Jon Joseph

Why not indeed? NOTHING wrong with being optimistic. I just hope Ducks fans will not be bummed IF this season's team does not reach the Final 4. Not certain that Oregon will be a solid favorite in every game? By 'solid' I mean more than a 1 score favorite.

This, is an obvious insight into the obvious. The Alumni Council was a good idea but unlike Merton Hanks, I do not see it producing 'dividends.'

Thanks for the post Steven A. THIS speaks for itself: "Schultz is one of the few (Pac-12) university presidents who not only takes an interest in football but understands the sport -" I watched the Wazzu Spring Game. The QB transfer from Immaculate Word, Cam Ward, sure looks like the real deal running the same O he played in at IM under his former HC, who is now the WSU OC. Heading to Pullman to play these Cougars after playing the BYU Cougars in Autzen could be a witch?

Very few!

Agree with the sentiment. But how do you keep the west coast studs consistently at home? 2022 1st round: 13 SEC; 4 Pac-12. Hard to recruit against these kind of numbers.

CFB - Still about the Jimmies and the Joes.

Great day 1. KT at 5 and the best OT in the draft, Evan Neal from Bama, at 7. Now, the Giants need to find a quality QB. This is probably not the season to do so? I note that QB Jones' contract was not extended.

Great day 1 draft for Georgia with a record 5 D players being picked in the 1st round including the #1 pick. (13 of 32 1st rounders, 40+%, from the SEC. The beat goes on.) I have to think this is good news for the Ducks? No matter how good the replacements for these starting 5 may be, they will not be as good in the 1st game as the Dawgs D was last season. And I say this knowing the back ups are big time recruits and athletes. BTW, thanks for giving me another reason not to go to Florida,

Fred? THIS is a big, big ask. Have to go at least 12-1 to make the final 4. Lanning may well be a smart coach but this is his first go round as a head coach. And it's not like he has the Chipper's 2022 OOC schedule. If the first game at UGA is an L, and the Ducks are 15 point underdogs, it is thin playoff ice the rest of the way. I hope you are right but I urge some 2022 patience. 9-3 and a north division title IMO would be an excellent result. The playoff has been a long time coming for any Pac-12 team. But, I sure hope that your optimism is realized.

Huh! GREAT MOVIE! Are you upset because you've been a caddy all your life? A Harold Ramus screen play gem. 'We have a pool and a pond. The pond would be good for you.' You know I'm KIDDING! 'FORE, I should have yelled 2?'

He's improved. He had time to work on his game in the can. I played behind OJ once upon a time at Rivera. He made Judge Smails game look honest. Never seen a guy hit a better foot wedge.

NO! Because if Larry testifies it's certain to pass!

Thanks friend. Do you think there will be TP in Lucifer's outhouse?

How about anyone who has not been a university president and has had to manage a real instead of a not-for-profit budget?

THIS passes and there will be no 'players' except for those interested in after-school club sports.

The actual futures numbers have millions of dollars wagered on them every year. Like all lines this one is set to balance the books. Between the 8-4 prediction you see above and the 10+ win predictions you see above. For Sports Books and sports bettors, this is serious stuff.

No, not a diss. If you predict 9 or more wins find this line and bet it. I think 8.5 is essentially a balance the books line? I think looking at the schedule that 8.5 is certainly a reasonable line.

Great take. You take Bama, I'll match you with the Ohio State 'fans.' How do you think Utah is going to do in The Swamp. It will be very interesting to see what time this game kicks off? If its the CBS Game of the Week a 3:30 KO will not be easy on the Utes.

You are addressing economics. I doubt that any person in the legislature who votes for this senseless piece of junk can add 2 and 2 and have the result = 4? I certainly hope ADs and college/university leaders show up at hearings on this proposed legislation to voice exactly what you have pointed out. THIS passes, kiss scholarship varsity sports good bye in CA and say hello to club sports. Ergo, kiss the Pac-12 goodbye as a P5 conference.

As private schools, I believe Stanford and USC can go their own way?

Transfer Portal Update - The NCAA reports that in 2020-2021season, 59% of the FBS players on scholarship who entered the portal found a new home and a new scholarship. I hope these numbers are being shared with the players?

As Pac-12 guru Jon Wilner of the Mercury News has pointed out, if the Pac-12 wants to improve its recruiting it has to improve in the NFL Draft. 1st Round - 2019-2021 - SEC - 36 B1G - 19 ACC - 16 Pac-12 - 9 B12 - 8 In the middle of the last decade the Pac-12 had 9 guys taken in the 1st round in a single draft. Tonight does not bode all that well but it does bode better. 4 players should go in the 1st round and it could be 5? Tonight does bode well for UGA that could have 5 and even 6 guys go in the 1st round! Heck of a D Dan was coaching.

A Mercury News reporter who covers the 49ers has KT going #1 tonight!

The UCLA Athletic Department is $60M in the red. Direct pay for play? Mandated in a certain amount? Absurd. But what's new?

Pat Forde from SI said on Sirius today that the Transition Committee has begun to circulate its idea for how to proceed free of the NCAA but for the NCAA holding tournament events for all sports other than P5/G5 CFB.