to safety prospect Bubba Bolden. Glad the Ducks offered, as he is a baller, but will still be a battle

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Oye, that was a tough read. Trying to get 10k to tell his story:

Colt Lyerla starts GoFundMe

"The Internet will only show you one perspective of what happened throughout the life of Colt Lyerla: its own. It will give you the opinions of bitters sports writers, it will show you the biased perspectives of people that have most likely never played sports at a collegiate level or at all for that matter, and it will do a great job of making you believe that Colt is nothing but a villain, thug, criminal or just a bad person in general. Anyone that watches the news or reads the paper knows that drama and negativity are what sells."

"On the flip side, just because a 19 year old was caught with a baggie that had coke residue in it while on a college campus - doesn't make him a terrorist."

"All of that combined with a home-life filled with the definition of instability, constant abandonment, emotional turmoil, and basically daily exposure to examples of what "not to do" - is nothing but a recipe for a saga of negative headlines for people to judge and gawk at."

"We are raising money to write and film a documentary that will dive deep into the world of athletic spotlight, recruiting, corrupt journalism, collegiate athletics, addiction, social media, depression, The NFL, and society."

beware when watching though as they do show the injury.

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post...mom-and-dog-pharaoh-brown-makes-full-recovery

Lot of speculation where Stidham will go, assuming he'll sit our this year at Baylor. DT has a teaser without naming Stidham, but I don't subscribe. I did find this on the web, though.

http://campusinsiders.com/news/jarrett-stidham-transfer-schools-07-07-2016

Although this site suggests Oregon is the number one most likely, I have a hard time believing we'll reach for 3 in a row, especially with Herbert, ext. in the wings. I also don't like the message that taking in another free agent QB gives to PSAs. With Yost here, developing from within seems to be the most likely, and stable, course.

Lost in the excitement of game day, a current Duck's brother got a offer on Saturday at the game

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I just got a message from a guy I did not think did a lot of interviews. One of two uncommitted guys from this weekend just texted me.

"I will tell you that the Duck are now in my top two."

More to come.

Ben Thiel, accomplished Oregon trackster (pac12 400 hurdles champ) is now officially on the football roster at Wide Receiver. I assume he had a track scholarship which would now count against the 85 football scholarships but I'm not certain.

I like the direction we're taking on offense....but more so on defense. Our Ducks are famous for attacking....quickly...and with speed athletes that produces a scoring machine that everyone else now copies.

But on defense...for some set of reasons that I truly believe are coaching related, the same kind of aggressiveness, the mindset of attack has been strangely lacking in a read and react, two gap scheme that we are only seeing bleed away. I say this because we have more senior players who are in the process of re education into attack first in Hoke's 4-3.

The young bloods who we've brought in are not bound to any philosophy, and they were probably taught in high school to attack on defense as if their lives depended on it. Re education takes a little more time.

I don't believe many of us very much liked the read and react defenses of the last umpteen years. And not a few of us ground molars when our generosity was chalked up to an offense that scored so quickly that it fagged our D into a charitable entity as an excuse.

I love our direction now, on defense, and it's about time...and it will take time, until we reach a parity on defense that gives us as much satisfaction in a shut down, take no prisoners defense than we have in scoring a bundle as usual on our O.

Let's celebrate our Dye and Schooler, kids who have the props to outplay their elders...and may teach them something in the process. And our coaching as well, who seem to have more than a clue to bring us to a very much needed consistency on both sides of the ball.

Mentioned both Dillon Mitchell and Evan Baylis practiced today.

Sidebar-Greif mentioned specifically that Crosby did not practice today.

Here in the press box as the band warms up down on the field. This will be the official game thread for this non-conference match up against UCD.

Still feeling like a Duck win is coming. ;-)

Hey Guys,

I believe we have some additional information in this article that has not been published elsewhere and thought you might enjoy it. Read there-comment here as usual. There is even more analysis information in the comments on it—so lots to ponder.

http://fishduck.com/2016/09/coaches-answer-to-is-oregon-in-trouble/

Wanted to break the game down a bit more, and see where the struggles came. So far, there were only a couple big breakdowns by the D, the rest of the struggle in first was on the O.

Just finished the 1st quarter and here are my notes on the D:

Drive 1 – 3 and out (punt)

Drive 2 – TD UC Davis (following muffed punt) started on Oregon 33

3rd and 8 (Ducks 31) – S Robinson takes a horrible angle, doesn’t even touch the WR 26 yard pickup.

2nd and goal (Ducks 9) – MLB Hotchkins gets run off badly by UCD QB, loss of contain, QB runs in for the TD

7-0 UC Davis

Drive 3 – 3 and out (punt)

Drive 4 - started on Oregon 9 (2 first downs, punt)

3rd and 6 (UCD 13) UC Davis got away with an offensive pick to get a first down (10 yards), slot cleared out the DB

3nd and 4 (UCD 30) Nice wheel route for 2nd first down (16 yards), defense simply got beat by a good play

8-7 Ducks - Note: Oregon picks up first first down of the game with under 3 to go in the first quarter

End 1st quarter

Mine - as usual.

I just have a question for those who are MUCH more knowledgeable (which includes most of the membership here): Crosby was rated as one of the top OT's in the country (top 5 for sure) last season. He and Cameron Hunt were our only returning starters on the OL and they worked together to give us a strong right side. Zac Morgan was a two year starter at Dayton and made all-conference at Left Tackle.

With those pieces already sort of in place, why did the coaches move Crosby to LT (breaking up that powerful combo with Hunt) and insert Morgan on the right side (opposite where he'd been so successful before)? Wouldn't it have been more reasonable to keep that strong combo together, put Morgan in at LT and then only have to deal with a relative unknown quantity at LG (since everyone already pretty much knew Hanson was going to be the starter at C)?

Thanks for taking it easy on me guys; and, if that's not possible, thanks for at least helping me learn more than I did before (not setting the bar very high, I know).

Congrats to Taylor! He has worked for this, been so dependable on extra points and has been the consummate team player.

Helf said in post game comments 'he's fine'.

That's good news. Need him and Crosby big time.

Nick Krueger caught up with Chuck Filiaga to talk about his first OV to Texas A&M last weekend and his trip this weekend here to Eugene.

On official visit to Oregon next weekend

“I have no big expectations, I’m just going with the flow,” he said. “I know they have a good program, I just can’t wait to see how they do this season.”

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Very nice. Let's hope he and the rest of the defense are on an upward trajectory.

Will be announcing Sept 23rd

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I laughed talking to Coach Greatwood about starting four freshman against UC Davis. Here is his analysis of the OL.

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This is the best contest of the first college football week. Buechele, a true freshman playing QB for Texas. It's the kind of game we don't usually see until midseason. Great effort on both sides, obviously great preparation.

He was fairly moderated in his comments. Plenty of good and bad on the field.

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in the new Heisman House commercial

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