Last night, the Ducks landed a huge commitment from RB Dontre Wilson, out of DeSoto, TX. A unanimous four-star across all four major recruiting services, Wilson is one of the best backs in the country. He picked the Ducks over Ohio St. and Texas, but also held offers from the likes of Arkansas, Baylor, Clemson, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oklahoma …
FishDuck Guide to Film Excellence
It looks like the weather is going to be nice this weekend…if you don’t count Sunday as part of the weekend. The spring brings so many different weather patterns to the Pacific Northwest that it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. A movie sounds good. And something tells me that you would like to see something with …
Bennett or Mariota? Why it doesn’t matter
As the Oregon Ducks football team prepares this summer for the upcoming 2012 season, many personnel questions will remain unanswered, as voluntary practices and workouts will continue to go unseen for the foreseeable future, all media and the public barred from attending. We expect to be watching a few new faces on the field next fall, but no question that one of …
Building a Program In the New Pac-12: It’s as Simple as Simple as Simple as Repetition
Creativity is something that is trending in the PAC-12, just look at the new hires for evidence of that, with two new coaches in the state of Arizona as well as at UCLA. Modeling Chip Kelly’s wide open spread laboratory is now a mainstream practice on the west coast, but the matchup that football strategy junkies everywhere are looking forward …
Recruiting Update: Ducks Extend Offer to QB & Oregon’s Bullpen Piper
Follow me on Twitter: @MarkDFlores Be sure to like us on Facebook: FISHDUCK.COM Football Recruiting Offers/News After what was seemingly shaping up to be a slow recruiting week, Oregon burst out of the shadows with offer extensions to linebacker Jaylon Smith (4-Star/Ft. Wayne, Il/Rivals100), quarterback Anthony Jennings (3-Star/Marietta, GA), and tight end Danny Friend (3-Star/Morris, Ill). With a possible “pass …
FishDuck on the air! Addictedtoquack.com podcast (5/22/2012)
Tuesday night Charles Fischer and Kurt Liedtke of FishDuck.com were the guests on the Addictedtoquack podcast. The weekly Tuesday Night Talks series on ATQ is a great source to hear about Duck sports, and the FishDuck team went into great detail with the ATQ hosts talking about Oregon Ducks football. You can hear the archived audio at the following link: …
Ducks on Deck: The Determined Superhero – Jimmie Sherfy
Every team needs a hero, and in baseball there is one player that holds the ultimate responsibility of being that person, tasked with finishing out the victory. In 1969 baseball instituted the save rule. It stated that a save is accredited to the relief pitcher that finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances, which is typically …
SEC-Big-12 bowl talk over the top
Had to chuckle at all the hoopla surrounding the announcement Friday that the SEC and Big-12 will sick their regular season champs on each other in a New Year’s Day bowl game starting in 2015. The reasoning behind the game is clear enough. These two conferences — which were at each other’s throats just months ago — are positioning themselves …
Notes From Around College Football Nation: FSU messes with Texas? Rose Bowl might not be “Granddaddy of ‘Em All” much longer
If you wanted a quiet week with little college football news, then you’re not gonna find it here. Just when we thought the summer would finally kick in and slow things down, the years of complaints and swirling rumors regarding playoffs has now turned into a raging wildfire, and yet more conference expansion. Now if only they played some games …
A Bouquet to the Schools Un-Ducked
I got an email from an angry reader this week. It said, “Why do you have to be so mean to the other schools? You suck!” I didn’t know Mom even had email. She is right, though. I’ve been pretty hard on some of the other Institutions of Higher Education during my weekly chats with you folks. Maybe it’s time …
FishDuck Weekly Video Log – Episode 43
Every week Kurt Liedtke (better known as Keeerrrttt1), co-owner of FishDuck.com, creates video blogs (vlogs) to update all you fine folk on all things FishDuck, a free-form discussion of current events about Oregon Ducks sports and all that’s new with FishDuck.com, with the occasional off-topics or rants. It’s a little off-the-cuff, perhaps slightly pretentious, somewhat rambling, and hopefully entertaining…so kick …
LaMichael James follows a record-breaking trail from Oregon to the 49ers
The day it happened was a memorable one, September 3rd, 2011. Outside, the thermometers in Dallas had been registering triple digits, a humid-but-windy true “Texas heat.” For those who haven’t had the pleasure, try to imagine the feel of standing in a wind tunnel fed by an industrial-sized blow dryer, with occasional whiffs of car exhaust and decaying plant life. …
