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Jon Sousa
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3 hours ago, RatherBe said:
Everyone in major college football offers extra incentives.
"Extra" meaning "against NCAA rules"???? That's a statement no one can definitively say.
Are all humans generally prone to being tempted to cheat?? Absolutely!
Does it mean that everyone in football WILL cheat if he thinks he can avoid detection???
I'm not willing to go there. Just because everyone is tempted doesn't mean that you cannot trust anyone.
About 40 years ago I read an article on morality on the university campus. The article started out with this line that I have never forgotten: At UCLA, students are taught that people are basically good, but they have electronic detectors in the library to keep people from stealing books; 30 miles away, at Biola University, students are taught that man is basically evil, but they have no electronic detectors in the library.
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4 hours ago, ChicoDuck said:
Quarterbacking is a combination of size, athletic talent, brains, and composure. The first three are given or none of these guys would be at a D1 school. The last component is where the amount of snaps come in and how comfortable a guy is in a given system.
Anthony Brown has a lot of snaps under his belt at the D1 level. He probably had somewhere around 2,000 game snaps when he came to Oregon. Tyler Shough played his first season as a starter without the benefit of a Spring practice, a Fall Practice, and a three game "practice" schedule against the Montana State's of the college football world to work out the kinks, get into rhythm with his teammates, and build confidence. He just jumped into the deep end of the pool from the first game. With a new offensive coordinator. And an offensive line that zero snaps together as a unit. And all he did was go out and lead the league in Passing Efficiency and Top-Three in just about every other meaningful QB category.
And that was with what? 400 snaps? I'm thinking that people need to take the rhetoric down just a notch or two and finish letting Shough develop a little more. Let him get more comfortable in Coach Morehead's offense, allow his returning O-Line to become more efficient and cohesive.
It's one thing to play QB in HS, it's quite another to do it at the D1 level. It's a giant learning curve. Tyler Shough's floor is Anthony Brown's ceiling. The numbers bear that out. And the the though that someone already in the QB room (Butterfield or Millen) is going to magically overtake him in the spring is a fantasy. And Ty Thompson? He played 4A ball in Arizona when he was putting up all of those big numbers. When he gets to Oregon he's going to find out that there is a staggering amount information to process from play-to-play, as well as week-to-week. And the maturation doesn't happen overnight.
Well done, CD. Great analysis.
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50 minutes ago, 30Duck said:
Payton has shown just how valuable playing 4 years in college is.
Indeed. I wish young talent would recognize this. A paycheck is hard to turn down.
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And yet, did Tennessee get any value in return? Are they on top of the SEC? Are they out recruiting the rest?
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4 hours ago, Charles Fischer said:
I know that many of us like Anthony Brown, but he had a receiver open at the goal line....and over-threw him.
Thank you, Charles. I didn't want to be the only person to express doubt about Brown. He had a couple of chances to lead the team down the field and they failed to score. There was a reason that Shough started in front of him.
I don't think he is the starter next year. I hope we have someone better. Hoping Butterfield or Thompson. Problem is we didn't get to see a spring game last year, so we have no clue where the back-ups might be.
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1 hour ago, AnotherOD said:
I've got Oregon currently with 47 out of 91 (because of those taking an extra year) "five star or four star" on the 247 Composite.
Great post. I just want to point out that it makes a big difference if those are mostly upper classmen, lower classmen, or a mix throughout.
Last year some expected we should walk all over Iowa State because we had a lot more stars than they did... but those stars need to be developed. Last year the Ducks were the youngest team in football. Next year, they won't be, but how many of our elite athletes will be seniors? Not as many as will be on the rosters of tOSU, Clemson, or Alabama.
Two more years of recruiting are needed to have an even distribution (less transfers) of talent throughout the roster. Two years will include redshirt seniors.
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1 hour ago, GODUCKS15 said:
Anyone remember when it was big news if the Ducks cracked the top 25 during a season, only to lose a game the following week and never get back in?
Ducks have sure come a long way.
Yes and Yes.
I remember the first bowl game the Ducks went to under Rich Brooks - the Independence Bowl in 1989. After watching the game with my father in law (a BIG Ducks fan), I said, "Well, now all the fans are going to want to go to another bowl game." He responded pensively, "Yes. Yes they will." I miss that guy.
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Nice to have 4 in the composite top 25. In the past we frequently had 6 pre-season with more getting votes.
And, yes, it is also nice to be on top of the PAC. Voters recognize that 2020 was not a good indication... and that next year Oregon will not have the youngest team in football.
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On 1/14/2021 at 11:53 AM, BigDucksFan said:
Yep, the Pac needs several to be contenders to show strength of schedule. Playing Portland, UNLV and then no one in the top 15 does little to give the playoff committee confidence in your ability.
Which is one reason, at least for now, that the Ducks should not shy away from a difficult OOC schedule. If everyone in the conference scheduled cupcakes and THEN we are 2-7 in bowl games???? It will be hard to get 3 teams in the top 25.
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47 minutes ago, Charles Fischer said:
Possible this year?
Definitely possible. Elite 8 is just inside the top 10. In the tournament, anything is possible. COVID is still the elephant in that room.
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8 hours ago, BigDucksFan said:
For me, my expectations were higher then the results so far. With so many 5 star's and the hype, I expected better results.
With three conference losses the girls have work to do this season.
Three conference losses to whom? This isn't just any conference. These are top 10 teams we are talking about. They had their work to do before 3 conference losses.
So many 5 stars? Yes! But all incoming freshmen. We lost three top 10 draft picks, including #1 and #2. 5 incoming freshmen 5-stars cannot replace 3 draft picks, no matter where they were drafted, but 3 top 10s??? No way.
Only one of the 5 five-star freshmen has broken into the starting 5. It is not surprising that 4 did not; what is surprising is that one did. The other 4 are doing great and contributing a lot of minutes.
I think the Ducks are right where they were expected to be by this time in the shortened season (remember: very few OOC games to warm up on). Come March Madness, COVID will still be ruling the day. If they can stay away from the bug, the ladies will make another deep run, even if they don't (and they probably won't) win the PAC 12.
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1 minute ago, BigDucksFan said:
Yes, we are a weak conference. I don't have the stats but I would suspect the Pac's bowl wins are not up to the other conferences.
This is why I said, "and rightfully so..."
We have done very poorly in OOC games and bowl games recently.
But that doesn't explain why so many people want to say that the PAC belongs in the G6. How many conferences in the G5 have had half as many teams in the top 25 in the last 10 years?????
We treat the PAC 12 as if it is totally unredeemable and yet the last 10 years every single team has spent time in the top 25.
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I'm probably not remembering well, or maybe just not as connected, but I don't remember a whole lot of good bye's and public well wishing in past departures.
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16 hours ago, 30Duck said:
This makes a point I was trying to make the other day even stronger. The PAC 12 is considered a week conference, and rightfully so, BUT...
In the tweet above it shows that EVERY SINGLE TEAM in the PAC 12 has been in the top 25 (a minimum of 7 times) in the relatively short time that the PAC 12 has existed.
Has EVERY SINGLE TEAM in the SEC been in the top 25 during the same period??? The B1G?? The ACC?? The BIG12?
This is confusing to me. Are we a weak conference or not?
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48 minutes ago, Charles Fischer said:
About the article....isn't it funny how we have not had a great receiver since Dillon Mitchell....you know, before Cristobal?
Speaking of Dillon Mitchell, "As a junior in 2018, Mitchell set the school record for receiving yards in a season with 1,184 on 75 receptions and 10 touchdowns." One reason DM had such a great year is because no one else could catch the ball. That was the year of the dropsies.
Which brings up the whole problem of having one "go-to" guy. Every opponent concentrated on shutting DM down when it became obvious that he was the "guy". It is much better to have 3 guys who are "go-to".
How many times have we seen USC with two or three great receivers. You can only put your best CB on one of them. Most teams only have one good CB and that guy is usually on the other team's best receiver.
If you only have one "go to guy" things become as predictable as Oregon's running game was in 2019 on fourth and short. Spreading it around and having 3 "go to guys" allows you to have a very unpredictable passing game. Oregon is recruiting well; no need to have only one "guy".
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16 hours ago, Charles Fischer said:
some bad people will come back to their post after they know it has been edited, and then add inappropriate content to their post.
I see that this can truly be a problem (as bad as my grammar sometimes).
Is there a way for Average Joe to flag something that should be looked at? Not trying to change your editing policy, just trying to help.
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5 hours ago, FishIceCream said:
Drop the number of regular-season conference games each year from 9 to 8. Five games against your division foes, three against the other division.
This would have to be adjusted for the size of the conferences. We have 6 in each division. The B1G has 7 in each division while the Big 12 has 5.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
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1 hour ago, FishIceCream said:
I think that making the time frame short (i.e. five minutes) is probably designed to limit people getting in heated arguments and then going back to modify a previous comment. So they can say "See, I never said that!"
In the setting & community that you have created here, I doubt that's much of a problem. So maybe err on giving more time to edit.
The only reason I want to edit (generally) is that when I read my post later and I see 1) spelling or grammatical error I want to fix, or 2) I see that the way I stated something could be misinterpreted and I want to clear it up.
On a certain fishing board that I frequent I sometimes don't catch my errors until hours later or even the next day. I have tried in vain a couple of times on Fishduck to clean up something only to find that I could not... because I was too late.
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6 hours ago, criticalduck said:
KG is a turn a program around coach.
Looks like KG is a lot more than a "turn a program around" coach. He turn it around a long time ago. Now he seems to be creating a dynasty.
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4 hours ago, Charles Fischer said:
As Coach Graves said, "she makes the defense shrink and then kicks it out to our good shooters!"
How ABOUT that background picture!
Love it!
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Very sad. Up to now we have at least been able to play in all sports allowed.
We really don't have a clue as to how much COVID affected UO Football this last year.
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8 minutes ago, David Marsh said:
Early front runners in my mind are ... Shough, Butterfield, and Thompson ... if Brown decides to stay throw him in there too. Though I think with a solid off season Butterfield is going to catch up on Shough and Brown. Thompson is young but you can't discount the potential.
Totally agree here, David. Any of the top three you mention could run away with it.
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14 minutes ago, Charles Fischer said:
The hardest question at that position in a long time, and we have a long off-season to discuss it. Spring football could be fun to see some of the new faces and if they shine right away...
Hopefully we can have a somewhat "normal" spring. COVID will still be ruling the world in March. If ever there was a year to start your spring a little later, this is the year. Last year was the year to start early, but we didn't. (But, how could we know?)
KT, "Just Doin' It"
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That is such a cool picture of KT being tackled. How was a flag not thrown???????