Washington Waddler

I have it on good authority that this vicious rumor was started by Benny Beaver who couldn’t do one push up with his tail tied behind his back.

Makes you realize once again just how important that OC/QB working relationship is leading up to game week preparation. Stein had TT ready for PSU. That’s why I’m feeling pretty good about in how he’ll deal with tougher competition. Stein has shown he knows how to put him in a position to succeed.

Historical footnote: Wisconsin’s loss to us was deja vu. It was identical to their 1963 Rose Bowl loss to USC when their QB Ron Vander Kelen ran out of time on his way to winning the game.

Coaches coming up against Colorado know they are not only going to face a good, if developing team, but the blinding glare of the latest in a long line of media darlings: we give you — Neon, the Chosen One, the latest New Kid on the Block. National anticipation of this sort is a powerful addition to any team’s tool kit. It can create a sense of destiny that super charges team morale, and create a brash, impudent belief in oneself. When you exude a feeling that nothing can stand in your way, it can create doubt in the minds of your opponents that leads to mistakes on the field. That’s what TCU found itself up against: playing both Colorado and its brash, newly minted sense of destiny. After last year, TCU had some brashness of its own, but it couldn’t compete with Colorado’s. It led more to doubt and errors. Oregon knows something about this phenomena having been there; done that. We were that team during 2010-11, and nearly rode it to the top. Reflecting on that experience might help avoiding the same trap TCU fell into. How to deal with it? Keep your nose to the grindstone, and be deaf, dumb and blind to the media storm swirling around you. Let Neon blink all he wants. Just play his team, and not their image and the rest will take care of itself.

Prime is like a latter day Joe Namath: the ultimate upstart that everyone wants seen put in his place. Music to his ears. He appears to have the goods, both on the field and sideline, and knows just how to promote them. Like Namath did, he feeds on attention and doubters. I was one. Not anymore. Why make it easier for him by by being the Baltimore Colts?

Our yardage sounds closer to the back nine of a par 3 then a football game. Guess it’s good for stat stuffing, fan fun, ego puffing and the media. Sure we must’ve learned something from it. Just not near as much as the mutts up north did today by scheduling BSU instead of EWU. But an Oregon scoring orgy is always a treat, so how can I complain? Go Ducks!

All his cars would be loaded with great features and options. Only problem? They only go in reverse.

And what an added bonus that Husky fans again might find themselves having to listening to that voice they so dearly love. Thanks for re-upping Jerry!

Glad it wasn’t what it might have been for you and your community. Recovery is never easy, but that’s what holds us together. You’re in my thoughts and prayers.

Outsider analysts are almost always drawn to the fresh face just because they have no stake in the race. But, this guy does sound like the sort who never fails to put all his $$ on the 85 to 1 horse in the Derby, as well as making a mid major his march madness bracket fav.

Some coaches who move up to P5 schools never adapt to the requirements of elite level recruiting. Their recruit comfort zone can often mirror the mid-level mind set of schools like FSU: good but not great, and driven by an underdog mentality that thrives on proving themselves via big game upsets. Deboer may be one of those who can’t move from being the hunter into having the target on his back.

Cowturd is applying the same avoidance logic used by draftable players to avoid injury, only now it’s a whole team? What’s next? The SEC champion drops out of the CFP to avoid injury so they can participate in the NFL play offs? Eat what’s on your plate!

Misery loves company? Barnes may be the type who can’t resist preaching to the choir.

No guts no glory. Reached down deep inside and went for it. 47 seconds. You can send congrats and get well cards to the ICU in Port Angeles.

The good old days. I still think the urge to expand Autzen and allow controlled beer sales started with all the last second whizzing on the hillsides because you knew the lack of cans would make the lines too long.

Agree. The pitiful truth is he could have been one of the great complete players had he been willing to do the work, rather than just looking the part. The image means more to him than the reality. He’s passing the same message on as a head coach: lotsa bark can substitute for a lack of bite. Only someone who prefers acting the part could ever have said, “Sure we’re in Limos. We’re stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?” Just like his high-stepping pretense after every pick six, Dion will always prefer acting like he’s been there, to actually being there.

Wouldn’t be surprised if there was some debate among the poster creators as to whether or not to leave the ‘O’ in BO in the same font as the ‘B’, or change it to the Oregon ‘O’. Right choice. The name is about the person. The rest leaves no doubts, and that we’re behind him 100%. Nice job!

Just think, the next cave gets the benefit of all those . . . “You know, wouldn’t it be cool if . . .?” thoughts from the first one. And remember, change may be hard, but laughter and the Ducks make it a lot easier.

One addition to the expansion issue. The space required to do the work.

Not the first look into expanding the north side and hooking up the end zones. The big issue has always been space between an expanded stadium with surrounding foot traffic area, gate, exterior side walk and MLK: just not enough space to accommodate all that as it stands.. Of course it can be done. But, a sizable purchase of developed property north of MLK would be required to create a reasonable traffic flow bow in MLK that would accommodate the push out, and not excessively interfere with normal traffic speed. Lots of problems to solve, but we’ve done it before.

Anyone whose been around long enough can remember when Oregon was primarily a Beavers football state (just look at the number of high schools wearing orange and black). Until the Ducks made their move in the 90’s, you could say Portland was solidly OSU, and The Oregonian sports dept were their cheerleaders. Again, anyone who remembers reading early Canzano columns knows how his bias reflected that reality. It was only when he and all the other rodent rooters were forced to accept that something was changing that they zipped it and went to neutral ground. But, being forced to accept anything never alters a bias. Canzano, in order to survive, matured and out grew it. Oram simply reflects the reemergence of that old reality as it bubbles to the surface in bitter defense of the ‘true’ Oregon team suffering the indignities forced upon them by those upstarts down south.

It’s always interesting to reverse the roles. You think the rodents would’ve hesitated to blow us a kiss on their way out the door?

It’s kind of anticlimactic. This is only the beginning. Rather than watch the west setting with the sun, B1G is forming a western division. In five years when media streaming has settled in and taken the place of cable/satellite, we’ll all vote to leave the B1G and reform the PAC? In the meantime, thank goodness the B1G couldn’t face the fall without their traditional west coast buddies.

From Fight On! to Dream On. Avoid things rather than face them is their new mantra?

When commercial cable/satellite sports channels replaced free broadcast channels as the means by which we watch CFB, sports tv viewers were moved from a national to a regional format whose focus was primarily on the highest number of tv sets tuning-in at prime viewing times. In light of that, it’s hard to blame sports media for viewing the western time zone as a big deficit. From the midwest eastward, you get viewers of both colleges plus those interested in any given game. In the west you get both colleges and everyone else in bed. ESPN and Fox, seeing the writing on the wall, did what any companies would do in our country: they sought to monopolize the markets that gave them the best return on their investment. Athletic Dept. of these midwest and southeastern universities simply saw what was offered as a chance to strengthen their bottom line. It can be viewed as conspiracy-collusion, but to be fair, I’m not sure any college at the time those deals were done would have been aware of the effect those deals would eventually have on western colleges, as a result of sports media financial priorities. If we need to point the finger, maybe we should all just look in the mirror. Sports media couldn’t do what they do without our support.