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Everything posted by Jon Joseph
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WSJ - High School Millionaires and Big Spenders (Including Dakorian Moore)
Show me the money, Jerry! Jerry McGuire wouldn't make it as an "agent" in this environment.
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I Wonder How Much He Bet on This Outcome . . . Sorsby Can Play
Hell of a Settlement - 😧- And UGA President Morehead, you need better lawyers - Will this stuff ever stop? https://sports.yahoo.com/college-sports/article/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-ncaa-power-conferences-and-college-sports-commission-over-house-settlement-211641425.html
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I Wonder How Much He Bet on This Outcome . . . Sorsby Can Play
I think and hope that a 'commissioner' of a super league could make a ruling, including vacating wins, regarding player eligibility, etc., and the 'aggrieved program' would not hire a lawyer(s) and race to a local, elected judge to stay the ruling. I expect any such ruling would be subject to an appeal to a review board, which could limit third-party judicial intervention. The penalty for litigating after a commissioner's ruling is upheld by a review board should be draconian, including expulsion from the Super League. Cody Campbell is the spokesperson for the Protect Whatever Act? I haven't seen this kind of hypocrisy since Miami AD Paul Dee, whose own house was a raging inferno, called in a 10-alarm fire to hose down a campfire at USC. The Cruz and Cantwell Bill is the Group of 8 vs. the Power 2. Enough of the denial from Sankey and Petitti. Take the next logical step in a business that is form vs. substance amateur in nature and form a Super League, with university leaders ready to call what players being paid are, 'employees', and enter into a CBA with the athletes. Cut no existing B1G and SEC member teams, and do no poaching of any other teams, including the Domers, before existing media agreements with ND and other conferences expire. Then, respond to those seeking Super League membership. If you build it, they will come. Do not attempt to renegotiate with Fox and ESPN before the respective media deals expire. Fulfill existing OOC game agreements and conference champ game agreements. Fulfill 12-team PO obligations until the ESPN broadcast deal expires. Where's the antitrust violation(s)? Yes, the Super League would have strong market power, but not monopoly power. Consolidation by the Power 2 would not terminate existing broadcast agreements with other conferences. The ACC, B12, and the G6 million-dollar media agreements would not be affected. Nothing would prevent the other eight conferences from consolidating as they so decided. Strike now before Cody Campbell, Nick Saban (?), Judge Roy Bean, and the government come to the rescue.
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I Wonder How Much He Bet on This Outcome . . . Sorsby Can Play
Drastic times call for drastic measures - https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/06/09/brendan-sorsby-eligible-college-football-playoff-should-ban-texas-tech-cfp/90467097007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usa
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2026 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (4)
Beware of Trojans bearing gifts - https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2026/06/09/top-recruit-oregon-football-offensive-line-big-test-usc/90458954007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_mediu
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2026 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (4)
Trojans Wire - Look out for the Ducks D line. https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2026/06/09/usc-football-2026-game-oregon-won-lost-line-play/90379054007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=e
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Marsh Duck - Does Dan Lanning Have a Big Game Problem?
I echo, it's good to have David Marsh and his articles back. Good comments all and fantastic research by AnotherOD. In this so-called playoff, which is really a Disney/ESPN Bowl Extravaganza, the format is weighted in favor of teams located in the Southwest and the Southeast. Two of the host bowls are in the West, the Rose and Fiesta Bowls. The other four bowls are played East of the Rockies in states where the SEC has a team, and also closer to schools in the East and the Midwest. The distance from Bloomington, Indiana, to Atlanta, Georgia is 514 miles. 2,611 miles from Eugene to Atlanta. How many Oregon fans, especially the students, could afford to travel to Miami, then Atlanta, and then to Miami if the Peach Bowl had been won? With airfares and hotel prices jacked up. The 2026-27 playoff championship game will be played on January 25, 2027, in Las Vegas. The only time under the 12-team format that the championship game is scheduled to be played in the Pacific time zone. In every other season but 2026-27, five of the seven off-campus games will be played at least two time zones away from Eugene. Tony Petitti's PO format would provide some relief from travel, with eight home games in each of the first two rounds, and with a shorter bye and a home game for the top eight seeds. Considering where Oregon is located, the majority of the population living in the Central and Eastern time zones, the Rose Bowl insisting that the game has to be played on New Year's Day, SoFi having two NFL tenants, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas not being a permanent PO game site, as it should be, OBD, and every other team located in the Pacific and Mountain time zones better be ready to fasten their PO seat belts. Of course, if the D1 PO were managed by the NCAA like every other CFB PO, only the champ game would be played away from campus. As to AOD's point on conditioning, keeping the players healthy and rested has worked well for Curt Cignetti, who learned when coaching lower division teams that you could not risk the health of the best players on a talented-limited roster. 2026 is Dan's 5th season. Ryan Day and Kirby Smart won their first titles in their sixth season. Keep on knocking, and there will be a positive answer.
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OFF TOPICS: For Your Interest (9)
Everything is bigger in Texas! Including Sark's Pie Hole 🤪 https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2026/06/08/steve-sarkisian-spent-offseason-yapping-texas-longhorns-football-must-back-it-up/90409255007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_med
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Oregon Relievers Falter and End Ducks' Season, 6-5
Oregon is an SEC-like team. Thanks, coach, I think? Football, and Men's and Women's CBB are debatable, but there is no question that the SEC leads the league when it comes to baseball. The climate helps. Up North it's🥶. Oregon Ducks On SITexas Coach Jim Schlossnagle’s ‘Shame’ Quote Says Everyth...Texas Longhorns baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle believes it is a shame that the Oregon Ducks aren't headed to Omaha for the College World Series. The Ducks fle
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I Wonder How Much He Bet on This Outcome . . . Sorsby Can Play
I don't think the rest of the B12 will stiff-arm Texas Tech in 2026, but I understand the sentiment. On3Brendan Sorsby ruling: Big 12 teams reportedly having 'se....
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I Wonder How Much He Bet on This Outcome . . . Sorsby Can Play
AMEN! SIBrendan Sorsby Ruling Shows There Are No Rules Left for C...The NCAA’s bylaws are clear, and yet the Texas Tech quarterback’s admitted gambling will not prevent him from playing this fall thanks to a court’s decision.
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I Wonder How Much He Bet on This Outcome . . . Sorsby Can Play
Judge Roy Bean is alive and well. Are you spitting me? Yes, officer, I had too much to drink, and I was swerving and driving 110 mph, but it's not my fault, I'm an alcoholic! You can't send me to jail! I'll go back to AA, I promise. People who had no intention of following the terms and conditions of the House settlement paid hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees instead of seeking another alternative. Why? To keep the mammary glands on the NCAA bull alive. But this just in, the NCAA did punish North Dakota State for tampering. Time for Atlas to shrug? Everyone goes D3. Or, the B1G and the SEC say so long to the NCAA, at least for football and men's basketball. But what makes anyone think that programs that refused to follow NCAA rules would follow Power 2 rules? Texas Tech's Cody Campbell is going to save college football, right? Make it 'fair' for everyone. After ignoring Sorby's contract with Cincinnati and turning a blind eye to a player gambling, gambling on his own team.
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Oregon Relievers Falter and End Ducks' Season, 6-5
Far better effort. The team played hard all season. Keep knocking on the door, and one day it will open. Thanks again, Charles, for the terrific coverage of the Diamond Ducks.
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2026 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (4)
Get Ready for some B1G Football - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/big-ten-football-schedule-features-182809262.html
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Lack of Timely Hits and Pitching Dooms Ducks, 11-3
Turn Bevo into a short-horn. Oregon Ducks On SIOregon Baseball vs. Texas: Starting Pitchers, How to Watc...The Oregon Ducks baseball team is facing elimination vs. the Texas Longhorns in the Austin Super Regional. Will the Ducks' shot at the College World Series end
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Lack of Timely Hits and Pitching Dooms Ducks, 11-3
Holy Gilligan! OBD stranded more people than the good ship Minnow. Find those bats today and Beat Bevo!
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Lack of Timely Hits and Pitching Dooms Ducks, 11-3
Looking at the score, I'd guess the Georgia game came down to missed extra points? 😁 That was fun. What a slug fest. Go Dawgs!
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Lack of Timely Hits and Pitching Dooms Ducks, 11-3
Keep on a walkin'!
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Lack of Timely Hits and Pitching Dooms Ducks, 11-3
RISP - 0-6 - 🤔😧🤬
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QB or Not QB?
Past performance is not indicative of future results. The SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission. However, in college football, we look back when we predict the future. Will Indiana go 16-0 again? Not likely, but it also isn't likely that the Hoosiers will return to the No Smoking days before Cig showed up. Below are the 2025 ESPN Adjusted Quarterbacks Rankings (QBR) for Oregon's 2026 opponents, B1G QB rankings for conference teams not on the schedule, and other 2026 QB rankings of note for returning QBs. Baseline - No. 18 Dante Moore - Oregon - 77.4. Potential 1st round draft pick Moore's QBR was dinged by bad weather games at Iowa and vs. Wisconsin, and a Peach Bowl performance that wasn't peachy. No. 57 Dylan Raiola - Oregon - 63.1 - Wait 'Till Next Year! Big Ten QBR for Oregon opponents, B1G and otherwise. 1 Jayden Maiava - USC - 91.2 - Finishes ahead of QBR No. 1 Mendoza in 2025 Adjusted QBR - Adjusted for quality of opponents, game site, etc. (Google It 😁) 2 Julian Sayin - Ohio State - 89.6 - Heisman finalist - Postseason 0-2 24 Demond Williams - UW - 76.3 - Not a road warrior in 2025 25 Drew Mestermaker - Oklahoma State - 74.4 - Most passing yards in FBS 28 Bryce Underwood - Michigan - 73.0 - Function better in a functional environment? 31 Anthony Colandrea - Nebraska - 71.7 - G6 to Power 2? 40 Aiden Chiles - Northwestern - 68.3 - Ready to Win the Day? 54 Katin Houser - Illinois - 64.0 - Champagne in Champaign, Illinois? 67 Nico Iamaleava - UCLA - 60.6 - Better surrounded by better coaches and players? 69 Maddux Madsen - Boise State - 59.5 - Make no misState, the opener is Boise's 2026 Super Bowl 75 Malik Washington - Maryland - 58.3 - Finish Son, finish. NR Alessio Milivoijevic - Michigan State - Back of the jersey guy: Good luck! OTHER B1G Conference QBs - 27 Josh Hoover - Indiana - 73.2 - Can you hear Fernando's drums? 38 Colton Joseph - Wisconsin 69.3 - Badgers going to a Jo-Jo! 55 Rocco Becht - Penn State - 63.6 - Good at ISU, PSU? 60 Drake Lindsey - Minnesota - 62.3 - Improve, and its drinks all around! 89 Ryan Brown - Purdue - 56.5 NR - Iowa Jeremy Hecklinski and Rutgers AJ Surace Not B1G, but big-name returning QBs, and one not returning? 5 Trinidad Chambliss - Ole Miss/ 6 Gunner Stockton - Georgia/ 8 CJ Carr Notre Dame/ 10 Brendan Sorsby - Texas Tech/ 14 Darian Mensah - Miami 34 Arch Manning - Texas/ 47 John Mateer - Oklahoma/ 49 Sam Leavitt - LSU 65 LaNorris Sellers - South Carolina/ 88 JKS - Cal _______________________________________________________________________________________ And an ESPN 2026 TOP QB Room WAG https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48818009/2026-college-football-138-fbs-quarterback-tiers-season-arch-manning-cj-carr One Archie = Dante + Dylan? Darian Mensah 9-5 in 2025 and playing behind a new O Line in Miami? CJ Carr - Look at the schedule, CJ will be a star. His best win in 2025? USC at home in a rain storm? But in the bowl game... Looking at actual on-field results in 2025, Oregon plays four opponents quarterbacked by QBR 2025 top 25 QBs Maiava, Sayin, Williams, and Mestermaker. Mountain West MVP Colandrea and Mountain West champion QB Madsen. 5* recruits Bryce Underwood and Nico Iamaleava. That's a pretty good staff of opposing pitchers. Speaking of which -HOSE THE HORNS! BEAT BOISE!
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USC Stuns, Startling Stats, and a Bold Oregon Prediction
USC shut out by UNC in game 2. Hopefully, Troy will win the alphabet soup battle and capture Chapel Hill tomorrow. Always appreciate a visit from Baghdad Bob.😁
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Greg is not alone in dissing the idea of a CFB Super League. This from his 'friend,' Tony P - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tony-petitti-calls-idea-big-025318447.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJYduMp3-pUPjALWhigIn8I_2Fa-xZmknWDA-sBqnISYXaFkrv5 The Bill's title should be: The G8 vs. the Power 2, with a side order of Notre Dame.
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Greg is not alone in dissing the idea of a CFB Super League. This from his 'friend,' Tony P - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tony-petitti-calls-idea-big-025318447.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJYduMp3-pUPjALWhigIn8I_2Fa-xZmknWDA-sBqnISYXaFkrv5 The Bill's title should be: The G8 vs. the Power 2, with a side order of Notre Dame.
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
My conference is super, but we don't want a Super League. AP NewsSEC's Sankey says superleague idea 'not consistent with t...Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there’s no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league as “not consistent with the truth.”
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Oram on New Oregon State AD
Yep. East to West and vice versa, OSU does not = OSU.