Desert Duck

Yeah... that was pretty magical. What a wonderful full-circle story. Bill Oram from OregonLive wrote a nice piece last night about this story. His dad was such a monster safety for Oregon, culminating in that magical 1994-95 run to the Rose Bowl. I almost forgot how huge he was for us. This is quite the heart-warming story. Bill Oram: Chase Cota’s winning touchdown in Holiday Bowl a storybook ending for a famed Oregon Ducks family WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM The starting strong safety on Oregon's 1995 Rose Bowl team, Chad Coda on Wednesday watched his son give...

That was an insane play... just over the top impressive. He totally manhandled both of those NC defenders, which allowed Bucky to do Bucky... and be off to the races. That's a huge highlight film moment that deserves some huge props. And I think your Lanning comments are spot on. Ps. Bucky was obviously lights out last night too. Wowzaa! Plus, Bucky's post game interview was great as he started out praising his O-line. O-line studs rarely get the props they so greatly deserve, and when their backs give them the love and credit they deserve, for some reason, holes open up just a tad bit wider too 😉 It's great to see a fabulous athlete like Bucky pull the attention off of himself, and shine a huge light onto the guys in the trenches.

In 2011, Chip & the Ducks beat Wisconsin 45-38 in the Rose Bowl and fnished the season 12-2. That game was a total barn-burner with Russel Wilson at the helm for the Badgers. In 2019, Justin and the Ducks beat Wisconsin by 1 in the Rose Bowl 28-27. Another 12-2 season and another wild bowl win. That might be the game you were thinking of.

Clearly he has not recovered from his injury. He's not even able to slide properly.

Not really. But I am annoyed at how our Ducks are playing.

Bowl games? What bowl games?

Congrats to the Beavers on an excellent season, and for nabbing a likely great transfer. As Oregon has been great for Nix, Coach Smith & OSU will likely be great for this kid too. But next year, we must crush those Willamette River Rats!

Neil also developed a major degenerative hip problem, arguably due to too many beatings from Lawrence Taylor. After Neil's career ended, he had hip replacement surgery.

Justin had exceeded all expectations. It's just incredible. However, if the Bolts don't solve the 20 sacks on Justin over just the last 5 games, like Neil Lomax, Justin will likely have a relatively short career. Either that or he will have to find a new team to play for.

But PKA, Phil Knight Air, has non-stop flights anywhere in the US.

It's a weekday, January 2nd, bowl this year. As long as the Rose & Orange Bowl are part of the CFP, they'll be a big deal in those years. Otherwise, they'll primarily just have a nice history.

- Eugene average annual rainfall 46 inches - Seattle average annual rainfall 37 inches - Eugene average annual number of days with precipitation 151 - Seattle average annual number of days with precipitation 152 Seattle sucks, but from a weather standpoint, both are wet & gray. Per capita number of pompous schmucks: Unknown. But anecdotally, I'd have to agree that Seattle wins this category by a seemingly wide margin.

I'm a Duck alum and I cant stand the Huskies as much as the next guy. But academically, Oregon does not compete with UW. But as far as a classic "College Town," Eugene and "Faber University" absolutely win.

What's "major" about the Rose Bowl these days? Unless it's a year when they're part of the College Football Playoffs, I'm sad to say that today, it's pretty much just another one of 41 bowl games.

All I can say is that OU better have this kids signature in blue ink, on paper -- or it might be, "Hello Longhorns" by tomorrow.

Looks like Peyton is a lock for "Triple Committed": Notre Dame > Oregon > Oklahoma And if he hasn't actually signed with OU yet, maybe Texas might get in on the action before its all done.

"I'm still sorta moved by your 'My word is stronger than oak' comment." J Maguire

I love these verbitments (verbal commitment). I'll really like it, though, when they sign on the line.

Peyton and his 5 stars would be warmly received in Norman.

Absolutely. Great comment. And I didn't realize that they live in Denton. That's an easy Portland-to-Eugene-ish type drive.

In the immortal words of Bob Sugar: "It's not 'show friends.' It's 'show business.'" With NIL, this is more true than ever. "Show me the money"

I've had Global Entry for 10 years. But I'm also realistic regarding travel time, delays, etc. But $85 for 5 years of PreCheck is not a barrier for anyone. And yes, travel time to S Bend v Eugene is about the same. This situation seems to be rooted in one currently confused family not being remotely on the same page. I have just on word for them: Go-Ducks (okay... admittedly that's more like 1.5 words, or so).

3 1/2 hour drive Dallas to Norman. The non stop on Alaska or American is about 4 hours. Then you have to add for drive time to DFW -- could easily be +1 hour. Then you'd want to arrive about an hour before your flight = + 1 more hour. Then when you get to Eugene, add 30 minutes to pick your rental car. So, all-in-all, it's an easy 7 hour trip. Plus, flying these days usually sucks. Plus, being crammed in a can with another 180 people or so is never fun, especially with all the viruses making the rounds. But he still should have chosen Oregon.

Boulder & Eugene have much in common.

Anyone know if someone is tracking the number of portal transfers by school? I'm quite certain it's being done, but I can't find it. I'm curious how Oregon compares to other Top-25 programs.