Wrathis

All I ask is that we see if we can nix that ad that shows someone's eyeball as an orange grid looking thing...

The only other issue I've noticed is that the emoji's seem to be affected as sometimes I can only post the Go Ducks! emoji...I'm sure you are aware of that as well, I just wanted to make sure Thanks again!

Also don't forget that Brian McClendon is on your sideline and he's intimately familiar with our roster/players as well. Granted, I doubt to the same extent Lanning is familiar with Georgia, but all the same you still have an insider on your team that knows us fairly well...

So I didn't get the confirmation email either. So I direct messaged them on Twitter and they told me to check my spam folders. I sent them a screenshot proving it wasn't in there, so they re-sent the email and now I have it. If you follow up with them, they will correct it.

Thornton has been my pick since joining this community...and I'm almost heartbroken at the competition Cardwell has to face. I was looking forward to him having a MONSTER season this year (and now it looks like a RB by Committee)

I think Oregon's defense destroys the Trojans. I recognize what they've done at the skill positions on offense, I really do. From Williams, to Addison to Dye...they absolutely loaded up. However, all of that firepower means NOTHING if you don't have an offensive line. They have one player on the line...one. However, every team in the PAC knows this and I fully expect Williams to be treated like a piñata on game days. You CANNOT sit back in base defense and expect to beat them. They'll be too good...if it were me I'd blitz ALL NIGHT LONG. Stunts, twists, corners and safeties blitzing. Williams would have to pick himself up off the dirt EVERY SINGLE PLAY! And everyone on all of these teams knows loads more than I do, and I expect they'll act accordingly. I'd be willing to bet the house that Caleb Williams doesn't make it through the season...

I'm gonna let my hypocrisy show here, and to my own shame. I don't like the idea of crowd-sourcing funding for players. Given the amount of money being generated by these players performing, they should be paid for the work they're putting in. I see it much the same as a non-paid intern: I find it reprehensible. So when the Eugene NIL Club became a thing, I had no intention of joining. Not a chance! You'll get my viewership on Saturdays for these HUGE media contracts and the loads of Oregon gear that I buy (everything from hitch covers, to flags to clothing to garden gnomes). But I WILL NOT spend one hard-earned penny supporting some NIL Club! "But wait...what if we just ask for a paltry $25/month for a year, and we give you this PIMP Justin Herbert Ducks jersey?" Me: TAKE MY MONEY!!! So yeah, I apparently traded my hard earned cash and convictions for yet another Justin Herbert jersey...Shame me, I'm here for it.

I don't think heat/humidity should be a problem as they are playing in Atlanta in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. It should be a nice, comfortable 72 degrees

On this we absolutely agree...

Anyone could look like an "alpha negotiating beast" when they make agreements and then don't honor their word. Personally I think he's a soulless snake no better than Carol Roth or Willie Taggart. The only difference is that Ward and Roth are competent where Taggart isn't...

We're gonna have to talk about these ads...Just now, before I've had my coffee, I was assaulted by an ad with a USC cheerleader on it! It's much too early to have to deal with seeing USC, especially since I hadn't even finished my coffee yet. Mr. Fishduck, get these ads under control!!!

I dug this up from last year, although it's from the NFLPA side of things... NFLPA permits NFL agents to represent college football players in NIL marketing agreements, per reports - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM These deals would be separate from NFL contracts

Yep, let college football devolve into two separate leagues: Semi-pro and Traditional. I'll hope Oregon stays in the Traditional League so I can stay interested...

Looks to me like Texas is miles above everyone else in avg per recruit (largely based on Arch Manning's extraordinary 3.4M NIL value), then 'Bama, the Aggies, Miami, USC (if they hold on to Malachi Nelson) and Tennessee. Those six are all above 100k per recruit on average. I can't help but notice half of those are SEC teams too. Now in the interest of being objective, we hold an average of $86k per recruit. That value largely comes from Moore, Dickey and Presley who are all over $100k. What's telling is that the projected Pac-12 Champion Utah sits at a paltry $8k per recruit. This is just one more piece of evidence that Wittingham does more with less than just about anybody in college football (and Texas does less with more)...

I posted a thread on this a few months ago. I was a believer in Shough and hated that the fan base constantly threw shade his way. He had potential and I was of the opinion that 2020 being a Covid-ruined season was the PERFECT opportunity to throw him in there and let him get the experience he needed to QB for the next 2 years. In hindsight, imagine having Shough the last 2 years leading the offense instead of yet another grad transfer in AB. Granted, Mari would have ruined him as well I suppose...so maybe it was better for Tyler to head to TT instead of grinding out check-downs and hand-offs here the last couple of years...

I agree; Vegas and SDSU have to be brought into the fold. One other thing I'm adamant about is streaming. We HAVE TO get a contract with Amazon/Youtube/Apple/Hulu etc. Years ago (approx 2002ish) I was approached by someone advertising door to door some about the future being us doing all of our shopping on-line. I scoffed and said that toiletries, paper towels and other disposable stuff possibly...but not clothes or anything that was expensive or needed to be tried on first. That just seemed silly, it had to be some kind of pyramid scheme, right?...what stuck with me was that company he was trying to get investments in was weirdly named after some huge river. You do the math... Approximately 2013 I remember having $2500 from our (since neutered) Employee Stock Purchase Program in hand and some weird currency called "BitCoin" being $425 each. I had just paid off my student loans and was thinking, "I can afford to take a risk on this crypto thing, right?" Ultimately I passed bc it seemed if I was just going to throw money away, a set of golf clubs and a some Jeep parts would provide me more satisfaction... Point being, streaming is the future and based on my risk aversion misses of the past, I think we need to hop on this boat ASAP! Given the moves made by the B1G and SEC, we need to expand, blaze a new deal and set the streaming market if at all possible...otherwise, well, it may be time to take a Jeep off-roading to the golf course.

While not an offensive lineman, I do remember flipping some guy named Justin Flowe on National Signing Day...while I am concerned, I also know big things can happen at the last second and they tend to work in our favor. It's tough to be patient, but I think we'll be alright come time to put pen to paper...

This list doesn't include transfers, just recruits.

What if the "have nots" simply decide to quit playing ball with the "haves"? Being cannon fodder is never fun, even though there's always the off chance that Appalachian State comes into the Big House and knocks off the blue-blood. I guess in the end money talks and if 'Bama etc are willing to shell out $10,000,000 to beat up on some "have not" opponent, that school will take the pounding for the cash. For me it would come down to principle, but it seems rather apparent that the "principles" now are to "get yours and get paid". HAVES: "Hey Utah State and ULM, I left an extra $20 on the dresser for you...I was a bit rough on you last night."

This is my mistake. tOSU refers to THE Ohio State University as they are largely regarded as "Wide Receiver U", but I can see how that got lost when the discussion was about the Beavs. Point being, is there any relevance to a University being a pipeline for a particular position regardless of who's coaching there?

I was having a "twitter beef" with some Beav2.0 troll about Jurrion Dickey. His argument was that the Beavs and not the Ducks was the place to go for WR talent. Of course they've had Chad Johnson, TJ-Houshmanzadah, Cooks, Wheaton and Hodgins compared to our paltry few. My thought was that the coaches at OSU that put those receivers in the NFL were long gone and that if the coaching staff left, then their past receivers didn't much matter in attracting new talent and being a "Receiver Pipeline". All of that got me to thinking: is there something to a school producing lets say, receivers, aside from the coaches? It seems highly illogical to me that there's "something in the Corvallis water" that makes them better at producing receivers than us. I had countered ol' Beav2.0 by saying that Junior Adams having a better coaching pedigree than Hynson and that it was about the coaches, not the school but he didn't seem to think so. That being said, what do you all think? Is Oregon a pipeline for defensive backs regardless of who's coaching? Is tOSU "Wide Receiver U" or is it just luck that excellent production comes from there regardless of coaching? Y'all help me out here!

I know they advertise it on Twitter pretty heavily...personally I have no intention of paying players directly. Through NIL many will blow by me in annual earnings, and I applaud them in that. However, I'll continue to support them by exchanging my dollars for Oregon apparel and Nike goods and let Uncle Phil sort out how he wants to do it.

It's been my thought that DeBoer is going to be a problem at Udub...however, I believe as brilliant as he is offensively, CDL is defensively...and we have superior talent. I expect that in the chess match CDL will go on the offensive by showing blitzes and shifts himself, which their offensive line will then have to adjust to! For those that are students of the game, this should be a phenomenal match to watch! So yes, the pups are better than they were and should be much improved, but we'll still continue to own this series...and it's only bc USC has overtaken them as my most hated team that I can even admit this. It's unfortunate to admit, but I'll actually be cheering for the pups to win their OOC games this season for the first time in what may be forever.

I expect they'll be the JV version of USC: a good QB, good receivers and probably a better O-line than they are being given credit for. They'll be much improved over last season and were I a betting man, I'd bet they won't be at the bottom of the conference by the end of this season.

Truth be told I was REALLY WANTING to see us land Tetairoa MacMillan, so when he signed with Arizona I was pretty bummed about it. However, the signing of Kyler Kasper was a great move and someone I can't wait to see get up to speed. Losing T-Mac was tough, but getting Kasper made up for it in a big way!