Depth and Stars Matter at Florida State

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Florida State, Oregon’s opponent in the upcoming Rose Bowl on January 1st, knows how to win. An established football tradition and excellent coaching are complemented by top recruiting classes attracted to the school of 32,000 in Tallahassee, year after year. As the ‘Noles prepare for their showdown with the Ducks, they have not-so-quietly put together the nation’s second-ranked 2015 recruiting …

Rose Bowl Countdown: FSU, Oregon Coaches Compared

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Is Oregon Ducks head football coach Mark Helfrich a boy among men? There he sat on Thursday, blinking out at the lights, cameras and a crowd of jaundiced national sports writers at the press conference featuring the four men who’ve led their teams to the brink of the first ever college football playoff championship, looking for all the world like a …

The Oregon Ducks’ Hawaiian Pipeline

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

In this video, FishDuck.com’s foreign correspondent, British Columbia-based Randy Morse (aka The Fool on the Hill) talks about the seemingly constant flow of outstanding football players from the Aloha State to Eugene. Top photo Vince Cavalaio via Getty Images

Video: FishDuck.com’s International Correspondent Randy Morse (aka The Fool on the Hill) Says the Pacific Northwest is the New Football Hotspot

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

The one thing that’s constant in this world is… change. That holds for sports as well as it does for shopping habits (goodbye corner grocery, hello WalMart) or the cost of gasoline. So it should come as no surprise that there’s a perceptible shift happening on the college football landscape. So long to “three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust” Midwestern-style ball. See ya’ll later, SEC. Welcome …

Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker: FishDuck.com’s Fool on the Hill, Randy Morse, Talks Florida State vs. Oregon

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Is there a college football team more Americans (and Canadians, and Fijians, and Swedes… you get the picture) love to hate than the Florida State Seminoles? They’re brash and brassy. More often than not they behave like entitled NFLers gone horribly, horribly wrong, led by their bad-boy quarterback, Jameis Winston. I give you Darth Vader. On the other hand, is there …

Ducks Destroy Wildcats, 51-13, Take Home Pac-12 Championship

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

After a shaky first quarter, the Oregon Ducks, led by an outstanding defensive performance and a Heisman-clinching game from Marcus Mariota, absolutely destroyed the 7th-ranked Arizona Wildcats, 51-13 in this evening’s Pac-12 title game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. After leading 23-0 at the half, the Ducks wasted no time asserting themselves in the third quarter. They moved …

Oregon – Arizona at the Half

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

The first half in this one looked more like a South Eugene – North Eugene early December tilt, complete with sometimes driving rain, slippery turf, and the odd dollop of mud. The 23-0 halftime score hugely flattered Arizona, who did as close to absolutely zilch as possible, short of not trotting out onto the field at Levi’s in the first …

Oregon Clashes with Arizona for the Pac-12 Title: Three Storylines to Watch

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

There are multiple storylines to follow regarding today’s Pac-12 championship game in Santa Clara. Here are three that stand out. The Grass Isn’t Always Greener Don’t you hate the fact that $1.3 billion doesn’t buy as much as it used to? Like a decent natural playing surface. That’s right, the field at Levi’s Stadium, the San Francisco 49ers’ state of the …

Ducks Tackle Arizona in Pac-12 Title Tilt: Three Things to Watch from FishDuck.com’s Fool on the Hill

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

FishDuck.com‘s resident Fool on the Hill, Randy Morse, discusses three reasons why the Ducks will prevail in this Friday’s clash in Levi’s Stadium for all the Pac-12 football marbles. Note from the Owner: Randy Morse is a writer/editor/publisher who contributes to FishDuck.com every week mixing in his unique lifestyle along with his amusing thoughts. The “Hill” he is reporting from …

Ducks Obliterate Beavers, 47-19

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

It was obvious early in this game that the football gods were not with Sean Mannion and his Beavers teammates in this, the latest installment of a series that started in 1894, this year pitting home team Oregon State against the No. 2 ranked Oregon Ducks. The score was 30-3 Oregon by the end of the first half, via a 29-yard …

A Civil War Guide for the Sophisticated Visitor: Five Little-Known Facts About Corvallis, Oregon

Randy Morse History

There are towns in this world that people dream of visiting. You know, Paris in the springtime. New York in the autumn. San Francisco in the summer. Eugene virtually anytime. Then there’s Corvallis, whose town motto is the refreshingly candid, “It’s Never So Bad That It Couldn’t Be Worse.” With a population of around 55,000 benighted souls (and Lord knows …

Coach Helfrich’s Daughter Wishes Hroniss Grasu a Speedy Recovery

Randy Morse FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich was asked this morning about the obviously hand-made get well card reporters had seen stuck on the scooter that injured Ducks All-American center Hroniss Grasu is using to take the weight off his injured foot. The reporter who posed the question, exhibiting the sort of incisive investigative work that led to the Watergate revelations, wondered …