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Kelly Graves cursing at an opposing team seems TOTALLY out of character from my observations. On the other hand the Arizona coach has apparently been caught at least twice publicly flipping off an opponent. I've noticed a fairly aggressive demeanor from her in the past. The linked article reads like a weak attempt to justify poor behavior by Arizona. Unless I see something concrete I don't believe the accusation.

A staff member who is prohibited from direct off campus contact with a recruit is visiting high schools it is a violation waiting to happen. For example if the staff member and the high school coach are meeting and a potential recruit walks in that is a secondary violation. Should it happen a few times it could easily be considered a primary violation. It may be the case they are just doing background screening at a recruits school but it is akin to playing Russian roulette. Recruiting rules must have changed.

Obviously a visiting recruit interacts with a large number of staff but I've always thought that off campus recruiting was the exclusive venue of the head coach (with limitations) and the ten person staff of on field assistants. Today Director of Recruiting Don Johnson tweeted the following. He isn't an on field assistant. In this new free for all of college sports does anybody know the rules?

One small mitigating factor is walk ons can enter the portal. For them it almost makes sense, gets their name out there and maybe they pick up a scholarship. Possibly what happened Cross Patton at Nevada.

The article is disturbing on a couple levels. First a players parents and relatives get attacked for where a kid opts to go to school? What is wrong with people? Second is the single minded obsession Bru had with football. I don't know if his parents encouraged him or just allowed it to happen but, IMO, it is not particularly healthy. The domestic violence allegation could well be the result of a kid totally lost because he can't play a game. Shades of Todd Marinovich. "He thought attending Mater Dei, instead of going to neighborhood Palos Verdes High School, was the best option to achieve his college football dreams. Shelby woke him up every day at 5 a.m., making him egg-and-cheese burritos or bacon-and-egg bagel sandwiches, and he'd be out of the door by 5:45 a.m., in time to lift weights in Orange County by 7 a.m. He'd attend class and practice for the rest of the day, having double responsibilities as a two-way player, not coming home until 9 at night. Sometimes he struggled to keep his eyes open while they drove home on the 405 because he was so exhausted."

Not sure how well he can run routes carrying all his baggage. Didn't he enroll at USC, transfer to Texas and then back to SC? Third or fourth time in the portal. A judge Thursday denied a bid by attorneys for USC wide receiver Bru McCoy for a stay on the school’s July 28 indefinite emergency order removing him from campus four days after a felony domestic violence arrest.

Taking a pay cut, this year he got $5.6 million, new contract will average $4.7 per ESPN. Another tidbit from the worldwide leader in sports "Kelly confirmed last month that he was in touch with his former employer, Oregon, about its head-coaching vacancy after Mario Cristobal left Eugene for Miami."

Pretty much summarizes how I view basketball now. I watched part of last nights game. Glad to see them win but I don't really feel any connection to the players. Polar opposite to the Kamakizi Kids days.

The 1976 team returned to Eugene Sunday morning to be met by a large cheering crowd and members of the pep band playing Mighty Oregon. I should add Oregon broke the UCLA 98 game home winning streak with the victory.

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Okay, KT's comments regarding another schools academics were as ill advised as Jimmy Lake's. That said, to challenge someone to a test that purports to measure native cognitive ability as proof that ones education is superior is also inane.

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Crepea is posting cliffnotes items from Lanning's press conference. Anyone else think he is referring to Florence? -- “It’s full steam ahead Oregon” and was the minute the CFP title game ended. Says he was on a FaceTime call with a player he was recruiting to Oregon immediately after the game.

Well, Oregon just lost two running backs to the portal so we have room. Just kidding.

UCLA DC and former Oregon DL coach Jerry Azzinaro has resigned

Obviously assistants have direct on field coaching duties and can interact and instruct the players. I think GA's duties are similar, they can be at practice and instruct players. Analysts are restricted to film study such as breaking down practice video and whatever 'back office' type responsibilities are assigned. They cannot perform coaching or teaching duties. Can anyone clarify or elaborate?

The article states Jake Long is joining the staff as inside LB coach. Isn't the limit ten on field assistants? Oregon already lists Lanning and ten position coaches. Should we assume Mr. Long is a grad assistant? The age is about right, 'Bama listed him as a 5"9' 228 lb dl whose last year was 2016.

Opening filled, that didn't take long. Standout transfer quarterback Cameron Ward announces commitment to Washington State

Before the season started ... Nick Saban says Alabama QB Bryce Young nearing $1M in NIL deals Alabama coach Nick Saban on Tuesday detailed just how lucrative those NIL deals have been for his quarterback. Saban, speaking at the Texas High School Coach Association's annual convention, said Young is nearing $1 million in NIL money. "Certain positions, probably, enhance opportunities to create value, like quarterback, and our quarterback already has approached ungodly numbers — I'm not going to say what they are — and he hasn't even played yet," Saban said (via The Athletic). "Hasn't even started. ... It's almost seven figures. And it's like, the guy hasn't even played yet. But that's because of our brand."

I'm 100% behind an alternative arrangement. Let the SEC have their own sandbox and only play each other during both the regular and post season. How long before the Vanderbilt's and Kentucky's decided the Alliance had greener grass?

Sad to see this thread taking on a "we didn't want him anyway" flavor made popular by bitter Huskies in years past. Right or wrong the kid envisions himself as another KT. It isn't surprising he followed KT's trifecta of HC, d-line coach, and S&C to Miami. Be classy, wish him well and move on.

Totally agree with Charles, nothing to see except the headline. I'm not surprised, the author has posted seventeen articles on that one site in the past 24 hours. How much time can he devote to each one?

Didn't Francis "transfer" to Oregon State for his senior year? As he would be required to sit out a year he exhausted his eligibility and could enter the draft.

At first I thought the list was only modern era alumni until I saw Russ Francis. What about Pro Football Hall of Famers Gary Zimmerman, Dan Fouts, 'Marvelous' Mel Renfro, and some guy named Dave Wilcox? The Dutchman Norm Van Brocklin is a bit of ancient history. Any history buff writers out there? Jester just did a nice post about Len Casanova, how about a short weekly article profiling one of the Oregon greats, must have played prior to 1980? How many remember George Shaw was the #1 pick in 1955 by the Baltimore Colts? Broke his leg and was replaced by his backup Johnny Unitas, who had been cut the year before by the Steelers.