Dylan Raiola’s Injury Timeline Carries Impact for Oregon Ducks

Just glad there wasn't ligament or cartilage damage.

Thanks for the article Steven A. Nowadays I shake my head reading these articles . "Surgery was successful to repair the surgery". Really? I often cannot tell whether things like this are poor AI or poor writing.

What's the timeline for losing The Valley Girl look? 🤮

You're a GD disgrace! What kind of team would recruit a man like you? Straighten those curls, lose those shades, and for OBD's sake, take off that GD Cornhusker crap!

56 minutes ago, Jon Joseph said:

What's the timeline for losing The Valley Girl look? 🤮

You're a GD disgrace! What kind of team would recruit a man like you? Straighten those curls, lose those shades, and for OBD's sake, take off that GD Cornhusker crap!

I know you're still fighting ice and snow, but here it is 60 degrees and sunny. All is right with the world except Mens BB.

Some of us have natural curly hair and I'm sure Uncle Phil has Riaola all decked out in the finest Duck Gear.

Whenever I see the name Riaola I can't get the picture out of my head. I sat there on a nice sunny Saturday afternoon in Bloomington and watched him throw 44 times and 3 interceptions. Granted his OL was being rushed liked crazy with Bryant's Haines's defense but a couple of those interceptions were just bad bad QB decisions. I have discussed him on X with other Duck fans (any of them here under a different name?) and I am just not that sold on him even with a great Oregon OL and a year to learn the system. But I am not a full time coach, just an old arm-chair QB expert I guess.

1 hour ago, Red Eddy Green said:

I know you're still fighting ice and snow, but here it is 60 degrees and sunny. All is right with the world except Mens BB.

Some of us have natural curly hair and I'm sure Uncle Phil has Riaola all decked out in the finest Duck Gear.

Yeah, I don't care what the guy looks like if he does the work and becomes a great player for OBD. Looks like the timing will be for him to be ready for back up duty this coming year and maybe ready to start next year. That's a long time from now and a lot can happen. Glad he wants to be a Duck.

WOW! So much for the attempt at Animal House humor. Perhaps you have to be 70+ long in the tooth to have watched the movie and get it? Or, perhaps, I'm long on age and short on Humor? 😁

Mea Culpa. OK, Forum Friends, I love Dylan flaunting today's fashionista flavor. I forgive the Cornhusker crud, and I hope his style of shades will be handed out before the Autzen crowd Shouts.

But this doesn't mean you don't have to do your assigment people; this is my job!

4 hours ago, Santa Rosa Duck said:

Thanks for the article Steven A. Nowadays I shake my head reading these articles . "Surgery was successful to repair the surgery". Really? I often cannot tell whether things like this are poor AI or poor writing.

BOTH! Often both... sadly.

2 hours ago, iubhounds said:

Whenever I see the name Riaola I can't get the picture out of my head. I sat there on a nice sunny Saturday afternoon in Bloomington and watched him throw 44 times and 3 interceptions. Granted his OL was being rushed liked crazy with Bryant's Haines's defense but a couple of those interceptions were just bad bad QB decisions. I have discussed him on X with other Duck fans (any of them here under a different name?) and I am just not that sold on him even with a great Oregon OL and a year to learn the system. But I am not a full time coach, just an old arm-chair QB expert I guess.

I do not fear. If Raiola can't "get it" he won't be starting.

All you have to do is look to last year. We went out and got the best running back in the portal. We no doubt paid him a ton of money. He hardly saw the field because we had two true freshmen that were better than he. Next year he'll be toting the rock for someone else. Hopefully, he will "get it" there.

2 hours ago, iubhounds said:

Whenever I see the name Riaola I can't get the picture out of my head. I sat there on a nice sunny Saturday afternoon in Bloomington and watched him throw 44 times and 3 interceptions. Granted his OL was being rushed liked crazy with Bryant's Haines's defense but a couple of those interceptions were just bad bad QB decisions. I have discussed him on X with other Duck fans (any of them here under a different name?) and I am just not that sold on him even with a great Oregon OL and a year to learn the system. But I am not a full time coach, just an old arm-chair QB expert I guess.

The crazy thing about this, is that you could have said this exact same thing about Bo Nix when he was at Auburn. I remember the comments on this board when we first grabbed Nix in the portal. There were not a lot of people onboard, including myself.

I’m not saying it will work out. It may not. However, I am confident that Lanning will have more than 1 solution at the QB position.

Every time I see that name my mind auto corrects to GRANOLA...

As far as the shades go, get him in touch with Dan Fouts and Joey Harrington for advice.

Edited yesterday at 01:20 AM1 day by woundedknees

7 hours ago, GeotechDuck said:

The crazy thing about this, is that you could have said this exact same thing about Bo Nix when he was at Auburn. I remember the comments on this board when we first grabbed Nix in the portal. There were not a lot of people onboard, including myself.

I certainly wasn't saying that crap about Nix. I sent Charles a clip of Nix's highlights and said he was bound to flourish in Eugene. Lanning knew it as well having to work his tail off to stifle the guy running the Auburn offense when he was DC at Georgia.

I am nowhere near as optimistic about Raiola. Nix could move and take himself out of problematic situations. Raiola cannot and is so slow as to be a statue in the pocket. I wish the guy no ill will of course but actually breathed a sigh of relief when he flipped from Georgia to Nebraska on signing day. And as a Duck fan, I hope I am wrong by the way, but fear that I am not.

On 2/2/2026 at 5:15 PM, woundedknees said:

Every time I see that name my mind auto corrects to GRANOLA...

As far as the shades go, get him in touch with Dan Fouts and Joey Harrington for advice.

I always thought of Crayola because he seemed immature. I stopped calling him that since I figured out how bad the rest of the offense was. I don't think they ever scored another touchdown after he went down.