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Does this mean we can’t say Fuskies anymore?

Duck’s NIL wait-and-see stance looks like the right path, if for no other reason than to watch how the QB bidding war plays out among the booster gambling addicts. QBs may prove to be ‘the canary in the coal mine’ when it comes to NIL dollars once a few of those high priced high schoolers have washed out. In the mean time, our current strategy of keeping a close eye on QB portal activity while searching for that diamond in the rough looks like the right choice.

While the toothless state of the NCAA certainly gives the impression of relinquishing any responsibility for the governing of college sports, I wouldn’t drop the entire blame on them. For me, it’s just another reason for SCOTUS to revisit their hasty decision to effectively remove the ‘student’ part from the ‘student-athlete’ equation.

Near the top of my all-time favorite games to be at: thank you Jeremiah and Legarrette!

A helmet should suggest what you think of yourself - what’s going on inside that helmet? So, if you like surprises, enjoy turning heads and embracing change, you’re going to like ours. If, on the other hand, you like things to be predictable, conservatively unimaginative and to always remain the same, you’ll like the blue bloods. Tradition is a funny animal.

Seems a toss up when both teams have closers like these two do.

If you can say veteran portal transfers are more system-opportunity focused than on position coaches, and recruits tend towards the opposite, then the Lanning era has already demonstrated what an advantage it has over the MariU era. New recruits notwithstanding, there is just a higher degree of trust out there in what DL and assistants will produce on the field than MC ever achieved.

Agree with HD. Payton’s success could help put the ‘student’ back into the student-athlete equation.

Love it! No quit in Kelly - bring it on!

In this new world of college football, portal moves among veteran players can almost feel like free agency or power trades in the pros where a guy gone stale can get a new lease on life. I feel like there’s something of that in Bo’s move to the Ducks. Sure hope so!

My guess is Dana will play him in a shooting role rather than at point. He just doesn’t have that driven, dominant personality that wants to take over the game. Situations can bring it out in him, but he needs to be able to bring that every game from within himself, and he’s just never shown that. He’s still a great player and real asset - just not at point.

I’m not. People like that get the Gulag they’ve earned.

At least with BB, jumping on the tournament bandwagon seems to have been a perception thing based on dance success coming off their tourneys for both the Big East and ACC.

It’s hard to tell if the pooches are headed up or headed down when their head is stuck in the toilet.

Unsung heroes are the ones who win the championships.

What a fun read, and what a remarkable turn-around in how pooch fans see themselves? From a dominant national team to one that , “plays for the love of the game . . .”? Resonates more with Beaver Nation than The James era. Maybe we should start referring to them as ‘little brother’ as well. Oh, and we might inform him - the three girl friends for each Duck? All Husky cheerleaders.

As much as we’re all excited by the potential in the running back room for speed and making plays in space, I’m equally looking forward to the potential of both Jordan James (205) and Dante Dowdell (210) to balance that attack on the inside, and keeping lbs and secondaries guessing.

There certainly may have been burn-out - on both sides of the fence - not to mention the high probability of a contentious relationship between White and Mullens. Personally, I would have liked to see him given another one or two seasons. Guess we’ll never know. But that never stops us from speculating!

Nothing to do with portal realities, nor Lombardi’s worth and potential to get us there, but, in looking at what Texas has done, is anyone else revisiting one of Mullen’s biggest blunders in letting Mike White go for the price of an assistant football coach?

My sense of him as well, but it just goes to show how important position IQ is in the secondary.

Like it. Only alteration? A yellow O on the helmet.

Devil’s advocate is always a good position to take, and I applaud it, however it’s hard to make the case for extreme pressure on the Ducks (or the Bulldogs, although their image would suffer) simply because it is a first game. Pressure in football mounts with succeeding games - it’s development that counts in the eyes of judges. Lose the first, okay, how did you respond in your next game? Lose the last? You’re out.

Agree. There was no quit in him - he never gave up on a play.

Even without the benefit of a Heisman candidate, Adams is reeling them in. Amazing what a gifted recruiter can do once he has the chance to walk through the front door.

Totally agree. KB was the poster boy for the disciplined, patient back who understood the playbook and how to utilize his blocks, when to shift gears, and trust the system. He was so good he could make perfect look almost boring - almost.