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Sorry to be cryptic.....LO is Lake Oswego, where LMJ's newest Killer Burger franchise opened. Off I5 at Kruse Way.

My guess is that Jim wants to prove he can coach in the big leagues like his brother. What has he learned since his last NFL stint that will make him a better coach this time I wonder?

Over the years, the JC recruiting stream had dried up. Not sure why? Maybe with academic advising and tutors, the JC route became less of an academic route than before. In the late 90's, the Ducks lived and died by the JC transfer, particularly at DL. James Rose, Junior Siavii, Chris Solomona, etc. Akili was another. The transfer portal is going to harm a lot of students as well....basically it allows teams to shed players that aren't working out for whatever reason. As the game becomes more "professional" it is going to benefit the elite players. What will be the incentive for institutions to honor scholarships (a la Cam McCormick) when given the transfer portal option? These may be some of the unintended consequences of the new era.

There was a time when the Bald One wasn't so charitable to LMJ. I guess if LaMike can let that go, I should too 🙂 Im gonna get myself a Killer Burger in LO today.

Looks like the Ducks have offered Ivey from Ga Tech who is in the transfer portal according to DuckWire's Zachary Neel

I think Helfrich and Aliotti are available?

Next these guys will be tweeting: keep showing me the love or I will transfer.

Where's Ignatius J. Reilly when we need him?

Que sera sera

The North Salem QB has been on the radar for a while. He already had an offer from Mario.

Wow....I loves me some Schadenfreude

Duck kryptonite = Stanford Football and Colorado Hoops Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

Ducks1984 is on to something.....the new laissez-faire NCAA gives new meaning to "package deal" Imagine the possiblities

This sounds like a modern version of an ageless phenomenon. But the NIL and transfer stuff makes it worse. My guess is this is not just limited to Oregon

Fawn Leibowitz? The Omega House (Neidermayer!) was the frat I pledged (Phi Kappa Psi) in 1983. In 1985 or 86, the Delta House (which was a women's health clinic I believe?) was condemned and demolished. In between those two events, we held memorial parties inside for weeks. Entertainment Tonight did a remote report from the site on the eve of destruction....my called the house immediately after seeing us on TV in the background. As others mentioned the interiors of the Delta House were shot in the Sigma Nu house which bookended the Delta House on the side of East 11th. Autzen Stadium has changed a lot....the Dexter lake Club, not so much.

Clearly, Mario thinks he knows offense. He has Mirabal for OL coach. Maybe he should be the OC and play-caller? The only problem with that arrangement is he would have to take the criticism when the 'Canes avg. 13 pts/game.

things to make you go hmmmmm

Thanks, Utah....I am back off the ledge now. I appreciate the thoughtful pushback. I can go with the narrative that the problem with the roster isn't talent, but development. Plus scheme played a role in dampening enthusiasm some I am guessing. As for recruiting rankings.....perhaps I am guilty of oversimplification. I wish there was a look-back at recruiting ranking efficiency. I have to operate off of my memory and anecdtoe. But, the number of PNW 4 and 5 star talent that has not lived up to potential that I remember is not small. Most of them beat out by the 2 and 3 star players on our roster. We know that in the past, site moderator did rankings (poorly, I might add) which colors my judgment as well. Maybe the problem with the rankings for me is scale. Not all 5 stars are alike. KT was probably worth 7 stars for example. In the 3 star category the range is huge.....a high 3 star is degrees above a low 3 star it seems. In any event, I hope you are right and the sky is the limit next year.....I thought the same thing last year too.

Plus, De Laura is going to UA now. Through the years and coaches, these are the teams that always beat us when they shouldn't: 1. Stanford. Home or Away, they love to be our lone North division loss. 2. WSU: see above. 3. Away in the Desert late in the season: whether UA or the Fork, they play like the Steelers when we come to town. Often includes a starting QB season-ending injury as well. I usually reject mono-causal explanations, but this board convinced me that CMC was a game day weakness most Saturdays. Goofy scheme, rigid play-calling, poor clock management. Injuries clearly played a role, but you have to expect attrition every season.....so roster management may be a piece of the problem in 2021? I frankly wonder about the "talent composition score" or whatever it is that the recruiting sites tout as the holy grail of championship team construction. Sure, the past NC's have had stacked rosters. But, those sites hype recruiting for subscriptions. They get more excited about recruiting than the games half of the time. I think the ratings are less accurate the further down the list of top guys you go. Maybe the top 100 are pretty easy to spot and the Blue Bloods take 95% of them. But, I feel that ranking recruits number 101-500 is pure mysticism that the sites posit as rocket science. For example, I will take any southern 2-star over a 4-star West Coast recruit. I think especially OR and WA recruits are overrated. So, did the Ducks underperform this year because of Mario, AB, injuries or was the roster talent overrated? To predict an 11-1 season next year indicates to me that one thinks the problem was mostly MC. While I have come around to his deficiencies as a coach, I wonder if his recruiting prowess was, in part, a fallacy of the rankings and chasing top 10 classes rather than proper evaluation? If so, Lanning has even more work to do than better schemes, game plans and clock management. He has to maximize a roster that may have a lot of bloat on it. Plus, he has to overcome the monkey on our backs of that list above...the teams that slay dreams. I thought 11-1 was possible this season. Not so sure I have that confidence going into 2022, despite Darren's convincing arguments. If I am betting the ranch (it would have to be with a gun to my head), I say the O/U wins is 8. Definite losses: Georgia, Utah. Possible losses: BYU, Stanford (always), WSU, UA, OSU

The 3rd and 23 play was a microcosm of the Charger defense all year. They need to shore up the spine of that defense.

Bowerman and The Men of Oregon is a great read if you haven't already picked it up!

I am guessing that the bottomless pit of Husky hatred that triggers the bile ducts of this Duck fan may be a generational thing. Happy's post about the Apple Cup mirrors Duck fan experience with the Buttsniffer fans in the same era. Those 20th Century leghumper fans were the epitome of graceless cads. There will never be enough Schadenfreude at the doog downfall for me. But if I were a guy who was an undergrad in this Century I might be wondering what the fuss is about. After all we have owned their hidebound haunches since Wheaton scored. I suggest a 100-level first-year course in Duck football history that is mandatory for all incoming students. It could include some video clips from some oldtimers recounting the dark days of Husky humiliation: the urine bags, the filling of Autzen stadium, the RV's lining I5 adorned with purple and gold bunting. The night on the town in Eugene after another beatdown with chanting and fight songs echoing off the buttes..... I couldn't teach it though without some serious PTSD therapy. The father of my Lady Friend in those days was a Husky alum with one of those RV's......and I had to wait on their table at OES after the game.

I always feel that Washington recruits are overrated. Aaron Fentress on Talkin' Ducks this week basically stated that recruiting rankings are garbage.....that SEC 4 stars are not the same thing as Pac-12 4 stars. Back in the day, the Dawgman.com moderator evaluated the King County talent and all of them were 4 and 5 stars. Cody Bruns was that camel's final straw.

Speaking for me, I am still somewhat stuck in the mindset of the buttoned-down NCAA era with constant focus on avoiding sanctions, honoring commitments between amateur student-athletes and athletic departments, the bowl system and trying to win with an innovative system to compete with the blue bloods. The future (present?) is pay-for-play, free agency (portal), brand promotion (facilities/social media), talent acquisition (recruiting) coaching (strategic management) and distribution (conference alignment, media contracts). I read you as advocating for a balls-out blitzkrieg approach to the new reality. Makes perfect sense and I agree that it represents the Ducks best course for survival. Yet it leaves me nostalgic for what was. On the other hand, I am too old for 9pm kickoffs and commuting from Portland. So, onward into the breach young Ducklings, call forth the Ducks of war. I'll wheeze and cheer from my man cave. At least until the final season of Better Call Saul finally airs.

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