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Which college football teams are recruiting the best? - Is a pay to read site. Oregon the only school to make 3 out of the 5 offensive lists. Running back McGee is ranked No. 134 overall and Cardwell is the No. 167 recruit in the class. Oregon has done a great job of building a foundation of young players on defense and in this 2021 cycle, the staff has added some excellent offensive prospects to balance out the roster. The running back room already has Travis Dye and CJ Verdell, who were the top two rushers from last season, but adding in more options is only a positive, especially because both Dye and Verdell will be seniors this upcoming season. Wide receiver Similar to the running back position listed above, Oregon did a great job bringing in playmakers to help with coordinator Joe Moorhead's offense. Not only did the Ducks sign three receivers ranked in the ESPN 300, but they're adding a variety of receivers to help across the board. Offensive line Oregon deserves to be here with four in the top 300 and Suamataia as the highest ranked at No. 97 overall. Suamataia and Light are both from Utah, and Walden and Miller are both from Arizona, so the staff was able to tap into a few different states to bring these four into the roster.

This hire continues the theme of Cristobal hiring coaches with previous head coaching experience.

I hope the coaches will be able to be flexible and think outside the box on RB rotation. It sounds like McGee should be moved around a lot like DAT did.

Just a heads up, that is the award voted by fans, not the NFL. Saturday, the NFL will make their official vote.

Looks like the Ducks will have a pretty good defense for the next few seasons, with all the current players and recruits.

I found this on an ESPN insider article. The NFL and the CDC published a paper because their testing and tracking was so intensive. Of course, playing football in a pandemic requires at least some good fortune. In this case, the NFL benefited from the unexpected reality that games themselves -- three hours of players in close quarters, breathing heavily on each other -- were not spreading events. The NFL has not had a single infection traced to interaction during a game, according to Sills. During the regular season, 19 teams allowed 1,181,066 fans to attend games, and the Cowboys accounted for 197,313 of that total. The NFL said that no outbreaks had been reported based on attendance at NFL games anywhere in the country, but Rubenstein was among many public health officials who questioned the relevance of that claim. Contact tracing at NFL games was largely left to overwhelmed public health authorities who were unable to trace every infection. This article is currently on ESPNs NFL page, if others have ESPN insider membership.

So, 24/7 and Rivals are usually pretty quick with the updates, but neither have Gracen Halton as a Duck, at least in their team rankings. Both show him as a Duck on his player profile.

I'm still angry we are traveling to tOSU. With pretty much every OOC game cancelled last year, every team should have pushed their OOC games back 1 year. Ducks are getting hosed as this isn't going to be a home and home game with tOSU. I know the optics wouldn't look good, but if I'm Oregon I tell tOSU our contract is void. I wish the NCAA would disallow teams to schedule OOC more than 3 years in advance.

I'd prefer to jump straight to TT, but if he isn't the best guy for the job, then I'll root for who is. I don't think Brown or Shough passed the eye test for a top QB in a power 5 conference. No idea if it was because of the strangenous of the season or if they just aren't very good. We'll get to see next season.

Yep, the class rankings at 24/7 and Rivals have all the teams ranked 3-7 within a single 3 star signee. The Ducks really need to sign one more player after Cardwell to stay in the top 6.

I'm not sure if this article has been linked about coach Deruyter. Seems like quite a few football people think highly of Tim Deruyter. https://autzenzoo.com/2021/01/22/oregon-football-ducks-hire-tim-deruyter-defensive-coordinator/

I missed the game, so I'm not sure what was exactly said. It could have been where the first test was positive, but the 2nd test was negative and they were waiting to perform a 3rd test. The protocols from what I have seen have not been followed very consistently by teams/conferences. My preference would have been to leave the player in quarantine. We still aren't getting a consistent answer on asymptomatic being contagious or not.

This next TV contract is going to be huge for the Pac 12. They are going to need to drop sole ownership of the Pac 12 Network and come to an agreement with either Fox or CBS. I'd really be pushing for Fox, since they are trying to keep up with ESPN when it comes to sports.

I think that boat has sailed a long time ago. Conferences are not going to give up control of their cash cow. As we have seen with recent articles, there have already been some talk of the Power 5 conferences moving away and doing their own thing with football. If NCAA were to try and grab that from them, they would definitely walk away and take Men's basketball with them. However, Pac 12 and Big 12 get the shaft the most, so if they could pull the BIG TEN with them to make changes. the SEC and ACC would have to follow.

Hoping the new commissoner puts the Pac 12 on the right financial track.

I'm not sure what the percentages are for succeeding in the NBA based on number of years out of High School, but I would say there are many more players that succeed with less than 4 years than those with 4 years. The most recent name I can think of with 4 years of experience and succeeding is Damian Lillard and he was drafted in 2012. There are definitely plenty of players who should have stayed longer in college, but I'm not sure there would be very many of them that it would have made a difference. Great to see Pritchard succeeding. I know I thought he would be a fringe bench player at most, but I'm glad he is proving me wrong.

I found this article. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/LongFormArticle/Oregon-Football-Ducks-Football-Justin-Flowe-Dontae-Manning-Oregon-Freshmen-159521016/#159521016_5

Not apples to apples, but remember Dana Altman was an undewhelming choice for the Men's basketball headcoach. Granted, underwhelming picks tend to do just that. I'd say the hiring of Dana Altman was an outlier. Whomever, gets the job, I'll give him a chance.

I so hate that rule. I think they could/should fix it. If no team recovers the ball before it goes out of bounds, the ball should be place at the spot of the fumble to the offense. The defense should not be rewarded when they did not come up with the ball.

Coach Graves mentioned he was trying to keep everybody happy. After Paopao, Sabally, Boley and Mikesell I'm not sure who I'd want on the floor. Every other lady have been pretty inconsistent, but most have really great upside if they become consistent.

Alvin Robertson won Most Improved and Defensive player of the year in 1985-86. Darrell Armstrong won 6th man and Most Improved in 1998-99. So, winning even 2 of 3 would be rare.

As long as he is NOT part of clock management decisions, it might be OK.

It will suck for P. Sewell to play for the Jets for 5 seasons, but he'll be able to move on after his rookie contract is up. Luckily, his performance at tackle is solely on him. The offense might stink, but if he gives up zero sacks, he'll be noticed and be able to sign anywhere. I think he is a great tackle, but I wasn't planning on watching games to watch him play.

I agree expansion is coming. I don't think they will drop the number of regular season games from 12. There are 130 FBS football teams with only 8 going to the playoffs and 40 bowl games. That leaves 50 teams that won't make a bowl game and are left at 12 regular season games. With only 8 playoff teams, that means only 4 teams will play more than 13 games. As it stands, it is likely 3 of those 4 teams will Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson. Those 3 teams routinely have top 5 recruiting classes and tend to have a higher number of players making the field in any given year. The remaining 126 teams aren't going to give up a regular season game and all the money that comes with that. I do find it odd that the G5 doesn't try and get the PAC 12 , Big 12 and possibly BIG TEN to make changes. PAC 12 and Big 12 are getting left out, so they have the most to lose financially. Of course, both leagues are not really coming from a position of power to try and dictate change. My preference would be for all power 5 champs get in, the top G5 if undefeated or ranked in the top 15 and 2 at large bids. However, the 2 at large bids can't come from the same conference, so no conference will ever have more than 2 of 8 playoff spots.

You absolutely will get a vaccination certificate. Or at least they should be handing them out, I have mine showing my the date of my 1st shot. My local hospital is ahead of schedule giving the vaccination out to all hospital employees. That is encouraging, but most experts are predicting it won't be until late summer where we could get close to have enough people vaccinated to be considered safe. If they are going to require proof of vaccination, my guess is it will be only for the 2021 season. There will be those who can't get it for health reasons and those who choose not to get it. The tediousness of showing proof of vaccination won't be sustainable for more than 1 season.