Jon Joseph

You just beat me to it my friend. Bruins out of conference - Bowling Green, Alabama State, South Alabama. 4 and not 5 conference road games. We are still in the day and age of a 4 team Playoff. What is Mullens trying to prove? UCLA will be 3-0 playing no one and will be ranked in the AP top 25. The SOS could come back to haunt UCLA but the Bruins is close to a lock to enter conference play 3-0.

Beyond brutal! Opening game on the road "at" Georgia, ranked No. 3. in the nation as of today. Possibly opening against the defending national champion? E WA is far from a cupcake. Why not hand a check to Portland State? And why not play this game week zero prior to playing Georgia? In addition to playing "at" Georgia OOC, the Ducks face a BYU team that went 5-0 vs the Pac-12 in 2021. A team that is currently ranked No. 13 in the country. Add to this 5 conference road games. THIS is senseless Playoff scheduling. New coaches. A new QB. New system on O and D. And how long does it take to figure out that playing 9 conference games is STUPID! I like Oregon's Playoff chances in 2023 but not in 2022. Not with this schedule. I also add, if a school will not give Oregon a H+H series do not schedule said team at a 'neutral' site OOC!

Thank you Coach. Always enlightening. I'm looking forward to saying 'so long' to the Prevent Offense. Vince Lombardi would have loved Mario's O, most of us did not. With Mario not playing one of the younger QBs in 2021 do you think Oregon should go into the portal for a QB with game experience? Kedon Slovis in the portal is intriguing.

It was an up and down performance by the Seminoles on O. Losing Gabriel to injury did not help and the FSU OL has underperformed, based on recruiting rankings, for years.

His boss recently punted him down the road. His approach was not successful in CFB at Presbyterian.

OR: 'I don't need the pressure of being expected to win the conference year after year and I scored a nice pay raise.'

DM - I have the same ambivalence about this game as you do. If AB starts at QB I'll tape the game and watch it on fast forward after the fact. Players opting out and I support their right to opt out, is a sign of the status of the bowl. The Alamo Bowl is a consolation prize and a silly place to send the Pac-12 runner-up to play a bowl game. Not that it will ipso facto help the Pac-12 but let's get to a 12 team playoff ASAP.

He's a Heisman winner in waiting. If he goes anywhere else I guess it would be to USC?

Hoping to see Kedon Slovis?

Hats off to all who have contributed. Especially Annie and 30. Looks like the Ducks will, post Mario, finish #1 in the conference again but watch out for Riley and SC in 2023.

The 'experts' at The Athletic favor Oklahoma 12 voters to zip.

Thanks DM. The 3 OK D guys drop outs are arguably the 3 best players on the Sooners D. The name Bob Stoops does not resonate with kids today.

Par for today's course. Although this is more like put one through the windmill and win a free round kind of golf than it is regulation golf.

In 2022 you can have 85 and 7 more on scholly.

I don't know his status?

Oregon - KT Oklahoma - D starters: DL Isaiah Thomas; outside LB, Nik Bonitto; LB Brian Asamoah QB Spencer Rattler and TE Austin Stogner - both have signed with South Carolina

Great take. The conference is at the P5 bottom of the barrel and refuses to expand? The 'new B12' will be a better conference in CFB and CBB than the Pac-12. Imo, not to expand and to increase market size if not immediately market share, was a terrible business decision by the conference and new commish and businessperson, GK. Where can the Pac-12 go now if it decides to expand? The chance to get into the Dallas and Houston markets is gone. The big market, big time Pac-12 teams are much more likely to be picked off by the 'new B12' than to find other teams that make sense to add to the conference. The Pac-12 did nothing to improve its bargaining power in the next media negotiations. Nothing to try to find new subscribers for the functionally insolvent Pac-12 network. The Pac-12 powers-that-be are the masters of doing nothing. At least the decision to go to 8 regularly scheduled conference games and to dump divisions should already have been made. I continue to believe that Oregon's best bet along with UW, Stanford and USC, is to join the 'new B12?'

I never 'got' why Mario signed so many WRs in the first place? And never put an emphasis on signing RBs?

FYI, Michael Penix, Jr., 4 year starting QB at Indiana, though often injured, has signed on with UW as a grad transfer.

OK, with the L at Stanford, and the Ohio State loss vs Michigan, who gets in beside Bama and Michigan? 13-0 Cincinnati with two top 25 wins, 11-1 Notre Dame, a team that blew out Stanford, 12-1 Georgia that lost to the #1 team in the country, or 12-1 Ducks that would have knocked off 6 Ohio State but has the worst L, by far, of the group of contenders and a weak SOS and beat a number of bad opponents by 1 score? You can get in from the Pac-12 with a good OOC win against Michigan State, like Oregon did under Marcus, but the Pac-12 today is 2 and 8 for the playoff field and has far less national bona fides than the team Mariota played for.

Quack. Who knows how many 'runners' for other teams are trying to recruit kids off the roster and into the portal with promises of NIL riches? The NFL has via contract, limits on free agency. There are no such limits in CFB today and no one is in charge of regulating 'tampering' and other untoward behavior.

Spot ON Joshua! Not only did Mario win nothing his way, I'm sorry but a 1 point win over a 3L Wisconsin in a Rose Bowl exhibition game is not a big deal, he put a choke collar on the NFL rookie of the year and had an Epic Fail at ASU. Just like the Epic Fail this season at Stanford and the 2 no shows against a Utah team that lost at Oregon State. Nick Saban brought in Lane Kiffin and reinvented the Bama O. He also went for quicker, faster players on the D side of the ball. Mario played an average QB throughout the 2021 season, content to grind out 1 score wins. As a teammate of Mario's once said, 'He'd rather hit you in the mouth and gain 5 yards then run around you for a TD.' Mario came as close as possible to destroying the Oregon Brand that took years to build. No one covers the SEC like the folks at Saturday Down South. They all predicted that if Smart started Stetson and not Daniels against Bama, UGA would take the L. Like Mario with Moorhead, Smart did move to update the UGA O with the hire of Todd Monken. UGA was one of the top 10 scoring teams in the P5 in 2021. But when the chips were down against Bama, Smart left Daniels on the bench. If Smart starts Daniels versus Michigan and in a likely rematch against Bama, UGA will be a national champion. If he plays Stetson, a journeyman game manager, he could lose the semi-final game. Like Dabo at Clemson in the ACC, Oregon with its roster should roll through a conference that produced but 6 bowl eligible teams. But Dabo didn't win titles without Watson and Lawrence at QB. I think it is wrong that Lanning as of now, is trying to serve 2 masters. A recruiting class has to be saved and the portal has to be picked. Joshua is so correct that without an NFL quality QB, no team will win a Natty. Mac Jones is not the most mobile guy at QB. But he won a title and is playing great ball for the Patriots. If Herbert had been free to play at his level, the Ducks would at least have been in the Final 4 in 2019. And who knows what would have happened in 2021 if Thompson had played QB and Mario's head was in the game and not in Miami.

It's a loss only if you cannot find a better guy in the portal. The problem is that the OR HC is trying to serve 2 masters.

What's left to destroy?

After the the Supreme Court decision in the Altman case, there is no NCAA smell test. There is basically no NCAA for P5 CFB.