Predicting Every Game: Ducks Go 10-2

Darren Perkins Editorials

It’s a fickle business trying to predict college football games. Last season, I predicted the Ducks would got 10-2 then win the Alamo Bowl. Many bashed me and called me a hopelessly optimistic Duck fan, which I found humorous, considering those close to me know I’m much more of a Negative Nellie when it comes to my Ducks. Many saw …

Oregon Must Replace Coach but Maintain Winning Formula

Darren Perkins Editorials

It is rightly said that adversity brings opportunity. And when you are a cutting edge, forward thinking, innovation spewing machine like the University of Oregon, you don’t let adversity bring you down, you let it propel you to greater things. Beloved Ducks, there shall be no further whining and crying about the decision of Willie Taggart to leave.  After all, …

Next Oregon Head Coach: The Case For Kevin Sumlin

Coach Eric Boles Editorials

This week has been a gut punch to the University of Oregon and its community. I know as well as any just how tough things have been with Willie Taggart deciding to take the Florida State head coaching position. I have defended Taggart a good number of times in my articles this season. I’ve defended his play-calling when it was …

Herman for Head Coach 2017

Graham Berry Editorials

Having just stepped out of a screening of the film “Denial” in my new home in Seattle, I realized the title sounds similar to a river in Egypt appropriately describes what this writer thinks has infected Oregon fandom. Right now, as I write this and you later read this, in its last performance, Oregon barfed on itself in Autzen Stadium and …

Johnny Football, Oregon Culture, and an Era Lost

Jon Joseph Editorials

“Whatever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were to be made king, he would still gnaw at his shoelaces.” The Hitopadesha Although he is in the process of doing it incrementally, I certainly hope that Johnny Manziel will not confirm his father’s fear and commit suicide in one fell swoop. New Age folk will, of …

College Football Nation: SEC dominates the Draft … Again and Kentucky Goes All In — For Football

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

With spring ball over, football fans have now turned their attention to the NFL Draft.  This is a special time where schools and conferences can brag about who’s going to the NFL, while still on the recruiting trail.  We then have Kentucky going all out for football … which is a first, since it is known more for its basketball.  Finally there …

Who is Crashing the Party in Pasadena?

Nathan Roholt FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

It used to be the Top Ten. A team had to start the season ranked tenth or higher if they wanted to win the national championship, as every team since 1990 had done.  Then along came Auburn in 2010 who cheated lowered the bar, (as they did in so many other areas[1]) of what a team’s preseason ranking needed to …