Dr Hilarius

While I am glad the betting lines are favoring the Ducks, -21 seems like too big a spread. UW is -22 v Cal. Yet, CU seems much better than Cal, and UW is ranked higher than OBD. Don’t get me wrong, I fully expect the Ducks to win by 5 TDs, but I’m a homer. I didn’t think Vegas odds-makers were also Duck homers.

OMG—I am laughing so hard trying to say these names. Thanks @Charles Fischer! 🤣🤣🤣

It really depends on the current state of the Pac’s books. The Pac could conceivably have assets that would make it more lucrative for some Mountain West teams to join the Pac rather than the other way around. Granted, they would still drop to G5, but if they grabbed the better MW teams they would surely get a better TV deal than the MW. This scenario would be my preference.

…was that he was not a leader. His teams had the worst discipline of any team, ever. Bottom-dwellers in the penalties/yards stats. It was even worse off-field. Drugs, weapons, violence, all-of-the-above… I don’t want to rehash those painful memories.

I have nightmares about DAT racing Mariota to the endzone instead of turning around and blocking. I love your idea, @candyduck, of creating a “low-lights” reel to motivate and show why details matter.

I forgot that MH was callng the game and was just as disappointed with the commentary as I usually am. @Augduck had a good point—most Duck commentators know football but don’t actually know the Ducks.

Excellent point! And we were substituting like crazy with no drop-off.

As a team, can we agree to take the allegations seriously without questioning Brenda Tracy’s motives? Please OBD?! 🙏💪

I appreciate your perspective @Log Haulin, and I agree that this is a difficult subject. My perspective is that ignoring this type of abuse in sports is exactly how we perpetuate that abuse.It’s the ignorance that’s toxic, not the topic itself. I think it’s fantastic that Brenda Tracy has a voice and is believed in 2023.

Did you read the article? He doesn’t deny he did it. He just said that the woman who literally coaches ncaa teams about consent gave her consent despite her saying she did not. Quite the nerve. Also, she has witnesses, and he provably lied in his interview. There are receipts.

Wow—sexually harassing the woman who is educating your team about sexual violence is a whole other level of predator.

Ducks have 2 Aussie punters! But it was the American from Mississippi who kicked the only punt on Sat—a whopping 58 yards at that.

Wow—that article by Goe is awful! I can’t think of a way it could have been more negative. What a strange POV. It was almost like there was so much positive on the field that Goe had to “balance” out the article with a bunch of off-field two-bit punditry.

Exactly! We have the highest rated team in the league by a mile. DL is finally putting that on the field.

Yay Ty Thompson!! Finally looked like he knew what he was doing. And Novasted was ready!

The difference this year, that was mentioned by several of the players after the game, was that there was zero drop-off between squads. We didn’t run up the score—we emptied the bench. We didn’t make mistakes or get penalties.We played like a CFP contender. And frankly, PSU played well. They were totally outmatched but didn’t make a ton of mistakes and played hard.

The math is off with the points—should be 81, but you love to see it:

The player absolutely knew but didn’t bring it up. He should be disciplined accordingly.

As an Angeleno, I can say that I NEVER see UCLA or USC sports on in public. It’s all NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. I would really like to know how they calculate the % of a market’s eyeballs they can expect to actually tune in.

Is that a new development? It was my understanding that we were allowed to use the Duck royalty-free after a picture emerged of Walt Disney wearing a U of O letter jacket with our Duck on it.

Wow! Not a single commit to UW in the top 25.

I am giving Geoff the benefit of the doubt and am reading his response sarcastically, in which case it was quite a sick burn. 🤣

This just isn’t how any of this works. The Pac-12 Championship isn’t an invitational, it’s a conference game. As others have mentioned, it would be an L in the conf championship game. How is the CFP committee going to judge a Pac-12 team that loses a conf champ game without recording a single stat? I don’t care if the team is 12-0 going into the game, there is zero chance the committee invites the loser to the CFP.

Here is the article explaining the WNBA salary study controversy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/02/forbes-cuts-ties-with-sports-business-columnist-deletes-piece-about-wnba-player-salaries/ “The story I’m telling is really simple,” Berri said. “You’ve made this gesture toward the G League to pay them more money and that’s an investment, but the WNBA wants more money and you call that a cost. That, to me, is the story.”

You answered your own question. The benefit of this conversation is to enlighten people that women’s sports and their profitability are thoroughly and easily misrepresented. Rather than divide us, we can agree that the people who run sports leagues do not have their athletes’ best interests in mind. This is not a controversial opinion. Let’s just apply the same skepticism to what “they” say about women’s sports to what “they” say about OBDs.