Dr Hilarius

if TT doesn’t play next series i swear i’m gonna drink another beer.

3 bold predictions… 5 players to watch… why your team will win… get to know the opponent… game spread, predictions, how to watch…

yeah—the more i think about it, the easier the question gets… …you don’t get to go if you don’t want to play. injured players still want to play even if they can’t. plan something back home for peeps left behind to keep everyone engaged. make sure the lines of comm are open to the sidelines. …but traveling as a duck is a privilege.

i dunno… as a former athlete, all i ever wanted was one more game w my team. even if it was the consolation game for 6th place. next season was always so far away. as a competitive yet non-pro athlete, i would be pissed that a better player wants to both have and eat the cake. so i am firmly in the camp: you don’t get to go if you don’t want to play. easy.

sounds like the pac-12 has a prowess problem

so when PFF rates DL, what are they looking at?

Sure has a nice ring to it!

interesting! any more deets?

this is news to me. what’s the story?

if this is really the dynamic, i can’t wait to see JMs revenge game where he lets TT rip. I know I would feel owned.

A+ I, for one, am thrilled we went w a name I had never heard of. (Although I had never heard DL’s name, I was certainly familiar w his work—even better.) We should all want PK and RM to know more about ncaa football coaches than we do. All the names I knew sounded like tired, sloppy seconds, Brady Hokes. MC was absolutely the right HC for the time. The players wanted stability, and RM listened. Now that we have stabilized, we want elite. DL is an elite defensive mind and elite recruiter. He has yet to be mediocre, unlike the rest of the pool. So sign me up…

i agree, but i also trust that uncle phil has a plan.

and a good HC will likely bring some of his top-ranked recruits with him.

for me it was all the off-field issues. arrests, drugs, domestic violence… that lack of discipline off-field fueled the lack of discipline on the field. and it was just a plain disservice to the kids who needed/wanted strong leadership.

what makes him snake-like is he said he was staying at oregon to get us a natty. he sold that to these kids. and even the recent graduates who thought they were going be the foundation of that natty in coming years. he also sold those kids that they were his family. everyone uses MCs proximity to family as an excuse for his departure. but i thought he had 100+ family members in eugene. all those players who were CristoBallIn… they got him his job, and he ditches before their last bowl game. and ditches at the worst time for ducks future. and when he had the chance to come clean and be straight, he mocked people for questioning him. he’s snake-like bc he lied and we believed him. i really believed him.

@Charles Fischer endless rofl

Agreed. Feld always managed to “find his lense.” And he also managed to say some pretty obviously wrong things if you followed him on twitter. all the “unprecedented “ injuries from this year were likely the result of improved detection and recovery protocols. thank goodness!!

guys, believe me, kiffin is slick willy 2. if OR hires kiffin, OR will be “everything that’s wrong with college football.”

exactly!! i don’t see how anyone who understands this comment could possibly suggest kiffin to dux.

can you imagine how fast that would wear out in eugene?? he could pull a David Reaves and be dismissed before fall camp even started.

best idea i’ve heard yet

I would prefer we pass on Kiffin. he was a disaster and embarrassment at usc. i don’t care how much he’s “improved” as a coach, oregon deserves better than sc’s sloppy seconds. in fact, if OR is targeting ANY former or current pac12 coaches, it would be a major disappointment. imho, we need a young, nfl assistant

uhhhh, have you looked at zillow? that $700k would just be going to the local S FL real estate investor instead of statewide social services. and it would be waaaaaaaay more than 700k more for the equivalent in eugene.

$7 M in eugene goes waaaaaaaay further than $8 M in miami. so there’s that.

@deschutesduck i totally agree it’s a negotiation tactic. that doesn’t make it ethical. He’s been cagey all fall. first it was usc. now it’s miami. that’s not how you treat “family.”