Washington Waddler

A Wow moment for me will always be the 1980 Reggie Ogburn-led 34-10 beat down of Don James’ 13th ranked Huskies in Seattle.

A very tired Duck from doing push-ups.

What’s that sucking sound heard throughout Duckdom? Sound advice: BREATHE! It’s hard to hold your breath for a whole week.

At times it's a cliche that’s easy to overlook, but it does all really start in the trenches. Find the answer there, and the run game starts putting more pressure and creating doubt in the LBs and Safeties which is key to creating explosion plays.

Tend to agree with those who suggest it’s a first week work in progress. The recruiting/transfer/NIL process is to a point where you have to say Dan’s stamp is upon this group. But, identity and team character are funny things. You have to develop them in real time. Time to wave good-bye to expectations, and get down to work.

“Its always been my dream”, as the excuse offered by athletes to forego education and go pro. Beaver Believer . . . Have to add that what produces most of these annoying cliches are the same stupid, uninspired questions from the media season after season.

Forest for the trees? Perhaps, but without the forest there are no trees. It seems to all come down to the beholder. Exhibit A: it’s like cartm25’s example of what he found interesting and others didn’t. Forum article posts are like your lawn; it’s up to you to do the weeding. Otherwise, someone is forced to make a subjective decision about what you like. For now, I think we’re best off keeping the forest.

True - lots of times because nobody was sitting behind us to complain.

Aside from the unethical exploitation of their national megaphones revealing how truly provincial they are, it’s just downright hilarious that we should believe guys from Ohio State, Michigan and Alabama when all they’re trying to do is set-up a fall guy that will inspire the teams they really think will win it all. Time to go media deaf dumb and blind and just play football.

Had the same issue. Went the email route with B1G+ customer service and they got it done. A night and day difference in responsiveness and attitude between them and what we’ve left behind.

Husky fans, like their mascot, would likely be classified by the B1G as a controlled substance. They’d only be allowed into stadiums if they agreed to be locked in kennels far enough away from other fans that their woofing (irritant) could not be heard.

Pete fits the current SC mantra: live in the past to give hope to the future.

As expected, all credit for Bo’s amazing production is being ascribed to Bronco coaching by NFL and Denver media pundits. It’s like Stein said in his post practice interview, Bo learned how to get the ball to his playmakers fast: TDs over moonshots. As he said, hard lesson for QBs to accept, but Bo did, and the Broncos are now reaping the rewards of that development.

It doesn’t take long to understand why not to share useful information equally with media and opposing programs. I like to watch the post-practice blurbs just to see the controlled smile on Lanning’s face which suggests a man caught somewhere between a blind date gone south, and a guy who hasn’t seen the head in over four hours.

My wife and I had a great time at Neyland Stadium in 2010 (especially since we won). Nice, hospitable folks, and great fans. Hate to see any of them getting sidetracked by an in-house blow-hard trying to preach to the choir. Head down that road, and it’s like Dan said, your own ice cream cone is melting while you’re lusting after ours.

In particular, Penix to Odunze, Polk or McMillan

In the catalog of ‘unfair’ Oregon advantages other programs like to pout over (Phil Knight, etc), one that they probably don’t see is Puddles. As we know, the vast majority of mascots were chosen because they’re felt to have power-enhancing, high-on-the-food-chain, predatory images. Some have local origins (who else would want to be a buckeye?). Others were chosen just to avoid predatory associations; ie, non-threatening or humorous symbols. But, none of these mascots can be claimed by any as out rightly their own. They are universally held images anyone has the right to employee. Except for Puddles. Yes, Puddles is a duck which other schools claim as a mascot. But, what these other ducks (and all other mascots) don’t have is their origin in a contractual agreement that gave them what amounts to trademark rights on a universally accepted image of warm and fuzzy happiness: a Disney cartoon character. When seeing Puddles, people may only think ‘Oregon’, but just below the surface that inner child is feeling something entirely different. That’s why Puddles is such a national, ‘unfair’ advantage. You may dislike, even hate Oregon. But you’re not going to spit on apple pie and mom.

Puddles for P . . . . ! (oops, my bad! No political references allowed)

Since the game has been shorn of any co-economic or conference relevance, probably best to let it die after the two year extension, and then play wait and see if anyone misses it.

Just another SC fan still trapped in their fantasy, but now projecting its cluelessness on a guy who lives and works in a world way past those dead and gone images of past Trojan glory. Dan wasn’t “acting like”. He wasn’t woofing. That’s the province of Southern California and Hollywood. He was just explaining what he and his team are in the process of doing.

Agree. What head coach - in his right mind - goes out of his way to share in-house dirty laundry with the media that can do nothing more than be a further distraction for the guy who is trying to learn his system and get ready to lead his team into the first game of the season? Doesn’t make sense.

Hmmm . . . could be, however, people who are as consumed by personal image as he appears to be often project that kind of public image in order to mask the less secure parts of themselves. While he’s been the pet of national ‘personality’ media interest, he’s yet to be tested under the harsh light of a big time media market that won’t care what he wears if he fails to produce.

You think he can part with the white cowboy hat?

There are so many candidates for an O Mt Rushmore. Don’t even know where you’d start. On a strictly athletic, statistical comparison, you could leap frog Bill with probably more than just four jumping ahead of him on that list. To me, what makes him prominent isn’t just his QB offerings to those 87 thru 90 teams; it was his being a part of a subtle, indescribable feeling that something was beginning to surge beneath Oregon football like a wave — separate from, yet irresistible and contagious to all the moving parts. And Bill’s was the face that we put on that nascent buzz that would continue to build right up to now. Yes, there were many ‘wow’ moments from athletes (Moore, Fouts, etc) who preceded Bill, but none that I recall who generated anything beyond a sense of momentary greatness. It was the unstoppable sense of what was yet to come triggered during Bill’s tenure that gives him his special place in Oregon football.

The only excuse for so many other sites to even exist is to give obsessed and compulsively angry sports fans a place to perpetually hide, and continue rants that those around them are no longer willing to listen to or tolerate. That’s a big difference between those sites and OBD: you can’t hide here.