I fail to see how FOX's statement was remotely "scathing". Google and YouTube TV said FOX is asking for much more than other carriers and FOX basically said...nothing? "We consider Google's offer to be unreasonable" is not a good argument and not scathing. FOX is acting like retail/fast food union members do when they go on strike and cry they are not getting what they want. Well, you'll get paid what the market rate is and you'll like it, that's what I say. FOX should not be asking for above market rate.

5 hours ago, JabbaNoBargain said:

Agree we should never play a G6 on the road, but apparently Beavis is a special exception to this.

I don't think we should play at OSU anymore. It's not P4 school. If they want to play is it should be at Autzen. If it must be so, then don't go there more than once a decade. Certainly not home and homes.

1 hour ago, kirklandduck said:

Do Husky honks not realize the house settlement doesn't do away with NIL? 🫠

Yeah, none of these Husky tweets made any sense. Congress merely made a rule that universities themselves can't contribute more than $20.5M per year. It basically has nothing to do with NIL. The only slight difference is that schools can only allow NIL through legitimate sources.

So, for the UO that is the Division Street Collective, which is 100% legit. Phil Knight/Nike/Division Street- all good. The only other catch is that the offers to players have to have "fair market" value. Since we are only really offering 5 and 4 star players- none of that matters. "Fair Market Value" has already been pretty much defined by now.

In other words, Oregon doesn't have to do anything different when it comes to NIL...but...the athletic department can give $20.5M more to share between the different sports if it wants to.

I really do not like the uniforms pre-late 90s. Like none of them except for maybe some from the 1890s or early 1900s or something. I think the uniforms at the National Championship in Glendale vs. Auburn was our peak. I prefer more black, more neon, or maybe forest green. If a uniform ensemble doesn't work with a carbon fiber helmet then it needs to go away. Definitely no pink or blue uniforms, that's for sure.

On 6/2/2025 at 9:29 AM, Jon Joseph said:

 

I wonder if a top 5 O-line is making $10 million in NIL dough?

I just went on a trip to Europe with my fellow Gen-X friends. We played the board game Risk, and I cleaned up just like old times. Take care of the trenches- the lines. Invest there.

On 5/28/2025 at 12:33 PM, Charles Fischer said:

Think of it...the Pac-12 media revenue that the Pig-2 wanted us to accept was what...22 million per year? 

 

On 5/28/2025 at 5:42 PM, Mudslide said:

Who is the "insider" who released the information?

Jon Rothstein. That's as good as it gets in MBB. Like a Woj bomb, ha.

On 5/24/2025 at 11:03 AM, DUCKED said:

It doesn’t appear, based on their previous stats, that either this guy or his brother are players to get overly excited about.

 

 

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Stewart enrolled at Duke University in June 2023 and took part in the Blue Devils' summer practices.^[6] In October 2023, Stewart set the Duke record for the standing vertical leap (36 inches), a mark previously held by Zion Williamson."

 

Five star recruit who signed with Duke. I sure hope this kid has high expectations from himself. I mean, I expect him to rise up. He's only 20, so still young. I thought Kel'el Ware didn't really deserve many, if any (I kid, I kid) minutes, and look at him now.

On 5/24/2025 at 12:06 AM, Grandpa Duck said:

same conclusion

The tv announcer made a good point that she might have been getting away with this all season. That seems extremely likely. Her "move" is probably to get that push off after lifting her foot. Season leader in steals. The cat's out if the bag. Whoops.

 

I was a fierce competitor in all sports back in the long ago times, and I would pull any and every trick to get away with fouls or cheats. One time I got decked behind the net in a hockey game after I dumped the puck in the corner, and I literally took the puck I saw laying in front of me and plopped it over the net into the goalie's back...and the puck went into the net for a goal. I recall a stunned defender looking at me and saying, incredulously, "you're not allowed to do that!" I got up on my skates and just said "I know, that's why I did it." 

On 5/23/2025 at 10:31 PM, Mudslide said:

The runner ought to be able to do jumping jacks

"Pitcher, pitcher, pitcher, not an underwear snitcher!"

 

 

Even though I'm closer to 50 than 40, I still refuse to not sleep in on the weekends. Thankfully I have no children. You couldn't even pay me to watch a game on TV at 10am unless the US is playing in the World Cup somewhere overseas, so 7am? Ha! I'm sorry, but the UO and Nebraska should have protested this.

 

The final should have been moved to Monday- not many people will be working anyway. Of course, I am more than sure there were set contingencies in case of rainouts, and we simply got unlucky. That said, how many sports would you see a double header in a semi final, especially of one team had to wake up to play at 9am local time? That's insane. What a joke. 

 

 

On 5/5/2025 at 4:34 PM, GeotechDuck said:

is in a serious downward spiral over the past few months. 

Yes, it's been very brutal. I wonder if we are trying to play the nice guy a bit too much and are allowing players to make decisions for the love of the game and our program. It's not enough- we need to pay a lot more if we keep losing out like this. Plus the defections? Just pay more. It's not my or your money.

Muhammed should have declared last year, I guess. 

On 3/16/2025 at 5:08 PM, spartan2785 said:

we'll probably be in the afternoon slot.

Dana needs to help align the Rubik's Cube schedule.

I'm bracing for a terrible tip off time that starts before noon on a Thursday. I can't watch any games that start before noon, so I missed the Indiana and Michigan State games. 

On 3/4/2025 at 9:30 PM, spartan2785 said:

a long career over in Europe. 

Well, I highly doubt he would go to Europe instead of playing at Oregon for another year. His NIL money will be pretty good. 

Is Bittle going yo get another year of eligibility due to his injuries last year?

 

Apparently I missed the news last week that the NCAA granted Bittle another year of eligibility. Great! He's not showing up anywhere on the NBA draft boards.

On 1/5/2025 at 3:06 PM, Charles Fischer said:

A win in the GREY Uniforms?

 

The Ducks should never wear grey except in baseball- if they HAVE to! The only thing worse were the navy blue unis they wore to honor the state flag. Nice color scheme...for Cal Berkeley. 

I hate to say it, but I think we need to get another transfer surefire QB again. This article said the Ducks are in a fantastic position at QB, but Moore failed big time at UCLA. How is that uplifting? I wasn't even sold on Gabriel even up to his last snap. He's no Bo Nix, and certainly no Herbert. He was too short and too left handed.

 

I'm not even sure Quinn Ewers is someone I would want. Simply not good enough. He'll go the NFL most likely, though. 

Well, they should obviously not pay these exit fees or penalties, and they should probably convince UNLV to come to the PAC considering the MWC is not going to get that penalty money to give to UNLV as a bonus. 

The absolute worst take is that "it doesn't matter, you still have to beat the good teams to win it all." Actually, no. It's way easier to win it all if you have an easier path. We should be playing a "cupcake" in the Quarterfinals, yet we will be playing teams we might be barely favored to win against. 

"Not so fast!" - Lee Corso

 

Just wait until they put in Alabama.

If Jay Harris got Whittington's touches at RB last week we probably would have had 50 points. 

Game 6 of the year will never be one of the biggest games ever. We are going to do this all the time now. It was supposed to be like this when we played USC but somehow their program fell off the map for a decade or more.

 

 

If the logic was that the first week's uniforms were good, then this can only be seen as an improvement, in my opinion. 

 

I am strongly opposed to throwback uniforms, or those that even somewhat mimic them. I prefer chrome helmets, and the in the incorporation of chrome or black as much as possible. Forest green works with both of those colors, and neon highlights are great as well. The neon socks in the Auburn National Championship game were fantastic. 

 

It's more than possible that the UO brass tries to dumb things down for games that are not very big so that it doesn't lessen the snazzy ones for primetime.