If you are like me, watching the BCS show on Sunday evening made your blood boil. Even though I was expecting (and bracing myself) for us to drop, it didn’t make it any easier to watch the Ducks move down to the #4 spot, despite a blowout win against the Arizona State Sun Devils. Though a rational part of my …
Recruiting Recap: “I Want to be a Duck” & New Running Backs Emerge
Football Recruiting News Last Tuesday night, I was catching up on some reading when I received a report alert via my iPhone. “Thomas Tyner decommits…” I was floored. Yet, after the initial 10 seconds of shock, I thought, “Oh, he’ll be back.” That moment of peaceful wisdom was confirmed not two days later when Tyner (4-Star/Beaverton, OR/Rivals#6RB) recommitted after taking some …
If It’s October, It’s Time For Basketball!
Can you believe that it’s time to be watching basketball again? It doesn’t seem so long ago that we were tracking how our beloved Ducks were performing in the NIT! The ride is about to start and if you’re like me then you’re eager to see our Ducks play and get into the post season. What’s in store this year? …
Is Chip Taking Kindness Too Far?
Say what you want about Chip Kelly, but in his 3+ years at Oregon, one common theme has emerged: His teams – after finding themselves up by 30, 40, even 50 points in two quarters – have played conservative second halfs more often than not. As far as I’m concerned, it’s time for that to stop. On Thursday night, as …
A New Brand of Versatility in Oregon Football
1964 brought one of the most significant changes to the layout of college football in the history of the game. That year, the NCAA erased the rule requiring its athletes to play on both sides of the ball, marking a return to the so-called ‘two-platoon system.’ This rule change was quite significant, because it allowed players to specialize and focus …
Notes from Around the College Football Nation: Gators Swamp Spurrier and Tide Still Rolling
After this week, we can really see who made a statement to be in the title game. We can pretty much take West Virginia out of all title and Heisman talks…welcome to the BIG-12. SEC looks to place at least two teams in the BCS…so what else is new? After this week we are definitely in for a true offense …
Broadcast Ideas for the Pac-12 Network
There are 8766 hours in a broadcast year. If you agree with me that the 3-0 Oregon State/Pittsburgh Apparently the Pirates Sun Bowl can only be shown so many times, there are a lot of hours that need to be filled. Seeing Rick Neuheisel on a continuous loop does great harm to my blood pressure so I have come up …
HELLO, SEC…MY NAME IS OREGON
It’s too early, I know. There are five games left, I get it. But after last night, my God…it’s hard not to think “what if” when envisioning an Oregon vs. “whoever-survives-the-SEC” matchup. This is not your father’s Oregon Ducks. Hell, it’s not your slightly older brother’s Oregon Ducks. This is something different. This is something…special. The final score may have read …
FishDuck Game Review: A Half of Near-Perfection Lets Ducks Cruise Over ASU
It was SUPPOSED to be the first real test for both teams, SUPPOSED to be either the next step towards a championship or validation for a new regime, SUPPOSED to be another typical Thursday thriller continuing the long-standing trend of upsets and nail-biters, SUPPOSED to be a lot of things. In the end it proved very little, except that Oregon …
Beyond Kenny Wheaton
As I sat with of my friends in Autzen Stadium, our anticipation was high. The 2012 version of Oregon versus Washington was about to start. We stood at our seats in Section 26 . Once again the stadium speakers screamed “Kenny Wheaton is gonna score!” Like the other 50,000 Duck fans at Autzen Stadium two weeks ago, we laughed and cheered. As …
Thomas Tyner Now Responsible For Bad Economy and Global Warming
For Duck fans who haven’t been hitting refresh on their Twitter every 30 seconds for the past 36 hours, here’s what you missed: Thomas Tyner, senior running back for Aloha (OR) High School, announced on Twitter that he was re-opening his recruiting process, and decommitting from Oregon. His decision is likely based on an Oregon Football policy that prohibits commits …
GAME 7 PREVIEW: OREGON AT ARIZONA STATE
After a much needed bye week, Oregon springs back into action tonight in the desert, when they take on the Sun Devils of Arizona State. The Ducks, 6-0 on the season and ranked #3 in the first BCS rankings, face their biggest challenge of the season in the Sun Devils, who are 5-1 overall and riding high under new coach …