FishDuck Weekly Video Log – Episode 51

FishDuck Staff FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

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 …

Putting USC recruiting prowess in perspective

FishDuck Staff FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Plenty of wringing of hands by Oregon football fans this week and last and the one before that, ad nauseam, about what is shaping up to be a top five recruiting class for USC in 2013, and the loss of several top targets to the Trojans. Yes, signing day is still six months away, and high-schoolers change their minds, and …

Notes from around college football nation: Penn State kicked out of Big-10 and Oregon upgrades

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

We are so much closer to kick-off and the clock currently stands at 41 days and counting, this season bringing much needed relief to college football fans. Farmers in this summer drought are hoping it rains soon, while fans hope the even longer off-season drought ends soon when it starts raining footballs. It will be a chance to enjoy the …

A Few Things More Important Than Being Funny…

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

I was laying in bed late Thursday night, pondering my weekly offering for the good readers of FishDuck.  I usually fall asleep to a news/talk radio station.  Suddenly, they broke into normal talk radio with breaking news that a heavily armed gunman had burst into a showing of the latest Batman movie at a theater complex in Aurora, Colorado, rendered …

FLYOVER COUNTRY—Remembering the Evil Empire

Canard Humor

With USC fans gloating uncontrollably over the star magnitude of their 2012 recruiting class, I found myself dragged to the past for a moment. I could almost hear the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita Kruschev, screaming into a UN microphone, “WE WILL BURY YOU!” For a few moments this week, the Trojans fans brought to mind that …

The Coach’s Corner: Inside The Mind Of An Offensive Coordinator

Donnie Mays FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

A note from FishDuck.com: Today we have a unique treat, this article from a highly successful coach gives an inside perspective football fans don’t often get to see, the direct insight of football concepts from a coach in the know. This week Coach Donnie Mays joins the Coach’s Corner, the offensive coordinator at South Charleston High School in West Virginia. …

The Pressure Of Expecting To Be Better Than The Best

Josh Schlichter FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

How exactly does somebody go about being better than the best to have ever played for a team? What if that person is the successor stepping into a starter’s role for the first time immediately replacing a legend who happens to be the best ever, with the expectation to be even better? For as long as Chip Kelly is in …

FishDuck One-On-One: Oregon WR Damon Griffin (1994-98)

FishDuck Staff Men of Oregon: Players and Coaches

Each week FishDuck.com’s Kurt Liedtke (better known as Keeerrrttt1) speaks with current/former student athletes, other FishDuck contributors, and outside experts in a one-on-one conversation–the FishDuck.com One-On-One. This week Kurt is joined by Damon Griffin, legendary Oregon Ducks wide receiver who spent a few years in the NFL before entering the coaching ranks. Griffin was a graduate assistant coach with Boise …

Recruiting Update: Running Backs You Say?

Mark Flores FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Football Recruiting News Indicators of prep interest in Oregon continues to trickle out after the conclusion of Nike’s “The Opening.” Recently named Rivals’ Top 2013 running back Derrick Green (5-Star/Richmond, VA/Rival’s100) was on-hand in Beaverton to “get a feel for Oregon.” A 6’0, 215 lb. bruiser with 4.4 speed, Green is anxious to visit the Ducks in person. “

The Amazing Nick Aliotti Oregon Hybrid 3-4 Defense

Charles Fischer, Mr. FishDuck Fish Reports

“We’re running a new defense? How come I haven’t heard of this before?” I could scarcely believe my ears as I spoke to Casey Matthew’s father, Clay Matthews Sr. on the sidelines during the 2010 Spring Drills. I followed all the newspapers and multiple Oregon football websites and this was the first I had learned of it! Many of you …