Washington Waddler

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.

And so is the color of our blood. Who needs to be blue when you’re a Duck!

Good chance Win Big will be just another Husky wind bag.

The measure 11 applied law would seem to be Aggravated vehicular homicide which doesn’t seem likely if an element of self-defense is involved that disputes a charge of indifference to human life.

It’s summer folks, when college sports decends into the world of daytime tv chit-chat shows. They’ve got to talk about something, right?

Let the dissecting begin! And we haven’t even played a game yet. Never hard to tell when the drought of summer has the media lunging for every precious drop.

Yet again, know your source. Grayson Weir is a cohort of the University of Mississippi, SEC, ESPN relationship. What more do you need to know?

I’m inclined towards, ‘Who Dat?’ For the OSU up the road.

When you really enjoy doing what you do in a place that allows you to do it, it just draws like-minded types who can’t wait to join in the excitement. Attracting the best players is only half of what Dan does. He’s also growing into a magnate for developing the best coaching/recruiting talent out there.

Annoying & Mortified?

For me, when it comes to irritating, exasperating and tiresome, no one comes close to the rodents up the road.

How about a test drive over Autzen?

For me, when it comes to irritating, exasperating and tiresome, no one comes close to the rodents up the road.

I think you can give some statistical credence to the seven or less point spread in losses following the Georgia game. Seems like there’s a learning curve going on in there.

Blue? Our color is Green, as in the color envious USC fans see every time they look at how the recruiting is going.

To paraphrase a classic definition, when you start talking politics, it often leads to, “ . . . looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” Good enough reasons for me to steer clear.

Money better spent supporting CFB athletes. Sorry, what am I thinking? This is the NFL.

Wondering is always an excellent pursuit. In my experience, as soon as I begin to think it’s all been done, guess what happens?

Pretty cool, but moving away from innovation towards consolidating signature looks from the past. Nothing here not to like, but is Nike getting conservative?

Nice read Darren on the old school emotional ties that so many of us still feel. Having now watched water pass beneath the bridge for a while, I have to admit I’m now somewhere in between your stance and where Charles seems to find himself. I’ve had to unclutch from my unending fielty to proud, past memories of the PAC12, and accept the suicide its leaders inflicted on us as sad, but justly deserved. That said, I don’t confuse the human constructs of ‘conference’ and ‘league’ with regionalism. Conference is more closely aligned with power, political collaboration and $$, where as regionalism is something we just deeply feel. Like you, I cannot - with any integrity - embrace BIG10 teams as brothers. As political allies? Perhaps. But neither can I wrap myself in the shredded remains of a banner so dishonored and abandoned by those who should have treated it with respect. They killed it. It’s gone. Where does that leave me? For the time being, feeling like a wandering Duck caught in some modern day sports diaspora, forced into self-reliance and belonging nowhere. So that I don’t cave into that school yard yearning to belong, I remind myself that the founding BIG10 members will never see us as equals, even if we win their championship for the next 10 years in a row. Just ask Nebraska fans. But I don’t fret. It’s a process; just another step along the way. Just have to remind myself, from time to time, how much more compelling regionalism is than the politics of conference survival.

Don’t forget fantasy sports leagues.