Dave23

I second that, preferably next year (I know it's impossible but it would be allot of fun)

I think next year will be better as we will have a core group back that buys into his game plan. Love Richardson but he just didn't have "it" and couldn't be the on floor leader that the team desperately needed. Hope one of the seniors steps up and leads the team with those crucial crunch time shots and energy this team lacked. Also having a guy that shoots closer to 40% from three would help tremendously.

UConn looks like the real deal, I don't think SDSU's bigs can hold up to UConn's. The Aztec's have surprise me every game and are great at D so you never know, I give them 30% chance.

Really hope they pull it off and win the big one!

I don't thing Mario would agree, my heart thanks the new coaching staff for giving me less computations.

Great game, way to keep your heads in the game down 10.

I really like that he's focusing on route running and not tipping your hand to the DB.

Your probably right but I hope Jacobs can takeover for Bassa at money. From what I've seen of Jacobs he is great in coverage sticking with smaller fast guys just fine while also being able to stand up to bigger TEs. He also looks to be a better tackler than Bassa. Bassa was in the right place often but he missed a lot of open field tackles and got pushed around by big TEs. If Bassa can step up and make tackles Jacobs and him could do great things in pass coverage. Otherwise I rather see what Brown and Jacobs can do. Jacobs is much better athlete. Only a one game sample but this guy is the real deal. jestin+jacobs+highlights - Google Search WWW.GOOGLE.COM

If Jermaine Couisnard stays healthy and develops more consistency he could be a good leader next year. I like his game and when he's on he's hard to stop. Bittle had improved on offence and really need to learn how to defend without fouling which put him on the bench a lot. Great energy just needs to focus it. Soares is all over the place and is a really good defender. He's very athletic and has some great moves on offence but just never seams to finish. If he could figure out the offensive side and really practice is shots he could be a great player. Ware probably leaves for the NBA but he truly needs more time in college ball to mature into a better defender and team player. Hope he get some good advice or he's probably follow the likes of Wooten into obscurity. Dante has achieved what he's needed to to become a legitimate NBA player and will move on. Would be great to see him back but chances are slim. Barthelemey had some great game but tended to force up shots when he should of been dishing the ball to the to the bigs on his somewhat out of control drives. Hope you learns how to distribute the ball a little better and they could really help meld the team together. The Ducks basketball team has lacked returning players in the last few years which has really hurt the team cohesiveness. The more players that come back the better. With the talented incoming freshman class, having a veteran presence gives them time to find their roles and transition into the college game. It would be nice to have a year with less portal action.

Makes me think that the PAC 12 Networks are signing up with a steamer for distribution. The major hangup might be dealing with the Dish Network and local cable company broadcasting rights. Amazon or Apple probably want exclusive rights worldwide.

Really looking forward to those 3 point shots, very fluid with range. Just the thing the Ducks have been missing.

This is quite intriguing, I have seen the channel I think I even get it on my TV antenna! This deal might make a lot of sense for a channel wanting to get into sports and obviously bringing a hold different demographic of viewership. Show me the money!

They would probably have to just to get a jump start on being able to produce the programming or at least subcontract them.

I think this would be for the better as they could offer streaming direct to consumer. I certainly would pay $10 a month for it. I have no idea what the subscription numbers would be like or if it would be feasible. If you could get 1 million subscribe that's $120 million a year plus the advertisement of $20m for a total of $140m. This also has more upside due to be able to reach a larger audience unlike the current media deal. Likewise the advertising dollars should go up as well making the now limited viewership into the entirety of the potential PAC 12 Fans. Maybe it could work? Currently the PAC 12 Networks only pays schools 2.5m a year on revenue of 120m with operating cost of 85m. (19-20 most current numbers I could find) The current deal for distribution rights is 96m the rest is made up of advertising and other. The Pac-12 Networks has all the infrastructure in place including the streaming platform and all the production, so no large capital upgrades are needed. The expenses that would go up are the cloud computing needs but luckily those are easily scalable and will directly correlate to viewership. Selling the marquee matchups to ESPN and going our own way on streaming may just make up the revenue gap of a less than desirable ESPN contract. The potential downside for the schools is a loss of 2.5m on the upside revenue and exposure should increase substantially over time. The PAC 12 Networks is not a bad idea It's the poorly negotiated media contracts that doomed them. The PAC 12 Networks could be a way for the conference to go independent of the big media for the less than desirable games and non-revenue sports that ESPN or Fox will never show. I'm in retail and the high-end products make the most money but there's not as many of them and the substantial amount of low end products pay the bills. Where can I sign up!

A streaming deal with Amazon maybe, streaming deal with Apple TV not even close. Amazon has 200 million subscribers worldwide Apple TV has 25 million.

Guns are a hot topic and it's hard for a coach to tolerate the distraction to the team. Like many of these incidences involving players they should have never put them self in the situation in the first place. It's rare but it does happen where it was actually no fault of their own in which case the player should be reinstated and the team told exactly why. If he hadn't been a transfer I believe that coaching staff would have taken a little more time. But in this case it's nothing ventured nothing lost. Kind of like the guy that shows up late on their first day of work.

Mom seemed really surprised by his announcement. Maybe he wanted to go to Oregon against his parents wishes and dropped it on them on live TV. When the paperwork came back it open the door for him to be talked out of it. Just a guess, we'll know it's true if he ends up transferring to Oregon in the future. No one wants to air family laundry in the national media.

I tend to disagree with this primis as I know almost no one under 45 years old that has a problem with streaming. Do the Ducks even have a coach over 45 years old? Recruits on the East Coast will actually have an easier time catching a PAC 12 game on Amazon as they will not be starting the game at 11pm. I know a lot of people are scared of streaming because thursday night NFL viewership was down. The NFL network wasn't exactly crushing it the first year they broadcasted as it was the first NFL games not on a locally broadcasted station. You had to have a good sports package and cable, the only place I could watch was at a bar. Recruits will definitely not be a problem a majority of them probably already have Amazon Prime and know how to use it. The stats on households that have Prime are a little all over but it from as low as 62% to as high as 85%. I betting parents in there 40's with teenagers definitely have Prime. Viewership will lag for a year or two but then it will fast surpass cable. According to Statistica only 46% of people under 49 get tv via traditional means, that rate gets lower the younger the viewer. I know a lot of people don't want to stream games but if it's the only option and your teams playing you'll figure it out.

If the B1G wants Oregon but due to the relatively small media market they may not want them. I'm having a hard time finding out exactly the size of the Ducks media market. A Reddit post, which I don't entirely trust, has the ducks at 126, meanwhile they were the 7th most watched team in the nation last year. Oregon is set to make less money than all of the SEC, B1G, Big 12, and Notre Dame. That's almost 40 teams ahead of them when they are the 7th most watched team in the nation. How do they get paid in accordance with their viewership? Would CBS, ESPN, or NBC want to broadcast Oregon games that average 2.2 million viewers last year? I would think so. What they don't want is to have to air ASU games that average 314k last year. I've read a few articles on media markets versus viewership and old school broadcasters like Fox still use media market numbers hence them going after USC and UCLA.

Glad to see Lanning put his foot down and do it fast, there's just no excuse to be in that position in the first place. Everyone deserves their day in court but just because you're not found guilty doesn't mean you didn't exhibited extremely poor judgment.

He should run just enough to keep the defense honest.

For the viewership which = money. There's also tradition and if you read my original post this is based off the premised the pac-12 collapses due to poor media contract. So Washington will only continue to play Oregon if they follow them to whatever conference the Puppies prefer. I'm not saying I want them to leave the PAC I hope the conference lives on forever. But if it comes down to the Big 12 or B1G I think the Duck would have a good chance of making it as an independent.

Why do teams schedule Notre Dame? Do you think Washington would stop scheduling the Ducks or Oregon State? Those games are guaranteed high viewership every year, even in down years. For that matter Oregon had the best viewership of any PAC 12 team. Do teams not want to schedule games with high viewship? I just don't think spite will overpower the almighty dollar.

The key is that it's there home field and they practice in the cold and live in the cold. The fear that no one would schedule Oregon is overblown. Oregon has over 5 million fans when you play them your viewership goes through the roof. Why does anyone's schedule Notre Dame? Oregon's Brand is the biggest of any team not in the SEC, B1G or Notre Dame and is 7th biggest in college football. Media market is in my opinion going to count for very little soon, UCLA is losing so much money on sports but is in the second biggest market in the nation. How dose Fox make money on UCLA games when only a few thousand people are even willing to show up to the game. The metric that will come to the for front will be viewership. Advertising on the Internet is all based on clicks and views not potential market size. This is why going the Internet route might be best for Oregon as they have 5.5 million fans but the networks only want to pay then for the greater Portland media market of a little over a million. Most teams could not get away with going independent but if anyone could of Oregon.

I like it it's all about the bling nowadays. And just think if we're like Notre Dame we may only use that jet four times a year. The more I look at Notre Dame the more I don't understand how they're not more successful.