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Damn, and I guess I won't see him on the football field either!

“It was tough. Oregon was my first love and it always will be,”

Some good stuff, Oregon QB Ty Thompson explains how he improved coming into spring ball DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Ty Thompson spoke with the media on Saturday, discussing the QB battle with Bo Nix and emphasizing how hard he’s worked to improve decision-making.

There are a lot of things the dawg program can be proud of, unfortunately none of them happened on the field for the mens programs.

I am trying to move a more positive space on how our previous leadership dealt with the qb position, but I am not quite there yet. I fully admit that! All I know is Kellen Clemens looked like a 2 star athlete when he first hit the field, actually looked like a deer in the headlights, but developed into a pretty good qb. He also couldn't beat our Fife when he was a freshman, even though that team had problems, but the next year took over and the coaches stuck with him. I do agree we have little concrete info, and I look forward to knowing how this staff deals with the position.

AB was definitely the risk averse choice at qb. I think Nix may be the same type of choice. The truly poor choice is to not develop or use talent which needs to get on the field. Much like putting DAT on the field as a freshman. He was lightening in a bottle, but prone to mistakes. CK chose to put him on the field and roll the dice. I wonder what this staff will do with some of the elite talent we didn't see much of. While I agree we can't fear the portal, we also need to embrace the talent we have and develop it. I love the idea of putting players in space and seeing what they can do, but you have to put them on the field first. I suppose you also have to develop the talent before it sees the field too, but we shouldn't waste talent, anymore, and go the risk averse route, anymore. The risk reward balance is skewed between the fan and the coaching staff, I know. Much like a teenager and a parent. The teenager says why not, and the parent sees the bad outcomes all too easy. Maybe with this younger staff we won't be stuck with fear running the play calling and player use decisions. Put speed on the field and spread the defense. Let a new guy get some real game speed experience, at least at the end of the game at qb. If not we will just continue to use the portal at qb, and probably many other skill positions. This won't be the end of the world. Just the end of the way Oregon has always done things, until the new portal age. I suppose I can embrace it, if it leads to greater outcomes, but please not just more conservative end results.

I love the fact that a butterfly will never fly unless they struggle out of the cocoon, nor a duck who doesn't struggle out of it's shell. Too often we want to guard our young from the hardships. The difficulties are what makes a player, team great. Hopefully these struggles will allow this team to fly later in the season. Seems we have the coach to guide them through this endevour.

Wow, great point! I don't think anyone here research's their post, or substantiates their position better than Jon. I look forward to his insight and take on all matters. We can all use better awareness about belaboring a point. As Lanning pointed out it is our weaknesses we all need to work on. I know I have plenty!

Great point on censorship being a slippery slope. I don't think negative takes will be censored, hopefully at all. Seeing both sides, or all sides of an issue is an important part of open debate. I think we have open debates here. What the censorship should do is qwell the rehashing of the dead horse topics, or points of view which have already been well covered. Much like a judge would do in a court of law, or really any productive meeting or group communicating about a topic. It is also much like a spouse would do to help get you out of an endless discussion about a negative topic, or a hot item topic like is already frowned upon here. Most of us have a signal where our spouse will step in, and help extricate you from a dead end discussion. This is all that this covers, I think. Sometimes there are those who don't know those boundaries. I was in the steam room the other day and a guy highjacked a discussion which then was going nowhere, but negative. I had to leave, but wanted to stay a bit longer, we don't want anyone to have to leave. I don't think it will be too hard, but it is good there are open rules and expectations. I wish there had been in that steam room, maybe in this day and age there will need to be more signage about what is ok to talk about, but he was really good about changing the whole discussion, unfortunately, but not here! The moderators will delete discourse which has been covered, and will undoubtedly take the discussion down a road too often travelled.

I think you bring up a great point, it takes a balanced approach to put together a winning program, team. The Lakers have arguably three of the best players in the league, paying massive money, but it isn't working. It will be interesting to watch what balanced means in the new college football world. I do think the jail blazers may be the outcome for many programs leading the NIL world right now. SC has had a discipline problem for a long time, and this won't help them in that department. Let them feed that enabled mentality to their detriment!

We are just guessing, but my bet is the schools which try and buy a championship will end up with a debacle as the focus of the 'student' athlete becomes money rather than performance. This focus will move to the dorm room, or off campus palace, with all their homeys, to the locker room, and buying of numbers, favors from those without, and then onto the field where expectations are set by how much they make. Time will tell, but a smart parent will be wary of following this path which will undoubtedly lead one off a cliff. Hopefully the Ducks focus on those parents and the student athletes who buy into the student mindset. It isn't about making more than your teammates in college football. It is about learning how to play, lead, and get ready for life after college, which can definitely be the NFL, but is much more. This is definitely the rehashing of a subject which hopefully won't be constant with every recruit. I won't follow the discussions if it becomes that. I will enjoy the reports of recruits, and programs falling off the cliffs these NIL deals create, not the individual projections though. That is a depressing subject, which I don't need to see gone over and over.

I look at the negative stuff as slamming a door. I give Canzano credit for slamming the door about Larry and the Pac-12 leadership. His writing made everybody get their heads up out of the sand and look at the facts. It really startled many into thinking about Lavish Larry in context of the facts. There were many posts discussing this and some where additive, but many were just slamming the door again. When you slam the door over and over it just begins to unsettle everyone. I would hope this isn't the focus of anyone on OBD. I look forward to anyone pulling back the shades on a subject, or even opening a new door, but we don't need anyone to slam the door that has been opened many times. I promise to do a better job on this. I agree with Charles any many on here if we bring light to subjects we can all learn and ponder about our wonderful Ducks. If we just rehash the unknown potentially troubling subjects we all leave spinning in the wrong direction. I know I don't like to be in the dark on subjects, but I do like to move onto new vistas and ponder point which cast a brighter outlook on the future. With 5 months until kickoff it is a good time to reflect on how to lightly close the door on topics, and illuminate the new with our wit, intelligence and insights. Now a video from one of the worst actors at opening doors. How long can we last without rehashing the old negative. Hopefully we can last longer than Kramer, if you remember this one.

what’s most important [sic] is not really who we want to be, but who we can be. Love this! Tosh Lupoi excited to ‘collaborate’ with Dan Lanning and build dominant defense at Oregon SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Ducks defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi isn't planning to blindly instill a defensive set, but rather learn about the Ducks' personnel first.

Third string, but added depth to the position. Also his hometown is probably closer to the Canes stadium than the UM is to it. Should be interesting to see how long he takes to pick a school?

Those odds are even worse, the Lakers have actually won something. The dawgs mens program has never won a championship, probably never will. It is a fine academic institution and a place to go to school if....... you never got over your fascination of Barnie as a kid and want to look like him at games and social events!

The good news is the Oregon Ducks basketball looks to be must follow basketball, Go Ducks!

At least you wouldn't have bet $129 million on three guys to bring you the championship. Almost 75% of their cap space went to three guys who can barely fit their heads through a doorway. I wouldn't spend $100 to sit in the front row and watch them play.

Not only that our back-up center had no reps. Our back-up center was a redshirt that hadn't played and wasn't going to play. That was Helfrich's General Lee moment at Gettysburg, incompetence pure and simple. I need to move on from this one, get's me riled up still to this day!

Coach K gets Zero love from the Duck faithful, good riddance!

Olympic sprinter Devon Allen discusses decision to take a shot at NFL DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM After representing Team USA in the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games, former Duck Devon Allen explained his decision to make a run at the NFL. "I have to at least try!"

Love this! "So that means is we want to put our athletes in the best position to win one on one situations" For too long it has been one against the other team. It is time to get Dont'e in space, let Seven get open out of the backfield, or put our RB around the edge against a LB trying to catch him. Create matchups and see if these guys can make explosive plays, love it! To do this it will also take the other players completing their blocks. When DAT had his explosive plays players were making blocks for him. I saw too many times, under our previous coaching, it was allowed for our playmakers to take time off if they weren't in the play. That can't happen if we are going to see explosive plays. Putting our athletes in the best position to win one on one situations is all about what the rest of the team is doing, I look forward to seeing that too!

He chose Oregon for one reason and only one reason, Kenny Dillingham. If he stays at Auburn he has his fourth new OC in as many years playing. Go to Oregon and he finally has continuity from an OC. He goes to Oregon he has the OC he was SEC rookie of the year under. 'Why not Oregon' is a good retort, but the real answer is our OC, and he had graduated. He is welcome, but there should be, and seems to be a good battle for the position from the young men already here.

The end of an era, I don't mind seeing!

Better play action when you’re under center, you’re closer to the line of scrimmage for QB sneaks. Right? Obviously, those are common sense answers that everybody in the country goes under for.” And the common sense keeps coming! The QB sneak is coming back to Oregon’s offense, per OC Kenny Dillingham WWW.YAHOO.COM After spending a decade ignoring one of the most simple and effective plays in football, the Ducks will add the QB sneak to the playbook.

Our last qb was a transfer, the starter before him transferred, we will probably have some transfers from our qb recruits, and this years qb will probably be a transfer. The qb battle doesn't have transfer written all over it, the position does. I'm not sure that is going to change anytime soon. The only thing that has worked in the past, and maybe should be tried in the future, is to recruit some multi-sport 3 star athletes at the position. I tend to think the transfer portal is going to be the chosen way going forward, if recent history is any measure of the future. We are not alone in this situation either, many programs are starting transfers at qb. 4 of the last 7 starting qb's at Oregon have either transferred in or transferred out. The previous 10 starting qb's were our recruits who earned their way on the field at Oregon. This type of recruitment and development is a thing of the past, or at least going the way of the land line. I used the idea of the land line, because these transfers coming into Oregon have no connection to our program. There are also like a cell phone, you have them under contract until they break, or have to be replaced, with another one.