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This is always stat that gets noticed. It's great if the team had a good season the year before, but if that year was a struggle, it could be problematic.

I'd be fine with that. All the "This was a really tough decision, " I can do without. If it was so tough, and they still left, then it wasn't that tough. Again, "Once a Duck, always a Duck" is the most disingenuous of all. Is Dye still a Duck next season while he's wearing the Trojans uniform?

So far Lanning is demonstrating that while he is a 1st year head coach, he knows what a coach needs to do to win. Dan Lanning and Oregon football hosting over 100 high school coaches this weekend 247SPORTS.COM Starting Thursday morning, high school football coaches up and down the west coast will arrive in Eugene to take in Oregon...

Let's go back to 1977 my friends, this is "Easy" by The Commodores"

Wildcats is off the top of my head most common. UCONN shares Huskies with some irrelevant team from somewhere. Bears, Baylor, Cal, Bruins are a type of Bear. The Ducks play Cougars twice in a row, BYU, WSU next season.

There has to be a correlation between the proximities of the Huskies and the Pro teams in Seattle. The M's, the only team to never play in the WS had the chance to be the Greatest Team Ever, and instead become the greatest chokers ever. The Sonics did win a championship, but don't exist anymore. The Seahawks could have, I say should have, been back to back SB Champs but for a ridiculous pass that was intercepted!.

I was excited, it's Opening Day, but the Mariners and Twins were rained out. The Mariners have a chance to do something this season, which of course takes me back to 2001, when they really did do something! 116 wins, led MLB in most runs scored and fewest runs allowed. Ichiro led the league in batting, won the Rookie of the Year and MVP. But, at the end, all the Mariners accomplished was a win in the first round of the playoffs, If they had gone onto win the World Series the 2001 Mariners would have rock solid claim to being the greatest baseball team in history. Instead, a huge choke!

Thank you, I can definitely see this! War Eagles in necessary because LSU is also "Tigers" which has to be maddening to both teams. I'm not even able to comeup with Vandy's nickname

Simpatico up to UCLA, where I am more optimistic. I see a 5-0 start, W's at Colorado and home against Washington before a L against Utah in the Rose Bowl. But after an L to Oregon the Bruins get W's over Stanford and AZ before what should be a highly contested game against SC, before finishing up with a W over Cal.

This guy is gonna be BIG!

Great point, one that Scott Frost didn't see coming.

I don't think it was ever that close to Thompson really replacing Brown. He did a "serviceable" job, won 10 games. The two against Utah weren't because of who was the QB, putting Thompson in either of those games might have set him back. The quarterback competition looks to be going well, and I think will produce more than a "serviceable" quarterback.

Swagger is and has been rare in the Pac-10-12. USC had it with Carroll, Oregon had it with Chip, in fact I think Chip's Oregon team's set the standard for Swagger. The U had Swagger. Mario's Oregon teams did not, and I don't think that his teams at Miami will.

With the "academic prowess" at UW, won't this wipe them out? Only 22 of 130 NCAA FBS-level schools say they have plans to provide allowed academic bonus payments to athletes this year WWW.ESPN.COM With colleges allowed to pay each of their athletes up to $5,980 per year as a reward for academic performance, only 22 of 130...

It's something in Washington. The Seahawks and Texas A & M both use the "12".

That is some great stuff, and absolutely ends on a high note!

Every day we see another reason why it was so good that Lanning took the job. Connection to KC kept Dontae Manning at Oregon 247SPORTS.COM The Transfer Portal has become a polarizing trend in college football. For the players, it grants them freedom. An opportunity...

I just wondered if Carter actually told Rothstein every school on this list without looking.

Well, another Lady Duck is leaving, and this was just after hearing Graves on "Talkin' Ducks last night about how Pinto still being here was something that he and the fans could feel good about.

And this is with "Prevent Offense"

But they didn't drop very far.

Never mind that he ran a 10.3!

Everything I see about what Lanning and his coaches are going to do at Oregon just makes it harder to wait for the season to start! Oregon Football: Demetrice Martin describes working with Dan Lanning DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A master’s degree in defense? That’s what Oregon coach Demetrice Martin said working with Dan Lanning and Tosh Lupoi could be...