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  1. It’s not stealing when there is a written agreement that all 12 schools signed. The Court followed the plain language of the agreement. Everybody agreed that if a school were to cut and run they would leave the money behind. I look forward to beating the beavers next fall way more than some school like Texas Tech from half way across the country. When the game comes, many more Duck fans will enjoy the former than the latter. And, I will greatly miss trips to the Bay Area to play Cal and Stanford. I am unlikely to go to New Jersey for Rutgers, or to Indiana. The Duck lawyers, and the other nine schools did not leave millions behind with a winning case yet to pursue. We left because there was more money to be gained by leaving. We really had no other option.
  2. Maybe, just maybe we are playing them because of over 120 years of history. An amicable divorce is far more preferable than prolonged bickering. Some of us have wives and children, even a daughter-in-law who wear orange. I happen to have all three.
  3. I was a married law student when Autzen was built. The original contractor went belly up, is my recollection. Leo Harris was scrambling for a million bucks, a huge sum in 1964-65, and the Autzen Foundation came up with it. So the short answer to the original question is that without the Autzen timely contribution there would not be a stadium and Leo Harris who took a huge gamble in building “on that gravel bar way over there across the river with no way to get to it” would have been canned. It’s Autzen Stadium and it will ever be thus.
  4. Kim, In some small way I hope my prayers for your recovery reach Him or Her who can make a difference. You are greatly missed by us. Michael
  5. The insertion of collective bargaining and with it, NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) regulation is a game changer. That means every player that goes to work for a college football program has a contract that he must comply with before he signs a letter of intent. U of O football would be a "union shop." Every player on the team has the same contract. Individual NIL and wages would be negotiable for each player, but the obligation to stay with the team would be a term of the team's collective agreement, if I am reading the article correctly. Out in the business world that's called an "noncompetition clause". There's all manner of litigation about that issue. In my community, Eugene, a doctor with a noncompete clause can quit his job with the medical group, move more than 50 miles away for a year, and then return and work for a competitor. So what if the player decides to leave the school anyway, and another school agrees to accept him. Who's going to enforce that circumstance? My limited experience with NLRB cases is that they don't move real quickly.
  6. If, as I expect, Jon's suggestion of an NFL sponsored 36 teams comes about, or 40 treams as I suggest, will NFL-Lite become greatly different from AAA baseball? Personally, I prefer to watch the college amateur, student-athlete, regular season football games over the NFL regular season games, Justin Herbert excepted. I can't even name a AAA baseball team, and, as far as I know, have never watched that league, or any of the other minor league baseball games on TV. I've been to several Eugene Emerald games, and a few of the Springfield Drifter wood-bat games, so it's not about whether I like baseball. As a high school player I was better at baseball than the other two major sports, but played, or played at all of them. At baseball, I could hit, field and I could run, but was left out of the other important part. No arm. Second base was taken by a team mate with a better glove than mine. So, I played right field. Still, I have watched, both in person and on TV, more than 10 times as much college football than any other major sport, unless golf is a major sport. To me, college football is greatly different from the pro game. I often think about the experience of Chip Kelly when he brought the Ducks his philosophy that the team with better conditioned players would win the game in the 4th quarter. He got the Duck players to buy in and bust their collective butt getting into shape. Sure enough, it worked. When he took that idea to the Eagles it worked there too, for about a year and a half. Then the pros quit working at it. My fear is that once what used to be college football goes fully professional it's connection to the university environment will wane. Student sections and great bands will drift away. When that happens, just watch the minor league football TV ratings go to wherever minor league baseball ratings are.
  7. Ahead by a fairly constant 13 points from the middle of first half until there were eight minutes left in the game, OBD went into running clock, what I call the “prevent offense.” Predictably the beavers tightened their defense. Repeatedly starting the attempts to score with 10 or fewer seconds left on the shot clock, our team lost what momentum they had, and score was tied. Why a team that is comfortably winning the game totally alters it’s strategy with that much time left will puzzle me until I go into the crematorium.
  8. Some fun belly laughs in that interview, if you have the time to watch it all.
  9. Buy, “academic prowess” is appropriate.
  10. The prevent offense almost did Dana in. I will never comprehend why a team that is 20 points ahead thinks it’s a good thing to change the pace of the game and quit trying to score points. The margin went from 20 points to one point with two minutes left. the Ducks went seven minutes without a field goal! Often turning the ball over, or bricking few throws.
  11. In about 1972 my wife and I played Pebble got $40, each, including the cart.
  12. Golf doesn't get a lot of play on Oregon message boards, but fans need to know that Clark is recognized by the announcers, Jim Nance in this event, as being a Duck. They repeatedly talk not only about that, but speak about his caddy being a former Duck golf assistant coach for three years. This was a great day for U of O athletic publicity. What Clark did was shoot the lowest score, 60, on a par 72, that has ever been recorded at Pebble Beach. This golf course in recognized world-wide as the course golfers most want to play. It opened in 1919, 125 years ago. The ATT tournament, formerly the Crosby, has been drawing golf's greatest players since in began in the 1940's. Clark's round of 60 is two strokes better than any professional golfer has every scored at Pebble. An amateur golfer did shoot 61 a few years ago, but what Clark did today will be talked about for decades.
  13. The two biggest and most wealthy conferences manipulating college football to the exclusion of every other school? What could possibly go wrong? Certainly the “Haves” will bend over backward to be fair to the “Have Nots”. Or, not! Th NCAA needs to step up, but the conferences control the money source. Or just maybe it controls them.
  14. Not a lot of imagination in that group. The main problem is “selection” of playoff teams by a committee. And, too much power by TV network contracts with only two of the conferences. Conferences that have far too many teams. Break up the conferences and allocate teams into eight ten-team leagues by geography. Every team plays every other team in their league on a nine-game conference schedule. Conference Champions playoff in an eight tam tournament. Settle the whole thing n the field. Much more on this later.
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