This is not a conversation I wanted to have about Oregon football in June. In case you missed it, Evan Stewart is expected to miss most (if not all) of the 2025 season due to a torn patellar tendon. Following the injury, he addressed Duck fans with this message: “Don’t put a timeline on me.” As someone who believed in …
Even with Saint Nick Saban co-chairing the newly formed Commission on College Athletics, I don’t believe Congress is prepared to ride in and fix what ails college athletics. Even Mr. FishDuck is skeptical, and took a break from his study at FanDuel betting, and Ncaaf latest news to share his doubts with me. College sports need NFL-like Congressional relief from …
In 2024 Oregon head coach Dan Lanning seemed to have broken football. He found ways to exploit rules to his advantage, and the result was not one but two B1G blue bloods going down to the new blood Ducks. While one of these exploits got the most media attention as it resulted in a one-point win over the eventual National …
Back in 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first music video ever played on MTV. It represented a big change in the way media was absorbed and signaled a huge shift in the music industry. The transfer portal has done the same to college football regarding how teams acquire players. Even Mr. FishDuck had to take a …
Duck Nation, buckle up and grab your rally hats — it’s postseason mayhem in Eugene, where both the Oregon softball and baseball teams are storming into the national spotlight, wings flapping, bats blazing, and dreams of Omaha and Oklahoma City coming true. Mr. FishDuck took a break from his fun at non-GamStop game providers for UK users and his time …
The NCAA has a new slate of rules for 2025. I am going to summarize what these rules mean for the game and then give them a rating between 1 and 5 where 1 will be awful for the game and a 5 should be an amazing addition. ESPN published an article reviewing these new rules, which can be found …
I hereby disavow my headline! Not that it isn’t the truth, it is. However, does going LARGE with out-of-conference (OOC) scheduling make sense when we have a Playoff format that’s senseless, coupled with a Playoff Committee that, unlike its college basketball counterpart when ranking teams, prefers whimsey over viable, disclosed to the public, metrics. Yes, the Playoff Committee in 2024-25 …
A few years ago the University of Oregon acquired a home for their Portland Campus, the former Concordia University campus in northeast Portland. I personally have a connection to this campus, as I received my Master of Arts degree in Teaching from Concordia University in 2015, and as an Oregon alum as well, I find it strange that the University …
Once bitten? Twice Stupid. My 2024 Dark Horse Conference picks didn’t get out of the gate, let alone finish in the money. Our own Mr. FishDuck took a break from his fun at GameZone Tablegame Champions Cup to give me solace about my picks for last year. He assured me about the difficulty, but let’s look at my 2024 Dark …
With spring in full swing, Oregon sports again prove that the Ducks aren’t just showing up — they’re taking over. Our own Mr. FishDuck took a break from his fun at richard casino no deposit bonus to chat with me about how the B1G was not fully aware of how Our Beloved Ducks will dominate spring sports, and he is relishing …
Our Oregon football program has lost most of its 2024 offensive identity in the offseason. Tez Johnson, Dillon Gabriel, Jordan James, and Josh Conerly Jr. are a few of the many faces on offense we won’t see return to Autzen this upcoming season. Among the players that head coach Dan Lanning has added in the past few months, Nico Lamaleava should not …
For all the high-flying, high-scoring offenses the Ducks have put together over the past three decades, they have never had a dominating wide receiver. Nobody who went on to have a decorated NFL career. Meanwhile, LSU, Alabama and Ohio State seem to have receivers drafted in the first round of every NFL Draft. Our Mr. FishDuck took a break from his …