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Washington Waddler
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Prediction: Mario will make a bold move to unify the program’s strategic approach and save the boosters money by hiring himself as both OC and DC.
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Earlier editions of DA’s transfer-loaded teams that lacked the star power of those transfers we are seeing now seemed to gel a bit quicker. Getting more guys who have been use to running the show to buy into Dana’s more selfless approach may just take more time. Hope what we saw against the rodents says we’re turning the corner, but I’m not sure I quite trust this team’s motor yet.
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Don’t think DA ever doubted Will’s ability or PG IQ — it was just the time it took to adjust and tweak his game in that direction in relation to the other moving parts, as others have suggested. What’s funny is we looked just like the leg humpers prior to the Beaver game — a one pass offense that turned the ball over on either a missed three or failed drive in the paint.
Accepting your team role simplifies the game. It gets one to really look and to focus. It’s amazing what happens when a coach of Dana’s caliber gets his players to do that.
IMO, I’m kinda excited to see the emergence of Quincy Guerrier. Think he’s had a tougher time finding his fit, but when he does find his rhythm, look out! Maybe that missing part that puts us up.
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And lurking behind it all is this whisper of untold riches that envelopes these dreams like some sort of white noise elevator music just awaiting them now, even at the college level.
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Well, this is why we play the game. For whatever reason, USC has tended to show more hype than heart ever since John Robinson’s first tenure. Thinking back on our opening possessions from those days at the Coliseum, if we took their first punch without flinching, that legendary, blue blood Trojan mask would melt away, leaving just a bunch of dazed and confused players who were counting on the image —instead of themselves — to play the game.
How long it will take Riley to recreate the program is anybody’s guess. It may be more of an uphill chore than he anticipates. No tougher place on the planet to replace appearance with reality.
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Love the comments, if for one reason only: the energy and excitement is coming back into interstate rivalries (well, except for the distempered puppies up north) and the league as a whole. Remember when those games got circled early on, and how incredible it was when we won? Love it that the Tinseltown Trojans are getting their swagger back! Bring it! This is what’s healthy for the PAC 12.
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Canzano seems interested in fostering the notion that the NCAA’s investigation of Division St might be based on a very narrow reading of a numbers disparity between Oregon and OSU football players who benefit from NILS $, while ignoring the bigger picture of gender and program balance that exists at both universities in distributing those same dollars.
It’s a murky read at best, his attempt to discern the investigative intent of an organization that now appears so unsure of itself, and afraid of being further diminished and embarrassed by the courts. Canzano hints at the idea that the NCAA may see Oregon’s high-profile connection with Nike as the best and easiest target for it to regain some prestige and stature in the fight for moral authority over college athletics. Or does he?
As he points out, such a leveraging would have to come at the expense of cash-cow football, or there’d be no point to it. But, Oregon’s NILS numbers don’t back that argument, so why even bother with pointing the finger?
Perhaps Canzano is asking us to jump to where he has already gone, and wonder at who the NCAA’s next target might be? Assuming that they already knew Oregon’s NILS numbers (a matter of public record), the NCAA may be simply making a public show of how a program SHOULD operate in this new sphere of NILS distributions.
Once the balance sheet is on the table for all to see, it may not be much of a leap to compare Oregon to say, Texas? Canzano’s quoting of OSU AD Scott Barnes’ remarks that NILS doesn’t invite less, but more cheating seems to mirror such a comparison. One can only hope!
In the mean time, only time — and nerve — will tell. So, do something RIGHT for a change NCAA!
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For any OC out there willing to put on Mario’s collar, it’s more like yew than U. Come to think of it, the flack this guy is going to take makes some ex-White House press agent the perfect candidate.
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And going up against Nyara and Sedona in practice is just the experience she needs to help develop her into the dominant force she shows flashes of becoming.
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I must be missing something, but when I look at the physical distance separating the two benches, and the fact that placed between them are two media tables with scoring and time keeping officials between the two tables, Barnes must have some ears to be hearing a constant cussing coming from Kelly amid all that fan noise!
Also, if he was going off as she insists, don’t you think at least one of the officials (who are closer to him) would have heard, and reported the outbursts to the floor officials triggering a warning and possible TF?
I must be missing something.
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Edited by Washington Waddler
spellingI’m still floating on air! What I like best though is both programs seem to get that because of their early season losses, they have very little wiggle room if they want to get to the place they want at the dance. It’s all about effort. Like Maddie Scherr said, “It’s so simple, we’re getting stops.”
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Love the humor; have to, because it’s such a pathetic joke. The beauty of out of control situations is that they eventually run smack into a wall or drown themselves. Either way is fine with me.
When that happens, the universities will once again have the chance to do what they should have done in the first place when this media-driven mad cash cow first started to raise its ugly head: funnel ALL sports-related income into general funds governed by boards of trustees who mutually agree to limit this arms race because they can now see it only leads to mutual self-destruction.
Agree to a certain percentage for athletic departments reviewable annually, and allow the NCAA to once again have the teeth to deal with the back alley deals driven by boosters.
If the Alabama’s and 5*s of this world bridle at such a decision, so be it. If the NFL wants some kid bad enough and the kid wants to go, go the basketball route, and let them have him.
Education first; sports second. That’s the only way college sports can survive.
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On 1/16/2022 at 8:02 AM, Haywarduck said:
This is why it is critical the school, Oregon is as attractive as possible. There will always be slick salesman who can sway a young student athlete. The school and opportunities at the program should draw the
Not too many desirable recruits are going to have the vision to see through the glitzy surface being presented by some recruiters. But, it’s the ones who do — who think outside the box (football success only) — that will not only be drawn to Oregon, but will help others to see this important academic result, and end up being some of our best recruiters.
Thib is a case in point. Not only is he a great athlete, but he has a vision of his own success after football. And, he’s not afraid to talk about how Oregon helps build its program-continuum to benefit the chances of the student/athlete to realize and grasp this later success.
From the concrete emphasis place on athlete academic excellence demonstrated by the Jaqua Center, to the manifold Nike-driven benefits that athletes can take advantage of during and after their days at Oregon, this built-in molding of the entire person needs to be perceived for what it is: Oregon’s focus on not just using the athlete, but being of genuine use to the athlete afterwards.
Thibs gets this, and gets that message out there. Thank you!
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On 1/16/2022 at 9:54 AM, 30Duck said:
It really came down to defense.
Like Dana said, it wasn’t like some magic pill; it was effort — playing harder, and that always starts on defense. No matter when it finally happens, it sure is exciting when Altman gets the engine tuned!-
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On 1/15/2022 at 9:36 AM, Graziani93 said:
What I would pay to see the look on Enfield's face after we avenge last year's loss at SC.
Think we saw it following that USC inbound pass on our end of the court that we jammed into a shot clock expiration. The camera went to Enfield, and you can read his lips saying, “what the f**k are you doing!”.-
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Recruiting is Still More Important Than the Transfer Portal
in Our Beloved Ducks
How can the teams who produce the talent ensure that they keep it? Excellent question David.
I’d hazard a guess and say that the current unrestricted, free-for-all conditions under which the portal operates, and NILS — to the extent that it’s value is manipulated by portal opportunities — is a temporary situation, morally grounded in the long term financial abuse of once powerless student athletes whose moral outrage will run its course, and eventually be reeled in by the need for financial balance between the athletes and those who have a stake in them. How long that will take, and who will assume responsibility to make it happen is anybody’s guess.
Once this euphoric, student-athlete playground is no longer tolerated, my guess is the corollary would have to be the NFL, and modeled on the precedence of free agency: the athlete who wants money owes something to those who have invested money, time and energy in their development. Again, what they would owe, in terms of time, is anybody’s guess.
Once this unsustainable and unrealistic approach to the portal and it’s abuse of NILS hits the wall, then we can hopefully see a balance return to the process, and a degree of power returned to the teams we love.