Hard not to blame them for dissing the Ducks. After all what have the Ducks done lately? Mediocre bowl wins or losses and lackadaisical play on the field. 

On 8/7/2022 at 6:44 AM, marinz4Life said:

This was one of the more technically accurate articles assessing MC that I’ve ever read…yet I hated it! It crucifies a good man for being a work in progress. I cannot recall MC EVER throwing a player; coach; administrator, REPORTER, or anyone else under the bus for their deficiencies? It’s clear the people who play and work for MC will follow him to the end’s of the earth! At the end of the day, Coach Cristobal was lured home to coach his alma mater and comfort his dying mother as the clock ran down on her life. And in doing so - It would appear to me - he made the right call when it mattered most.

 

By the way…who wouldn’t make that call? And why would Duck fans be entertained by an article that vilifies the man that elevated our recruiting prowess and restored our winning culture - simply because he made the obvious choice? This article makes me question what has become of US? 
 

Thanks for the memories Coach.

I agree with much of what you say but fact was MC was just mediocre at best as an HC. He had a plethora of talent and refused to let his OC be in control. He promised a return to exciting fast paced football and then put the brakes on the O with his "I'm tougher than you" on the field attitude. 
 

I do agree that he was a great players coach and left the program in great shape morally and physically for DL.

However he was hired to win games and bring an entertaining type of football to the field. In the end he failed on the entertaining part and left too many shoulda won's on the table. No one's going to dis on his character or his success on recruiting but those can only go so far.

 

I also don't blame him for leaving. I would've done the same.

BTW thanks for your service. 

 

I expect at least one pass will be thrown longer than 10 yards during each game. 🙂

On 8/2/2022 at 7:42 AM, lownslowav8r said:

Another question is what happens to the kids who go semi-pro and don’t make the NFL? Minimal or no education and their playing days are done. Our current system already fails many players, the new one will fail more. 

Not sure ESPN or Fox gives a rats arse about that. Any school not currently in the BG1 or SEC is caught between a rock and a hard place. Damned if you damned if you don't.

Anyway you look at it, David Marsh paints a bleak look into the future of college football. 

Will McGee be DAT 1.0? If so then my bets are on him leading the TD wars. 

Oregon did well under Chip in a down Pac 12 so a watered down Pac 12 with added teams should still get the Ducks in the CFP if they win out or at least with one loss and a marque win. 

 

Until we know what the future plans are for the CFP format then it's really hard to make point for expansion or remaining in the Pac and adding some teams.

 

One scenario that's interesting is if the BG1 adds Or, Wa, Ca, Stanford along with USC and UCLA. You would think that the west coast schools would play each other on a yearly basis. That's 5 games on the west coast which is normal. Add 3 OOC games and 4 BG1 tie in games. Figuring hopefully that the BG1 tie in games are 2 away and 2 home would mean that only two trips a season would be needed. That's not really that much of a deal breaker IMO. 

 

So much unknown but it's fun to speculate. 

 

So I read that possibly in a couple months the CFP committee is going to propose a new CFP format. Pretty much guaranteed that it will expand the number of teams. If the Ducks stay in the Pac 12 they'll have a much better chance of making the playoffs. That should help recruiting. Probably won't help long term media payouts but at least they'd be in the big show vs fighting hard to qualify in the Big 10. 

So what's more important, the CFP, or money?

Am I missing something here?

 

9-3

Definite loss to GA'

The other two are up for grabs. 

On 7/21/2022 at 1:50 PM, Haywarduck said:

You bring up, what I think will be, the biggest questions of the season, who will be the leader on the field? With Troy Dye and Herbert you knew the team was going to bring it. Who this season can bring back the great onfield leadership we have had in the past?

 

Every team needs on field leadership, but with a brand new coach it will be all the more critical. I suppose that is why they brought in Nix, and he had better provide it on offense. On defense it will be interesting to see if they all get on board with the amount of care, and emotion Noah puts out there each week?

I think Nix is going to be the leader. Lots of big time game experience and has total confidence in himself.

He may be a hit or miss QB but his desire to win will spill over to the rest of the team.

 

How many more football fans in SoCal would tune in to watch SD St play a P12 school on regular basis? I'm guessing viewership would increase. 

This fiasco may not of happened if the CFP committee had gone to an 8 team playoff format instead of the current 4 team format.

In an 8 team format with the winner from each P5 conference invited plus whoever else as outliers, conference size wouldn't matter as much. 

 

I know one thing for sure. 

The season kicks off on Sept 3rd against our HC old team and regardless of which way the wind blows I'll be on the edge of my seat watching.

There's still two more seasons to enjoy what we have with the P12 so it's business as usual for a while.

 

On 7/4/2022 at 8:31 AM, The Kamikaze Kid said:

I think the biggest problem here is that there is no long term vision for what's best for the sport, teams, players or even fans. Everybody has been put into a chaotic frenzy scrambling to figure out the best options for themselves with no real understanding how any of this will effect themselves or everybody else in the long term. It's like a panicked crowd trying to escape a burning building at night during a major earthquake.

 

If it were possible to slow down and think things through and get outside of the box, there could be a possible solution. Maybe something along the lines of the B12, Pac and Mountain West all realigning themselves into a couple 16-18 team conferences. The teams that want to keep up with the BIG and SEC join one, and the ones that don't form the other.

 

If you took the best athletic schools and combined them, you could get something like UO, fuskies, Stanford, Utah, CU, UA, ASU, SD St, Boise St, Fresno St, UNLV, Ok St, Baylor, TTU, Kansas, Houston, Cincy. A new conference along those lines would still have many top 20 basketball and football schools and could remain competitive in the new super conference era.

 

The rest could form their own conference which could still produce a couple top 20 ish teams every year without having to go all in on extreme sports spending and breaking the bank. It's just an out of the box thought.

 

 

Nailed it.

That would certainly change recruiting given that any team would have a chance.

I like it.

 Oregon stays and the Pac is held together by adding teams from other conferences. I think culture wins out here. 

This whole thing blows.

Is there a way Oregon could be the Clemson of the west?

 

Seems to me it would be righteous of Oregon to try and hold the Pac together and raid the B12 or other quality schools and help create a semi super conference on the west coast.

Not that USC or UCLA were pushovers but Oregon has mostly dominated them the last 10 years.

 

Now that they're gone it gives Oregon a shot at winning it all and making it to the CFP. 

 

Back in the Chip days Oregon made it to the CFP when the Pac was down. Now it's down for good. 

 

Eventually the CFP will expand and Oregon won't be fighting B10 schools every year trying to make it to the CFP. 

Too far out in left field? Just pondering. 

 

Sadly the closest we will get to joining the SEC is having an ex SEC assistant coach as a head coach.

Bama at Autzen? In my dreams. 

I don't see Oregon going anywhere by themselves. 

#1 SEC

#2 Big10

#3 Raid the B12

I'd love to see the Ducks in the SEC. Warmer weather and great competition. 

In the end I wonder what the players think? Imagine committing to Oregon and getting to play OSU, MI, Neb , USC, UCLA, etc on a semi regular basis.

Seems to me it would be a big bonus to offer recruits. 

 

As P12 fans it's rough since travel would be a big downer, but the home games would be much better for the most part. 

Sad situation but at the same time it's what fans have always wanted. How often do Big10 schools come to Oregon? Hardly ever so I think the quality or at least the excitement of the game will be better. 

 

Assuming Oregon joins the Big10.

 

IMO the P12 is done. 

You snooze you lose, time for Oregon to lookout for it's own interest.

He's a river boat gambler.

Gotta no when to hold em and when to fold em.

Epic.