According to a poster on a well known track board run by a DSAer, Andrew visited on a football visit, and was also seen being approached by Robert Johnson after running the 200 at the high Oregon Relays.

It sounds like a PWO kind of situation, but if anyone on this site can shed some light on this two sport recruit, please do.

Decided to dig deeper into the economic issues raised by NIL. There is NO way for me to get as deep as I want to in this type of format - you guys don't necessarily want a 60-page dissertation on the economics of college athletics, but I did want to touch on some really important points now that massive change seems likely once again.

First and foremost, I can guarantee you that no one at the Oregon athletic department is giving myself or any other local recruiting writer specific information about any "deals"

To admit that the university was a part of the negotiation of an NIL deal would be a clear NCAA violation, most importantly, however, is that to do so would put the university on the hook to match whatever number is being reported in spending on women's NIL deals because that means that the university has set the market and that creates Title IX compliance issues. Anyone who says that they know how much the university is willing to spend on any given player is NOT getting it from anyone associated with the school. If they say they are getting it from the school, they are lying.

Anyone know when it is, or if it's passed for that matter? I was of the thought he might just move on, play abroad if he doesn't make the NBA cut. Just wondering. We could really use his shooting, especially if he regains consistency.

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I guess it was a tweet. I bet Richardson will as well. Gurrier's shot was really falling towards the end of the season. With the lineup potential Altman is going to have, he could play SF some. That's probably what the NBA scouts want to see.

An updated regional projection for today. Has the ducks as the 2 seed in Notre Dame’s region. Selection show is Monday so we will see what it ends up being officially then

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Viva

Gibson covers his four planned visits during his summer vacation and why he wants to spend time with each program.

Peaking at the right time

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Our teams are competing hard. I love following this spunky group!

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Davis plans to be in Eugene this summer. Update interview on Rivals:

All rise! The King is coming back to Hayward… and he means business!
one of the all time great Ducks!!!

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No surprise on the Oregon pick here:

Heard he’s announcing this afternoon. Haven’t heard too much on him but I know he visited a while back. Any thoughts?

You would think that after 11 years, some of the weekly "Flock Talk" columns I do would become difficult to continue coming up with ideas - especially for the subtitle.
These are Friday articles and the Title is always "Flock Talk: [Insert song title]"

I admit, sometimes I have to really stretch to come up with a subtitle to fit that theme. After all, I have done nearly 600 Flock Talk articles. While I know 600 songs, generally speaking, not all of the songs I know have any relevance to what I might want to say on any given week.

A few times I have had to go to poems (spoken songs?) to come up with a subtitle.

This week it was easy, though. I have been listening to my 'go-to early summer' CD from Kerosene Dream.

Because the Ducks have a MAJOR slate of recruits set to visit in June, the song Summer Days just stood out to me as the perfect summer melody for the subtitle.

Sometimes I am up way late looking for song ideas. And sometimes they just come to me like this week. For what it's worth, while I did not put it in the article specifically, I did reference a "personal three year winter" that was the time between my divorce and the time when I found myself again.

The opening of tomorrow's article:


I have an acquaintance I have known for nearly 25 years who happens to be in a popular local band. I first heard this band at Art in the Vineyard – a local Eugene festival that used to be held at Alton Baker Park in the summer. Kerosene Dream is a sort of jam/folk band that never went much beyond a regional band but hearing them for the first time in a summer setting after a three-year “personal winter” gives their music this sort of special place for me; it reminds me of times gone by where everything seemed possible and the days were warm and endless.

Every year when it first gets near 75, that is my go-to music because nothing is better to me than that feeling of songs that give me that summer feeling. Bart Ferguson is the acquaintance; he and his dad actually made it to a tailgate some time ago and while I would not call Bart a ‘close friend’ we chat occasionally, and he is actually a really nice guy and great Duck fan.

This week is one of those weeks where I pulled out one of their albums and it reminded me how close summer really is – and for Oregon, this promises to be a scorcher with a host of major official visitors slated to be in Eugene.

Game starts at 9 PST, hoping for a win today! 4 wins in a row against them is a tough task though