Desert Duck

Cristobaland... The place where great QBs go to die. Dude practically tried his best to ruin Herbert.

Hopefully, the powers that be at Oregon have been on the phone with Dan's agent throughout the day and are nailing down his new contract and money as we speak. It's unlikely to me that Oregon would not have anticipated this kind of activity, and already have had a plan in place to address it. We had a bunch of key recruits at the game yesterday. Which is exactly why we need to immediately drive a wooden stake through the heart of this A&M garbage, instantly followed by Lanning releasing a public statement regarding him staying at Oregon until the cows come home.

Because of the distraction it could/would cause to your team that's trying to make the playoffs, and the negative impact that allowing your name to linger out there would have on recruiting.

Sounds like the ideal situation for Lane Kiffin.

Actually... my apologies for that. Almost nobody deserves to have their names mentional along with those two other guys.

So were Cristobal & Taggert... until they weren't. But Lanning is not leaving Oregon for A&M.

I'm not concerned about Lanning and A&M. If it was Alabama, then I'd just say, "Good night, Martha." And that day might come sooner than any of us want. However, if you know much about A&M, or College Station TX, you know that they have everything you're talking about in spades, and tremendous tradition to go with it. Well, in all fairness... they also get 100° temps with 98% humidity -- which is the worst.

Exactly. And it is such a huge reminder of what a massive money making venture college football has become.

The only part of this story that catches my attention is the $78 million that they're going to pay Jimbo to hit the bricks.

We definitely failed the eyeball test tonight. Fortunately we did get the W. But I feel like that's about all we got. And we really needed a statement win.

Come on.

Oregon did not play like a playoff team tonight. Extremely unimpressive, exceptionally sloppy, and disappointing game. The refs sucked, but giving up 120 yards penalties in game 10 of the season, is beyond unacceptable.

If we have somebody as good as he is, or better than he is, waiting in the wings, I wonder why they haven't brought them in.

I'm sad to say that I'm rather unimpressed with how we've performed tonight. We really needed a statement win and this is not it.

He's performed quite poorly, but who would we replace him with?

115 yards in penalties. This has officially entered the realm ridiculous.

I cannot stand Williams as much as the next guy, but he is definitely a generational talent. Would I pick him over Bo in the draft, no.

I do not complain about refs very often, but this group of refs supremely sucks.

Yeah... they're really bad.

It's 1:25 AM on the east coast. I'm sure the east coast college football fans are really enjoying this game.

They're having a tough time playing on the road with all that crowd noise

He's been running from our defense all night long. But this game is still way too close for comfort.

This has got to be so unbelievable for them.

Nice to see Lanning take the virtually free extra point this time.

We're doing our best to penalize ourselves into serious trouble.