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"The Climb" is the title of a very popular Game of Thrones episode. I'm pretty sure "The Climb" Lanning & Co. are using is in reference to that episode, even if unconsciously chosen: "Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try it again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb. They refuse. They cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is." - Littlefinger, Game of Thrones S.3 E.6

I'm a huge Blazers fan. We should have traded Dame a long time ago. Also, I pretty much root for us to lose every single game because I have no problem with tanking. The NBA has a salary cap and zero free agents want to move to Portland. The only way to win is to get lucky in the draft, or to time your trades right. If I wasn't clear- I love the Blazers and hope we lose every game. That could give you an idea about how little I care about the little guy in college football. I wish the Blazers could simply outbid for players and essentially give them an offer to live in the rain that they can't refuse.

This entire list can't be taken seriously with these placements.

Wake me up when the Ducks (Men's BB) are in the NCAA Tourney & the baseball team is in the World Series/Playoffs rounds. But seriously, I watch the Ducks pretty darn closely in basketball, but it is all in the hopes that we make the NCAA Tourney. In general, I care about the following: 1) CFB National Champion 2) Making the CFB Playoffs 3) Winning the NCCAA Men's Tourney 4) Making the Men's NCAA Tournament 5) CFB recruiting 6) Men's BB recruiting 7) CFB Big 10 Champions (I guess this would also include a Playoff spot anyway, it's just that I don't necessarily care about conference titles too much) 8- Baseball National Champions 9) Men's BB Big 10 Champions 10) WBB National Champions I guess the emphasis for me, and one Spartan2785 pointed out, is that recruiting in football and basketball is one of the things I pay attention to and am most interested in. It's also why I do not like John Canzano's radio show. He never talks about Ducks recruiting even though that's one of the most important things there is to talk about. If there was a FM/AM radio show that only talked about Oregon recruiting I would listen to it every day.

I think you guys are overestimating how good Michigan will be next year. The schedule is fairly friendly to Oregon.

It always depends on how you watch a broadcast or stream, and what the conduit is. I happened to watch this game on a bunch of platforms- direct feeds via Xfinity cable and Direct TV/Dish (whatever Hot Mama's Wings has when I picked up food) and those were perfect. I also streamed via the Pac-12 App on my basement TV, and it was only OK, but casting or using an HDMI cable from my phone or laptop was crappy. For reference, I cancelled Xfinity for YouTubeTV in October, so I have to use my 80 year-old father's Xfinity online account to watch/stream the Pac-12 Network. Xfinity/Comcast is pretty smart, and they absolutely tank the quality of your stream/cast if you are not watching via your home wifi network.

It's actually $73 a month, but what's the difference? Plus I think you get the first three months for half off. I switched from Xfinity to YTTV in October when I got Hunter Fiber installed in my house. I can get YTTV on 5 devices at once, and that includes my phone for when I'm not at home. Also, about that phone- it's 2024, so I only pay about $30 a month for unlimited data. I use Mint Mobile- I own my own iPhone, so I can cancel whenever I want. I'm not sure if Mint uses Verizon or T-Mobile, but I tend to switch back and forth from time to time for all the cheap companies. I don't understand why anyone would pay more than $45 a month for a cell plan these days unless you use your phone for work with tethering or something. It's all Verizon or T-Mobile. I'm a UVA grad student so I watch Cavs basketball on the ACC Network. There's also the Big 10 network, and I think the SEC Network? YouTube TV also has unlimited DVR, and you can tell it to simply record all Oregon football and basketball games going forward. The main problem is Peacock. What a crappy streaming service. It's the one app nobody has. It should just merge with Hulu or something.

That's why he was nice to Oregon. It's because the WBB are the underdogs these days. That's what he likes.

Canzano only roots for underdogs. He champions them. If he ever starts rooting for the Ducks then there must be something seriously wrong with our program.

That name sounded made up, so I had to google OSU's roster to make sure you weren't pulling my leg. It's true, he transferred on the 27th of December! That's huge! Breaking news on FishDuck material! https://www.si.com/college/oregon/recruiting/oregon-state-kicker-atticus-sappington-commits-to-oregon

It depends on how you define cheating. For example, there are "good" pass interference plays committed by DB's and "good" illegal blocks. I remember finding myself in a scrum on the ice behind the net in an ice hockey game in high school, and after the puck somehow popped up right in front of me I made a one-handed toss with the puck over the net and "scored" a goal off of the goalie's back. I will never forget an irate opponent screaming at me, "you can't do that!" with me responding with "I know, that's why I did it."

We need a RB that is expected to be drafted in the top three rounds of the NFL draft next spring. We don't have that. That's pretty much the only thing we need. Unless we got a veteran lockdown field goal kicker that I didn't know about, then we need that too. James isn't that and Whittington might have injury effects. The depth beyond that is hardly elite. It's time for a LaGarrette Blount transfer. We need someone teams fear.

Frankly, I think the on-air personalities deserved those Emmy's. I have no problem with ESPN hooking up people like Herbstreit and Corso. The Emmy's changed the rule this year, so they would have got them now, so who cares? I am 100% in favor of prior "crimes" being reversed or expunged when new "laws" are in place.

The problem is Penix is a borderline first round pick. He was sick(?) or injured for a chunk of the season and didn't power through it very well. It's a miracle UW went undefeated. If Oregon had beat UW by 3 twice instead of the other way around then Penix would be in the 30's on this list. He has a rocket arm but he's injury prone, and he's not a field general either. I would not draft him in the first round. Caleb Williams may cry at the end of games, but he's a top 5 pick.

Jokes aside, I wouldn't part with money now. The payout for betting on Oregon probably won't drop until late September or early October. In the meantime, you can invest on bets that Washington will fail to cover the spread against WSU, Northwestern, and Rutgers in September.

Understood. I spent a bit of yesterday upset, and my main line of thinking was cancelling the Civil War games. If the Beavers pull tricks, that most likely will happen. I come from a family of lawyers- some with local ties and season tickets to the Ducks. My uncle went to undergrad and law school at UO, and my father was a federal and administrative judge in Eugene. They are both confident that the Ducks will get a "fair" payment. My dad is an expert at court issues where cases get shipped around jurisdictions, and he was even appointed by a US President (who was not popular in Eugene I would imagine). He was not amused by some rulings made in this whole affair, but also thinks the Departing 10 could have approached things differently. As for me, I'm always very optimistic. I expect the Ducks to win the NC every year since 2000ish, and I expect the Ducks to get paid for 2023!

1) OSU & WSU still have to pay the Departing 10 schools revenue for 2023. The only change that might or probably will happen is that 2Pac will reduce that revenue by [insert number of millions] to deduct taxes, a.k.a. liabilities the Pac owes debtors. If 2Pac cut it too much it will go badly for them in a different lawsuit, or won't pass by a mediator. 2) If the Departing 10 schools sue in California it is very, very likely that the California justices would side with the Washington court. State courts don't like to overrule against their neighboring states. 3) The Civil War should only happen twice a decade. Oregon and Oregon fans should not feel sorry for OSU. The Civil War should absolutely not happen in November when we are focused on winning the Big 10. If it needs to be in August, so be it.

Ha! The source is @MHver3. He's undoubtedly one of the least trusted conspiracy theorists on Twitter. First off, he posted this days ago and nobody paid attention to it because...obvious reasons. Here's another gem from him from the other day: "In what is perhaps the wildest rumor I’ve ever shared here: my source telling me that SEC and B10 have had talks with the NFL regarding funding NIL and having schools sponsored by NFL teams as a farm system that would develop their draft picks." - @MHver3

Personally, if Gabriel wasn't in play for Oregon, I'd be a bit upset if the best we could get was Ward.

This is really too bad. I hope all of games versus them are in September or August. I don't see why we could not have simply played them twice a decade or every 4 years. I have almost zero sympathy for Oregon State. Easy-ish non-con game, I guess. We'll have to tone down scheduling bigger programs until we can cancel this agreement.

I've been telling my doomsday extended family members for months now that Oregon will get an elite QB that started at their P5 school, and it's looking like that will be the case. I'm sorry, but Ty Thompson is never going to be our preferred QB1, and no, Cam Ward might not be good enough for the Ducks. If Oregon strikes out on elite QB's and winds up with B+ Cam Ward, that will be fine. Ty Thompson is not a B+ QB. He has no field general presence.

Some pundits say Alabama might not make it even if they win, but I highly doubt that. Texas has the most to worry about. They need two spots in the top 4 to get in. Oregon just needs to take Washington's spot. There's a remote chance the Committee puts in 12-1 Alabama and a 12-1 Georgia, but I doubt that as well.

I've been on the National Championship or bust train for about 20+ years. Seriously.

The MWC is D-I, not sure if you were joking, though.

I think we are forgetting how bad the Big Ten is on the bottom half of the conference. Our schedule will be filled with easily winnable games. The Pac-12 is history, so I say all we need to do is follow suit with what OSU, Michigan, USC, UW, and Penn St. do. Would they cancel games against Baylor or Oklahoma State because they are "afraid" of them? I don't think so. Oregon playing in Texas is also good because Texas high school kids and their coaches can go to the games. I would love to play cupcake games late in the season like the SEC does, but the Big Ten won't allow it due to scheduling. Additionally, it's simply too bad that we have to play 9 conference games and SEC teams only play 8- but we can't do anything about that either. If some folks are concerned about us scheduling the likes of Baylor and OK ST, well, I would not be all too surprised if the Oregon brass scheduled a home and home with Florida or LSU, so I guess be careful what you wish for. Also, I don't really feel sorry for Oregon State. If that makes me a terrible person, I'm sorry. Cancelling any game to play them is out of the question for me, and I don't really care if we only play them twice a decade, once, or not at all.