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Does the NCAA still have the power to bench a player for gambling? Brendan Sorby's layer, Jeff Kessler, has filed an injunction in Lubbock, Texas, asking for Sorby's eligibility to be reinstated because of Sorby's addiction to gambling. When Sorsby hired Kessler, I figured some kind of Americans with Disabilities Act was forthcoming. Texas Tech coach McGuire believes Sorby's attempt to have his eligibility restored is 'courageous.' Is it more courageous to fight for $4 million while seeking help, or simply to seek help? If 'Judge Roy Bean' decides Sorsby is good to go, then what is left for the NCAA to enforce if it can't enforce rules against gambling? What's to prevent, 'It isn't my fault, I only shaved points because I have a disease?' Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby files injunction against NCAA amid gambling probe - CBS Sports The eyes of the NCAA and CFB are upon Lubbock, Texas.

Post Spring, CBS likes the Bucks a little more than the Ducks - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-power-rankings-ohio-state-usc/

Meh! Don't count your Ducks before signing day, and if Mario wants to pay more for a no-experience rookie, that's fine. If you believe a CFB commitment matters, you should be committed. 😁 https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/recruiting/2026/05/17/oregon-recruiting-aiking-hall-flipped-miami-hurricanes/90133487007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&u

A take on the series from Trojans Wire - https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/baseball/2026/05/17/usc-baseball-drops-two-three-oregon-wild-series/90135936007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_

If the NCAA managed the CFB 'D1' PO, we would have had a 24-team field decades ago. Oregon Ducks On SIEffect That 24-Team Playoff Would Have Had on Previous Or...The College Football Playoff has been gaining momentum for 24 teams. The playoff went from four teams to 12 teams for the 2024 season and the field could double

Thanks, Gat. The B1G/SEC Volleyball Challenge is a good start. Now, if Greg would only straight-arm Mickey Mouse, we could go to a 24-team PO and B1G/SEC football challenge. How about starting the season with a cupcake and then playing four SEC vs. B1G out-of-conference games in Week 2 through Week 4? $how the Power 2 the $$$$ from must-watch matchups. Three in 2026: Ohio State at Texas, Oklahoma at Michigan, and Mississippi State at Minnesota is nice, but how about adding Florida at Oregon, UW at Bama, Georgia at USC, and Tennessee at Penn State, and other solid matchups. Home and home before rotating to the next opponent. WOW!

Thank you, Charles, for the most insightful post. The conference champion tournaments are taken into consideration, good to know. Conference tournament: It's in Omaha, but it's better for the 3-seed Ducks to match up in the semifinals against the 2-seed Nebraska, not top-seeded UCLA. GO YOU DIAMOND DUCKS!

Eye don't get it! Gods of sports, why do you feel the need to ground Ducks in the postseason! 🤬

Thanks, Steven, in this brave new world of over-the-table pay-for-play, programs need to strictly enforce written agreements with players. If every agreement is not enforced, large to small, the first time a player being paid six figures or more leaves, one of the 1st objections raised by defense counsel will be selective enforcement. These young people have agents who, at all times, are doing their best for themselves. Not all agents, of course, but unlike the NFL, CFB agents do not have to be approved by the NCAA or any other governing body. The suspect agents couldn't care less about a contractual commitment. 'After all, coaches can leave wherever they want.' A bogus argument because coaching contracts provide for liquidated damages to be paid to a coach's former employer. In the NFL, if a player attempts to transfer outside of the free agency period, his agent would lose his certification, and the cost to the new team between fines and loss of draft picks would be devastating. In CFB, Miami, Ole Miss, and others won't be concerned about poaching until there is a legal precedent, a bargained-for agreement with the athletes, or the College Sports Commission steps up to enforce the terms of the House settlement agreement, or conferences enforce rules against poaching. Congress to the rescue? Hmmmm. Until or if CFB has enforceable rules and regulations, out here in the Fields, you have to make players fight for their meals. 😁 Any Who ...

If I'm listening and watching BTN baseball coverage correctly, yesterday's win makes the Ducks the 3-seed in the B1G tournament in Omaha, and they play Nebraska in the semifinal round if both advance. No. 4 USC would face No. 1 seed UCLA. The top 4 teams have byes into the quarterfinal round. I think? Does any Forum Friend know how the NCAA Baseball Committee views these postseason conference championship games? If you are in the top 16 at the end of the regular season and are hosting 1st-round games, do you move up or down based on conference tournament play? (This assumes you are the baseball equivalent of BYU football, not Alabama 🤬.) Stay healthy, baseball guys; it was sad to see the softball team go down in Eugene with their best player on the bench. Sigh. Thanks again, Charles, for the terrific coverage of the Diamond Ducks.

YES! Suicide squeeze, if you please! 😍😍😍

How lowwww can you go? Sometimes, the Ump is your friend. 😁

Wouldn't it be nice for a team of Ducks to compete in the postseason with all hands healthy and on deck? Mercy!

Please, football gods, especially you Neptune, hold Kiffin under. Saturday Down South3 reasons why LSU will go under its win total in 2026LSU has sky-high expectations in Year 1 under Lane Kiffin, but will the Tigers be able to win big against a daunting schedule?

The Kudos for Danno have been earned and are well deserved - YardbarkerSEC Coach Explains Why Dan Lanning's Oregon Rise Was No A...Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning spent years doing the unglamorous work before becoming one of college football’s most talked-about coaches. The success speaks for itself: Since 2023 under Lanning, Oreg

About those TV ratings: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/05/15/notre-dame-football-acc-relationship-cfp-playoff/90083776007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaseline&utm_term=Content%20List%20-% And, FWIW, last season's champ game between Miami and Indiana drew millions more eyeballs than the Notre Dame vs. Ohio State champ game. If a Super Conference comes about, perhaps left behind Notre Dame and Miami can play a barnstorming tour on YouTube? Are the Irish and Hurricanes brands enough to overcome 'who in Hades wants these narcissists as a partner' behavior?

Rece tears Lane to pieces! 🤪 On3Rece Davis calls out Lane Kiffin for 'completely unnecess...ESPN's Rece Davis called out LSU head coach Lane Kiffin for his "completely unnecessary" comments about Ole Miss to Vanity Fair this week.

Watch Out! Delilah is back and yearning to hack.😁 Larry Brown SportsTrevor Lawrence looks unrecognizable after cutting his ha...Jacksonville Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence looked unrecognizable after cutting his hair for the team's schedule release video this week.

Thank you, Charles! Like discussobd.com, OBD's future is so bright that we all should join Cat Man and put on our shades. 😍 It's a singular honor to have the final article up on what has been a labor of love for you, Charles, and a safe haven to discuss all things having to do with the beloved Ducks. That you have arranged for another pond where we can discuss OBD is special. Thank you! Thank you, friend, MicroBurst 61, for the thought. But IMO, the first article on the new site should be written by Sir Charles or a veteran writer, such as David Marsh, Darren Perkins, Don Marsh, Eric Boles, Mike Whitty, Mike West, someone I've spaced out on, or a posting phenom like NJ Duck, Smith 72, or our own Steven A. Smith. All of our lives have been blessed by having Forum Friends in Eugene and thousands of miles away from Ducks HQ. BEAT BOISE!

Under the current 12-team PO, the home team has to provide 3500 seats for the visiting team, plus seats for a band if brought with, and that's it. The home team keeps all of the ticket and attendant revenue.

Pawallll weighs in - His book, My Conference Can Beat Your Conference, is available at a B1G discount. 😁 https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/paul-finebaum-on-lane-kiffin-s-ole-miss-diversity-comments-this-is-kiffin-trying-to-wipe-ole-miss-off-the-face-of-the-earth/ar-AA23bL24?ocid=msedgdhphdr&cvid=6a06390ee2bf4ae58251f4ec6ed058a0&cvpid=6a063911b6c34b7cbcb36f81

A look at OBD's CBB Men's schedule - Oregon Ducks On SIThree Takeaways From Oregon's Big Ten Schedule ReleaseThe Oregon Ducks' 2026-27 Big Ten basketball schedule was officially released on Tuesday. Following arguably their most frustrating year under coach Dana Altman

7/11 are numbers you want to see on a craps roll out, but no weddings, please, on 11/7. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon, Ohio State Headline Loaded Week 10 Schedule This...Week 10 of the 2026 college football season looks like it could be a loaded slate of big games including the Oregon Ducks going on the road to face the Ohio Sta

Thanks, NJ. Where's Georgia? When released by 247 Sports, Georgia will undoubtedly be among the top 5 in the composite team rankings. Players are being well compensated in Athens, mostly to stay on board and not out of the portal. It hasn't paid off in two out of the last three seasons, but I thought FSU would be on the list. Ditto USC and Michigan, the Ole Miss Basket-Weavers, and every CFB team with a Blue Chip roster. Do these numbers include $16 million, 80% of the allowed $20 million in revenue sharing, paid directly to football players? Who are not employees, right? I don't doubt that large sums of money are spent on CFB rosters, and the article is interesting, but is this more of a WAG than anything that can be verified? Looking at the ten teams on the list and a team's schedule, I think the following teams could miss out on a 2025-26 Playoff ROI, all from the SEC: Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, Texas A&M, and perhaps Texas? With nine conference games, if the SEC is as deep as the It Just Means More folks want us to believe, many SEC teams should have three or more losses in 2025. Five SEC teams on the list, and Sankey doesn't want to go to 24? I think he changes his position, or there will be a palace revolt in Birmingham.

Thanks, Eric, I'm in your what's the damage with 24 corner. Yes, if the NCAA and not a media company managed the FBS playoff, CFB would have been at 24 or more decades ago. The D2, D3, and FCS POs play only the champ game at a neutral site. Under the Petitti/Big Ten proposal, the first two rounds of the PO would be played on campus. Teams seeded No. 9 through No. 16 would host a 1st round game. The 1st round would be equivalent to CBB's play-in round. The top-seeded eight teams that receive a 1st-round bye would host a 2nd round game. The bye would be no longer than ten days. The season would begin on what is now Week 0. There would be no conference champ games unless flex-scheduled into the regular season. All teams would have two off weeks during the season. The season would conclude two weeks earlier than under the current system. It is estimated that a 24-team PO will bring in $600 million to over $1 billion additional dollars. ESPN would lose its PO broadcast monopoly with Fox, CBS, NBC, and others entering the bidding. Perhaps, we could then have a PO committee that, like the CBB committee, does its business in the light of day. The additional money would help sustain a Power 4 instead of a super-conference that would 'disenfranchise' millions of college football fans. A 24-team PO would neuter the subjectivity of the CFB PO committee. No team that deserved a spot in the field, Texas, BYU, Notre Dame, Utah, and UVA, USC, for example, would be left out. When Tony first proposed a 24-team PO, among the guffaws directed in his direction was the laughter over his comment that a four-loss Big Ten team would be worthy of a PO spot. Last season, 8-4 Iowa defeated a 10-2 Vanderbilt team. Two-loss Vandy was one of the SEC teams, besides the five in the field that Greg Sankey argued should be in the PO. Five teams in the field? How about no SEC team in the champ game in 2024 and 2025? Tony responded to the 24-team pushback. The automatic qualifier criteria have been dropped. The Big Ten now proposes a format with 23 at-large teams, with a spot reserved for a G6 team if not ranked in the top 24. Today, the Big Ten proposal has the support of the ACC, B12, and Notre Dame. The SEC is the lone holdout. Why? Because Sankey is carrying ESPN's PO broadcast monopoly water. ESPN wants no more than 16 teams in the field. Going to 24 will let other broadcast bidders in the door and also weaken ESPN's bowl season broadcast hegemony. The natives are restless in Dixie. With the SEC going to nine conference games in anticipation of a 16-team field, which the Big Ten blocked, numerous SEC ADs and coaches support a 24-team field. Keep an eye on this month's SEC meetings in Florida. The once vilified Tony Petitti played the long game. Tony is about to become the smartest guy in the room. Either you leverage the CFB postseason game inventory by expanding the field, sell the inventory via a private equity or private capital deal, or go to a Super Conference with many ACC and B12 teams left behind, and less money for the G6. But what about tradition? What, if any, college football tradition other than the games themselves is left? The NCAA lost its college football monopoly in the 1980s. It's been every team and conference for itself since, and the move to 24 is the next inevitable step. As proposed by Tony Petitti, as early as next season, I believe the PO field will expand to at least 16 teams for two seasons to accommodate scheduling changes and then expand to 24. This will not kill the regular season. Millions more CFB fans will have a dog in the PO postseason hunt. Coach, it's always great to read your Forum takes.