Jon Joseph

Res ipsa loquitor - The thing speaks for itself. Thanks Pa!

Looks like it's raining cats and dogs! Fired Up for the spring game.

I am psyched! Gonzo to "my" Pats and DJ to a team that is weekly broadcast in my area of the country. Go forth and prosper.

To date, the Pac-12 is number 5 out of the Power 5 conferences with 10 players drafted. Three of the players drafted so far are from USC with one, Charbonnet, being drafted out of UCLA. Thus, 6 Pac-10 players drafted to date. This is pathetic. Add the SC and UCLA players to the B1G and the B1G would be on the nipping at SEC heels. However, Oregon has produced two of the six drafted. Congrats to Gonzalez and DJ Johnson. Many players recruited by Dan Lanning and taken out of the portal will undoubtedly mature as players and be drafted down the road. Next season the Pac-12 should do better; especially, with a bevy of outstanding QBs playing in the conference in 2023. But if the conference as a whole does not pick up in adding new, quality players; well, this will not help come 12-team playoff time with the number of teams making the playoff and their seeding in the playoff. Playoff Committee members will note that the SEC has 31 players drafted to date and the B1G has 26 players drafted. With teams 5 through 8 hosting a 1st round playoff game, playoff seeding will be extremely important. The strength of the schedule may finally be taken into account when the field is seeded. This is the major reason I do not like Oregon playing B12 teams, and not SEC or B1G teams, out-of-conference for the next six seasons. I once again have to question Rob Mullens's judgment. Oregon will be the lead sled dog once USC goes B1G. Playing Baylor, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech does not move the media needle and does not help with the ongoing (SIGH) media negotiations. These games will not likely attract four million viewers which is an important viewer benchmark. Hoping more Ducks will be drafted today as well as more players from the Pac-10.

This helps the cause in an area of great need. Way to go DL.

Gonzo and Gibbs are examples of guys who late in their college experience hit the portal and made bank. And the beat will most certainly go on; including, many of the transfer portal guys brought in by DL.

I believe 2-time champ, Stetson Bennet at UGA was a 3-star recruit who had to 'drop down' to JC to get the reps that led to championships. In DL et al I trust. Mario got the first part, recruiting right but could not produce the 2nd part, getting highly rated kids to show the same on the field.

I want some of the ABOVE! Darn it, now I'm thirsty for an adult beverage. Why do they call it an adult beverage when imbibing often leads to acting like a juvenile?

In the Pac-12 except for valid disciplinary reasons behind a player no longer being on the team scholarships are honored. You can if you so decide to do so, remain where you are and receive a tuition-free education without breaking a sweat in practice.

Would it be better if the coach had strung the kid along? Seems like there is a lot of truth-telling going on in Boulder. This is a business. Businesses to be successful have to make tough employee decisions all of the time. Don't look now but plenty of Oregon players have entered the portal since DL arrived. I believe DL is telling many of the kids the truth that they won't be getting playing time in Eugene. Colorado has sold out its 2023 season allotment of season tickets. Last season CU averaged 17.400 in attendance. This alone makes the investment in Deion a smart business move. And $450,000 in revenue for the spring game also hits the bottom line.

Great comment. But if you are going to win it all the portal is the fastest way to a Blue Chip roster. The top-ranked players in the portal have already been coached up compared to players right out of HS.

You have a choice. A player right out of high school or a player who has game experience. Experience against more experienced players and for the most part better competition than in high school. I'd rather pay for the more experienced player. Gonzalez was a very good player who shined in a system with better players around him. I'll take the guy with experience.

Pats fan here who loves this pick. The young man has the chance to be one of the NFL's top CBs. As to not being physical enough. This was what we heard when Deion Sanders was drafted; worked out pretty well for the Falcons.

Thus the need to shorten the regular season. The recent 3 changes to the timing of a game, no clock stoppage after 1st downs, etc., is a good start but not good enough. Under this format, playoff teams will play in a MAC-like time frame.

It's certainly not the purge going on in Boulder but earlier in the week Oregon was ranked 5 in the number of players in the portal. Again, I think much of this has to do with the late hiring of DL in 2022 and the advice many of these young people are having whispered in their ears. For some, the grass will be greener. Many others are likely to find a dry spot. This is the shortcut to a Blue Chip (50% 4* and 5* star recruits on the roster) roster. I saw one of the final CBS draft prognostications has Gonzales going 3rd tonight. This could help the Ducks recruit from the portal. Has the sleeping giant been awakened in LA? (And filled with B1G resolve.) Riley previously signed the #1 ranked DL Bear Alexander from the portal and yesterday signed the currently portal ranked #2, OL Pregnoa from Wyoming. Both guys had Oregon on the list of possibilities. Add this crop of portal guys to the portal guys SC had already signed and SC's adjusted 2023 recruiting class is right up there with Bama and Georgia. Bama? Hard to believe that Nick had to go to the portal to bring in the potential Tide starting QB from Notre Dame where he joins the new Bama OC from ND, Tommy Rees.

The rule you mentioned plus the 25 scholarship limit on new players signed in a given year has been terminated. It's open season on any player you want off the roster. Deion reversed course regarding the film situation. But it baffles me that some of the guys leaving expect a free limo ride to the airport. CFB is Big Business. The players wanted more flexibility in the transfer rules. They have it and as is often the case for the average player there are unintended consequences. As you noted David all of the 'cut' CU players can stay and receive a free education at a school rising in academic reputation. No school won a BSC title or a playoff title to date without a Blue Chip roster. When a team goes 1-11 there are plenty of buffalo chips on the roster but few if any, blue chips.

How do you backfire from a 1-11 season and 20 years of being irrelevant? Sell out your spring game at $10 a pop and sell out your season tickets. Backfire?

Will be interesting to see how many other Ducks players will enter the portal after the spring game. The May 1 window is rapidly closing. Oregon as of today is #5 nationally in roster turnover with a lot of this having to do with the late date Dan L came on board last season.

For once the NCAA was proactive in recognizing the strain the portal is having on putting together a roster in this day and age of the portal. The limit of 25 new scholarships a season is gone. Theoretically Coach Prime could entirely turn over the entire 85-man roster from 2022. He's 80% of the way there. Any number of these kids would be better off staying where they are and at least in the Pac-12, remaining on scholarship and playing intramurals brother, play intramurals.

Jon Wilner has a great article up today (Mercury News paywall) that among other things exposes Coleman, the director of refereeing in the conference. Why the man was hired in the first place and why he is still on the conference payroll is beyond me. Why hire consultants to review refereeing in the conference and do nothing to act on the consultant's advice? Wilner calls out Coleman's management style as being one of the reasons refs are leaving for the B1G. And Merton Hanks? I see nothing that this guy has done to materially improve football operations. Where is GK? Larry messed up the conference by commission. Is GK doing the same by omission?

Bear Alexander before committing to SC had Oregon on the list of possible landing spots. I seriously doubt that Dan Lanning would call Kirby Smart and ask for the Georgia practice films. Again, I don't care for any of this 'stuff' but who cares what I think? The portal is a big part of today's game, period.

Wow! 5 teams on Oregon's 2023 schedule are ranked in this preseason top 25. Oregon plays 3 of the teams on the road. The way-too-early college football top 25 WWW.YARDBARKER.COM It's spring, but it's never too early to start thinking about who the best teams of the 2023 college football season will be. Here's our early take at the top 25 teams entering this coming season. The Pac-12 conference in 2023 will be as deep as I can remember. I'm really looking forward to watching the Ducks spring game on Saturday and forgetting all of the other 'noise' surrounding the Pac-10.

Practice film? Why not game film from last season unless the young man was not good enough to see the field? Does seem somewhat petty. On the other hand, what is the film from last season's practices under Dorrel going to mean to anyone? If the player is referring to the spring practice film why would any sitting coach allow films of his practices, the O and D being installed, etc., to go out to the world at large? This would be crazy on the part of the coach. Is Dan Lanning allowing guys who entered the portal in the 2nd window allowing players to take practice film with them? I doubt it. I find this to be a confusing post by a guy who likely will not be missed in Boulder. If Travis Hunter or any new transfers to CU were entering the portal I'd be worried. But these guys if they played at all played on a 1-11 team. I'm sorry but this and I do not particularly care for it is the CFB world in which we live today. I frankly don't see any coach having an obligation to any player who does not want to stay with his team.

This goes both ways. Prime is far from through with mining the portal. It is not like any CU player who has entered to date is critical to Prime turning the program around. BTW, Oregon is #5 in players transferring out.

Amen. But in life, you reap what you sow and among other terrible business decisions, the 'leaders' of the Pac-12 allowed Larry to do his damage for over a decade. It's easy to lose patience with and question the man's tactics but GK was dealt an awful hand. With things like the Comcast fiasco not being revealed. Plus, and it is in part his fault, he was stabbed in the back by Kevin Warren, the B1G, and Fox. And outhustled by the B12. Will a lifeline be thrown by the B1G? And will it be long enough to reel in Oregon? What will SC and UCLA do? Push to take in Oregon and UW or CAL and Stanford? Oregon and Washington present athletic threats to the two LA schools that CAL and Stanford do not. And any decision made by the B1G to expand will depend on Fox and to a lesser extent, CBS and NBC. Adding CAL takes a lot of political pressure off of UCLA. In CFB world today I am making no assumptions and no predictions. Other than I believe one way or the other the Oregon brand will survive and thrive.