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The last 5* QB Mario recruited sat on the bench, and didn't seem to develop much until now, under a different Head Coach, different OC. Good luck with seeing the qb they have now reach his potential and this kid ever really developing. Should be interesting a college kid with $9 million first time on South Beach. What could go wrong! I won't provide pictures, that would be too easy.

I didn't think if this initially, but how cruel to compare the dawgs to the Cal Bear program. The one, and I mean only thing the dawgs can hang their hat on as true, is their fine academic standing. You go and compare the dawgs to Cal, and, of course, they can't measure up. The dawgs aren't the bears, in the classroom or the athletic department. Cal has many national titles to their men's programs credit, 33 in rugby alone, the dawgs 0 in any men's program. On top of that Cal has actual NCAA titles in rowing, the one area the dawg mens won back before there were titles. To compare the Cal program to the poor dawgs is just cruel, and kind of humorous.

While I agree the dawg coach is a good one, as I said before, it is hard to be the under dawg when your program still thinks it is elite. I would put the dawgs as a mix of sc, a bunch of pretentious buffoons, and Penn football, a once proud program who last great game was a loss to Oregon in the 1916 Rose Bowl. Cal is exactly as you stated, a program which can beat anyone who isn't prepared, or plays them without a decent coach. The dawgs, on the other hand, are a preseason favorite, who can lose to Montana at home until they prove otherwise. Did I ever say I despise the dawgs?

If he could coach as well as he can sell, the hurricanes might have a chance. I am afraid this is like having your top salesman become the CEO, that doesn't end well.

There are those who look for excuses and those who look for solutions. That is the big difference between the two programs. I don't enjoy being around people like that, and it makes total sense.

A defined by affairs of a nation, I do look forward to big news for the Duck Nation! I agree only the Duck Nation.

Don't be that guy, and sometimes it takes some effort! One of my favorites, Don Rickles said it best.

Agree the biggest, almost invisible impact would be a big ugly for the interior line. Going forward having a DT who can take up two guys will be huge for the defense Lanning wants to create. Hicks only needs to look at the 2022 draft if he wants to see where Lanning will take him. They don't make impact DT's in the west like Hicks, this would be huge!

We can only hope we have another Gary Campbell, and he seems to be at least a coach who is in the same mold. Love seeing a coach who is such a great mentor to these young men. Job 1 is to build better young men, and Locklyn seems to be a great one when defining coaching that way.

Agree with Dazed, recruiting qb's is a whole different world with the transfer portal. You go after as sure as a bet as there is, and if you don't get him no sweat. The portal gives you plenty of choices of proven college qb's. One question is would you go for an Ewers who may not play again this year, or a kid who is lighting it up in a lower status school? I tend to think you look at the lower ranked colleges as the development league. Don't waste your money, and and time on the top camp kids, sign a gamer from a EWU, or Wyoming. The other direction Oregon has gone is to sign walk-ons to help with the practice team. Seems like at least one of these guys doesn't has a better chance of winning the lottery than starting. You then have lots of time to focus on developing your top three qb's. All I know is this staff is doing a lights out job compared to our previous staff. The qb position will bring us our O back!

It would be interesting to hear some of the benefits other see, as I doubt we have touch the tip of the iceberg of advantages. I do agree the greatest athletes play multiple sports and Oregon's Ashton Eaton was one of the greatest. Can you imagine Ashton, if he had gifted hands, playing football? He ran a 10.2 100 m., 13 second 110 m. hurdle, long jumped 27' and almost high jumped 7', crazy athlete! He probably would have turned out much the same as Kent, another trackster who started football too late.

Love it when a post has no words, but says so much!

After seeing the #1 draft choice in the NBA draft being interviewed and talking about playing qb, and running track in high school I began to wonder, again, just what are the advantages of playing multiple sports. For a qb throwing the ball is critical. There have been a multitude of great throwers who have failed miserably. Reading a defense is also extremely important. Knowing your offense is also paramount. Probably not lastly, but for my little brain, lastly knowing your teammates and how to lead is also maybe the overriding skill a qb needs. So a multi-sport athlete may not throw the ball as much as a kid who goes to all the camps, but he gets so much more than the qb who just plays football. He gets to learn the pick and roll in basketball and the nuances of the play. Timing and how to sell the play. He learns when to use it, and how to make it work. He doesn't just know how to make the play, he is probably at the level he can teach it. This is a critical level for a leader. The refinement of how to compete at a high level crosses over then you pitch at a high level. There are invaluable skills which go into how and where to throw a ball. A pitcher needs to know every player, where they are and how they are going to react to a play. All subtleties an athlete doesn't gain by throwing footballs at camps, and practicing without any competition. When you compete at any sport you gain an understanding of how to lead and be part of a team. These skills, again, can't be gained by, going to camps, where everyone knows you are the man and the qb. The interaction between players, coaches, and just the variations of sports are critical skills which can be developed, but best developed as a multi-sport athlete. So maybe Ty, Bo, and Butters are extremely talented qbs, and throwers, but we need an athlete who knows more than football. The nuances of games, and leadership can't be learned as well merely playing football, and going to camps.

All of these static passes are impressive, along with Nix's pass practices we have seen, but it is going to take a leader and reader of defenses to lead us to greatness. I do like Ty's discussion about learning how to lead the team better from Nix. The edge a great qb has is about leading the offense. That entails reading a defense and really being able to lead the defense into what you want. It also takes a qb who knows his teammates and can take advantage of matchups because he knows who can do what. There is also a certain quality to a great qb where the players don't want to let him down. They will go the extra yard because they know he has their back, and can get the best out of them. The truly great qb may come out of this fall practice. He also may be visiting this weekend. It is exciting times to see the next phase of the Oregon Offense!

Here is a couple nice articles with some of Ty Thompson's thoughts. Ty Thompson gives candid answer on Oregon quarterback competition, Bo Nix - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Oregon quarterback Ty Thompson gave a candid answer about the upcoming competition with Bo Nix and Jay Butterfield ahead of training camp.

The dawgs, back to their preseason place, delusional.

Thanks for posting, but two anonymous quotes, and some stats, makes me even more grateful for the FishDuck writers.

The other component is picking the right guys, and then developing them. We had the smorgasbord approach with the previous staff, and benefited from the quality of talent we have on the team. The question is are they right guys, and can they be developed into what we need under a Lanning Program. Number one is at the qb position, do we have what we need going forward. Lanning brought in Nix for a quick fix, and now they seem to like Moore. Will we get Moore and is he the actually right guy for our offense, long term? Which TE is the right fit, which O-lineman are going to make the cut come fall. I think that same question can be put to almost every player on the team. Do each of these guys fit what we need mentally, and physically in the new Lanning program? It takes a tremendous coach to turn a player from another program into exactly what they want. It also takes an exceptional player to buy into a different coach, one you didn't sign on to. Hopefully my concerns are overblown, and Lanning can just keep the magic going. I just think it might take a while to get the right guys in the positions each coach wants, and then to have them mentally ready to exceed our expectations. That seems to be what everyone wants, and almost seems to expect.

We have one of the premier programs in the country, and now the best facilities in the world for Track and Field. It shouldn't be hard to find a coach who can take the program even higher. I have faith in the future of Track and Field, along with Cross Country at Oregon.

I love the long shot making it. If Lanning and Co. believe he can grow into something, and he has the fire, then I all in with this commitment! Welcome and make your dream come true!

Now there is a salesman, worst record since the Charlie Strong era at Texas, and he brings in the #1 qb. His overall record as a head coach is 51-42, a winning record, but nothing to bet the house on. The guy was a good assistant at Alabama, as many have been. Maybe what Saban really teaches is how to recruit? He failed as an assistant in the NFL, then has done mediocre at some top schools with all the resources. If I had a choice I would have gone to Georgia all day. In this day and age of the portal, maybe these kids are just figuring they will jump around. It also looks like he followed his high school TE teammate, and best friend. Interesting choice in my humble opinion.

I hope it works out, but I like the scrappy kid we drafted with the 6th pick years ago. He was a 2* high school prospect who was a force in college ball. The Blazers have a checkered past going after high school phenoms. They actually are terrible in the draft, and we can only hope this guy breaks the trend.

Butter has gotten a bad rap, and it is actually amazing. I mean Butterfield seemed to get a bad rap and is actually an amazing talent, thanks for bringing this to our attention! It seems we have decent talent at the qb position, and all seem to know they need to take it to the next level in order to be a starter at Oregon. I was actually shocked AB didn't get hurt last season, and we didn't see one or more of the backups more. This season may be another season where we need a few back-ups and hope they all stick around. I agree Butters seems to have the nicest ball out of his hand. What we need is somebody who can distribute, and decision make and it will be interesting to see who that is this fall. Both these guys now look like college qb's, not just elite high school.

What has to be difficult for the dawgs is there is a route to success, but it is a route they can't go. The route Oregon went was the path of the long shot. With the palpable elitist attitude of almost every dawg fan I know they can't admit they are what they are, pathetic. If they could ever admit this then there would be a chance to build the program back up. Until then they are just the victim of Oregon's success, with an excess of excuses.

May we always be the Oregon Ducks, and never The Oregon Ducks. There are definitely a few programs, like the U, who tend bother me a bit. If I get in a discussion with a The or a U alumni, along with a few others I just move on, like is too short.