Jon Joseph

More bad news on the new media agreement up on Fansided and The Athletic today. I refuse to post any more of this negative stuff. What's the use? At this point, all of these negative takes are simply piling on. The absence of a deal after months of negotiation speaks for itself.

Great take my friend. We are already seeing the impact of the coming 12-team playoff (which I think will go to 16 in 2027 when ESPN loses its exclusive broadcast agreement) with better OOC scheduling in the SEC and elsewhere. A decade ago I never would have believed that we would see Florida leaving Florida for an OOC game let alone tripping to Salt Lake City. 4 team playoff is a piece of cake for the PO Committee. 2Ls and you are out. But with 12 teams and 6 at-large spots to be filled, I am hoping that SOS is truly going to matter. I am hoping that the OOC schedules UCLA and Michigan played in 2022 and will play in 2023 will automatically DQ you from an at-large spot come 2024/25. Who knows why UGA canceled a H+H with Oregon but it wasn't because Georgia was afraid to play Oregon. Anyone who thinks that has a screw loose. BTW, UGA has a bad OOC schedule this season but playing in the SEC overcomes this kind of OOC schedule. Georgia is a premier CFB program. With the way things are going (not going) media-wise and with OOC big games vs the B12 for the next 6 seasons, I am hoping that the Oregon brand will not suffer.

Georgia canceled a H+H with Oregon as did A+M. Florida is playing at Utah this season. A number of Pac/SEC H+H games have been scheduled over the next decade. Not certain but I think UGA may have a H+H scheduled with CU.

USC has an upcoming game versus an SEC team scheduled. The game will be played in Allegiant Stadium. BYU played a neutral site game there last season. Don't know about Santa Clara and LA.

The ACC is dumping divisions but will stay at 8 conference games. That leaves plenty of inventory if ACC teams want to play 2 P5 OOC games. Notre Dame playing 4 to 6 games every season against ACC teams also mucks things up.

Texas gave Bama all it could handle last season and should be a tough out for Bama in Tuscaloosa this season. Bama has stepped up its OOC scheduling. Arizona has a H+H series scheduled with Bama down the road. Most likely beginning in 2024 Bama and all SEC teams will play 9 and not 8 regular season games.

Good point but Michigan and UCLA in 2023 as they did in 2022, have 3 guaranteed OOC wins. All are being played respectively in LA and in Ann Arbor. Winning in Lubbock (Texas Tech could be a preseason top-25 team,) Waco, and Stillwater is not easy. IMO these are games where Oregon has a lot to lose and very little to gain. And none of these games is must-watch TV. Oregon at this point in time cannot hide its light under a bushel. These games will not result in Oregon being the 7th most-watched team in the nation as was the case in 2022.

The playoff calculus changes in 2024. When, hopefully, the strength of the schedule will matter. Especially when it comes to choosing the 6 at large teams. Duck heavyweights OOC and you do so at your own peril. This is why the SEC is stepping up its out-of-conference schedules. When it comes to SOS let's face it, the Pac-10 will not get the benefit of the doubt. And thanks again SC/UCLA for blowing the conference off which among other things has resulted in Ohio State paying $500,000.00 to bail out of its 2024 game against UW in Seattle.

I'm sorry but I am not giving Mullens a pass when lesser schools in our conference manage to schedule better opponents OOC. I respect your comment but please tell me why this guy is making $1M a year with legions of underlings reporting to him. Amazing job! UGA canceled a Home + Home with Oregon and the Ducks played them in a one-off game in Atlanta. Auburn has a H+H series scheduled with CAL. But Oregon had to play Auburn in a one-off game in Dallas, I think the man with the money he is paid is doing an adequate job at best. When looking at the Athletic Department salaries and the money being wasted I think the man is doing a less than adequate job. He did not hire Altman. He screwed up with Slick and for all of his recruiting process Mario was destroying the Oregon brand, Plus, he has put his hat in the ring for the UGA and A+M AD jobs. I am respectful of everyone's opinion but what has Mullens done sans PK to improve Oregon's athletics? I reiterate. Games versus TX Tech, Baylor, and SMU do nothing to raise the Oregon Q rating at a time when this is most needed,

Yo Comprende. As I noted and how can you help not to do so SSDD by DD,

Another excellent point. For whatever reason(s) the Pac-10 has to make a deal with a streaming company. A company(ies) that have never streamed college sports. Does not matter how we arrived here. This is where we are. ESPN, FOX, CBS, and NBC have negotiated linear broadcast deals for decades. We can all whine about being in this situation but it will not help with making a new and creative deal. And it is just possible the Pac-10 will catch a streaming wave and ride it into a bitchin' beach. For decades innovation has come from the West and then moved East. I've been in a number of 'hairy' business deals and restructuring situations. Sometimes when backed into a corner you exit through the front door. If the West leads the way in streaming college sports why will anyone be surprised?

Why compete when you can transfer?

The dough is not baked in Lubbock and Waco, Texas, and in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Somehow in the way of advanced scheduling, Wazzu convinced Wisconsin to trip to Pullman. I'm not giving Mullens a pass because scheduling is difficult and is done out in the future. The Utah AD who makes far less than Mullens per annum has Florida coming to SLC next season. Mullens is making $1M a year and I see nothing that makes me think he deserves it.

I was opposed to playing one-off games against UGA last season and playing Auburn one-off in Dallas. I am definitely opposed to playing any program that will not give Oregon a return game in Autzen. And looking at the 2023 and future scheduled games versus the Pac-10 and the Power 2 there is no excuse for not scheduling more impactful games. For goodness' sake, Wisconsin is playing in Pullman in 2023. I think Mullens getting an H+H with Ohio State was fabulous. Not his fault that COVID canceled the game in Autzen. I am opposed to H+H games versus B12 teams that equate to just another game on TV. Oregon with these games will not be the 7th most-watched team in the country for the next 3 critical seasons. Rob Mullens is making @$1M a year, he cannot do better than this. I appreciate your post but I don't get the love for the job Mullens and his huge Athletic Department is doing to (not) promote Oregon at a critical time in the program's future. IMO, scheduling like this is the worst. You are scheduling teams that can and are fired up to beat you and teams that do not goose the must-watch on the TV meter. Why not schedule 3 home dogs like UCLA and Michigan, start 3-0, and roll into the playoff? Either play relevant opponents or schedule hamburgers. Tripping to Lubbock next season is IMO the worst of both worlds. Why not a second game at home versus Fresno or San Diego State? Why not another money-making home game that will likely draw close to the eyeballs that will watch the game played in Lubbock, Texas? TODAY matters far more than a decade of games from today. Always respect your posts. By 2029/30 will the conference exist and where will Oregon be situated? Eyes on the prize matter.

IMHO and agreeing completely with Charles in regards to the next five to six years being a testing ground for the future of Ducks football, a guy making close to a $1M a year simply has to do better than bring us six seasons of nothing-burger need to tune into B12 vs Oregon games. Somewhere the B12 commissioner who has played Kliavkoff like a fiddle (as did Kevin Warren, the B1G, Carol Folt, FOX, USC, and UCLA ) has to be LOL at Oregon and the Oregon brand giving 6 seasons of props to a conference that has gone after the Pac-10 with an orchestrated vengeance. BRILLIANT giving a conference intent on destroying you 6 games against the now 'bell cow' of the Pac-10 conference, Dump these games in favor of the wimpy UCLA OOC schedule. Buy out of these games. You will not lose a significant number of eyeballs playing 3 cupcakes at home compared to playing in Lubbock and Waco, Texas, and in Stillwater, Oklahoma. And you will set yourself up for a better record, a conference championship, and a possible 1st round bye come 2024. I'm sick and tired of Oregon kicking itself in its own posterior. Orchestrated by a guy making a million dollars a year. There is NO strategy or tactics being employed with this kind of schedule. We have met the enemy and they are us.

I respectfully demure. If Wazzu can get Wisconsin to come to Pullman and Utah can get Florida to come to SLC and AZ can schedule SEC teams like Bama I find no excuse for the next 6 seasons, critical seasons, of off-the-national focus OOC games. The man is making close to $1M a year and the best he can do is schedule one offs 'at UGA' and Auburn And H+H with 3 B12 teams. That scheduling is done in advance is no surprise. But scheduling 6 games versus B12 teams when other lesser conference teams are scheduling Power 2 games is in IMO a scheduling no-show at a time Oregon needs to be front and center in national viewership I more than respect your comment but as Charles so artfully noted in a recent article the Pac-10 is under the microscope for the next 5 to 6 seasons. I am not giving a guy making close to $1M a year a pass; especially, when 'lesser' conference members are scheduling far better home-and-home series with more note-worthy and watchable opponents. If Florida, Auburn, Mississippi State, Mississippi and others have scheduled H+H series with Pac-10 teams what is Oregon's excuse for 6 seasons of blah scheduling? Oregon needs eyeballs on NOW and not a decade from now.

Start with falling for SEC commissioner Roy Kramer's pitch that CFB needed 1 True Champion and equating the Rose Bowl with the Peach Bowl for zero compensation. Compare the SEC to where it was financially before the BCS and today. Ditto the Pac-10. Killing the Run For The Roses with the 'help' of the B1G was the beginning of student-athlete becoming athlete-student. This was on Tom Hansen and not Larry Scott.

His email address is shown above and his phone number is listed on the Oregon Athletic Department website. In fairness, Rob had an H+H scheduled with Ohio State, and Ohio State is coming to Autzen in, I believe, 2032. But the next 6 games look like he spent too much time in Grapevine, Texas. Could not agree more with you that Oregon needs OOC games versus the Power 2. And if Utah can get Florida to come to Utah why not get UF to come to Eugene?

Thank You, Mr. FishDuck for baling out a tech dummy.

Rob Mullens makes $980,000.00 dollars a year and the best he can do is schedule the next 6 big-time OOC games versus Texas Tech, Baylor, and Oklahoma State. Three schools that were deemed not worthy of being members of the Pac-12 'Elite Club. Three schools that will not draw 4M eyeballs and will be psyched to beat any Pac-10 team after the Pac-12 told these schools to get lost. In 2023, Florida plays at Utah. Auburn plays at CAL. Arizona plays the back end of a home-and-home series versus Mississippi State. And Washington State (!) has Wisconsin visiting Pullman. There are numerous Pac-10 versus SEC teams home and home series scheduled over the next decade including Alabama visiting Arizona. I sent an email to Rob at: [email protected]. I urge all Oregon fans to do the same. It is likely critical over the next six seasons to play teams OOC that are must-watch TV. (I attempted to copy and paste my email to Rob but I do not have the tech ability to do so. I imagine my email will end up in the 'circular file; the waste basket.) BTW, go to the Oregon Athletics Site; the number of folks reporting to Rob and the all-in salaries for the Athletic Department is staggering. What in the heck do these people do all the live-long day? The Associate Commissioner - Communications, a/k/a the Sports Information Director, Jimmy Stanton, makes $160,000.00 plus perks and from what I can see does very little to promote and market Oregon sports. Part of what Dana Altman complained about after the loss to Wisconsin that brought its cheerleaders and band west for an NIT game. It is survival time. This is the time for salespeople and not the time for order-takers. Maybe these folks should read 'Shoe Dog' or watch the movie 'Air' that is being released today.

How great would it be if streaming takes off and the Pac-Whatever scores big not B1G, money?

SSDD from 'friend' DD. Pac-12 unlikely to reach media rights deal with more than 50% of games airing on TV, long-time consultant says - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Time continues to run out on the conference finding a viable option for exposure on linear television Dennis Dodd is relentless in his effort to derail the new Pac-10 media deal. My guess? He's still ticked off at the Pac-12 not adding orphaned B12 teams and having the hubris at the time it decided not to expand to call the conference an 'Elite Club.' USC president Carol Folt led the resistance to expansion and recently soon thereafter told the conference to get lost, Troy is off to the B1G.

I agree if the $ is 'right' and pods are used to reduce travel in CBB and non-revenue sports.

Great take. DO NOT SELL TEXAS TECH SHORT!

Terrific take. Thank you, Alex. SOS - I do not see SOS as a problem. Most likely OR ST, USC, UW, and UTAH will all be ranked when the Ducks play these teams. And if Oregon plays in the conference champ game that will also be a game vs a top-25 opponent. And Texas Tech may not be a top-25 team when Oregon plays TT in Lubbock in week 2 but the Red Raiders have a good shot to finish in the top-25 or slightly lower if Tyler Shough stays healthy. TT is 8-0 in games Shough has started and finished. TT ran more plays from the LOS than any other team in the country in 2022. Defeated Texas and humbled Ole Miss in its bowl game. Lubbock, TX will be Buddy Holly-like rockin' for this game. Biggest barriers to a Heisman for Nix. Will he be showcased enough in games that are watched in the East and Midwest? Will the OL play near to the excellent play of the 2022 OL? Will Nix and Stein be a fit? Will the D and special teams improve to help the Ducks not give up leads late in the game? And as you so noted Alex, will Nix and the Ducks take down Williams and the Trojans in November in Autzen? This game has the potential to be one of the biggest regular-season games in the nation in 2023.