Many speculating if Chip leaves, and it sounds like he will, Dante may be on the market. I'd imagine 2 years of Thompson is a better bet. Wonder what he does, where he ends up?

Milesplit has listed the Oregon women second in the country and the men third. This is based upon the early signings. Rest assured that there will be more additions coming right up until late summer.

USC’s women are top ranked

Georgia has the top spot for the men.

There will be more international athletes
making decisions. Stay tuned.

Lots more good feedback after a strong weekend in Eugene:

Oregon looking very strong early on:

Here are my notes from tomorrow:
RECRUITING NOTES:

Some early names are out there as for who will be visiting this weekend for the heavily anticipated matchup. This list will get significantly longer by game time, but it is already promising to be a star-studded event for recruits.

Here is a list of some of those early names.

2024 OREGON COMMITS

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A former business colleague who works at UCLA told me this AM that folks are getting pretty restless with Chip. Said there are lots of rumors flying right now and the most prevalent one is Chip will not be back next year. He did not specify if it would be Chip's choice or not, just said some influential donors are getting tired of the situation.

Maybe something to keep an eye on.

I recorded the game and only saw it live up to 7-7. Reading the "live" thread I would have thought either a. we lost, or b. I was reading a UW or USC site. Let's not become like those we have been so often critical of as fans, entitled and arrogant. We have beaten USC 6 of the last 7 meetings and dominated most of those games. We dominated last night. We could and should have scored more points, but the game was never in doubt. Style points probably aren't going to matter for the CFP this year, too many teams with no losses. Coach Dan Lanning is a class guy who will do what it takes to win. I was watching the game prior on Fox hoping to not miss the kickoff and the Oklahoma coach had his first team in with 10 minutes left, already with 52 points, running his full offense, including his quarterback to get a first down where he put his shoulder into the defender! We are in the beginning stages of what may become the greatest era ever of Oregon football!

I'll add more as I run into it today



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And there are rumors circulating that Gatlin Bair was at the game last night

Did I hear correctly they didnt play in the 2d half? At the very least they are dinged up. We have been lucky with major injuries thus far, but those 2 being injured would suck going down the stretch. Anyone hear anything?
Bridges has been a super solid back up and Manning has tons of experience. Maybe they rest vs ASU?

Fish pullled off the win with the only positive score in the crowd. I'm going to increase the likelihood of positive scores next year with a 25 point award for picking the winner instead of 10. I'm thinking I might add 5 for the correct spread as well. It'll all be cosmetic but we might feel better about our misses. . I'll claim the minor victory in being the only one to pick exactly how good our defense would be. I haven't gotten much in the way of victories this year. Quack, Gray, 10Duck and Corky made impressive runs for the top spot this week but Fish held them off like the Ducks held off the Condumbs.

Fish +1
Quack -3
Gray -4
10Duck -5
Corky -5
ELLS -6
Wings -6
Me -6
Queenie -7
Adam -7
WSalem -10
Scott -11
100% -13
Tar -14
Grave -25
Rockin -27
Shark -38

Ducks by 22 over ASU

The Fuskies by ONE over the Beavers.

From the Ducks' win over USC:

This isn’t news. I reported it sometime back.It just needs to be pointed out that there is a talented sprinter that will be helping the UO track team. She will really help out our 4X100 team, and should score points in the conference championship. If she shows just a little bit of improvement, she could even be a possible scorer at Nationals. She is a great addition, and has a degree from Stanford to boot!

Opening Statement:

“How about that crowd? Absolutely electric group. Made that really special. It was fun to sit out there and watch two elite quarterbacks battle it out. Obviously, we’ve got a really special one on our sideline. I think that’s a Heisman-worthy performance from Bo (Nix) and fun to do it in
front of the fifth-largest crowd ever here in Autzen Stadium. We knew that they were a talented team. We knew they were dangerous and had the ability to come back, so I don’t know if anybody ever felt relaxed. I’m disappointed a little with our finish because I think that we are a much better team than what we showed down the stretch, but we got some good experience for some guys. We got dinged up a little bit. The penalties are something I know you guys are going to ask questions about and we have to address it for us to be the team we want to be. We have to become more disciplined. I’m not sure that I agreed with every single one of them, but that being said, it is something we can certainly fix.

"Some of those are ones we can attack. I thought we were physical tonight. I thought that showed up consistently and we knew we had to eliminate some explosive plays, but we gave them life with a couple of those explosive plays they hit late.”

On how the defensive line played:

“I thought there were some really great moments. I think we’ll go back and look at some of the explosive plays and look at how we gave them a little more opportunity than we needed, but we have a defensive line that can create havoc. We’ve got some guys who are talented players. That was a good front, they have a good offensive line. I thought our guys were able to mess up some of the timing there on the back end because they have some really talented wideouts. Good job, but we have to eliminate the explosive plays.”

On being aggressive to start the game:

“We saw what we were capable of. It is still about players making plays. A guy made a great catch, broke a tackle, and turned it into a huge play. I think that’s what football really is about. We have to be a great tackling team. We have to be a great team at breaking tackles. We will go back and see some fundamentals that we could have done a lot better on tonight and that’s what practice is for. They did some things that we thought we could take advantage of. I thought our coaches did a good job of attacking that, but there are still some finishing pieces that we can certainly clean up.”

On the penalties:

“I couldn’t go through every single one of them right now. Part of it is that you need to watch the film before you can have a great assessment of exactly what happened. At the end of the day, the amount of penalties we had is too much and we’ve talked about it a couple of times up here before. We do different things at practice to try and attack it, but we have to make a decision of how good we really want to be. It hurts us and while it didn’t kill us tonight, there were some critical ones in there that certainly didn’t help.”

On Jordan Burch’s development:

“Week in and week out I think Jordan’s gotten better, he is a really talented player and I think the sky is the limit for this guy. He comes in, takes great notes and works hard to be a great player for his teammates and the people around him and he takes advantage of the plays that he gets an opportunity to make, and with that being said, Jordan is going to see some plays he wishes he could have made but he's been really good for us.”

On getting a fast start:

“There is a difference in the game when you are getting a fast start on offense, and we certainly had some success on offense, and I don’t think we punted in the first half. When you're able to move the ball, especially in the run game, it really opens some opportunities for us. Defensively we did a good job stopping the run at times for a team who has a really good running back. Overall, us being ahead of the chains certainly helped and I think we have got to work on having that killer instinct to finish down the stretch.”

On Bucky Irving and Jackson Powers-Johnson returning after injuries:

“They're tough guys, this is the time of year when people are dinged up. We have to go attack the training room and get healthy and put ourselves in a position where we can finish this thing the way we want to.”

On Franklin’s big night and what he sees from him on a weekly basis:

“Consistency. He’s able to make those same plays in practice and it shows up in the game. He’s been a trusted target for Bo. When you talk about having a great quarterback, that means he’s got great wide outs. Troy’s proven to be a guy that he can get the ball to, he’s going to make plays on the ball.”

On the difference in the game for Oregon:

“Our team, our DNA is something we thought would show up in the game. I think they did. There was never any panic, never any relax in our guys. When they are able to execute at the level we are able to perform at, I think we have a really, really special team. I think all those things showed up. It’s not about want to, it’s really about who’s willing to do more. Our guys were willing to do that little bit extra against a team that is really talented.”

On what stuck out about Bo’s performance:

“I’ll have to go back and watch the film, but just his consistency. To not punt the ball in the first half, I think speaks to his efficiency. Not all of that was necessarily throwing the ball, it was him getting us into the right run check. Checking us into proper place, just being efficient with the ball. I’ll have to go back and watch it to see if there were any plays that stuck out in particular.”

On the importance of the late-game drives:

“I think we could do a better job of that at times. There were some drives where we stalled out and didn’t use as much of the clock as we should’ve in situations. That is something that we’ll critique ourselves with on managing that a little better. We knew once we got to two minutes and ten seconds that we could kneel it out and that is what we were working to do. Wish we
could have done a little bit better job of that the series before.”

On making USC play one dimensionally:

“I thought we did a decent job of taking away the run. That being said they had some big runs in the red area where we can be better. We have to have some answers to be able to hit some explosive plays. They are a good offense. I think they score around 40 points or more against each opponent. I don’t think it had to finish at 27 for us, I think that could have looked different if we were able to handle it a little better down the stretch.”

On Rodrick Pleasant’s development:

“The guy takes a lot of pride in what he does. It means a lot to him and I love coaching guys it means a lot to. He had select snaps, didn’t have a ton of snaps, but we’ll go back and watch the snaps that he did have. I thought he got out there and got involved. I know he cares. I know it’s important to him and it was good to see him go out there and execute.”

On special teams’ success today:

“Yeah, it’s something we work [on] every single week and it doesn’t matter until it matters. Every Thursday we do daily skills with our special teams each day in practice, and that was a situation where it showed up. Zachariah (Branch) was a guy we definitely thought could change the game if he had the opportunity. Talk about a penalty that really hurt us was that penalty after a touchdown and then having a long kickoff, that’s one that’s going to go unheralded throughout the game. But Cam (Lewis) had a huge kick there, and then our coverage unit was able to pin them inside the 15, when we’re really kicking off 15 yards farther back, so really good job there. Didn’t let them get an opportunity in the punt return game which was big as well, with some good hang time kicks and good coverage. That was definitely the goal and that showed up tonight.”

On Caleb Williams:

“He’s special man, he special. He’s a really talented guy, obviously never out of the fight when you have a guy like that battling for you. He’s got a bright future ahead of him.”