My Duck-Buddies....below is the first published article from the new FishDuck.com site, and it was quite a surprise for me today. I was told that they were not going to be publishing articles about Oregon football, but when you go to the site--it is evident they will be. I will let them be published here in the forum for now as we get adjusted to their new content.

In their "About Us" area, they explain that, "Our reporters are AI agents — each drafts original, well-researched stories that are fact-checked and approved by human editors before publishing."

A new business model in the AI world? Let's see how it goes since it is a slow time anyway, and another article is fine. BTW...it published in the forum this morning automatically as it did before!

It goes to show that I have to remove all vestiges of the FishDuck name from my association, as I am "Mr. OBD" now! And it says that the site began in 2014? Wrong!

It was 2011...

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Michigan enters 2026 under a brand-new coaching staff, but according to Addicted To Quack, the sweeping “clean slate” narrative attached to the Wolverines this offseason doesn’t hold up under closer scrutiny. For Oregon fans tracking Big Ten contenders, Michigan’s rebuild under new head coach Kyle Whittingham is worth understanding as the Ducks continue to navigate the conference.

A Coaching Overhaul, But Not a Scandal Story

Whittingham arrived in Ann Arbor bringing a batch of assistants from his Utah and BYU staffs, officially closing the book on the Jim Harbaugh era since no on-field coaches remain from Michigan’s 2023 national championship squad. Addicted To Quack, drawing on a podcast conversation with Jake Singer of Maize n Brew, pushed back on the idea that this transition was scandal-driven.

The site notes that everyone connected to the various NCAA and criminal investigations from Michigan’s past — including Harbaugh, Steve Clinkscale, Jesse Minter, Chris Partridge, Denard Robinson, Connor Stalions and Matt Weiss — had already exited the program well before the 2025 season. Last year’s staff, by contrast, wasn’t accused of wrongdoing. It was the firing of head coach Sherrone Moore at season’s end, tied to personal conduct issues rather than any broader scandal, that ultimately brought down that group.

Roster Stability Despite the Staff Turnover

Perhaps the bigger surprise, per the report, is how little the player personnel has actually changed. Rather than a roster fire sale, Addicted To Quack describes Michigan’s program as one of the most stable developmental pipelines in the Big Ten heading into 2026. There have been portal departures and additions — some with expected Utah or BYU ties given Whittingham’s background — but the overall churn is described as typical for the current transfer-portal era rather than anything dramatic.

Whittingham’s Real Value: Program Building, Not Playcalling

Addicted To Quack argues Whittingham’s true strength lies less in scheme and more in long-term program management and personnel decisions — meaning his fingerprints on Michigan may not fully show until 2027 at the earliest. The site suggests national media has historically misread Whittingham’s Utah tenure by crediting him for on-field concepts actually delegated to assistants, when his real skill was running the operation behind the scenes.

That management style is already visible in some of Whittingham’s early moves. He replaced Michigan’s entire strength and conditioning staff with people who worked alongside him for more than two decades in Salt Lake City, while dismissing several position coaches — including tight ends, receivers, offensive line, defensive ends, linebackers and defensive backs — along with both offensive and defensive playcallers. Notably, Sherrone Moore’s staff never had a dedicated quarterbacks coach at all.

At the same time, Whittingham kept the running backs coach and the defensive tackles coach (who later left for an NFL job), the recently hired special teams coach, and shifted the receivers coach into a front-office recruiting role. Addicted To Quack frames these retention decisions as a deliberate effort to preserve local recruiting relationships and institutional trust rather than a top-down purge — a distinction that matters as Oregon and the rest of the Big Ten size up Michigan’s trajectory heading into the season.

Read the full article here...

After looking over about 15 articles published today--I am realizing that the "new" FishDuck site is just a regurgitation of prior articles that our Duck News Hunters have posted. Their articles are, "articles about articles" and the one above is from an article from Addicted to Quack that we already posted.

We don't need redundant articles, so I am asking the volunteers who post articles for us to delete FishDuck articles that are a reference to another article with "blah-blah" added to it.

I never thought I'd be recommending against articles from FishDuck! I will not refer to the site as "new" FishDuck anymore, as new implies better. They are "AI FishDuck" now, and I'd rather have real writers in a heartbeat!

I don't know who is editing their articles, but one this morning states that tOSU's Bo Jackson will likely lead the B1G in rushing to make up for the production lost as Carnell Tate and Jeremiah Smith have departed. Hmmmm.

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Bold Prediction: Ohio State’s Bo Jackson Could Lead Big T...

A Yahoo Sports analysis predicts Ohio State back Bo Jackson tops the Big Ten in rushing yards in 2026 — a stat Oregon's defense should note.

12 minutes ago, EastBayDuckDad said:

I don't know who is editing their articles, but one this morning states that tOSU's Bo Jackson will likely lead the B1G in rushing to make up for the production lost as Carnell Tate and Jeremiah Smith have departed. Hmmmm.

Yep, they wrote...an article about an article, and they don't even extend the courtesy of linking the referenced article--even after using it as a topic.

Again...our Duck News Hunters, NJDuck, Steven A., Smith72, and Jon Joseph, are already sorting out duplicates among articles and posting the best ones that deliver the news about Oregon sports. They put in a ton of time on our behalf, and I am very grateful for their volunteer time given.

They know that we do not need redundant articles that concludes with, "what Oregon needs to watch out for."