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Well, apparently, a difficult hurdle in the House of Representatives. "Current House Status & Timeline Senate Passage: The Senate passed the bill (S. 4668) by a 77–22 vote on September 28, 2026, and sent it to the House. House Schedule: House GOP leadership and lawmakers opted not to schedule or take up a vote prior to the midterm elections. Next Return Date: The House is on hold until returning on November 9, 2026, for the post-election lame-duck session, though a vote faces significant political and factional hurdles. Key House Obstacles Friction & Alternative Legislation: The bill faces resistance from the House Freedom Caucus, House staff, and members who favor rival proposals like the SCORE Act (which approaches employee restrictions differently). Opposition Groups: The Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights organizations have voiced strong opposition to certain provisions. Vote Counting: Supporters currently lack a guaranteed path to the 218 votes needed for passage in the House amid debates over conference realignment caps, labor/employment neutrality, and foreign athlete limits."

I was actually thinking of the legislative proposal, but somehow thought the NCAA had already changed the rule. I think Trump said he would sign it. "The Senate passed legislation that would create federal rules for college athlete transfers, compensation, eligibility and NCAA enforcement. The Protect College Sports Act passed 77-22 on September 28 and now moves to the House. Trump has indicated he would sign it. Given the large majority in the Senate, I guess it will pass in the House as well.

The counter to this argument is this is a results based business which Lanning mentions consistently and everyone outside the program can see the poor results relative to the talent, therefore it is reasonable to expect Lanning to replace Terry and the OC and possibly the QB coach in the off-season.

When you consider the quality of the opponents offenses and the number of possessions we've given our opponents, especially lately this defense is WAY better than basic metrics suggest.

Oregon is ranked 22nd in On3's Week 7-8 BCS Formula Rankings. On3BCS formula Top 25 makes widespread changes after Week 7...With a few weeks left until the CFP Selection Committee meets for the first time and decides how to rank the top contenders, BCSKnowHow has run the early

Since this is turning into the thread for happy thoughts, I'll add that I'm happy to hear we have an offensive analyst ready to fill Terry's shoes at a moments notice.. I'm happy with our defense that is now top 10 caliber and is on track to be top 5 in the country by the end of the season. I'm happy with all the freshmen emerging into starting roles mid season. I'm happy that they've found an OL arrangement that works (even if it's the same arrangement everyone thought they were likely going to have at the start of the season).

Oregon games are being buried by Fox, CBS, and NBC/Peacock. In 2026, I doubt Oregon will come close to the viewer numbers since Lanning's arrival. Week 7: Ohio State at Indiana, noon Eastern, and Nebraska at Oregon, 11 PM Eastern, cost the Big Ten millions of viewers. On the East Coast, the Nebraska game ended at 2:45 AM, partly due to a flag-happy group of refs. The referee for this crew sucked in the Pac-12 and its SSDD in the Big Ten. Tony Petitti, or his replacement if he retires before then, has to address KO times in the next media deal that begins in 2031.

My eyes were right.

My eyes tell me that the 2026 defense has had to play a lot more snaps because the offense hasn't been very productive. But, my eyes and the stats are not always in sync. Let me dig into that question and I'll see what I can find.

The "rule" changed July 1, 2026. But, the new rule requires a transfer during a designated portal period - January, I think. If the athlete meets the calendar requirements, then he/she can transfer more than once and be immediately eligible. I think that means if a QB has already transferred once and been immediately eligible, he can not do it again unless it is in the January portal. If he goes through spring practice, then wants to transfer again during the summer, he cannot be eligible. Or, it is possible I don't have a clue what I'm talking about. laugh

Sitting out a year if you transfer twice is part of the yet-to-be-approved Protect College Sports bill that has cleared the Senate but will not be addressed by the House until after the November elections.

OBD Week 9 Game vs. Northwestern Gets the Bird. 🤬 On3College Football kickoff times, TV schedule revealed for...The four power conferences have released their kickoff times and TV designations for games to be played during Week 9 of the college football season. The

Those plays drive me absolutely crazy now because most of the time they feel like nothing more than throwing away a down. The receiver catches the ball behind the line, has to gather himself and turn upfield, and by then the defense is already closing in. The crazy part is that those same kinds of plays were incredibly effective under Chip Kelly. The difference was that Oregon blocked the hell out of them, and Chip had a great feel for when to call them. He could read what the defense was giving him and knew when the numbers and spacing were there to make it work. That is what seems to be missing now. The concept itself is not necessarily the problem. It is the blocking, the timing, and knowing when the defense is actually vulnerable to it. Without those things, it is exactly what you said, a receiver getting the ball behind the line with nowhere to go.

While frustrating and rarely rewarding, I believe the woes we have been experiencing, notably on the offensive side of the ball is exactly the kind of humbling experience Dan Lanning needs to reach the next level. He has now seen the risk that can come with promoting close associates vs. a proper vetting process. That's not to say that there isn't a place for it on a staff. I said in an earlier post that promoting from within can absolutely work well; but it should come with the same scrutiny that a national coaching search would. If I am Dan Lanning I'm looking at the prospective coach's prior body of work, the development of players in the program, his natural trajectory in the program and whether it looks like he truly is the next best option in line. I'd also, honestly, take into to consideration whether or not he has, or is currently, receiving job offers elsewhere for the position in question. Are other teams seeing the value in this person as a play-caller or player developer? Do they think he has the talent to elevate their team? If Lanning has questions on any of these given variables then the right call would be to conduct a national coaching search and include this person. Can he measure up to rest of the candidate pool? Or is he maybe best suited to remain in his current position for a bit longer? I do think DL will learn from this; heck, he is still is learning on the job. I believe these are the sort of hiccups that can help a coach see the big picture and allow him to elevate his team moving forward.

An update on the Stewart situation. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon’s Path Forward on Offense Goes Beyond Evan StewartEUGENE - Oregon’s comeback win over Nebraska gave the Ducks something to build on. It showed they can work through adversity and find a way to win, even while t

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day. Thank you for the Tuesday Take. Forum Friends are happy that you can find the time to contribute your thoughts. Your articles are enjoyable and on target. I recall after Spring Ball how many Oregon fans were concerned about the kicking game. And were confident the inexperienced O-line players would come through. Whoops! The Massey Ratings, like the Rivals site, was purchased by On3. Massey strength of schedule (SOS) rankings are used below. Recall that there are 68 Power 4 teams, including Notre Dame. 4-2 Oregon is ranked 27th in the latest AP Poll. Through Week 7, Oregon's SOS is ranked 16th; the remaining schedule is ranked 20th. 6-0 Texas Tech is ranked 8th in the AP Poll. SOS 71. Future SOS 57. 6-0 No. 1 Miami SOS to date is 65. Future SOS 57. Yes, the 2026 schedule has been more difficult than many expected. Human voters and the PO committee continue to pay lip service to SOS. Oregon is ranked 10th by FPI; 11th by SP+; and 17th by Massey. Today, according to the human voters, No. 16 USC and No. 21 Boise State would be included in a 24-team PO field. Oregon and No. 25 5-2 Oklahoma State would be left out. Four two-loss SEC teams would be among the nine SEC teams in the field. Once again in 2026, we see that a loss by an SEC team to another SEC team is forgiven in the AP and Coaches polls. I get it, you have to play the schedule you are dealt. But it is far from a fair fight, especially when the rankings are mostly based on the Eye Test. My preseason concerns about a sneaky difficult schedule and four new O-line starters, with only an FCS athlete brought in from the portal, have unfortunately been met. My concerns about the kicking game? Not warranted. My thinking was that the defense would play from the start, as it has in the last two games. HMMMMMMMM. Thanks again, David, for making the effort to make such a significant contribution to the Forum.

Teams have had trouble retaining depth at QB in a system where players can transfer every year. Oregon has been blessed by having Dillon Gabriel follow Bo Nix, and then having Dante Moore be willing to sit a year before taking over. While Dylan Riola's performance over three games has been uneven, without him we would have lost all three games he played in, rather than one. Next weekend we play an Illinois team that will need to start a true freshman. The same seems likely for Ohio State. You can only play one QB at a time, and alternating QBs in a game has rarely been productive, although substituting when a QB has not been productive can be, and has been for Oregon the past three weeks. Other than freshmen, the trend has been for non-starter QBs to transfer. They want to be on the field, which is understandable. Until recent times, having to sit it out a year discouraged transferring until it became apparent that a QB would never start at his present school. Having to redshirt after transferring in most circumstances disincentivized transferring. As I understand, the rules have been changed effective a date I am not aware of, where the first transfer a player makes does not require sitting a year, but a second transfer would impose that requirement. This might return some level of stability on the QB depth charts. It should also put some breaks on NIL bidding wars.

Good read David. I understand very much about life issues. I can't do a quarter of the things I planned to do this year. I think the past 24 hours might explain some of what has been happening all year. This team is not focused. Maybe I'm way off base, but the unfortunate news yesterday feels like a microcosm of the year. I shared your same preseason concerns outside of special teams. You even summarized it better than I could say in an entire article LOL. One concern I briefly brought up was our fan base. I saw rumblings of the same sentiment that got Penn State in the very situation they currently face. While I don't think the team is fine, I'm not nearly as concerned as our entire fan base is. It is what it is at this point. And the disappointment the entire fanbase has expressed is more disappointing the the performance on the field. We're not going to the playoffs. That's less of a concern to me than what Lanning has been doing. I give him a A+. I've never seen Lanning look so worried all year. And he has shown remarkable poise as every one else has been screaming the sky is falling. I've got to hand it to our media though. They've been far more professional about the chagrin they've faced along with us. The way they've been asking questions we've all been talking about is as impressive as he's been. I look forward to the rest of the season. Enthusiastically. I'm more tuned in than when we were riding the coattails of our semifinal appearance.

Whats the snap count. Thats a pretty important piece to consider

At this point due to my life schedule (and an absolutely awful weekend) I am just moving my featured article to Tuesday. So Marsh Duck Tuesday.... doesn't sound as good as Monday but it's what I can do right now. Pre-Season Concerns Still Haunt the Ducks in Mid OctoberIt’s strange in a season when there are a few concerns during the off season and those become the concerns during the season.

Exactly! Great post, Solar. Watch how Indiana runs their short passing game. The ball is out in front on a quick slant or screen. The receiver is never catching the ball with their back to the defense. They get tons of YAC. Then look at Oregon. They ask their receivers to turn 180 and catch the ball behind the line of scrimmage and then turn and make a play, all while the entire defense is running downhill towards them. They get little to no YAC in most cases. Oregon has amazing skill position talent, but you have to put them into a situation to succeed. Oregon consistently doesn’t do that in the short passing game. They ignore the middle of the field and the ball is never out in front.

All three conference games, the defense performed well. All three conference games I think they could have shaved 10 points off of each of the opponents. I will say I'm as spoiled as all of Duck Nation (that I'm ticked off at right now) when it comes to my expectations about the defense. Mostly because I've been doing a lot of research, and there's a reason for a lot of the stuff that's been going on. So I've been overreacting to some plays. And Lanning's last press conference confirmed that the information I've been getting from my research is far more credible than the responses I've had all season about the defense. Outside of looking at the damn QB all the time of course (and that is by no means exclusive to OBD- Georgia lost a Natty for the that specific reason). I'm hoping the defense makes "the kinds of adjustments" that makes this defense even better. To date, this group of talented young men have been giving up on average 33 points to Elite offenses the past 3 years. So far so good, let's hope it gets to be ridiculously awesome.

I can't than any of the bubble screens or tunnel screens. Everybody seems to know when it's coming, and the blocking is always atrocious. They all look at what Ohio state does with Jeremiah Smith. That's the kind of screen I can get behind.

Wasn't everybody just about to scream to the television when he lined up for a regular fourth down play in the middle of the game against Nebraska? I know I was LOL. I'm surprised nobody thought that he was gambling that his team was going to come from behind by playing it so close to the vest. I think a lot of people need to start paying attention to what he says not how they feel about it. My thoughts of course because during this disaster I think Lanning has kept the wheels from falling off. If our fan base were running things, we would be winless in conference games.

The 4th quarter was encouraging. Several factors contributed. It was way past Neb's bedtime, Oregon's first drive was 17 plays / 7:42, Neb 3 and out 1:47, Ducks 20 / 5:03. 37 defensive snaps for Neb. The positive is the play calling. We did not abandon the run, great mixture of plays and of course good QB play. Hopefully, we have discovered the OLine secret sauce for the duration.