spartan2785

Well.......in the end they all count as a win. Have to have better shot selection, too many threes when they weren't falling. They kept fighting, they showed some intensity on defense. I actually like the makeup of this team. Tracey follows in the tradition of guys like Elgin Cook, Kazemi, Ennis, Omoruyi, undersized but absolute gamers who fight for everything. Quickly becoming one of my favorite guys of the last few years. I think we'll be pretty good despite this game. You can tell we have the type of roster that works for how Altman wants to play. We have two ball handlers, Bamba had a poor night but he's a proven shooter and defender. Moss looks like he can really D it up and while he isn't a great shooter he can provide strength and some ability to drive the basketball. Angel will provide shooting as a stretch 4. This is probably our deepest team in a long while if we can stay healthy. The guy that I really worry about is Evans, he just disappears for entire games, he has talent, but I don't think he has one skill that is truly deserving of a 5 star rating. He doesn't shoot well, he isn't a monster on the boards, he doesn't drive the basketball that well, he isn't dominate as a defender. He's athletic, but it's not like he's a freak. We need him to take the next step, and I don't know if he has it in him. One point is pathetic against a team like Portland. Finally with Shelsted, I'm not sure where he goes this season, he needs to improve as a true point, he's more a scorer right now, at least we have a decent backup in Barthelemey who absolutely save Oregon's bacon tonight.

Nahhh, was Jayden Daniels on the best team? Lemar Jackson? Ron Dayne? Barry Sanders? Bo Jackson? Doug Flutie? It's an award for the best player, the best player could be on a 7-4 team that without him would be 3-9, it's not likely to happen, but it's possible.

I like Gabriel, I really do, he's done a great job, he isn't as dominant at his position as Hunter or Jeanty. He has the benefit of playing for a much much better team. If it's a decision between Ward and Gabriel that one is more interesting I think. Ward has led some great comebacks, but those comebacks are against fairly average teams, Oregon has certainly played a much tougher schedule. Ward probably has been more flashy, but Gabriel has the most high profile win and moment I would argue. In the end give me Jeanty all day, I think college football will be better if it's proven a smaller school player can win the award, especially being a non-QB

This could be a blessing in disguise, like David Marsh said it will allow Rodgers to get game time that should help him for next year. We will be playing next year with almost a completely new O-line, so getting a guy like Rodgers some time will most likely be a good thing. I would be hopeful that with the teams we have left it won't make much of a difference until Harper is able to come back. Feels like having a consistent player at center will help compared to Pickett getting blown up ever play at such a crucial position. The line has a lot more continuity as well now compared to the start of the season.

Yeah, I was thinking if it was darker green I would think it would be a big improvement, right now it sort of has a baby puke kind of feel, that sounds awful, but to me it's still an improvement on the brown.

Depends on how the game goes, if they win by two scores, then yeah I don't mind them jumping us. Ultimately it's a who cares situation, we'll probably play Penn St. in the championship game if they win. Really, who cares, it doesn't matter who is number 1 right now, it matters at the end of the season.

Disappointed to see Navy already down 14, thought they might give ND some trouble.

Who cares what Mark Ingram has to say, all those SEC guys just sniff their own butts talking about how hard a game against Kentucky is. Yeah we beat Boise by 3, you know who Boise has???? JUST THE BEST PLAYER IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! Kentucky has a putrid offensive, absolutely putrid, and they should have lost. It's malarkey how these guys just pump up their own brands, I will say at least Fox has one west coast guy, ESPN doesn't even have one guy who would be considered a west coast guy on their network, not one color guy, not one studio host, heck I don't know if they have a sideline reporter who is from the west coast, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

There are a lot of things that are absolutely wrong about college sports. Coaches make way more than they should, cut those salaries down and it would free up a lot of money, way too much money has gone into the arms race of facilities, no college team should have facilities that are vastly better compared to the pros. Football and Basketball players are pampered beyond belief (most of what I'm talking about is major college sports of course). Now I understand how it's the market that has driven all of this, without the facilities Oregon wouldn't be where it is today, coaches are simply being paid what the market dictates, players are what generate the revenue of athletics. I get all this. It now has come to the point where it has destroyed olympic sports, the athletes who are truly student athletes. It's really sad, and while I don't blame the football and basketball players, what is sad is that they do have a part in this ,and they probably won't give one iota about these fellow athletes. Of course a huge portion falls back on the coaches, the athletic directors, the boosters, media, lawyers who see an opportunity for a pay day based on the argument that the scholarship model is comparable to slavery (which is an absolutely ridiculous idea), everyone is a part of this. Now we have innocent student athletes who will not be rewarded for their hard work in their sport, whether it's the male volleyball player who loses their partial scholarship, or the walk-on who dreamed of simply suiting up for the hometown team.

Of course we do, won't be a basketball season without the Ducks being screwed by the injury bug, it's always us.

When Altman talked at the media days about how they were finally healthy coming into a season, all I thought about was the monkey's paw curling up one of its fingers. He had to say it!!!! And of course the basketball gods had to have one of our players get injured. The team is cursed to never be fully healthy....NEVER!!!!!! I'm excited, I love Dana, I love the type of basketball he plays when he can get the guys going, I'm excited to see Bittle come back, I'm excited to see how Shelsted and Evans develop in their second year. Ducks could be the real the real sleeper of the country, just imagine if the NCAA weren't corrupt and actually gave Dante the year he deserved instead of giving guys like McCormack a 9TH YEAR! Make absolutely no sense whatsoever!

I'll be honest, it's a weird feeling, I think I saw someone else say in another thread that they felt like this was the first time Oregon felt like they might be the #1 team, for me it's sort of the opposite. The last time we were #1 I felt like we we the #1 team. I think despite how we've looked the last 4-5 weeks, the Idaho and Boise St. games still make me feel like we are a top 5 team, but not the #1 team. I'm not saying we aren't deserving, we are definitely deserving of the ranking. I think it's because we don't have the 77-7 type blowouts I get the feeling like we aren't quite as dominate. I don't know, it's weird, the current team is such a different type of team compared to the Mariota years. We are so much better on defense, but the offense is not quite at the same level, we also don't have the same innovation that we used to have, we are much more similar to the teams that we play, we aren't a novelty, we play pretty much straight up. Honestly wanted Texas to pull it out last night since being #1 makes me nervous, it didn't go well the last time we had it.

Oklahoma? Mayfield, Murray and Hurts (Hurts only played there a year, but still)

Sooooo I'm guessing we'll be number 1 unless we see some sort of amazing comeback....though I'm sure there will be plenty of number 1 votes for Georgia even with the loss earlier in the season. It will feel very very weird as I don't feel like we're the no. 1 team. Just feels like a very weird season with all the change. I think playing Purdue yesterday was the first time where I just felt like it was bizarre. Weird environment there, weird game, weird to play a second time on a Friday, we dominated yet we gave up 200+ yards rushing. Just nothing feels right to me.

Jeanty or Hunter is the best player in college football, they should be the leaders right now. If Jeanty finishes even close to Sanders record that is an accomplishment that can't be ignored, I don't care who he's playing, he deserves it. Hunter could be a top 10 player at two positions in the country. The Heisman should be given to the best player in college football, not simply the best QB for a top 5 team. There have been way too many times greatness hasn't been recognized. There have been some truly bad Heismans over the years, there is no way Jason White should be a Heisman winner over Larry Fitzgerald, Darren Sproles, and Eli Manning

Honestly looking forward to this, I prefer to watch that brand of basketball, far too often you'll see Pac-12 refs just whistle ever little ticky-tack contact.

For the first time in a while I actually liked what I heard from him, he acknowledge that he has been behind the curve in this new world of the transfer portal and NIL, he seems to have made an adjustment, he's brought in some good players, Kelly (the player) is an actual star, so I'm hoping they're going to have a bounce back season. I don't want to see him fail, I just want him to change so that he can bring the program back to where it was, we'll see this season if it was truly his assistants who were the real power behind the Sabring/Satou/Ruthy years.

One thing that I would quibble with is that it is very common for an Oregon kicker to miss a routine 44 yarder, that has been one of the problems with Oregon, we seem to never have a reliable kicker. Edit: One other thing is that the interception that should have been would have put Oregon at around the their own 35 yard line, so it wasn't a short field, who knows if we would have scored, the thing it certainly did do was it should have taken away 7 points from tOSU

I get what you are saying, I don't have really strong opinions on the subject, but I do think it's a tiny bit bush to do this. I don't know, it might be that I just haven't seen this type of penalty intentionally done, so I might be reacting to it differently from others. I certainly don't think it's some travesty of justice. I think the difference is that with a delay of game I believe you can decline the penalty (correct?). With this it's about taking time off. The rushing up to call of play puts the blame on the officials not the team. Ohio St. messed up already by not understanding the rules on the previous P.I call. It's certainly a rule that needs correcting, as I'm sure we'll see this again at some point.

I have to admit, I'm actually rooting for Jeanty. That guy is so frickin' good, he deserves it if he approaches the single season rushing record, and it would be good for the sport if a running back from a group of 5 team won it. If Hunter had stayed healthy I could see him as worthy as well. I do not see anyone other than those two as the best player in college football.

I've got a question for those around here. Why do you think Northwest fans in general have a rep being really good environments? Oregon/Basketball have had great reps for loudness, Blazers have traditionally been regarded as very good to among the best when they have a good team, Timbers and Sounders generally have some of the best environments, the Seahawks, Huskies, Sonics (when they were there) generally have been regarded as loud crowds. For Autzen, we are really blessed with a stadium designed that maximizes the sound, I can only imagine what it will be like if we redo the North side of Autzen to mirror the South, that will be electric if it ever happens.

Klatt is disappointing, but I still love him, I think he's incredibly balanced in his approach usually, sometimes people just disagree, I disagree with him, but I trust he doesn't have an agenda. Cowherd is simply human garbage, always on the side of the team, player, coach, whoever is the biggest name he will side with them, he roots for only the big market teams, talks about how dynasties and big markets have to be at the front for the sport to thrive, puts down any little guys. Always a blowhard, always toots his own horn, a dispicable person who hurts the national conversation. Completely ignores his small market roots, and openly talks about how it's always in a person's best interest to move to the biggest market, he can shove it. Sorry if this goes against any community rules, I hate that guy!!!!

I disagree with this a bit, he does represent the university, and the university is a major part of this community. I coach at the high school level and I always tell my players they not only represent the program, they represent the school, and the community that live in. Holden is doing the same thing but on a much bigger level. I don't think he should be kicked off the team, but he does have a responsibility to be better. I would agree that the hierarchy of that responsibility starts with himself, his family, his teammates, his coaches, and so forth down the chain to the overall community of the university. I will also say that I was not offended like he did something that will affect me in my life, I was more upset by what he was doing to the team/university that I support.

Honestly surprised it's that high on that channel, I would believe it if it was on something like FS1 or ESPN2, but on the CW that's a great number!

That MJ push on Byron Russell was ridiculous, I'm pretty sure 11 or 12 year old me was screaming at the T.V, I did not like Jordan or the Bulls, and was always against them. The push by Smith was pretty obvious, it doesn't get called enough, the offense typically gets away with murder at times with how much they push off to get separation. I've been especially upset with this game how few times the national media has not talked about the interception during the first drive, that was out this world ridiculous, and yet I've heard a lot more about the Smith's PI or how there was one second on the clock, or anything thing else, tOSU was gifted a TD and nobody other than us is talking about it!!!!!!