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Tick Tock NFL legal. They be a comin' for your viewership. Grab a big ol bag of popcorn cause the legalalities and antitrust issues are about to explode all over football in the next few years. Player paying football leagues will be completely different ten years from now than they currently are today. I can only hope that the changes produce a better and more entertaining product on the field and the amounts of money involved justify those changes. Of course only time will tell. Just give me some high quality Duck football to immerse myself in and I can probably accept, or ignore, what comes to pass. Go Ducks!

Hmmm...pencil with an eraser, bat. Meant to "erase" opponents leads late in games? Uniforms...playing courts...and now sporting equipment. The Oregon Ducks athletic promo department leaves Nothing untouched by imagination and branding. Almost like they are trying to create a "uniqueness" that encompasses all of Oregon Athletics. Definitely, for better or not, makes fans and athletes take notice. I don't like everything that comes down the pike but I will say it is fun. And I need as much fun in my life that I can get. Stay innovative Duck Athletics. Quack! 🦆🏈🔥

I love the fact that I do not have to be concerned with missing a broadcast of Oregon Ducks Baseball. Sir Charles Fischer, being the avid baseball fan that he is, makes it feel like actually "being there" when reading his synopsis of the games. Actually gets a casual baseball fan...excited. Good Job, Charles aannndddd. GO DUCKS BASEBALL. 🦆⚾🪨's!

This is insane....errr...madness!

Coulda, shoulda, been a whole lot worse. Time to make some adjustments at halftime. Let's Go Ducks!

So many missed open threes by Creighton. Basketball gods must be a smiling on OBD...for now.

Might really need a game from Tracy.

Thankfully Creighton has started ice cold from three...with a lot of open looks. Let's hope it stays that way.

Like it. Keep us as the underdog...makes em hungry for more. Be the Madness of March.

But of course they are. Got to set the "precedent" of having just one more SEC team in the twelve, soon to be 14/16, team playoff. What better way then to guarantee you will have one less loss on the loss column while "9 conference game" teams are meeting each other. Half picking up another loss, just one week before "rivalry" weekend! Until any conference is actually punished via rankings, seedings, or playoff selections, for scheduling only eight in-conference games; or rewarding 9 conference game teams instead, there is no incentive to even the playing field. Almost, almost as pitiful as the Pig2! Just more of the same ole' SEC 🐂💩!

Time for fellow Duck fans, far and wide, to celebrate! Are we going to be the "madness" of March this year?

The last three players with a 40-point tourney game for a double-digit seed. 2024 Jermaine Couisnard. 2008 Stephen Curry. 1999 Wally Szczerbiak. Wow.

Yes, yes he did. Career high and the only player in NCAA Tourney history to have over thirty points and five assists since like the 1980's. Yeah, activation "Beast Mode"!

All Hail Sir Couisnard! I had a feeling he was going to "punk" his ole' team.

Agreed. Best, complete, defensive game this season. Play this way each game during the tourney and you will be a hard out. Now I'm regretting my Tennessee over Oregon in the Elite Eight. SEC doesn't seem that, indomitable, after watching what OBD just did to the team that placed second. Great way to open up the Tourney. On to Creighton! Go Ducks Tourney Basketball!

Couisnard, today, is THE MAN!

Quack Frickin Attack!

Ok...wrong team butttt...what a three quarter shot by the gamecocks. Half to go and we be doing well. Ready for a dominating second half by OBD? GO Ducks!

What a "lil harasser" Rigby is. Not much for scoring but man does he enjoy disrupting other teams flow.

Got a weird feeling this one will go down to the wire. Dante fed down low and gets the "and one" and sinks the freethrow to win the game by one; sorta feeling. But, I'll take a Double Digit Duck win and help keep my blood pressure under control, anytime. Go Ducks Tourney Basketball!! 🦆🏀🔥

What just happened? What we had been waiting to happen since the beginning of February. Inconsistent is how I've described this team on more than one post. Even in the PAC12 tourney there were lapses in all three games. But, again as I've noted on more than one post, this team DOES NOT GIVE UP. Even when "shellshocked" from many of the "cold periods" they seem bewildered by, they always regroup and someone usually steps up their game as a result. Eight healthy scholarship players and the inconsistencies shown throughout the season most likely doom this team to a sweet sixteen or elite eight exit. But it is March Madness and who says our beloved ducks can't be the "madness" in this year's tourney? Here's hoping! Go Ducks Tourney Basketball. 👍

This here is EXACTLY why the NFL will, sooner than later, become involved legally with all that is going on in college...er...NFL-Lite. I cannot see them allowing another league to "compete" with the NFL while NOT having the controls in place, to create parity, that the NFL does. "Superteams" is what the NFL has tried to temper and won't let these "young whippersnappers" come in and do exactly that, drawing fans and dollars away from the parity driven NFL. Said it before. Don't mess with the Billionaires, revenue driven, league. You WILL get burned! Just saying. 🤔

Honestly, I thought the ACC, this off season, was going to do the PAC collapse but in reverse. Instead of needing a media contract, which ten of the PAC teams waited for and we're left with "insulting" offers. The ACC is locked into, by today's standards, an "insulting" contract compared to what the Power2 or even the BIG12 are contracted towards. We all know what the NFL-Lite power brokers long-term goal is. All this legal maneuvering is just the "hoops and hurdles" to overcome in order to get there. The Real pain is coming for the WSU's and OSU's of the Power2. When all the "bottom feeders" are left out in the cold through further conference realignment, or a relegation system put in place for said teams that the Power2 do not deem as value added to those two conferences. States, universities, boosters, athletes, and fans may or may not like it, but it is evident that this is going to come to pass. As stated before in this thread, amongst many others, Thanks to the power brokers of the UofO ensuring the Ducks remain relevant in the new college conference realignment madness. Can't wait till it's all over and we as fans can adjust our "fandom" to the new dynamics forthcoming in the "new" college football league. Go Ducks!

Wow. What a run this Oregon team had to qualify for "The Dance". It was truly a fun and entertaining three game run. Something I hoped for but did not truly expect to happen. A season of often frustrating basketball and the inconsistencies we all observed throughout the season did not temper this teams' Will and Desire to win. May have not always been pretty and some of the losses were downright inexcusable (Cali an the road, Colo at home). But a team that has the belief and the tenacity to continue to fight through their own self-inflicted wounds to get to where they are now is nothing to take lightly. What I saw on Saturday night bodes well for a fairly deep run in the tourney. The "intangibles" regarding the emotion and comaradity that was showing after the win; especially watching the entire team approaching the announcers table, celebrating as a team, before trainers and coaches peeled the larger group off to allow Dante, Cousnard, and Shelstad the mic for the post game, was significant on a "team" perspective. I do believe that this team now "believes" in both themselves and their ability to compete with anybody. The first round game against a defensive minded, up and coming, gamecock team should help further their belief in themselves. This could very well be a Cousnard career game, game, being that it is his old team. Win that one and most likely a matchup with Dana's previous charge against Creighton, whom by the way was one of the few teams to actually beat, handily, a tourney favorite UConn during the regular season. Not going to be easy (but tourney games shouldn't be "easy"). I am fully expecting some icecold periods of play, as has happened most games all season. But also will see cohesive play, tough defense, rebounding by several different players, and a few plays of absolute brilliance from Dante, Shelstad, Cousnard, etc. As long as the cold periods are minimal and they play, consistently, to their abilities, this could very well be a second weekend "dark horse" team to contend with. Not finished filling out my bracket yet, but I do have Quackers Basketball "penciled" into the Elite Eight. With both Tennessee and Texas sitting on our side of the bracket, plus a probable Purdue (do not have them filled in that far, yet) in the Elite Eight; I'm fighting amongst myself regarding logic and facts vs. "fandom" logic and facts on if I think it is realistic to move them beyond that. If anything has taught the March Madness fanbase. It's that "madness" will always ensue...especially in the first 2-3 rounds of the tourney. Will an eleven seed seemingly coming out a nowhere be one of the major contributors to the "madness" this year? I think so. 🦆🏀🔥👍. GO DUCKS "TOURNEY" BASKETBALL

Won One ... For the Puddles! Quack Frickin attack Babe! 🦆🏀🔥