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I agree with that to a degree, but to be elite you need to be solid at all 3 levels. Oregon had a very good defensive line last year (probably one of the best in school history) but you need linebackers who can play the right run fits (Penn State game) and a secondary that doesn’t allow receivers to run free down the field (Rose Bowl). Lanning and staff are recruiting at an extremely high level but we’ll see if they are able to develop the dudes. Bama and Georgia just looked different particularly in the front 7.

The PAC should sign a TV contract with the History Channel because with the current proposed makeup that is exactly what the conference is…

Would love it if Oregon could find a way to schedule another home-and-home series with Tennessee, especially with a certain high school QB we are a finalist for! Oregon would have to get out of or move the Oklahoma State (2026) and Baylor (2027) games.

Thanks for sharing. Love the out throw before the receiver breaks! Dante has always thrown a beautiful ball. The test will be his command of the offense and decision making.

I always look at the average star ratings since the ratings rewards class size. Oregon is still #1 in average star rating (4.11) with a bunch of teams tied for second (4.0). Quality over quantity.

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Georgia did have a brutal schedule last season. Makes it all the more impressive that they won the conference.

I’m not sure he would qualify (and it’s prior to 2010) but Patrick Chung was a 2-star recruit coming out of high school and the 979th ranked player nationally, according to 247. IIRC, Coach Bellotti said that he arrived as a 16 year old and, after a redshirt season, started 4 years for the Ducks (a DB record 51 straight games) and then became the starting safety for the NE Patriots, winning 3 Super Bowls, and being named to the NE Patriots’ All Dynasty Team in 2010. One of the most “under the radar” recruits in Oregon’s history. Who else would you put on the list? https://247sports.com/PlayerSport/patrick-chung-at-rancho-cucamonga-86110/RecruitRankHistory/?history=composite

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To be clear, I was not just talking about post season: • Late night games (Pac-10 After Dark) • Thursday games, then Friday games • Conference championship games • Conference realignment • … The B1G / SEC scheduling alliance and guaranteed automatic qualifiers are nothing more than a money grab by those two conferences. Seed the top x number of teams accordingly, based on merit (which should include a strength of schedule component), and let them play. For example, this past year the SEC was not worthy of having more than 2-3 playoff participants. Would the playoff had been better if Alabama or Ole Miss got in over ASU or SMU?

Every time college football chases more money, it backfires and we (fans) are worse off.

On paper, he seems like a great pickup. He also has NFL experience.

This would be a huge pickup, IMHO. While talented, no one on the roster has proven that they can be a #1 WR. Evan Stewart has shown flashes but is still inconsistent and disappears in some games. We have some really talented players coming in but I would not hold my breath, given the hit-and-miss nature of the position in both college and the NFL.

LOL. An oldie but goodie! Think it still applies today?!

I’m not a ship captain but have some advice: If you see an aircraft carrier coming towards you, you might want to get out of the way, quickly. (Glad that no one was seriously injured.)

To be fair, he did lead his team to the state title as a junior. It looks like he completed over 70% of his passes (accurate passer) and threw for 38 TDs with only 3 interceptions (good decision making). He also appears athletic and throws well on the run. Watching his tape reminds me of Caleb Williams (watch the play in the below clip at 0:46). I’m no expert but if all the top teams are recruiting him, they must see something.

Hope it’s the 1s vs. 1s (and 2s vs 2s). While you can see individual talent (e.g., Tez) with split squads, it’s difficult to gauge how good the team and units are overall, especially the lines.

And the long layoff after the conference championship games… And the tie in to the traditional bowls (Why shouldn’t the top seeds get a home game in round 2 of the playoffs?)…

Well, the Beavers were in the top 2 in their current conference…

Finally, something out of his mouth that I agree with! Just get rid of the automatic qualifiers completely and seed the top x number of teams based on the committee’s rankings, in order from 1 to x (like they do for the NCAA basketball tournament). Stop trying to overthink it or get cute, it resulted in the mess we saw last season.

I wonder what it was in the 3rd and 4th quarters… Do advertisers get a refund, if viewership is lower during their ad?

I’ve only found very limited videos but he seems like he’s good in coverage (albeit he’s listed at 5’10” on one site) and has good ball skills (former WR in high school?). It’ll be interesting to see how he fits in the rotation but seems like a good pickup and I love the pipeline.

I wish Coach Adams the best of luck. What is the connection between Dallas and Oregon’s offensive position coaches?

I promise that this will be my last post in this thread about this subject. First, for the record, I was the first on this site (and potentially anywhere) to mention Coach Stein as a possible OC replacement for Coach Dillingham (if you don’t believe me, you can look it up). I saw the offensive numbers he put up at UTSA, noticed that the offense was similar to that of Dillingham’s at Oregon and knew that Coach Lanning preferred young coaches. I believe that Coach Stein is a very good OC but is not elite, yet. I am not, nor have I seen anyone in this thread, calling for Coach Stein to be fired. On the contrary, I am hoping that he and our other young coaches can learn from the Rose Bowl so that they don’t repeat the same mistakes twice and maintain that “growth mindset” so that they can become better. Second, to respond to Mr. Fisher’s comment above, it was widely reported, leading up to the Rose Bowl, that Ohio State made adjustments to their defense following the Oregon loss. They went to playing their safeties deeper (cover 2?) to prevent explosion plays and ran more stunts/twists on the defensive line. Sure, you could try to attack the cover 2 with deep passes to the perimeter but that is exactly what that defense is designed to prevent (even with a healthy Evan Stewart the probability of success with that strategy would have likely been low). The better strategy, IMHO, would have been to establish the run and/or focus on short and intermediate routes, especially over the middle to bring one of the safeties up. Then you could try to attack deep. Coach Stein knows more about football than I’ll ever know but my questions for him (if I were in the media conducting an interview) would be: 1) Why wasn’t DG running (e.g., speed options, pass-run options, called QB runs) a bigger part of the game plan? Especially since it was an elimination game and there was no point preserving his health for later in the season (Patrick Mahomes’ rushes have doubled in the playoffs). 2) Why didn’t we move the pocket more to give DG more time to throw the ball, play to his strengths (e.g., scrambling, throwing on the run, improvising) and give him clear line of site downfield? (Note: Joey Harrington called for this earlier in the season on Talkin’ Ducks.) 3) Why didn’t we call more RB or TE screens or WR reverses early in the game? Since it’s the “offseason,” perhaps someone can start another thread ranking Oregon’s best OCs. We’ve been fortunate to have some great ones over the past few decades.

Neither the offense nor the defense showed up in the first half of the Rose Bowl. And the second half didn’t matter because the game was already out of reach. I turned the game off around the end of the first quarter. It was a complete embarrassment and EVERYONE in the Oregon program deserves blame for that game. It’s like everyone within the program was overconfident because we beat Ohio State at home in the final seconds (despite being underdogs) and our coaches were too busy recruiting or arrogant to make adjustments. They just assumed that we would show up with the same game plan and beat OSU again, despite the widely reported changes that the Buckeyes made to their defensive scheme and offensive play calling. Ohio State was a very good team but Oregon was talented enough to at least to give them a game. Instead they got run off the field. That is why that game hurt - we didn’t even show up.