Jon Joseph

And if so, is he or she gagged? Where is the Joey Harrington-like publicity? In today's wired world, get out there or get lost. For that matter, where in the heck is our commissioner? Why not just fold over and die? Silence regarding the new media deal in this day and age is not smart; it's senseless. How about some progress reports from The Man instead of from the Arizona and ASU presidents and the Utah Athletic director? Oregon is now the bell cow of the Pac-10; let's hear something tangible instead of a myriad of rumors. -

Does anyone know who the Oregon SID is? He or she IMO is MIA.

UNC deserves a rematch after last season's having not all hands on deck bowl game.

Win with dignity and lose with grace.

The SDSU coach? The Aztecs have been in tourney 4 of the last 5 seasons.

Thanks, PA. Is Mullen the right guy to be leading the Oregon Athletic Department? 2022 produced a bad ROI. I want to give him credit for the Lanning hire after the Wilcox offer (likely intentionally) failed. He did not hire Altman. He had his hat in the ring for both the Georgia and Texas A+M jobs. Charles and this great site do a better job of marketing the football and basketball programs than anything I have seen coming from Mullens. Where is the pub from the Athletic Department noting, as Charles so artfully did, the football team in 2022 outkicking its media market coverage by finishing as the 7th most watched team in the nation? However, who cares what I think; especially, if Uncle Phil is happy?

And it's doable. Florida plays at Utah this season. Arizona has a return game at Miss St. Down the road Arizona has a home-and-home scheduled with Alabama. CAL plays Auburn in Berkeley this season. And Wisconsin comes to Pullman for a return game. Pullman! I agree that Altman should not leave. Sorry to go a bit OT. This was a great take by Jordan.

Annie, do you and other Ducks CBB fans think that the program is being adequately funded and marketed? The attendance vs Wisconsin was telling but so were Altman's comments in regard to Wisconsin spending the money to bring its band and cheerleaders west for an NIT game. Per Wilner, based on results vs money invested the Oregon Athletic Department finished 8th in the Pac-12 last season in ROI. I watch the way SDSU plays and Arizona and the last 2 teams under Altman do not come close when it comes to grit and desire. This season especially it looked like Altman's players simply tuned him out.

I want Altman to stay and Mullens to leave. The post-game comments were as much of a shot at Mullens as it was at the students. (And the next 6 OOC football games Mullens has scheduled? No 4M eyeball games in the mix,)

Thank you very much, Jon and PA Duck. Wilner and Canzano are two writers who have refused to speculate on the new media deal. Their reporting is based on sourced information and not a rumor.

Jon, I would guess nowhere near 7-4.

SDSU 7-4 in its last 11 football games versus the Pac.

Going to be tough. UConn is now ranked #1 by KenPom.

Defense Does Make A Difference Invite these folks NOW!

Love the take. CFB/CBB is big business. Money matters. You are so right. Instead of getting on the bus in the last 10 years the 'leaders' of the conference missed the bus yet built a lousy Network bus station.

Who Knew? A spring game sellout at CU is to be broadcast by ESPN. Colorado sells out spring game as hype builds for Deion Sanders’ debut WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Hiring Deion Sanders as the school’s head football coach is already paying dividends for the University of Colorado. The school announced on Thursday it had sold out its spring game on April 22. It makes a difference when a program opens its pocketbook. CU is definitely committed to returning as a big-time player in CFB.

So, so much at the level Aaron plays on is about chipping and putting. He can launch it but it always comes down to drive for show and putt for dough.

Bummer! For the 5th decade in a row, my invite to play at the Masters in Augusta has been lost in the mail! Aaron can move the ball with the best distance wise but he is streaky based on a not-so-solid putting game. Lots of fun to watch Aaron play. Used to love to watch Jake on the regular and then on the senior tour.

He has done the no-brainers. Shutting down the San Francisco location and moving the Network facilities into cheaper digs. At the same time he for some unknown reason hired an Assistant Commissioner. And I'd still like to know what if anything Merton Hanks has done to earn his salary. He was sucker punched by the B1G, Kevin Warren, Carol Folt, and the new B12 commissioner. He IMO has been asleep at the switch. He failed in regards to mission 1, keeping the LA schools on board.

Love the GIF! After much ado about nothing I do not think the Legislature will not insist that the Beavers tag along. Kind of like, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech, and UCLA and CAL. I'd be very surprised if Oregon doesn't have more legislative juice than Oregon State. And I think Uncle Phil would not let Oregon State prevent Oregon from moving on up.

I believe that at the 'end of the day,' Both the B1G and the SEC will have 20 to 24-member teams. A defacto Super Conference. Depending on whether players are deemed employees, I think Northwestern and Vanderbilt, for example, might drop out.

No. Oregon and UW have not assigned their respective media rights beyond 2023. There is nothing to restrain Oregon and UW from leaving after 2023 without having to pay an exit fee except perhaps the Oregon legislature insisting upon Oregon and Oregon State playing every season as is the case with Florida vs FSU, Clemson vs South Carolina, and Kentucky vs Louisville. I do not think the Ducks would at all mind playing OR ST OOC every season.

I think the Ducks if invited go after next season. Otherwise, Oregon would be in limbo media-rights wise and I'm reasonably certain the B1G would want to arrange a 16-team schedule come 2024 and not wait a year for teams in addition to SC/UCLA. What kind of media deal would the Pac-10 be able to come up with if Oregon and say Washington, were only members for 1 season of the new media deal? Plus, leave after the 2023 season and there is $0 owed in exit fees. Business-wise I think FOX. CBS and NBC would also want to get a deal and a schedule done in 2024.

Charles posted a perfect-pondering point post as to whether Oregon and Washington will receive an invitation to the B1G come late April or May. Matt Hayes, a gentleman who has covered college sports for decades opined a few weeks back that the B1G is not going to leave the LA schools on a west coast island. Many of us on this site have chided the LA schools' move to the B1G as being insensitive toward student-athletes, especially those playing non-revenue sports when it comes to travel covering distances from California to New Jersey and Maryland. I think there is a way in which travel can be mitigated. Oregon and UW joining the B1G would bring the B1G conference to 18 member institutions. A perfect fit for three, six-team pods. WEST - Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Washington. CENTRAL - Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Wisconsin EAST - Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers. [Penn State plays in the Central Division to balance competition; especially, in football.] Annually, Oregon would play Iowa, Nebraska, UCLA, USC, and UW in football. Out-of-conference (OOC), Oregon would continue to play Oregon State and Washington would play Washington State. This would leave Oregon with 4 conference games and 2 OOC games. The remaining 2 OOC games could be played against teams on the west coast. 2 of the remaining 4 conference games would be played at Autzen Stadium. If this on occasion required Oregon to travel to the eastern time zone; well, Oregon has been there-done that. Football is the easy part of the travel calculus For other sports, including basketball, the conference schedules could be weighted to play the home and away against pod members, and the rest of the conference schedule creatively filled out. For instance, Baseball could travel to Rutgers along with Penn State and Maryland for a round-robin trio of games. Same with UW traveling to Chicago for a round-robin of games with Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, and Wisconsin. School work? As a result of what we learned from the Covid crisis, many classes can be taught online. Who (and I am not certain of Who is) knows if an invite will be coming? But should an invite be coming and accepted by Oregon I do not think fear of exaggerated travel need be realized.

I agree that it stinks but in big business, you evolve or die in bankruptcy or simply fade away. Big businesses that are not properly managed fail. And the management of the Pac-12 has been ruinous for over a decade. You reap what you sow; however, the Oregon brand should survive and thrive so long as the Oregon powers-that-be are 1st looking out for Oregon. IMO it stinks even further that the #7 CFB in viewership in 2022 is even part of this mess.