[Personal Experience Alert: New COVID Strain is Sneaky]

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

[Gov. Gavin Newsom: UCLA 'Must Clearly Explain to Public' Why Move to Big Ten is Beneficial]

They should just tweet “$$$$$”

[What Is Oregon’s Most Important Game of 2022?]

The national title game against Alabama. We win 35-21

[I DON'T WANT to Play Purdue, Indiana and Northwestern....Do YOU?]

It the administration’s obligation to go after the money.  Sports is a collegiate business venture and needs to treated as any other business.  It would be negligent for the UO to leave (I think) 100s of millions of dollars on the table in order to play in the region they want to.

[The New Overlords of College Football]

The best thing that ever happened to college football business was the downfall of the NCAA.  Money has always been a part of college sports, the difference now is the players can invest in retirement and transfer away from abusive situations. 
 

Media and boosters has always controlled the collegiate football business .  They have the money, they pull the strings. Oregon should have known the reality and been out ahead of the collapse of the pac 12. It’s fate was written on the wall and the administration chose to ignore it.  
 

 The reason why we are stressed out about the shifting nature of the collegiate sport business is because the people in the pac 12 ran their portion of the business poorly.  Now, Oregon football business isn’t in control of their own fate and quite possibly lose a lot of money.  

[A Precise Preview of the Miami Hurricane Offense in 2022...]

They stole Mari’s playbook!  

[Coach Dillingham Has a Reminder to ALL Offensive Line Recruits...]

Great marketing!  hope his coaching pans out better than UCLA.

[Unlimited Official Visits Will Only Make College Football Worse]

Increasing options for prospective employees will only increase competition for them. The old, corrupt system that was the NCAA already created haves and have not.  The reason why Alabama and Ohio (the haves) are upset of the deregulation of their labor market is  because it promotes competition for that labor and it threatens the elitist schools privileged status. 

[NIL: Ohio State Sets its Budget]

Ohio state can make 100M (2020 football year) per year n football alone.  That revenue depended on having the best labor and coaches in order to win. It seems reasonable for  roster salary (13 M)+ coaches salary (19M) for 2022 to be $32 M.

[Did You Hear the Latest? Mr. FishDuck is STALIN!]

It’s your site… what don’t they understand? Follow the rules.

[Could the SEC break From College Football Playoff?]

I think the SEC should leave the CFP.  That way we could have the other 4 conferences champions duke it out in a real championship tournament.

[Gloves Are Off With Recruiting And NIL]

I am always sympathetic to a man who is worth $35 million dollars when they complain about other employers outbidding them for employees.  

[Josh Pate Recruiting Assertion: Just How True IS THIS?]

I don’t see any change.  In the last 20 years, when was the last time a national champion wasn’t full of elite recruits?

[It Begins: Pac-12's Kliavkoff, SEC's Sankey to Meet With U.S. Senators for NIL Legislation]

On 5/5/2022 at 2:49 PM, Jon Joseph said:

 

Respect your opinion. But I do not believe that CFB that has been in existence for over 100 years, has ever looked at the Players as indentured servants?

 

 

Always glad to hear your opinion, especially if you disagree.

[College Football Coaches to Propose Transfer-Portal Windows]

On 5/5/2022 at 12:22 PM, David Marsh said:

A very interesting idea and one that I think the biggest programs would certainly agree with. Programs that is that have the budgets to hire more staff members. 

 

So for Oregon this would work out pretty well but for other programs this could be another the rich get richer situations. Can Oregon state truly afford to hire more staff members? 

 

I personally like the idea... Though I could see some hurtles in terms of fairness to all programs. 

 

Though on the fairness front I do think the transfer portal windows would create greater fairness. 

I’m not strongly apposed to the idea because, if the hypothesis is correct, transfer portal windows would bring stability to athletics.  We should heavily consider the contra argument of transfer portals before implementing the policy.

 

players transfer out of programs for a reason. Often we don’t know why.  What reason should we limit an athletes opportunities to pursue their given trade?

[It Begins: Pac-12's Kliavkoff, SEC's Sankey to Meet With U.S. Senators for NIL Legislation]

Athletes are employees, no matter what name you call them.  Should Starbucks CEO lobby our congressman to codify low wages and strip baristas of NIL chances?  How far do you want the CEO’s of any industry to dictate, by law, our opportunity to generate revenue for ourselves?  

[College Football Coaches to Propose Transfer-Portal Windows]

On 5/5/2022 at 12:07 PM, David Marsh said:

Dan Lanning had a great comment after the spring game when asked about unlimited official visits, not the same thing I know but it's related, in saying that basically he wants to see his family and having regulations in place enables some semblance of work life balance. (I am paraphrasing here as i don't remember the quote word for word)

 

Transfer Portal windows would create some sanity in the coaching world. I know it is difficult to have too much sympathy for jobs that pay multi millions but more than anything I think we as fans want to see rules and regulations around what is a chaotic system right now.

 

Windows would also put some emphasis on the student part of student athlete which has been lacking lately. Make them finish classes where they are at and focus on the education part rather than just go school shopping what feels like all the time. 

The head coach position has grown into a CEO position and the governing bodies need to recognize that.  The CEO shouldn’t be flying all over the country recruiting and analyzing talent anymore.  If that means the coaching staff has to grow in order to recruit properly then that needs to happen.  College sports is a billion dollar business, it needs to act like it.  

[College Football Coaches to Propose Transfer-Portal Windows]

On 5/5/2022 at 9:29 AM, Tandaian said:

College football coaches' association to propose transfer windows

WWW.ESPN.COM

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College football coaches will propose transfer windows in the late fall and spring to help with roster management around the transfer portal.

 

Limiting to two time periods.  Todd Berry, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, said Tuesday his group would like two transfer windows for players to enter their names in the portal: one from the final Sunday in November until the early signing date in mid-December, and another from April 15 to May 1

I am not a fan of restricting the flow of labor to satisfy the whims of a bunch of millionaires.  Especially when ncaa has a pattern of ignoring abusive coaches.  

Further players transferring isn’t the real problem in college athletics (it usually isn’t the labor that cause havoc in the marketplace)… it’s the coaches, staff, and admin. Coaches leaving in the middle of the season, poaching labor and other coaches, ect.  from other schools is ruining the game.  
 

Reigning in the poor behavior of the coaches, implementing harsher no compete clauses, and severely fine coaches to prevent them from poaching recruits or players from their current team would bring some stability.  I recommend a 1 year sit out for all coaches that transfer schools in ncaa athletics.
 

[Former Oregon Lineman’s Injury a Failure of Leadership]

It is reasonable for any coach in D-1 athletics to know the medical consequences for poor workouts.  The Oregon coaching staff fired one the best strength and conditioning trainers in the US and replaced him with an uncredentialed coach whose actions led to severe consequences.  The athletes will likely have a shortened lifespan… no amount of money will be able bring that back but maybe a $125M punitive damages will make player safety during workouts a priority in athletics.

[Just How Clueless is Taggart?]

I am thankful that Taggart is gone.  This behavior should have never been allowed at the U of O and hopefully never will be here again.  

[Former Oregon Ducks OL Doug Brenner Adds $100M Damages Claim to Lawsuit Against NCAA]

As much as I hate seeing UofO as a codefendant, I hope Mr Brenner wins.  The injury that the snake’s workouts caused were inexcusable.

[NIL, Will the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg Kill Itself?]

NCAA sports was already dead.  Who wants to watch a player wreck their knees, damage their brain, or get paralyzed for no income.  While the NCAA, universities, advertisers, broadcasters, and coaches are in a multi billion business.  
 

No one asked if it was the end of collegiate sports when the Ohio State abuse scandals from 1978-1998, the jerry Sandusky scandal, or how no one said it was the end of Oregon football when our coach put multiple athletes in the hospital because our coach thought they “were not tough enough”.
 

All of our sports are already divided into have and have nots: who thinks that Alabama and Ohio State will be out of the playoff discussion within the next ten years?  If anything, with NIL, smaller teams will be able to lure big time recruits from larger schools.

 

College sports has survived some of the worst policies, scandals, and even pac 12 refs.  The most adaptable teams will not only survive but will thrive generating revenue for all involved. 

[Cristobal's Mother has Passed Away]

Prayers for the Cristobal familiy

[Enough Already, Saturday Rant!]

On 2/5/2022 at 12:25 PM, 1Ducker1 said:

I mostly agree but what concerns me is where does it stop?

It will stop at what the market will bear or we artificially depress the value of their labor.  Both are not great choices in a team sport.  It’s just what we have to deal with.

[Enough Already, Saturday Rant!]

We live in a capitalist society that frowns on cartels.  We pay the labor what the market can bear or the business has no reason to exist.  These are not kids, the are employees that could use retirement, pay, and tuition wavers.  It’s sad we have allowed employers fail to pay their employees for so long.  Athletes produce a product that the university benefits from and it’s alright that the labor doesn’t get paid?  It’s ok that coaches siphon millions from the school but it’s wrong to pay the labor?  I’m going to have to disagree you.