Dr Hilarius

The difference this year, that was mentioned by several of the players after the game, was that there was zero drop-off between squads. We didn’t run up the score—we emptied the bench. We didn’t make mistakes or get penalties.We played like a CFP contender. And frankly, PSU played well. They were totally outmatched but didn’t make a ton of mistakes and played hard.

The math is off with the points—should be 81, but you love to see it:

The player absolutely knew but didn’t bring it up. He should be disciplined accordingly.

As an Angeleno, I can say that I NEVER see UCLA or USC sports on in public. It’s all NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. I would really like to know how they calculate the % of a market’s eyeballs they can expect to actually tune in.

Is that a new development? It was my understanding that we were allowed to use the Duck royalty-free after a picture emerged of Walt Disney wearing a U of O letter jacket with our Duck on it.

Wow! Not a single commit to UW in the top 25.

I am giving Geoff the benefit of the doubt and am reading his response sarcastically, in which case it was quite a sick burn. 🤣

This just isn’t how any of this works. The Pac-12 Championship isn’t an invitational, it’s a conference game. As others have mentioned, it would be an L in the conf championship game. How is the CFP committee going to judge a Pac-12 team that loses a conf champ game without recording a single stat? I don’t care if the team is 12-0 going into the game, there is zero chance the committee invites the loser to the CFP.

Here is the article explaining the WNBA salary study controversy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/02/forbes-cuts-ties-with-sports-business-columnist-deletes-piece-about-wnba-player-salaries/ “The story I’m telling is really simple,” Berri said. “You’ve made this gesture toward the G League to pay them more money and that’s an investment, but the WNBA wants more money and you call that a cost. That, to me, is the story.”

You answered your own question. The benefit of this conversation is to enlighten people that women’s sports and their profitability are thoroughly and easily misrepresented. Rather than divide us, we can agree that the people who run sports leagues do not have their athletes’ best interests in mind. This is not a controversial opinion. Let’s just apply the same skepticism to what “they” say about women’s sports to what “they” say about OBDs.

Respectfully, the premise of this argument isn’t entirely true. A study came out a few years ago that found women’s sports and athletes would be just as profitable if they were invested in at the same rates as men’s sports. The author of the study was promptly fired by his university due to pressure from the NBA. (It’s HH on a Friday so I will cite my sources later if requested.) Women’s sports are OWNED by mens sports and are deliberately underfunded to avoid competition. And several independent studies found that women’s sports leagues (including the NCAA) do “creative accounting” to artificially supress profits for women.

Utterly heartbreaking 💔

I don’t blame the Beavs for being upset. They are most definitely wrong about Phil Knight killing the conference—that was SUC’s Carol Folt. Can we revenue share with the Beavs??

Project much? Thanks so much @Charles Fischer for these threads—they are my fave.

I LOVE seeing the Beavs ahead of SUC! But UW at 7?!!! Pahleeze. Texas Tech at 11 makes that game more exciting. And alas, my beloved Tulane gets no love behind SUC and UCLA.

It’s the only game from last season that I kept on my DVR. We love to watch the look on Williams’ face as he watches his team implode then seals the loss with his own safety. It is so choice. I highly recommend.

Can someone explain to me the “cheating” to which all these SUC fans are referring? They seem to be really hung up on that, but there’s zero evidence of it. Am I missing something or is it just a dash of envy mixed with a sprinkle of projection? And rather than complaining about the B1G admitting a “community college,” shouldn’t they be complaining that a “community college” has way better facilities and coaching/on-field track record than SUC for the last 20 yrs? Thanks for compiling these threads and suffering through SUC message boards, @Charles Fischer! These are my faves. ❤️

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Official polling for “how do you feel about OR joining the B1G?” UCLA fans 2/2 “exciting” Penn St fans 1/1 “interesting”

There’s plenty of ways to dunk on U$C, but losing a close game to a very good Tulane team isn’t that embarrassing. I admit, the manner in which they lost—the safety—was pretty embarrassing. And the Tulane DC who architected the combo of series that lead to that safety is OUR co-DC now. 🤩 The $uckers should be very afraid.

In 2024, UW will be the 2nd largest school in the B1G after tOSU. U of O will be the 2nd smallest school after Northwestern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference

AND, it’s an improvement over the Pac-12 bc in the Pac the Ducks only played in LA every _other_ year. Now they will play in LA _every_ year. The one downside is that we’ll only have 1 or 2 home games against our own division each year.

Interesting—I didn’t lnow that. It makes me respect the B1G more. BUT, in addition to dropping to 8 conf games, this is another rule I’d like to change. The SEC practically mandates multiple FCS opponents. And our games against the likes of PSU, EWU, etc are always a fun regional matchup.

Welcome to the OBD forum @cicero grimes! I think you might be thinking of the Ducks 10 yrs ago. We have been getting bigger in the trenches and had arguably the best OL in the country last year. And we beat tOSU in the shoe a couple years ago. However, I really look forward to the ex-Pac teams proving themselves on the field. The way I look at it, it’s as if we distilled the Pac to its most exciting teams then added a bunch of home-and-homes against the B1G. And we can schedule our in-state rivals as a true preeminent OOC game. I would love it if the B1G dropped to 8 conference games and we added a 2nd ex-Pac team. In an ideal world… - 3 B1G games against the Pacific division - 3 B1G games against the West division (calling that division the “west” is going to drive me crazy forever) - 2 BIG games against the East division - 1 game against the in-state rival - 1 game against a former Pac member - 1 game against the Mountain West - 1 game against the FCS A girl can dream… 🤩

I am very surprised by the existence of even a scintilla of self-reflection from U$C fans. I don’t remember the last time I saw a post about USC on this site that wasn’t about the Pac/media deal, or an upcoming game, or to make fun if their obsession with us. Was it the Lane Kiffen tarmac firing or maybe the Sarkesian debacle? Did OBD Forum even exist then?