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That’s a great list. I agree with everything except #4. Stein is a great coach but we would have been undefeated and going to the playoffs with Dillingham.

Charles, your point is well taken. Pay costs can get out of control, we can see this in the coaches salaries and payouts. However in an industry that paid $ 146M is football coaches buyouts since 2022, I find it difficult to justify not treating athletes fairly and justly in the labor market. The of sports would be a travesty. However I believe those who pay the bills (media deals and boosters) are going to do that with or without payment of players. All this being said, legislating pay and outlawing athletes voices in their job isn’t the correct answer. We can create a pay structure for athletes that works better than our pay structure for coaches. Players having a voice in their workplace could have unforeseen benefits. Power 5 owes $146M in buyouts to fired football coaches since '22 - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Texas A&M's record $76 million contract buyout for fired football coach Jimbo Fisher accounts for more than half of the approximately $146 million Power 5 schools owe to fired head...

It’s hard to think of a more dirty way to be remembered than depriving players through the law of their fair market value and a collective voice in their jobs. “If Baker can push this through while also getting Congress to ensure that schools will never have to deal with a players’ union or pay players their fair market value, he’ll be the most important figure in the modern history of the NCAA. “

Well it’s settled then, Stephen A. Smith wants to see Deion Sanders take the Texas A&M job WWW.YAHOO.COM Stephen A. Smith wants to see Deion Sanders take the vacant Texas A&M head coaching job

Ahhhhh hahahaha! They are serious!!! How embarrassing!

Last year under Mr Lanning, Oregon had a recruiting class ranked #1 (4th year in a row) in the pac and #16 nationally in 2022 with a top tier offensive line. They lost to the beavers with #54 recruiting class in 2022, Washington ranked #95 nationally. Players certainly matter. So does coaching and practices. I don’t want to hear Oregon coaches saying players matter more than plays when they lost to the beavers and the huskies. Oregon failed to play up to the players talent last year and I would like to know what the coaches are doing to play up to to the players talent when have the #1 recruiting class in the pac for the last 5 years. Was Dillingham a better play caller than Cristobal? Yes, unequivocally. Has Lanning’s team played up to it’s recruiting ranking? I would say no. Is it the play calling, design of plays, or practice set up…. I don’t know. What I do know is with the #1 recruiting class in the pac, if the ducks lose, it is a coaching problem.

Now we just need a system in place where institutions can not contact coaches before the bowl game concluded and coaches are required to stay 2 years before they can quit their team.

I don’t understand what is wrong with the portal system and trying to acquire talent from other schools

I think we should stop saying it’s a meaningless bowl game. It seems really insulting to the players and staff who worked hard to entertain us. The game certainly wasn’t meaningless to the players

Mike leech is a lawsuit waiting to happen and a man of low character. I would be surprised if more of his team doesn’t transfer out like this.

Having standards on what you spend your budget on is a good thing. For example, I stopped watching the ducks during the Cristobal era. Checking the score online and reading the forums was more exciting than watching the Mari Offense which was enjoyable as watching paint dry while periodically hitting my hand with a hammer. On the other hand I have watched all of lanning’s games. you are a fan if you root for the ducks and we become toxic fans when we become jerks. Otherwise life is short, if the ducks are producing a poor product and you go for a walk instead of watching them, more power to you.

All teams in the CFP should be conference champions. Why should the loser of championship or a team who failed to even make the championship even be let in? They couldn’t even win their conference.

It’s likely that the article is aimed at the football players. The team melted down after Mario name was being tossed around at Miami. Players that have seen both “the snake” and “”Mario” leave in a short period of time would be susceptible the let this kind of stuff in their head.

I like the idea of a flagrant targeting vs incidental. He shouldn’t be kicked out for that play. However I still feel I’ll when I think of Kenjon Barner getting knock out for the season due to what would be called targeting today

That’s a heck of a high score for a soccer game…

8 team playoff and if you have two teams in the same conference then they have to play each other in the quarter finals. No byes.

I think Dilly would follow DL into the NFL, so we should be looking secure long term commitments for the coaching staff

It shows his talk about accountability was about everyone else and not himself.

I would be looking at Miami's recruits and players right now

If they provide multiple games and $$$ then give them the pac network now and call it a day. Staying with the traditional providers will strangle the money out of the pac. If I want a future for prime time Oregon football in the pac then it’s going to be on a streaming service.

Neither Georgia or Mario will cover.

Creating this culture is one of my greatest fears about the lanning culture. He has hired personnel who believe in “radical accountability”.

Nice!

Prayers for a quick recovery for Mrs FishDuck and that you don’t get it.