eugene next year." "The highest betrayal is any Dawg going to Oregon. You lose all respect as a former Dawg going to the Ducks. Going to Bama with DeBoer I would have understood. Going to Oregon proves you’re nothing more than a mercenary…" "Funny to me that a few ducks have liked my post. Glad they look forward to losing to us next year as well." "Benedict Muhammad" "Guess he is headed to Oregon to get coached DOWN. Their DBs suck!" "They sure had a hard time against us. We torched them the last couple years." "Yep he’s dead to me and hope he gets passed on the depth charts." "Pathetic. Our biggest rival. Oh well I hope we crush him." "Gotta think coach didn’t want him or he wanted out." "That Oregon locker room is going to be a hot mess of unhappy egos and broken “promises”. Dan the man strikes again, as he'll be 8-4 with the No.5 roster in 247. Dancing in the rain in Seattle. River of tears in Eugene."

I did not take it that way, because you are relatively new and would not know of all the experimentation I've done, and all I've learned. The readership of non-football sports is not what I want, but you post all you want about Mens Basketball, and I will post about Baseball...and whoever takes part--we welcome them. Posts about any non-football sports are fine, and frankly--we need them in the off-season. Holy Crap! This is someone I did not know about and is joining this deep pitching staff? Whew!

Lanning is loading up and GOING for it in 2024. Big rebuild in 2025, but forget about that--enjoy this year! Come...to OREGON!

Years back when FishDuck was publishing between two and seven articles a day....I would track the readership of the sports. And we had correspondents at games, (for example current FishDuck writer Jordan Ingram was our softball writer when he was a student at UO) and wrote extensively about Volleyball, Softball, Baseball and Track. We even did a season reporting on Lacrosse and paid for photographers to be there! This was my estimation of the relative readership of many of the sports, and I start with football as the benchmark to compare. Football: 100% I say this because of the volume of readership during the season, during big-news days, and frankly in the off-season we love to discuss all the happenings of college football. As it is...this is probably a board that has 95% of the posts that are football related. Mens Basketball: 35% Yes, it is THAT big a drop. Even with we had the final four team...I was surprised and disappointed with readership in Mens Basketball. Womens Basketball 25% Even in the great years--we had articles, but not many about this sport. And not many people would read them... Baseball: 10% If that...and while I am a HUGE fan, and it saddens me...the good news is that at least I will discuss it on occasion and hopefully attract the few other fans to take part. Softball: 10% Minor interest is there, and frankly...I like reading about the games, but do not watch much unless it is big games. Volleyball: 2% Almost no interest, and yet we had another great team. Track: 2% This sport is an example that represents all the non-football sports, as I spent a ton of money on photographers, and time training writers for Track & Field articles. Then another writer would create a bad football recruiting article, and it would generate three times the readership of an article about Track & Field, or Softball, or Baseball, or Volleyball....you get the idea. Even a BADLY written article about football has vastly more interest than the other sport. I was trying to be the "good-guy" and cover as many sports as possible, but the ol' 80-20 rule sure came into play; football got 80% of the readership and the others combined got 20%. Guess which took the most work? That is why we only do football FishDuck articles now. I don't make the publishing rules...the marketplace does. I just have to adjust to them. But I love my Oregon Baseball!

I think you make a great point that the teams on the lower end of the top tier have the most to lose with Oregon coming on-board. Not only Penn State, but I think Wisconsin and Iowa are not thrilled about a possibility of one more loss in the B1G that can exclude them from the Playoff. In the video, they make reference to a quote by Dan Lanning of how, "you have to win recruiting in the portal." Implying that the portal is the recruiting focus at Oregon, and the 'Lions are the "good-guys" focusing on high school players. Uh, no, on Rivals.com Oregon finished No. 6 while Penn State finished No. 16 in the nation for high school recruiting. 2024 all-teams football recruiting team rankings N.RIVALS.COM 2024 all-teams football recruiting team rankings by Rivals.com Lanning is killing it in BOTH!

Such a big transfer…

Mostly that is just talk for us fans. The reality is that Ohio State has had explosive passing offenses in recent years, (averaging over 40 points a game routinely) in addition to having physical trenches and a tough defense. Oregon will not be a surprise to them, but will be another top competitor in their conference. When you add new teams to a conference, you want cannon fodder in big markets. Rutgers, Maryland and UCLA fit that criteria nicely. Oregon does not... We're going to force this on the Buckeyes more often than they want...

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Jon, you are quite right about us getting hosed; the B1G gets marque games with Oregon, gets us for half-price, and then gets to set the schedule against us? Feels like Pac-12 Refs! But I think Oregon will make the B1G jump better than UCLA...

Sorry, but since I am "Hopelessly Devoted to the Ducks," I would like to believe that we will be in the tournament if we play tough defense like last night. We are not even at the half-way point of the conference season of 20 games, thus if we play well the rest of the way....

I gotta admit that I've always been a little bit of a SF fan, especially now because of a couple of starters on defense who are Ducks. I love the underdog story in how Detroit is finally winning, but they will have their chances again later, I believe. I'd like to see the Niners get this done before the roster ages out. (Armstead?) Who do you like, and who do you think will win and why?

My Duck-Buddies....I believe that last night was a landmark game for the Mens Basketball team. They could see and feel what the beginning of their upside is, that when they clamp down on defense, and move the ball--they can be a very tough team for anyone. It was apparent that Dante was getting the rust off against Utah/Colorado, and this game we saw more of his talents emerge. Unfortunately, it is taking Bittle longer, and I even have my doubts about how well we play with him in there, versus one of the fast-twitch smaller players? Now that was a perfect storm of great defense, and hitting all the shots, but nonetheless it shows the team, and gives them confidence about what they can do. For those who watched--do you think this was a big turning point in the season as I do? (I know, I am just a big Duck-Homer, but I am always looking to the bright points, and this feels like one) EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon remained perfect at home this season and retained a share of first place in the Pac-12 Conference with an 80-61 men's basketball victory Thursday over Arizona State before 6,170 fans in Matthew Knight Arena. The Ducks (14-5, 6-2 Pac-12) endured a scoreless stretch of more than seven minutes in the first half, falling behind by as many as 10. But they shot nearly 70 percent in the second half, 18-of-26, to turn the tables and break a tie in the conference standings with the Sun Devils (11-8, 5-3). "We took some questionable shots there — and that's being nice — that got us out of rhythm," UO coach Dana Altman said of the first-half cold stretch. "And defensively, we had eight deflections the whole first half; we had 27 the second half. That gives you an idea of the difference in the intensity." Oregon trailed 42-38 early in the second half, then proceeded to make its next 13 field-goal attempts. A basket by Kwame Evans Jr. broke a 47-47 tie and sparked a 15-0 run that gave the Ducks the lead for good, with Keeshawn Barthelemy providing seven points in that stretch. "It started with the defense — we got some stops, and then the basket got wider because we got some stops," Barthelemy said. "And we did a good job sharing the ball, making plays for each other." Jermaine Couisnard scored 19 points to lead the Ducks, and N'Faly Dante added 16 points with six rebounds, three blocks and two steals. Barthelemy scored 12, and Nate Bittle had seven points in his return from a wrist injury. How It Happened: After ASU scored to open the game, Bittle made a three-pointer on the first UO possession. With 15:01 left in the half, Dante scored to put the Ducks back in front by one, 10-9. But from there Oregon went 7:16 until scoring again, with ASU mounting an 11-0 run to lead 20-11. Dante finally ended Oregon's cold stretch with a dunk, and moments later a Jadrian Tracey three followed by a Barthelemy three-point play got the Ducks back within 24-21. A bucket by Couisnard two possessions later made it 24-23, before ASU stretched the lead to 33-28 at halftime. At that point the Ducks seemed to have stabilized themselves, but they still were in a hole. "I looked at everybody in the locker room, I could tell everybody wanted to win this game," Dante said. "We all knew what we needed to do, and everybody decided to play defense." The Ducks scored on their first five possessions of the second half, the last a putback by Dante for a 38-38 tie. Oregon finally took its first lead since 10-9 when Evans hit a three for a 47-46 advantage, and after an ASU free throw tied it, Evans scored again. That gave the Ducks the lead for good and sparked the 15-0 run, with Evans passing to Barthelemy for a three-pointer on the next possession. "He did a nice job there off the bench, really made a couple good plays for us," Altman said of Evans, a freshman who started 16 games before coming off the bench the last two. "KJ really wants to help the team." Oregon's 10th straight made shot was a dunk by Dante to cap the 15-0 run for a 62-47 lead. After the teams traded scores for a few possessions, it was 65-52 when the UO men scored another nine straight to forge their biggest lead of the night at 74-52. Up Next: The Ducks host the other team that entered this week tied for first in the Pac-12, Arizona, on Saturday (2:30 p.m., FOX).

There are a bunch of false coach quotes these days, and I believe this is one of them. AI can create anything to be very convincing, as some of the spam/phishing emails I've received are so realistic. Hard to tell them from the real thing...

Omigosh! What do the Huskies have left of a 2024 recruiting class? Ranked No. 64 with only FOUR of the 4/5-Star players coveted, where Oregon is No. 6 with Twenty of the 4/5-Star players? 2024 Washington Huskies football commitment list WASHINGTON.RIVALS.COM The definitive source for all Washington news. This will catch up with them, as you cannot get all you need from the portal... I feel so SAD for them!

Oh NO! Poor Huskies...

He may do as well there as he did Washington State? Maybe it was not a Grinch problem, but a Riley problem?

A buyout for a coach… who has not coached yet? I cannot fervently wish for this on the Huskies enough! (I know that Sherrod Moore is the likely new hire, but a guy can dream!)

Yep, I could see me wearing the virtual goggles, and then pull as if I was one of guards on a counter...and then run into the real wall. (But I'd probably enjoy it)