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My wish is for football/basketball to be their own entities and the rest of the Olympic sports to be grouped together. It makes so much more sense to be regional conferences, not coast to coast conferences. However, that isn't the world we live in today. If Oregon is going to survive the way college sports are today, we are in the right place. It is easy for others to say, take less money. Their jobs aren't on the line. Is anybody at their work going to stay in their job when offered a raise to go to another company because all of their co-workers aren't going with them?

I don't get the fascination with Jedd Fisch. He has exactly 1 winning season as a FBS head coach. I have him as TBD.

Wilsonville is a sports powerhouse in the state of Oregon at the 5A level. They and Summit are the two schools fighting for state titles. Wilsonville have won back to back 5A football titles. With being a 2 sport athlete, it can be hard to go to all the camps where recruiting scouts go to evaluate players. I'm glad our coaches were able to see the potential with him.

It is pretty fickle for Autzen Stadium and fans. During the Chip Kelly days, it was sold out, but then for Mark, Willie and Mario not every game was sold out. Not even every conference game was sold out. The infrastructure isn't there for more seating, but the consistent selling out of the stadium isn't there either. If Autzen can sell out every game for 10 straight years, then you can start thinking of adding more seats. There is quite a bit of undeveloped land south of Leo Harris Parkway, but I believe all of it is owned by the city. The city of Eugene really hates to develop park areas. The Ducks would need to do another land swap with the city to even have the city think of letting UO add parking. The UO does own land just south of the Willamette river, next to the Frohnmayer bridge, which actually would be a great spot for additional Autzen stadium parking. It would put parking away from Leo Harris Pkwy and MLK Blvd.

Most are talking heads. Very little experts there. It is mostly about narrative and bias. Look at the SEC standings. All teams undefeated or with 1 loss are all ranked. Some of them have a nice OOC win, but not all. B1G TEN, ACC and Big 12 1 loss teams aren't given the same bias.

Franklin has a 50 million dollar buy out, if he were to be fired at the end of the season. I'm not sure PSU's athletic board has the same nonchalance about throwing away that kind of money like Texas A&M did with Jimbo Fisher. Oregon Ducks are 3-0 vs Penn State the last 2 games. Oregon Ducks beat PSU twice last Saturday.

Chad Powers was initially played by Eli Manning at a Penn St. walk on practice a few years ago. Chad Powers was created by Eli and Payton Manning.

Remember, these are teenagers making their first big life decision for recruiting. Then for the Transfer Portal, there are many reasons to change teams. Should somebody stay at a job that isn't the right fit for them? Don't get me wrong, there are probably many players just frustrated they expected something different. Some are willing to struggle, most want the "easy" path.

Statistical anomaly. Pick and choose what you think is important and make up an equation. FPI and SP+ I think of tendencies. They are paint by number pictures. They aren't going to produce a Monet, Picasso or Van Gogh.

I'm not sure a top 4 seed is all that the CFP thought it would be. Yes, teams potentially play 1 less game, but last year not a single top 4 team won their game. It will be interesting to see if the different seeding makes a difference. Going a month between playing games is not great. Dan Lannings thoughts of starting the playoff sooner will probably start picking up steam, if the bye teams keep losing.

I got an antenna for my TV, so I could get FOX, ABC, CBS and NBC. It doesn't help me with ESPN, Fox Sports or recording, but at least I can watch most of the big games lives, if my cable provider can't come to a deal. I had to drop Dish TV because they didn't have FOX(?) for almost a year.

All SoS and SoR metrics are biased. It is unfortunate, but that is just how they work. If they are going to use these metrics, they should use more than one to try and thin out the biases.

The NBA has a rule requiring existing teams the rights to reject new teams in their home territory. The Charlotte's home territory is considered North and South Carolina. I doubt the Hornets are going to OK a move a NBA team in Raleigh. Especially, when the last 2 years they had the lowest attendance in the NBA. I have heard, Raleigh is a college town, not much of a professional team town. The Hurricanes do well enough with attendance, but I'm not sure a city with Duke, UNC and NCST would do well with a NBA team. I'd put in another professional team, that isn't basketball.

"Evan won't be spending the entire fall in Miami." I understand there are online classes, but I feel like a University of Oregon student should be required to be within driving distance of the campus. I feel like all universities that aren't "online" universities should at the bare minimum require students to take midterms and finals in a classroom. I get it is 2025 and we have great technology, but there should be some requirements of in person attendance at universities. I know I'm definitely getting old....

Sources: Oakmont shuts out Wyndham Clark for damaging locker Sources - Oakmont shuts out Wyndham Clark for damaging locker - ESPN

@JabbaNoBargain It isn't a theory, it is in the rules for the CFP and what every conference wants, besides the B1G TEN. 5+11 The CFP is throwing the group of 6 a bone with no meat.

The different look PAC12 should always be in the running for the last conference championship auto bid. Almost all the best American Athletic Conference football teams left. I'd say 9 out of 10 times, their champion will be the 5th highest ranked conference winner. The B1G TEN and Big 12 are the only 2 conferences that play 9 conference games.

I don't think Eugene has bad enough weather to build a dome stadium.

It has been a full year since OSU/WSU were left because of the football business decisions they made. They are making the best of their "now" situation. They are not stealing anything from any school, since every other PAC 12 team left of their own free will. I remember when the Ducks hadn't yet left for the B1G about discussions leaving USC and UCLA out of PAC 12 payments. The PAC 12 is still a brand name and OSU/WSU are using that. Not that 30 million per school is a little amount, but Oregon will make up the 30 mil in 1 or 2 years? However, OSU and WSU have to deal with being an afterthought probably forever. The bullying of OSU and WSU is kicking a dead horse at this point. Oregon is in a much better financial place, to be angry at OSU/WSU for trying to make lemonade out of lemons........

Sleeping giant in Texas State. 36,000 plus undergraduate students. Plus, they keep the trend going with it being a state school. School Undergrad Texas State 36,206 San Diego State 33,839 Oregon State 30,021 Colorado State 26,168 Boise State 23,543 Utah State 25,702 Washington State 21,923 Fresno State 21,318

I'm sorry, lame excuse, "The committee realizes there are hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including the structuring of media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory." Makes zero sense, since the college women use quarters and the WNBA and NBA use quarters. Quarters are way better IMO, simply because of fouls. 20-minute halves can bog down the game because of the amount of FTs.

I received my notification from the University of Oregon for away game tickets. I'm guessing the Penn State game will sell out quick.

When the list has most of the Ivy League schools and the military schools, you know it is click bait.

If I don't see a contract, I take all this with heaping grains of salt. The 10 million also could be over all 4 years, still staggering, but less eye popping than 10 million for 1 year.

All the talking heads keep saying: The Big Ten and SEC control everything – format and financials – beginning in 2026 for the CFP. Is that all "talk" or is there some contract language that makes it so? I guess they could say to the rest of college football, we are taking our ball on only going to play with the B1G and SEC, but that seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I know the NFL only has 32 teams, but having only 34 teams decide the NCAA championship isn't enough?