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If you're an Oregon football fan you know the last words you want to hear are, "Third down and any yards" when the other team has the ball. Tim DeRuyter Addresses Oregon's Defensive Struggles on Third Down Ducks Digest Max Torres

Run, you Turkey! you aren't welcome at OBD!!!

Looking at GK, he at least seems interested in being the Pac-12 Commissioner while Larry seemed fine just sitting in his plush SF offices overseeing the destruction by inertia of the Conference of Champions...that's it, Bill Walton for Commish!! GK seems to also believe that standing pat is the correct move. The Pac-12 is being run by managers of a Blockbuster while the other conferences are streaming. Oregon is a Brand in a conference full of teams going through the motions, unrecognizable to fans in other parts of the country, we saw how much ESPN cares with the camera issue in the WSU game. Mario's recruiting numbers are even more amazing when taken in context of the numbers that Jon brought up earlier; the SEC and B1G, are NFL factories, while the Pac-12 did produce a great NFL quarterback, from of course, Oregon!

Dante is bringin' it. He had a block, not a goaltending, and is scoring inside.

15 points at halftime ? somehow, they're still in it, since Saint Mary's only has 23. The offense is definitely not flowing. Will Richardson lost his confidence against BYU, seems to be spreading through the rest of the team. As a Duck buddy mentioned a while ago, this team could really use Eugene Omoruyi. He was money in the paint.

A missed dunk, next time a sloppy turnover, let's go Ducks!

Kepnang takng the ball to the basket, had a nice 3 point play the old fashioned way.

No, 1 Georgia, No. 2 Ohio State, No.3 Alabama, No. 4 Cincinnati.

Wisconsin will play the winner of Oregon- Saint Mary's. Wisconsin led Houston the entire game, up 20 at halftime. But Houston stormed back. But with :05 left in the game, couldn't get a shot up and lost, 65-63.

Your title says it all, Charles

The time is now: Suddenly Freshman WR's Must be ready to contribute. Duck Territory Erik Skopil

Current Line: Oregon -2, and Gonzaga -7 over UCLA

The Zags are the biggest anomaly in college sports. Talk about hard to recruit to, but they get it done. They lost in the Championship Game last season, lost 3 players from te starting line-up, but here they are, No. 1, and the favorite to win the championship this season.

Right, and it would be great see tOSU's O shred UGA's D.

That seems to have been the last match-up, and now I can cheer for the Big Blue, almost certainly in vain, against OH. ST. and look forward to a Rose Bowl against the Wolverines.

The potential for these Oregon Bigs is exciting, and potentially could be the best ever, but for now I think that title belongs to this Duck, and fun note, the Ducks got him from Auburn, Wa., 27 miles from Seattle.

That seems to be how it has worked, and once again, this time with even more talent and height, than usual, Oregon is a team where a lot of new players will have to start from scratch before they all "buy in".

Here's a Bear-Cat:

There are earthquakes and there are EARTHQUAKES! The loss to ASU was bad, but it doesn't compare to the one to Utah. ASU was "Man, how did that happen?" The Utah mess has us shaken to the core. The Beavers are sky high, if the Huskies beat the Cougars on Fridy, the game against the Ducks is for the Rose Bowl. If the Cougars win, the Beavers can still stick a dagger in the Ducks. The Ducks have to rise up fast to match the intensity the Beavers will have.

Yeah, we'll get a good measure of how high the ceiling is after the game on Saturday.

After their victory over Chaminade, the Ducks face the Gaels in a semi-final game of the Maui Classic.

I don't know what you know. But it appears we're good here.

Some great Takes, Darren, I too am happy to be free to root against Ohio State, amidst the world coming down around me after the Utah game, the weight of "wanting" the Buckeyes to win was lifted. Now I am free to root, as usual, for Michigan. As for Cincy, just go away Bearcats! What is a Bearcat anyway? Yes, the absurdity of the variant properties of the OSU's and the reverberations of Oregon's action/reaction from contact will set the trajectory of the team.

0 times, just like more than 90% of the teams, and Saban might not get there this season, it's incredibly hard to do.

I just don't know of a coach that Oregon would get if Mario wasn't here anymore, that fans would think, "Yeah, this is the Guy who will get us to the Playoffs every year". How many of them are there now, not named Nick Saban?