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I attended the evening session. Great result and Oregon had fun, with things to clean-up: offensive off ball fouls, securing the ball, not a lot of offense box out rebounds. When starters were pulled, they really had fun watching the deep bench back ups playing and scoring. You could see this team is tight and supports each other. Not as high a % of Duck fans as I expected, there were more from Arizona. And while Oregon fans cheered for Arizona in the first game, the Arizona fans booed Oregon loudly. I felt that to be poor form. UW fans also added to the booing as expected. But many were incognito. Their UW gear hidden under coats as if embarrassed to rep their team (last place finishes in 18 team conference do that). Laughable that the booing stopped after that 18-2 opening salvo and the cat and dog fans shut up rest of the way. Arizona looked REALLY GOOD. They make the open and contested 3s that Liberty bricked. Have good inside paint offensive presence. Ducks can win but will be a big challenge. The Duck was great as usual. At a TV timeout he played “mud” by wrapping his seated legs and arms around a security guard’s ankles who had to be positioned on the court. Stayed there the whole time-out. So funny.

Paid $2M to lead UW to last place in B1G. Great Osobor announces transfer to Washington, where $2M in NIL is reportedly waiting for him SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Great Osobor will end up spending all four years of his college career playing under head coach Danny Sprinkle, who was hired by Washington in March.

7 wins in a row vs the puppies!

Deserves every penny. Consider where things would be if Wilcox was the guy as some wanted. Dan The Man.

And thankfully they also lose their senior QB Tommy Mollett to using up his eligibility. He was that team. 195 yards passing, 135 rushing. 3 total TDs. Fast and good arm. Only other contributors gave 38 yards and 27 yards rushing, respectively (on 22 shared carries). Defense did not impress. Not worried about the Fall.

Wish him the best. But sure feels he saw what Dante and others can do and was exposed to the work expectations.

The 4 bye teams gave up 85 of the first 91 points, all in losses. Say that out loud. Not a fluke. That is clear evidence that Rust matters. Even NFL does max 2 week byes in the NFL playoffs (and that team gets a home game).

Just brutal, it is sad. But vindicates the 2 UO coaching staffs who indicated he is not the guy. Tulane had 2 former 5 stars at WR including Mario Williams, yet Ty was beyond ineffective, missing wide open guys. Still looks dazed and confused, not able to process defenses nor go through progressions correctly. He should accept Tulane coach’s offer to stay and be the occasional wildcat Tayson Hill role as a back- up. This “ showcase” start just scared away even any legit group of 5 team looking at Ty in the portal.

Good for him!

Best quote I read today, “Following a 6-6 season, USC has had 18 players enter the transfer portal since it opened on Dec. 9.”

I do feel a top notch portal QB has to always be part of the strategy, along with HS recruiting. But also only if there is a match. Currently, not much in portal. Was not over the moon for Mateer and he followed his O coach to Sooners today. Maybe after bowls and player interest.

Prime Time brought his son on stage with him and Travis in Introductions. Poor form.

and even with a much tougher gauntlet and better results… Dillon QBR #2 in nation Sanders is hovering around 20, not far from guys like Tyler Shough and the dude from Syracuse. Lol

Voters signaling they don’t even have a QB in their top 3. Look for Skattebo to be close to top 4.

Colorado strength of schedule is in the 70s. Dillon beat three playoff teams (so far)

A more apt name is Cam Falling. No thanks, too CONSISTENTLY hurt. Even my Utah buddies want to move on from him.

That author writes, “a quibble could be offered that the Ducks didn’t square up with much quality opposition beyond Ohio State at Autzen Stadium” Why is nobody mentioning Oregon is the only team to play and beat 3 different playoff teams?! And beating #4 in playoff rankings while ~2000 miles from home is not quality opposition?! Its like they don’t pay attention on purpose.

Fan Duel odds changed to reflect the unbalanced seeding with Texas being put on Cotton Bowl side of bracket despite losing (and National Championship being in Georgia). Georgia +360 Texas +360 Oregon +380 Ohio St +500 3 of those on same side of bracket.

I took a moment to think back to that 1995 Rose Bowl against #2 Penn State, simply being happy to even be in that environment. And now we beat them and expected to win, going undefeated winning their conference. How far the ducks have come…still more to achieve.

His nose was so far up Penn St’s butt he could smell what they had for lunch. Poor form.

Great teams find a way when not everything is working right. This team did that. And despite not playing it’s best, the D did get two clutch picks to seal this. The O reminded me of Chip‘s. Felt they could do anything they needed.

ESPN Ratings Oregon (so far) has: 2 of the top 4 6 of the top 40 10 of the top 100 ESPN Football Recruiting - 300 Player Rankings WWW.ESPN.COM Where do the nation football recruits rank? Check out the player rankings on RecruitingNation.com

It feels this will look different after this weekend. Just focus on winning B1G. That said, this easily looks like a bracket set up with North side getting B1G into final and south side getting SEC into final. Top teams from each league are on same side of each other’s bracket. The 2 Power brokers at work to ensure each gets into Natty.

Big Ten Sideline Sports Network account labels this as #2 vs #4. Hmm, someone call the marketing and communications departments.

Good day to be a Duck, but not to be a Day.