Message Board Armageddon! The Battle is Afoot!

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Important decisions are being made in the athletic department offices.

How to salvage a good recruiting class in the face of coaching turnover.

Who will call the plays?

What will be the vehicle for the transmission of play calls?  (Hand signals, message board or, my favorite, carrier pigeon?)  How do we replace the two graduate assistants who were responsible for…something?

Yes, yes, big doings indeed.  However, the important business is already underway.  The sides have been chosen in the greatest online message board standoff in off season history.  Here is how it is playing out.

Team Hellfire:  This is the team that will tell you that no matter what record the Ducks have next year, it could not have been bettered by Chip Kelly.  7-6?  ”Nothing could have been done about it.”  ”It was injuries.”  ”Who could have predicted the circumstances that led to defeats at the hands of Oregon State and Colorado?  ”Give him a chance to recruit his own players.”

This will be accompanied by one of a selection of arrogant completion phrases:  ”Move on,”  ”Get over it,” and, because some people need to prove their manhood, “Period.”

“Mark Helfrich is Vince Lombardi. Period.”

 

Opposing Team Hellfire is:

 

Team Chips Ahoy:   Coach Helfrich cannot win.   If anything good happens, its because of Chip.  A Heisman for Colt Lyerla?  It’s because of Chip.  A national championship season during which we knock off the usual Pac-12 suspects, Alabama, and the Pittsburgh Steelers?  It was because of Chip.

 

Little heard from in this “fray to overheat 10,000 motherboards” is:

 

 

Team Rational Thinking:  Let’s face it, being a sports fan has little to do with rational thought.  Jerry Seinfeld said it best, “With free agency and player movement the way it is in baseball, we’re rooting for clothing.”  Thank goodness being reasonable doesn’t get in the way of passionate conversation about the designated hitter (I hate it.), the way pass interference is called (Too tight.  Make it be glaring or swallow your whistle.) and one and done college basketball (It’s hurting both the pro and the college game.)

That said, let’s take rational thought out for a spin with regard to the head coach of our beloved Ducks (about whom or how we love to learn).  All we really know about him so far is that he seems to be a fine fellow.  We are clinging to the hope, as expressed by former QB Nate Costa, that Helfrich was a vital cog in the offensive juggernaut that we have become.

So what ought we expect out of the ’13-’14 Ducks?  Pick your message board team and let your vitriolic fingers fly.  After all, isn’t that part of the fun?

 

New 2024 FishDuck Publishing Schedule….

During the off-season the FishDuck.com publishing schedule will consist of articles on Mondays and Tuesdays. Do keep checking as new articles could be published during the week when a writer has something to say.

In mid-August of 2024, we will go back to the seven-days-a-week of articles during the football season as we did in the football season of 2023.

The Our Beloved Ducks Forum (OBD) is where we we discuss the article above and many more topics, as it is so much easier in a message board format over there.  At the free OBD forum we will be posting Oregon Sports article links, the daily Press Releases from the Athletic Department and the news coming out every day.

Our 33 rules at the free OBD Forum can be summarized to this: 1) be polite and respectful, 2) do not tell anyone what to think, feel or write, and 3) no reference of any kind to politics. Easy-peasy!

OBD Forum members….we got your back.  No Trolls Allowed!