OregonDucks

I didn’t realize that Evan Stewart had another year. I’m assuming if he played in the playoffs, he wouldn’t jeopardize his eligibility for next year?

I get the feeling that while Oregon is competitive with anyone, when it comes to NIL, it doesn’t want to set the market, especially for QB and skilled players. Thus Oregon loses out on the top, top recruits from time to time when it comes down to a NIL bidding war. Best of luck to Chris Henry, Jr. except when he plays Oregon. More reason to hate Ohio State and want to beat them on the field. We have an outstanding recruiting class and I wouldn’t trade Coach Lanning for anyone.

Holy crap. Five Rival’s 5-stars with a chance at 6, if Chris Henry, Jr. signs with Oregon and within sticking distance of the #1 recruiting class in the country. Anyone remember when we were over the moon if one 5-star signed with Oregon (and that only seemed to happen once every couple of years)? Any one of these young men would have been the cream of Oregon’s past recruiting classes... I cannot believe how much has changed at Oregon and now we can beat out Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, LSU, Notre Dame, USC, et al for recruits from coast to coast. Congratulations to Coach Lanning and the entire staff. Someone mentioned that Oregon has signed the top recruit in ALABAMA for the second year in a row!!!

LOL. Jealous? Maybe he should look in the mirror. I can’t recall a coaching search going worse than the Penn State debacle. They fired their long time, highly successful coach early in the season and had no plan in place. Their search process has gone on way too long. None of their top candidates wanted the job. Now their new coach will face a whole missed high school recruiting class and have to focus on the portal to plug major holes in the roster for years to come. Maybe Penn State is not as attractive as you, your fans and boosters think it is…

Campbell is reportedly Penn State’s new top target now. I’ll laugh if he signs an extension with Iowa Sate… https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/penn-state-matt-campbell-head-coach-iowa-state/

In Drew Mehringer’s lone season as OC, Rutgers ranked 127 of 128 in offensive points per game. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2016-team-offense.html

Kendre Harrison is going to be a beast!

I’m glad that Coach Stein took a HC job out of the conference. He would have been dangerous at Penn State.

Maybe how they treated James Franklin, after he turned the program around after Sanduski and the sustained success, scared off the top tier coaching candidates? The job is not as good as Penn State fans and boosters believed it was, which sadly they are finding out the hard way.

Coach Lanning has made good hires thus far. Who’s to say he can’t miss though? Coach Bellotti had a few duds at OC. Luckily, he realized it and moved on quickly.

I’ve been watching the show from the beginning and that’s not the “spirit” of the show. ESPN College Football Gameday was all about celebrating and promoting the culture, passion and pageantry of college football. In the past, they would have selected the B1G Conference Championship game because it’s the only 2 undefeated teams remaining - #1 vs. #2. David vs. Galiath. Now we shrug our shoulders because they picked the game that will be broadcast on their network. That’s the problem with ESPN and now College Football Gameday - they have completely sold out and are a shell of what they used to be. ESPN let go most of the people who got them to become the “World Wide Leader in Sports” and paid those who are the loudest and say the most outrageous takes. I guess nothing lasts forever…

Personally, I don’t like the idea of promoting someone without more OC experience (1 year at Rutgers?). It’s too important a position to the future success of our football program to take a chance on someone. The OC position at Oregon is one of the most coveted in college football given our reputation, talent, resources and track record of prior OCs becoming HCs. We should be able to hire a top notch, experienced OC.

Chris Henry Jr. did not formally submit his paperwork to Ohio State before the conclusion of their signing day press conference. Reports are that he is still considering Ohio State, Oregon and USC in light of Hartline’s departure and plans to sign today or tomorrow.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more conversation about ESPN College Football Gameday‘s choice to cover the SEC championship game over the B1G championship game featuring #1 vs #2 and the only 2 undefeated teams remaining. Every single day, ESPN’s bias shows more and more. What is the over/under for the number of minutes they spend talking about how Bama deserves to be in the playoff despite the result of the SEC championship game? What about Texas and Vandy?

No offense to our Dawg friends, as a lot of us root for ya’ll when our teams aren’t playing, but you won’t find a whole lot of sympathy here. Georgia still has the most talented roster in college football and I’m sure you’ll reload with a top, experienced, battle tested transfer portal QB. Now go beat the #%&@ out of Bama! I want to see the politicking kick into high gear down south come Saturday evening. LOL.