It seems like one of the fundamental errors was Larry Scott getting the conference into a long term media deal without a reasonable buyout clause. That problem was caused by a lack of vision. Who knows what changes time might bring? You can anticipate that time will bring change.

Do I understand correctly that our contract with the Big is for 99 years,and that our buy out is two years worth of revenue? If so, it seems to me that this is a deal that even Larry Scott might consider too risky.

I hope that I have the wrong understanding of our new contract.

I see the BIG# conference quickly coming to two 10 team divisions. They have, I think, 19 right now and need to add a tenth to one division or the other. I'm going to guess Stanford gets the call simply because of their occasion goodness, their media market size and westness. Of course when that happens, I wouldn't expect to see the BIG# traditional powers in regular season games very often. It wouldn't even be possible to play all of the division teams every season ... unless suddenly there are more games in the season. That would be tuff to make happen with the expanded play-off plan.

I think he gets it about right. IF UW drops off look for a huge drop off in attendance as well.

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This is from the news and as you can see the sportscaster went on longer than anticipated.

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A few weeks ago i enquired about these streaming things and was considering FuboTV.

Now with our new affiliation, what service should I choose?

All I want is all Duck FB games, home and away. I care about nothing else.

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Working on the transcript now ...

What does the acronym B1G stand for?

Now the Oregon legislature is getting involved.

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I feel like we need to have a day to memorialize the end of a great college athletic conference.

I am happy if this works out best for Oregon, but I don’t feel like rejoicing over the death of the PAC 12 and the collateral
damage to some of our long time fellow PAC 12 members.

From Menlo Atherton HS

Earlier this week, I met a nice young man who was working for a delicatessen near my house. It turned out that he just finished his freshman year at Oregon. The conversation turned to Oregon football. This young man played cornerback for our local high school. When I told him that Oregon has two receivers from the town where I had gone to high school, he responded that he was well aware of both. He played against Franklin his freshman year, and against Jurrion Dickey his junior season. when Dickey was at West Valley Christian ( a private high school he attended before transferring to the public school in his district) . Lots of high school kids from the town where I live as well as the town where I am from, go to Oregon.


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This is as close to it gets as official and final. An Invite IS coming, so this pretty much confirms that Oregon is leaving the Pac-12:

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Good stuff from Aaron incorporating a lot of the key comments from today:

Great perspective on the fate of the Pac-12, the Ducks' defense and a couple quick recruiting thoughts.

Seems to me that...in these uncertain times....we are fortunate to have our own Walter Cronkite in Scott Reed.

Thanks Scott....as good of an example as I could come up with.

Here are the post-practice interviews. Jacob Hamre will have a full write-up for us tonight.

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Here's the fall camp schedule for Oregon, with media availabilities denoted. An * means the first 15-20 minutes is open to media, otherwise all practice is closed.

Wednesday, Aug. 2 (Dan Lanning speaks afterward)

Thursday, Aug. 3 (OC Will Stein and DC Tosh Lupoi)

Friday, Aug. 4 (Co-OC Junior Adams and Co-DC Chris Hampton)

Saturday, Aug. 5 (Dan Lanning)

Sunday, Aug. 6 -- NO MEDIA

Monday, Aug. 7 (Tony Tuioti and select players)

*Tuesday, Aug. 8 (Dan Lanning and select players)

*Wednesday, Aug. 9 (Joe Lorig and select players)

Thursday, Aug. 10 -- NO MEDIA

*Friday, Aug. 11 (Carlos Locklyn and select players)

Saturday, Aug. 12 (Dan Lanning)

Sunday, Aug. 13 -- NO MEDIA

Monday, Aug. 14 (Demetrice Martin and select players)

*Tuesday, Aug. 15 (Dan Lanning and select players)

*Wednesday, Aug. 16 (Drew Mehringer and select players)

Thursday, Aug. 17 -- NO MEDIA

*Friday, Aug. 18 (A'Lique Terry and select players)

Saturday, Aug. 19 (Dan Lanning)

Sunday, Aug. 20 -- NO MEDIA

Monday, Aug. 21 (OC Will Stein and select players)

*Tuesday, Aug. 22 (DC Tosh Lupoi and select players)

*Wednesday, Aug. 23 (Dan Lanning)

Aug. 24-27 -- NO MEDIA

GAME WEEK

Again, there was no media viewing today and Lanning was the only interview. I‘ll transcribe the whole thing here.

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A look at the biggest de-commitments and flips here: