Grandpa Duck

In his post above, Another OD says: "I think there were only 7 plays over 15 yards and only one over 20. Of the 7, 4 were to TEs and RB (from a casual look at the box score). Idaho seemed to have a lot of defenders around the LOS, a lot of check down and guys making a few plays otherwise didn't seem like there was much attack the heavy box. Better team will likely blueprint that until the offense makes them pay." Gabriel's completion percentage was 83.67. That's an amazing number for game 1. But from the first play and throughout the game he had to get the ball out quickly. He was very prepared for that necessity. Our O-line has been practicing against an excellent defense all of fall camp. Gabriel and the coaching staff knew exactly what happened was going to happen, probably weeks ago. Gabriel was going to his first option on nearly every pass, and when he didn't he usually "checked down" to what we used to call the "safety valve", the back behind the line of scrimmage. Sacked three times, a forced fumble, he did what he had to do, and did it well. We have a big problem with the O-line. Gabriel and the coaching staff knew it was coming and prepared for it well. That part of the game could have been a lot worse.

Ducks win 52-0 3 turnovers 5 sacks 384 passing yards

When I heard about the blackout of Duck football on Comcast, my TV provider since April of 2001, I called comcast. After the usual trudge through the electronic voice that answers and makes you take the circular route through repeatedly asking: "Speak to an agent," I actually reached "Alexis", a real person. I was not convinced that was her real name. I explained that I have been a long-term customer and that my wife and I enjoy Xfinity TV with lots of extras, plus internet and land line that we need in order to remotely open the gate of the community where we live for guests to enter. We also have two comcast cell phones and pay the company something around $340 a month. I also explained that we have a separate smart TV with no box where we stream things, just in case our comcast service is not functioning. So I know it would cost me less for every service they provide were I to choose to make a change. But, I am age 85 and despise change of any kind. A few dollars a month is worth the convenience of familiarity. After lots of audible key clicks on Alexis' end of the call she thanked me for our long term as a customer and assured me that since I have had the sports package including the B1G network for more than a year that unlike others in my zip code I would be getting the Duck game on B1G this Saturday. I made it clear to her that if that does not happen, as inconvenient as it will be for me to change all of the services that comcast provides our household, I will be dropping them. Not being trusting by nature and experience, (I am a retired, recovering lawyer) I looked at the B1G upcoming broadcasts and realized that the UCLA vs. BYU soccer match would be broadcast live on B1G at 7 p.m. this evening, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. That would give me a test of the blackout. Well, you guessed it, Alexis either intentionally deceived me, or she was ill informed. As the previously scheduled content ended at 6:59 p.m., the B1G notice that they will not be carrying live broadcasts of Bruin football, volley ball and soccer contests flashed on the screen together with the 800 number for me to call and complain. UCLA vs. BYU soccer is not available in my household. However B1G is broadcasting in its place a fascinating history of UCLA, frequently interrupted by the blackout notice. Clearly the executives of the B1G network have an edge on those at comcast. No, way more than an edge. Probably the whole playing field. I wish I could reconnect with Alexis and tell her just what I think of her and her employer. But, tomorrow my Grandson will come over and explain how streaming works and how to change my internet provider. Once the new internet is in place and I am sure Youtube TV is where I want to watch the Ducks this fall, I will box up the comcast equipment and head down to their office and cancel the whole business, keeping the cell service until I have the new provider make that change for me. The change from AT&T to comcast a few years ago was seamless and a savings of about half. Hopefully I can learn how to stream. From reading other threads I know that some other aged fans in my predicament have been able to navigate through the process. Not so sure my less than tech facile spouse will manage, but I can probably teach her to find the WNBA and the FBI and crime shows. From prior experience in the difficult torture of being current with this fast-paced life, this is not a punishment I am eager to endure. And, I will suffer through finding the WNBA games on the TV my wonderful life partner uses in order to maintain peace in the household. She gets them now by hollering voice commands at the TV. I fear that's not a streaming feature. How stupid can it be for people who run a highly successful business to mess with our Duck football viewing, and that of the other three west cost teams joining the B1G. There's a message for them hear. Don't mess with my Duck football!!!

I sometimes wonder whether people who complain about the NCAA ever consider what it is and how it came to be what is. Well, folks, sorry to knock over your straw man, but the NCAA is us, and we made it what it is. Only we, the universities and colleges that make up the membership can make it into something else.

Oregon State makes a more attractive opponent than Idaho or PSU.

I am a really old lawyer, age 85, and13 years of my over 40 years of courtroom practice was with the office of the Attorney General of Oregon. My fading recollection is that Judge Libby based his ruling on a PAC12 bylaw that states, in essence, when a member announces it is departing from the conference it loses its power to vote on conference matters. Considering the amount of money involved, and the legal resources of the conference members, such as the attorney general’s offices of four states plus whatever private lawyers Stanford wanted to hire, had judge Libey’s decision been incorrect it would have been appealed and reversed.

Any history that occurred before the memory of a seventeen year-old recruit is irrelevant.

After the grand slam, I switched to the beaver game. Score tied, beavers at bat with bases loaded and one out. Two batters in a row watched a called third strike! Now I remember why I don’t like watching baseball.

In many ways, such as rules and monitors, your site is akin to a club. Belonging is a privilege!

Magnificent! NJDuck, you have earned a forum friend for life and garnered Charles a few extra bucks when he gets the Donation button in place. Thank you!

I cannot get that one to print. Hell to get old.

If anyone has a source for a printable spring game roster, pleasee link. Thanks!

How about yellow button with green lettering?

I did not know Kim’s last name until now. Mark’s Dad, Walt Paczesniak was one of the great football coaches at Marshfield, Coos Bay, where I played, Walt also was my US History teacher. He had a wonderful sense of humor. He used to tell us: “You think that nose is for smelling. When you get in the Army you’ll find out that nose is for digging.” Very sad time for Mark. I wish him and family the very best.

Well, Charles, in a few years you will need to get used to missing things. Even when you don’t miss them, after a couple of days it’s the same as if you had missed it!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Some fun belly laughs in that interview, if you have the time to watch it all.

Buy, “academic prowess” is appropriate.

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.