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I'm not sure what to expect from Lincoln Riley yet. He has never lost more than 2 games as a head coach. I think that streak will end this season. He coached 5 seasons at Oklahoma, so he had a full recruiting cycle to end up with the majority of the players his kids in 2021. In 2020 Oklahoma lost to Iowa St. and Kansas state in game 2 and 3. Iowa St. ended up being ranked in the top 10 to finish the season. Oklahoma finished that season beating Iowa St. in the Big 12 championship game and #7 Florida in the Cotton Bowl. In 2021 Oklahoma lost to Baylor and Oklahoma St. Both finished in the top 10 at the end of the season. Riley didn't make the CFP his last 2 seasons, but it isn't like he was losing a ton of games or losing to teams he shouldn't lose to. The Kansas St. game in 2020 was a team they should beat, but it was game 2 in 2020. I think we all have erased 2020 as being any type of season worth remembering.

I like how Oregon State is proud of 85% or season ticket renewal, when they only have 26,407 capacity in 2023. Not exactly sure how that is considered a hot ticket?

I heard an interview with Joey and the letter. After hear the interview, I think how the letter came across on the message boards, wasn't how he was writing it to be. He was never against Dan Lanning or any other outside coach to be hired. His main concern was the recent revolving doors of head coaches. The letter was written before Lanning was hired. I haven't seen one article or quote from Joey specifically mentioning not wanting Lanning. Other than the letter what has Joey done to not be on board with Lanning?

Hospitalization of players should be considered serious. It should never happen. If it happens, it means the trainer failed at their job. The back in my day quotes fall on deaf ears. Everything is different even from 10 years ago when it comes to medicine and athletics. Comparing today's athletes with 40 year ago athletes is silly. I have a kidney disease and if I would have gone to the hospital because of rhabdomyolysis, it could have killed me or caused my kidneys to fail and I would be on dialysis for the rest of my life. Multiple of my family members have been on dialysis and it doesn't quite ruin your life, but it sure makes it that much harder. 125 mil sounds like the opening offer when bargaining. It is absolutely a money grab by the lawyers. I don't think they will land any where near that number when all is said and done, but who knows.

Lanning and J. Smith are under other notables. I still don't understand the fascination with J. Smith. His record as a HC is 16-28, 12-22 with last season being his only season where he won more games than lost. The only win he has vs a ranked team is against Oregon during the COVID season. Even though Utah wasn't ranked at the time, the Beavers did beat Utah last year. 2018 2-10 (1-8) No wins vs teams with winning records 2019 5-7 (4-5) 2 wins vs 8-5 Cal and 8-5 ASU 2020 2-5 (2-5) 1 win vs 4-3 Oregon 2021 7-6 (5-4) 2 wins vs 8-5 ASU and 10-4 Utah I'm not buying J. Smith until he shows me more. A 9-4 or 8-5 season would go a long way this year to show he is a good coach.

"I've never understood the love with this kid," said the scout, according to Bleacher Report's Matt Miller. "He might look the part, but he'll get someone fired. He doesn't have it." Some times you hit a home run, some times you strike out. Matt Miller struck out with this at-bat.

Stats don't jump off the page for Nix at Auburn, but at least his completion percentage went up every season and his INT's last year was only 3. Having a familiar OC and offense hopefully will be good for him.

It is more along the line that there was a lot of hand fighting for the first 59 minutes of the game without a penalty called. You can't change the way you call a game at the end. If something is a penalty or not a penalty the 1st minute of the game, then it needs to be called the same way the last minute of the game.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Just about everybody expects some type of announcement after a decision is made. Are kids supposed to not say anything when they are leaving? Then they will get screamed at for not giving a reason. Or are the kids supposed to say they hated the coaches and their teammates?

I would love for Tuck to be right, but best big man starting game 1? That is a huge ask for any high school kid coming into college. Dante and Bol Bol were right around Ware's recruit rankings. I can't say either were the best big man game 1. I wouldn't mind Ware being considered the best big man by the end of the season though!

I'd say on rare occasions you can buy a championship. They Yankees and Dodgers have been a top 3-5 spending team in the MLB since 2000. Yankees have 2 titles and Dodgers 1. Remember the Jail Blazers years? They were one of the highest paid teams in the league and never made a WCF. Brooklyn Nets, LA Clippers and LA Lakers are the #2-4 highest paid teams in the league this year. I don't see any of the 3 winning a title. It certainly helps because on very few occasions does a cheap team win

This is an ESPN insider article, so you have to pay to read it. How college football's transfer portal has turned into NFL-style free agency on another level WWW.ESPN.COM From organization to tampering to year-round recruiting, here are the key takeaways from another year of the transfer portal. One personnel director estimated 80% of players have already made a decision before entering the portal. If 80% of players have already made their decision, then why are there so many kids in the portal? The math doesn't add up.

Aaron is a lot of hot air. He does have critical thinking takes some of the time, but he knows where his bread is buttered. Need those clicks!

Ducks fell to tied for No. 5 in Batting AVG. NCAA College Baseball DI current team Stats | NCAA.com WWW.NCAA.COM Discover the current NCAA Division I Baseball leaders in every stats category, as well as historic leaders.

Oh man Charles Fischer, your FG thought is a fantastic idea, but only about 5% of coaches/teams would be OK with it. Ducked, that 10 out of 12 is a misleading stat. Only 7 of 12 won on the opening possession. That means 5 out of 12 teams had a chance to win the game. So, we are nearly back to 50/50 chance. I don't believe having both teams touch the ball will change the percentage of teams winning in OT. Will there be times where the 2nd team in OT comes back to win of course. However, I'm going to assume we continue to have 58% (7/12) of teams win in OT when the first teams scores a TD. We will make everybody feel good, but in the end we won't change the percentages.

Hopefully, B1G, Pac 12 and Big 12 all make it a requirement of the playoffs for every conference to play the same number of conference games.

Moving out of SF would have been enough savings in my mind, but going 100% remote is millions in savings. I know a lot of people think working from home means less work gets done, but my employer has decided to leave it up to the employees whether or not to keep working remote or not. Before COVID my employer was completely against employees working from home, but these last 2 years has shown production hasn't gone down.

Trying to fix something that isn't broken. Do we really expect the numbers to change all that much if the first teams scores a TD on their 1st drive in OT? Both teams had 60 minutes to win the game and then the defense could have at least held the team to a FG on their 1st drive.

Women's golf is #2.

I guess season tickets were only $199 per seat for baseball, so a lot of people bought tickets and don't show up to games. There were a lot of empty seats behind home plate. You can definitely move seats after the 3rd inning.

I went to see the Ducks play vs USC on Sunday. The Ducks got behind early, 6-1 after 2 innings. However, their bats finally came alive in the 7th and 8th innings to take the lead 7-6.

It is official. Mariota has signed with Atlanta on a 2 year deal.

The average NFL lineman in 1970 was 6'3" 255 lbs, today the average NFL lineman is 6'5" 312 lbs. Food, health and science is way more advanced for athletes now than it was just 20 years ago. 40+ years ago forget about it. I think it is way too early to make any definitive decisions on what NIL will do for NCAA teams. We are in year 1. We are also mainly looking at it from the Oregon Ducks point of view. Our basketball teams just couldn't bring it together this season for both teams. 1 season is not a trend, it is an aberration. At this point it is just a coincidence, but if we see the same thing next year and the year after that, then absolutely it is a trend. No coach or school well every have a 100% track record of being good/great.

As long as the Nike connection is strong at Oregon, the Ducks will be fine. They will never be an Alabama, tOSU, Texas A&M, etc when it comes to NIL deals, but we will be better than at least 75% of other D1 schools. It is the wild wild west right now, but I think it will calm down. Donors aren't going to keep spending money on kids that don't play or transfer out after 1 season.

Well, we did see it was happening at a lot of Universities. Some people went to jail for it. Quite a few coaches at Universities lost their jobs because they were recruiting fake athletes while parents donated money to the school.