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Ashton Porter is transferring.

This transfer might be due to Amauri Washington’s latest IG story.

Nothing is official, but this looks promising.

This farewell might have something to do with Iverson Hooks, the UAB receiver who is visiting.

Luke Moga

Vander Ploog is in the portal.

Alex Olesh from Penn State.

This is a thread to announce and consolidate players staying, leaving, and coming in to the Ducks football program.

Dan Lanning actively clears space for transfers and recruits out of high school. He’s not the only one. College football programs are no longer in the business of giving four year scholarships. They cut players for various reasons, but mostly because of lack of improvement. I’m sure DL had some tough conversations with some these transfers telling them they’re not in his future plans. Others went looking for a starting job and rightfully so. Florence, Fields, Laulea and Lopa can start at a lot of places. Purchase might be the only one he may have tried to convince to stay, but with Matayo and Teitum coming back and Nasir Wyatt making big plays Blake may have saw the writing on the wall.

On a positive note we just landed a former 5-star TE transfer from Penn State. This is probably why Ploog hit the portal today.

His transfer might have something to do with this.

I saw this as well. Oregon has done well with WR’s from Alabama G5 schools.

Yeah, I just now saw it on X. He, Blake Purchase and some guy named Grace announced today.

It seems LSU is moving on from Leavitt. This could be due to the Demond Williams debacle or Leavitt wanting to wait and see what happens with Dante. He could also sign with Miami. He is visiting them right now. Husan Longstreet is also in play for OBD, but Kiffin is hosting him this weekend. There are options if Moore goes pro. Raiola would be the least favorable because he’s still recovering from a knee injury which is why he might be willing to sit behind Dante as the article states.

I wasn’t talking about Chip. I was talking about Mario using the strategy of slowing the game down against Indiana. Much like what Ohio State did to the 2002 Miami team that was heavily favored and had a huge talent gap.

I don’t think the timeline is relevant. The strategy from the coaches can still be the same. The players just have to execute the coaches plan. Against Ole Miss, Miami had two 13 play drives and two 15 play drives, so they can chew up a lot of clock if they choose to use up most of the 40 seconds between plays. This strategy is right up Mario’s alley. Keep in mind that the new rules keep the game clock running after first downs and when a player goes out of bounds the refs start the game clock when the ball is spotted instead of when it’s snapped. The best way to beat a QB as prolific as Mendoza is to limit his possessions during the game.

2022: 10-3 Holiday Bowl champs (not bad considering first game against UGA). 2023: 12-2 Fiesta Bowl champs (lost to the NCG runner-up by a total of six points). 2024: 13-1 B1G champs (lost in quarterfinal to eventual national champion). 2025: 14-1 Orange Bowl champs (won 1st round and quarterfinal, but lost semifinal). If I’m a CEO and Dan Lanning is my sales team lead he and his team are getting bonuses every year for constant improvement. The trophies he brought home may not be the right color right now, but he has added something to the trophy case every year he’s been in Eugene. Keep in mind this year’s team returned one starter on offense (Pancho) and three starters on defense (Boettcher, Uiagalelei, Tuioti). Could Oregon regress next season? Sure, but I think the reason for that would be because of a change at QB and uncertainty with the new one.

In 2019 (2020 NCG) I thought the Clemson Tigers had the talent to take down LSU. However, they tried to score with them and it didn’t work out so well. When teams have similar styles of offense the more talented offense wins. When they have opposite styles it can lead to upsets although the examples are few. The 1986 Nittany Lions, 2002 Buckeyes, and a couple of Stanford/Oregon games come to mind (2012 for them and 2015 for us). Miami and Indiana have one common opponent in OSU. Both played them tight and held them to two scores.

I don’t think Fat Mac approves.