Dr Hilarius

Thanks for the post, @jrw! If I am a HS senior 5* QB from Michigan, you better believe I’m taking an all-expense paid trip to the University of California Los Angeles in the middle of winter. Frankly, I might question the judgment and attitude of the HS senior 5* QB from Michigan who doesn’t take that trip. 😂 If he hasn’t already taken his official to Eugene, let’s hope he does it in Spring. 🙏

@Charles Fischer, You buried the lede. 😂 Or maybe you were building suspense. Either way, I am glad I read your article to the end. I thought for sure you were throwing in the towel, but instead, you invented the perfect solution! As a software engineer, I love automation to eliminate unnecessary resistance. And unnecessary resistance is exactly how I would describe those selfish posts. Let me know if I can help our beloved web developer in Sheffield! And thank you for maintaining the best sports forum on the web!! 🙏

Great question! I am a hard no on Lake for his lack of sportsmanship.

This is a fun game! Braggart? Maggot (if I had a strong Boston accent)? Bob Saget?

Mea Culpa. I was at least half right…

I was super excited about this hire, but I am super disappointed by the lack of awareness this article describes. I paraphrase… “Everyone has to earn everything. My son has never played a second of D1 football and has already earned QB1.” Deion deserves Slick Willy. I remember Willy complaining about the Eugene weather. Boulder will be fun for him. And isn’t Willy’s son also almost in college? Obviously, Willy Jr has already earned his starting spot on the Buffs. All that said, Deion fighting Riley for the most selfish recruits in the West will be a fun annual tradition.

Thanks for the lively retort, @DazeNconfused . I will reply w the same verve… Obviously, otherwise why would it even be a topic on this forum? There are 34 other coaches in the top 42 that are more interesting. Dilly’s offense couldn’t beat the Beavs and only looked dominant against Colorado and the P12 bottom feeders. Dilly couldn’t coach a backup to be better than a gimpy starter and couldn’t scheme his way to overcome a gimpy starter. When the roots rot, the tree dies. I would rather we get some fresh perspective. But I appreciate yours!

I don’t understand why being on the Gus Malzahn or Todd Graham coaching tree is something we should want for our next OC. I don’t care if GM and TG used the identical system as we did last year, both dramatically washed out of the power 5, and Graham was accused of maltreatment after leaving HI. These aren’t coaching trees, they’re ground cover.

The closest Caleb Williams comes to the Heisman is when he injured himself showboating the Heisman pose. This Trojanwire article clearly exemplifies the lack of critical reasoning resulting from a U$C education.

The takeaway: Riley either didn’t see or didn’t care about Williams’ display of an aggressively unsportsmanlike attitude. I’m not sure which would be worse.

fans who enter the field of play deserve whatever they are given. period.

I am loving the daytime broadcast network games, but Rod Gilmore is punishment.

Great block by Irving!!

The game hasn’t started yet, and the commentator already called it the Civil War.

Is the game on a diff channel while the Clemson game ends?

Interesting fun facts, but Canzano’s score prediction is ludicrous: 28-27 Beavs. No way Beavs score 28. No way Beavs hold Ducks to 27.

The trophy for the game formerly known as the civil war has been a platypus since 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_Trophy The Platypus Cup really is the most fitting name for the game IMHO, even better than civil war. It highlights the silly, nature-loving, Oregonian culture of both Ducks and Beavs.

If the Ducks were to win the Pac and Rose Bowl having lost to both UW and OSU, I personally would not feel the season was an unmitigated success. Sure, we’d all be talking about “overcoming adversity to save the season,” but there would always be an asterisk in my mind. A loss to one or the other might spice things up, but losing to both would leave a bad taste in my mouth no matter the final season outcome. So let’s go DL and OBD!! Beat the Beavs!!

Against the spread, the Ducks are currently tied for 5th. Pac-12 is well-represented in the top 5… #1 (tied) OSU #5 UO #5 WSU ATS

Is it Big Bird yellow?

Joel Klatt is simply wrong. No *real* competitor wants to beat up little fish. Big fish want to play in the big pond. I am 💯 sure both MC and DL promoted that GA game on the recruiting trail—to say both that we’re in the same league as the big boys and that we make it to their hoods frequently. And let’s look at the receipts. OBD’s loss to GA has them as the best 1-loss team that hasn’t also beaten AL. The coaches, AP, and Committee all agree that the Dux are in the hunt. If we had beaten Fresno St in game 1, we would have all been hand-wringing about SOS right now. It is better to have tried and failed then to never have played at all.

Dangit! Curiosity got the best of me, and I had to look up our fumbles lost stat. Please don’t hate me for jinxing it. It’s a big fat Zero! OBD sit alone as the only FBS team to not lose a fumble yet. Crazy enough, USC and Cal are tied for 2nd w 1 lost. FBS Fumbles Lost

Just curious, which of our defensive backs aren’t 4 and 5 stars? I thought we were pretty well stocked.

I am old enough to remember when Juwan Johnson was a spritely WR transfer from Penn St.. He was also Herbert’s favorite target in the Rose Bowl. Mari0 was a real handicap. Just sayin…

@Chas Man That is some 13-D chess. I think you’re def right that coaches aren’t going to show anything interesting in garbage time. TT should have all the non-interesting stuff down cold, but he clearly doesn’t.