Duckman60

In my opinion this game is not going to come down to the players, we have been told that Oregon has the talent to play with anyone. Its is going to come down to coaching and not Dan Lanning. The last 2 big games the ducks have had our defense got man handled (both Penn St & OSU had over 500 yards of offense). Did Tosh Lupoi learn from these games? Will he be able to make the adjustments needed to stop PSU at key moments in the game? I dearly hope so. This might be a defining moment in his career.

Charles if you want to delete this post because of the possible bad vibes I might be putting out there, do it! But here goes- I was just looking over the WSU Cougars box score with North Texas state and had a bad flash back. WSU had 3 interceptions and 2 fumbles in the first half. N Texas first TD drive was 75 yards, their next 4 TD drives was a combined 93 yards! Do you know where I am going? The OSU/UO of 2000, we out gained the beavs by about 100 yards but lost because Joey Harrington had 5 interceptions and 1 fumble. This will be the only way that OSU will have a chance against Oregon. That OSU team of 2000 would beat this OSU team by 50+. Sorry if this memory makes some of you old time ducks sick 🤮

Maybe have it go to Dublin next year in the River Liffey to overshadow the TCU/NC game. What great publicity that would be!

This will only change when Penn St, Ohio St or Michigan have to go to Oregon and play after Oregon has a bye and they don't. Some wheels are larger and squeak more then others.

I want to ask a question about Stein's offense, specifically one play. Tell me if I am imagining this or has he changed a basic play we and all team use. I believe its called a swing pass or bubble screen. It seems that they are having Moore throw this pass like a line drive, not a touch pass and that the receiver is catching it in full stride going forward not stationary. It seems to be a much faster developing play then in the past. Is Stein making the defense react faster and commit to set up a down field play off of this for Penn St? So am I imagining this play being different?

I believe the vanilla offense is by design. We should have no problems beating the next 3 opponents with this exact game plan. Why show anything if we do not have to. For a little reference for next game, Oklahoma State beat UT Martin 27-7, last year Montana State beat the same UT Martin 49-12 at the end of the year. I believe this is the transitive property which works in math but not always in sports and comparing last years teams to this years does not always work out. But there is some correlation. On the other hand showing unique sets in a game makes the next opponent have to practice for that and take up practice time. (Didnt Chip used to do this? How much practice time did other teams take up for Chips 2 pt conversion formations?) What do you think is better? Showing nothing and surprising a team or show a lot of formation to make them scheme for each one?

I am already planning a rant about how bad our defense is when Montana runs for 2 yards on their first play! 😄

I am going to use this string because it is calling all stat geeks and that is what my comment pertains to. Because I am like the rest of you, waiting for Saturday with not much else to do, I did a little stat diving. I was looking at Team Talent Composite since they started keeping this statistic in 2015. I know by picking 2024 & 2025 to compare to the other 9 years that I am using a small data sample but its fun. Remember this is Team Talent Composite rankings From 2015-2023 the average difference between the the #1 team and the #20 team was 230 points; 2024 & 2025 it was 193 Points From 2015-2023 the average difference between the the #1 team and the #10 team was 138 points; 2024 & 2025 it was 99 Points From 2015-2023 the average difference between the the #1 team and the #4 team was 73 points; 2024 & 2025 it was 42 Points So has the portal/NIL leveled the playing field or is this just a 2 year blip? Your thoughts?

I am currently in Galway Ireland and saw this banner tonight at 10:00pm. It says K-State, I saw one earlier that said K- S State. We will be flying home from Dublin on Saturday the 23rd, the day of the game. If I was paying attention when I was planning the trip I would have stayed an extra day for the game.

This is what will happen-USC will go 8-5 and Oregon 12+ wins and a run at the National title. Those freshman that chose USC over Oregon will not transfer to Oregon (or other better programs) and Riley will have to start all over again. It just breaks my heart!

They should never count Mid week games into the calculations. You never put your best line up out there, you are trying to develop players. U of P looked at the Oregon games totally different then Oregon did. Would they have beaten Oregon if they were in our league? No chance. Against Nebraska Oregon played one of their worst games of the year and Nebraska played one of their best: During the season Oregon averaged less then 1 error a game, they had 4 (Not counting the miss judged fly ball in right field). Nebraska averaged just over a 1/2 of a double play per game during the season, they had 3. Baseball has always been a game about series. Judging a team by one game is just plan stupid. But the committees have proven that they want SEC teams to host as many games as possible, so they overlook SEC blunders but magnify everyone else's (do I believe in conspiracies?). Oregon's women got screwed because of 1 loss, I expect the baseball team will too.

Luscher broke the letter of the rule but not the intent. The intent is to not let the runner be off the base and heading home, she is actually going backwards when she steps up. It was the correct call, but the frustrating thing was she was called on it again in the bottom of the 7th. They should have known Liberty of watching for it. But remember we also got a cheap out by a clerical error, I believe it was a wrong number given to the umpire. This I believe is a very stiff penalty for what I believe is a very minor incident. But they won and "It all don't matter" (paraphrasing from a Jimmy Buffet song)

Actually the team that really got hosed might be Texas A&M. They are then number 1 seed but if they and Oregon win their regionals A&M has to play a team that is much better then its 16th seed in the supers. Just like in the football playoffs, I believe that they should bracket teams 9-16 (in football 5-8) and then let the #1 seed pick where they want to go, then let #2 pick, etc. That way the coaches, who know who they match up better against, get a choice. Would football have picked a different bracket then what they got? Your darn right they would have, the teams involved should have more of a say then a committee.

We all know that stats do not guarantee performance but..... League play only Grinsell 1.81 ERA first in the league Reitz 3.67 ERA 8th Dzierwa 3.69 ERA 9th Iowa has 3 pitchers in the top 15, pretty impressive

MSU website said that Dzierwa is starting game 1 even though the last to series' he was the day 2 starter. Both times he got roughed up a little; Ohio St- 4 inn, 6 hits, 6 runs, 5 er Mich- 6 inn, 10 hits, 6 runs, 3 er He is obviously a good pitcher but are his stats a little inflated by playing lower quality opponents? Plus they have lost 4 in a row and Oregon has won 4, confidence a real big deal in baseball. Go Ducks!