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QuackAttack
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I don’t know who had the money line at ducks -13 1/2 but they must’ve been thinking Bo Nix was healthy. I would never bet that line.
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It is completely baffling to understand why Bucky Irving has been coming out of the game with as successful as he’s been running the ball Whittington hasn’t done much there’s just no justification for pulling Bucky out of the game at any point at this point in the game
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Dan Lanning clearly didn't learn anything from the Washington Game! Let's see, go for 4th and 2 inside the 20 in the first half and get stopped. Kick the field goal, that's the 3 point difference in the game. Go for it 4th and 1 from your own 30 and get stopped. UDUB Touchdown!
The exact same thing in Civil War! I'm old school and it will always be Civil War! Lanning needs to pull his head out and think about what he's done to this season. Our two losses in conference can be squarely on Lanning! Bo doesn't have his usual mobility, why the heck are you going for it on 4th down and running the ball up the gut three times on the last drive, get the ball outside on a pitch or run a bubble screen on second down!
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Yes, it's Dante Moore. He's currently in high school. TT looked completely lost out there. For a 5-star and the stud of Elite 11, he sure isn't looking the part. My money is on TT to enter the portal and find a home at a place like NAU!
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The PAC-12 leadership i.e. university presidents and conference front office still seems to be suffering from their country club mentality while the Big 12 seems to be looking to be more aggressive. The PAC-12 needs to abandon this idea of only a certain academic fit etc. should be allowed into the conference. Years ago when expansion to 12 took place, everybody got worked up about no to BYU, which is Utah's natural rivalry. At that time, they should have gotten Colorado, Utah and BYU. Right now nobody is itching to pull the trigger and go after SDSU and Fresno State. What happens if the Big 12 is talking to both schools and they scoop up those schools before the PAC-12 even gets off the pot. What is needed is television markets along with schools that could ad value in recruiting grounds and any expansion should be a significant increase in numbers. I would like to see the following:
North South
Oregon Colorado
Oregon State Air Force
Washington Arizona
Washington State Arizona State
California Utah
Stanford Utah State
Nevada San Diego State
UNLV Fresno State
Boise State UT San Antonio
Colorado State UT El Paso
Each school added offers benefits: The Texas schools open up Texas recruiting and two 1 million + media markets. SDSU & Fresno help with the So Cal recruiting market and San Diego is a larger media market. Utah State pairs a more natural rivalry to Utah. Nevada and UNLV are natural rivals and Vegas is where the conference headquarters should be, plus the Vegas Valley has nearly 3 million people. Colorado State pairs better to Colorado than Utah and increases the Front Range viewership, as does Air Force and the PAC-12 schools can say what they want about their academics, outside of Stanford and Cal, no body is touching Air Force academically. Boise State provides a good football program that has kicked plenty of PAC-12 tail in the past decade +.
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I have to disagree with the hurting minority student athletes. Women, YES! The NFL has 60% of their rosters made up of black athletes, I think it's safe to say D1 football is
about the same. D1 basketball is at least the same if not higher. The non-revenue generating sports like gymnastics, hockey, soccer, of women's basketball and volleyball
teams generate revenue and not surprisingly they are in the B1G. Out side of these volleyball schools: Stanford, State Penn, Wisconsin, Nebraska what schools actually pack
the house and make money? Outside of these basketball schools: Duke (pardon me for using that word), Stanford, South Carolina, Baylor, Kansas, Maryland, UCONN, Tennessee consistently bring in revenue?
If it comes down to a class of people, he women are getting $crewed.
I like the idea posted about a football only conference format and all the other sports stay in their own regional conferences.
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Claiming a playoff spot regularly is a huge overstatement. The PAC hasn't been in since 2016 and have only been in 3 times since it went
to four teams. B1G will have one for sure, ACC with either Clemson or Miami (if Cristobal can work his magic) will have one, and the SEC
will likely have two. Regularly is a pipedream!
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Some of the discussion in this thread is a bit of PAC-12 fans being self-absorbed. I love my Ducks, but I am a realist. What makes anybody truly think the SEC wants Oregon? That 200,000 Eugene/Springfield market isn't going to be burning down any SEC doors. As for poaching Big-12 schools, we're a year late. They are in the drivers seat now, not the PAC-12. If anything, the Big-12 may come around and poach the best of the PAC-12.
From a media standpoint, that starts with the Arizona schools due to Phoenix, proximity is also a benefit. Next would be Colorado and Utah, both large markets and in the mountain time zone. Then UDUB and Oregon to keep a rival pair. That would take them to 18 teams. If they went to 20, they would take Stanford and Cal, which leaves OSU and WSU holding the empty bag.
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The PAC-12 has nobody to blame but themselves for the miserable leadership they have had over the past two decades. First Larry Scott screws up television deals and now George Kliavkoff is completely caught off guard. How on earth can he not look out into the landscape and see upheaval about to happen.
As soon as Texas and OU bolted, he should have been on the horn with the presidents of the conference members and said, lets try to pick off, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Baylor and TCU. The PAC-12 would have been at 16 at that point and if SC & UCLA left, then the PAC-12 would have been in a position of strength and could have gotten KSU and Texas Tech to get back to 16.
This is nothing but a complete failure from the leadership in the conference and the leadership at the institutions as well. It also looks like UDUB and UO got a cold shoulder from the B1G, at least until they hear from ND. It's time for Phil Knight to crack open the wallet and protect his brand.
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On 12/6/2021 at 8:34 AM, Quackanadian said:
I personally think Kiffin would be your guy.
High flying offense? Check
Tempo? Check
Cool slogans and connects with today's kids? Check
Learned under Saban? Check
Can do more with less? Check
We all deserve "second chances" and after he learned on the sidelines at Bama, maybe in his aging years he can settle down and bring Oregon to the promise land (or even just the playoffs).
Cheers.
Not leaving the SEC, more money and more opportunity for talent. Mario was our talent pull.
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$50 Tanner Bailey signs with Miami since he already had an offer from the U. Mario left for more than just football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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On 12/3/2021 at 12:30 PM, David Marsh said:
Part of me still thinks that 2020 threw off a lot of the progression of this team. Shough performed fairly well in 2020 but the end of the season he just collapsed and burned out, he was trying to play hero ball and it resulted in him turning the ball over and being ineffective on offense. Brown actually has the SAME problem this year when he tries to put the team on his shoulders.
This year I get the feeling the coaches really want to protect the freshman quaterbacks and ensure they have time to develop and not have a repeat of last year. Remember in 2020 there was a partial Spring camp, no summer training, and a very short and very hastily put together fall camp into a short season. Moorhead's full scheme didn't get installed until this year, and last year they were really using the Arroyo scheme for the first 3-4 games because that is what Shough knew, due to a lack of prep.
This next OC hire is going to be huge as it will show where the program is going. Do we get a vertical passing attack or do we stick with short passes? I am hoping for an OC who can develop a QB and get a passing attack on track. We have the receivers now, we didn't when Herbert was with the team, for a quarterback to feed if they can get the ball to them as a reliable passer.
I do think Akron is an escape job for Moorhead... though I think a large portion of that escape isn't about his offense and the play calling but instead about the recruiting. Cristobal demands a lot out of his coaches in terms of recruiting. Oregon is NOT an easy place to recruit to no matter what anyone says, however, it is not impossible to recruit to Oregon either. It just takes works... a lot of work. Moorhead may not want to work that hard, which is absolutely fine because I don't think the vast majority of us want to work that hard (maybe Charles already does).
The offense right now looks a lot like a Moorhead offense seen at other places at this point. The vertical passing attack isn't there but Brown really can't produce a passing attack like that anyways. Also... Thompson has played in 3-4 games (I am counting 3 but I may be forgetting one appearance) and is in place to preserve his red-shirt at this point which, barring an injury to Brown, is something I think the coaches want to keep at this point for Thompson. So the coaches are sticking with Brown an his limitations.
Thompson won't make to his senior year. He will be leave after his sophomore or junior year depending on how well he performs. So, Mario shouldn't have even been worrying about redshirts.
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On 12/3/2021 at 11:11 AM, Grandpa Duck said:
I prefer to look on the bright side. When Brooks hired Belotti the offense improved immediately. When Belotti hired Kelly the offense improved immediately. Joe Morehead's offense has been said to be too complicated for our inexperienced back-up QB's to learn the whole playbook. There is somebody out there who can come in and improve the offense. Just could be that Mark Helfrich is that person. He certainly would not have a community or physical surrounding learning curve to overcome.
MH will not be a Duck again. Not only would they not go there, I don't think he would take an offer.
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At what point do you put AB on the bench. They took Shug out last year for AB. Ty Thompson is the future of this program and he isn't going to be here for four years anyway, so burn his redshirt. AB can not throw the deep ball with any accuracy. He's a really good running back, but just an average QB. The pick before the half was absolute genius!
A Meaningless Bowl Game?
in Our Beloved Ducks
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No bowl game to get to 10 wins can be called meaningless.