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Thank you very much, but I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid; there needs to be some accountability. Lanning is in year five. This shouldn't be a growth year! He isn't meeting the challenge. His team's lost three games after entering the season with the number two ranked roster on the 247Sports composite and arguably maybe the most lauded and highly touted defensive returning line in college football After getting blown the hell off the field in the last two playoffs. Lanning executed coaching malpractice by doing two internal coordinator hires of unproven P4 candidates. His approach was, if we got outcoached, my teams weren't ready to play and got run off the playoff field the last two years, this is the change I'm going to do to fix that: I'm gonna bring in unproven coordinators and keep the same offensive scheme. I mean, come on. Let's not give credit where credit isn't due. Let's face the truth. Lessons learned in years one through four should have had him reaching the promised land this year, not in another year or two. As far as the offense rolling now, that's another area he dropped the ball. He should have seen in the last couple of years that elite teams were shutting down Will Stein's horizontal spread RPO offense and made an adjustment instead of sticking to the same scheme with Meh. I've been yelling at my TV since the 2023 Pac-12 title loss to Washington that we need to go back to being more multiple on offense while featuring a gap scheme run game. I've wondered why Lanning couldn't see last year his offense was built to run the same system Todd Monken ran at Georgia. He had a better QB, better TE's, great RB's and a great OL. I'm going to say it again. That Monken Pro-Style scheme was built for a QB like Donte, and we would have won the Natty last year if we were running it with a good play caller. No one was going to be able to shut down that OL line and TE's running gap, without bringing the safeties up and stacking the box. Then hard play action puts them into pick your poison spot, Sadiq's 4.39 speed going Seam, Benson taking the top off, Dak crossing, and Johnson chipping and releasing. The bottom line is Lanning is getting paid 10 million, he has elite facilities, a $40 million NIL budget that bought him an elite roster. In conclusion looking at the facts, Lanning is not producing an acceptable return on investment.

See the last sentence above....

(Matt Patricia is Ohio State's Defensive Coordinator)

I had not heard of high school NIL before this. Crazy.

Or, as some would say, lucky blocking. 😆

Dude... you have a funny sense of humor.

Great motivation direction from DL and staff. Great response by the players. Seeing all those empty red seats when the score was 38-14 warmed this old gray beards heart. Been a Duck fan since 1984 And yes, this fan was entertained.... . What a butt whoopin! Go Ducks!

Interesting column in the Burlington, Vermont newspaper about the reason the Ducks' women are visiting Vermont and Maine for games Wednesday and Friday. Apparently Kelly Graves is attempting to become the first college coach to lead his team(s) in a game played in all 50 states. The 2-1 Ducks are coming off a surprising loss to Grand Canyon and heading to the East for two games this week. After leaving Maine, there will be 5 states remaining on his list: Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Graves will be 64 in January. 45-40 - Big Bend Community College 66-26 - St. Mary's 316-136 - Gonzaga 266-137 - Oregon

Some more information about our Beavis poster.....he joined this forum the day we lost to Oklahoma State. Just like a Beavis... But Then His Team Loses to Fresno State and Texas State?

Of course it is Beavis. Just looking at what he posted is a dead giveaway. Three commas not needed, omitted a space after a complete sentence, two spelling errors and two periods at the end of a sentence. What are they teaching in Corvallis. On to the game... Ducks had 287 passing yards, 108 rushing yards. Buckeyes had 360 passing yards, 53 rushing yards. Beavis had 267 passing yards, 80 rushing yards. Bobcats had 386 passing yards, 214 rushing yards. So Beavis gave up a total of 600 yards in the game, Ducks gave up 413 yards...on the road. Quarterback ratings: 0 - 158.3 with 50 being an average number. Raiola 88.8 Jackson 84.9 (Texas St.) Fahey 51.2 (Ohio St.) Murphy 40.6 (Beavis) Atkinson 25.0 (Beavis)

He is a second or third round NFL pick, and he DOES have a fifth year to return if he wants to.

He does still have eligibility left after this season so he could come back. But if he's evaluated as an early round draft pick then I wouldn't blame him for taking that path.

Agreed! I respectfully disagree Charles. Clearly there is a sweet spot between having an exciting playoff while maintaining an exciting regular season. For instance, having a one game (BCS-type playoff) means every game is a must-win, but it doesn't provide nearly enough access so you are constantly leaving out potentially title winning teams. Conversely, having a 138-team playoff would exciting and crazy, but it would mean the regular season was truly meaningless, because every team would automatically have a playoff berth. I think 12 is the sweet spot. Basically every single team (with the exception of the G6 rep in some years) is capable of winning the title--we saw that last year with Miami getting so close. But the regular season is extremely meaningful--the Miami vs. ND game last year occurred early in the season, but it eliminated the Irish. I think this adds 12 teams of which in many years only 1 or 2 at most may be title contenders. Last year, for instance, expanding to 24 would have included teams like Michigan, Houston, Iowa and Georgia Tech. I'm not saying those teams were awful....but I also don't see those teams competing with the teams that truly contended for the championship last season (in particular because all of those teams would have started on the road). I know other feel differently and this is just where we think differently. But I do think this additional playoff expansion does indeed work to partially devalue the regular season. I know that part of the counterargument is that expanding to 24 would mean a game like Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma (this Saturday) now has playoff implications--in the way that it doesn't have any such implications under the 12-team bracket. But, I'd argue that those are two teams that definitely won't be contending for a title this season--so that's not a game that'll capture my attention just because one of them could end up with the 17 seed next year.