Gonzalez.

I won’t get into my personal philosophy of winning, but you are about to see a program that will personify it. Oregon football is in for a spiritual change.

There will be a different kind of energy and attitude. The record won’t even be the single most important thing (although I predict that it will become great) This team will be a happy group of athletes who have fun playing this crazy game. They will have a different kind of enthusiasm. They will love working hard in practice. They will have a special team chemistry.

That’s enough about the team. What is most important to we fans can be summed up in one word … ENTERTAINMENT! The Ducks will be fun to watch. Win lose or draw, Oregon football is about to become a blast for us.

I love this guy! He will become the Robert Johnson of college football and there are none better than Robert. Their friendship will develop and become synergetic. Two dynamic, and happy winners. I’ve been waiting a long time for this kind of change. It has finally come.

LET THE DAN LANNING SHOW BEGIN!

Here's the rundown for tomorrow:

Breaking down Oregon Ducks’ hiring of 2 assistant coaches who had prior run-ins with NCAA: Analysis
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/20...who-had-prior-run-ins-with-ncaa-analysis.html

When we introduced the addition of Nathan Papandrea to the staff we teased the kind of work he would be doing with film breakdowns/analysis, and I'm so excited to finally show you now.

I think this is NEXT-LEVEL analysis and such a huge addition to our content here. I'll let Nathan chime in with what else he has coming, but you can see the time and work that went into this, so these take time to produce.

Please give this a look when you get time!

Per Chad Simmons, there has been a reshuffling of DB Cormani McClain's top 10 and Oregon has been added. The tweet was retweeted by On 3+ Oregon owner, Justin Hopkins.

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Front page news...very cool article .

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ghlight-college-football-recruiting-rankings/

Transfer from Chicago’s Loyola University.

Woman sprinter, Jordyn Blake from New Zealand. I consider her a 4 star based upon her 400m PR. It does seem like UO has been loading up on women quarter milers. I don’t know how likely most of them will be to score individually at Nationals, but we will be kicking it individually at Pac 12s and at Nationals in the 4x400.

Oregon track tries to accomplish three aspects: win the Pac 12, make the podium at Nationals and be entertaining. The entertaining part is Oregon’s tradition. I can’t think of any event that has brought the fans to their feet more than the women’s 4X400. That is an event that should have a pool of six runners or more. It is also an event where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is not to say that we can’t have some of these women break through individually. It just means that they don’t have to in order to have a top relay team. To me, no event is more fun to watch than the 4x400.
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The scorching hot Oregon Ducks (14-7) look for its ninth win in the last 10 games. The Ducks travel east to Utah to take on the Utes (9-14).

Hmm.

I saw a report on Rivals saying we were no longer in consideration. However with Harbaugh leaving for Minnesota do we still have a Floyd type chance?

I know most don’t seem to care about WBB but after the game here a couple weeks ago against the Wildcats there were serious post game actions and words, mostly by their coach Barnes.
Going to be a nasty environment with maybe 10,000 Graves and Duck haters there! Here’s sending positive mojo to our Duck ladies….big game!!!!

This appears to be a new thing with Duck track… bringing you into team culture and meetings. Usually these things are between team members and not shared publicly, but now we can go inside.

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I just learned something about Oregon track’s French freshman super star 400h/400m runner, Shana Grebo. This international talent was not recruited by Oregon. She contacted Oregon to express her interest in attending the university.

I have heard of many other international stars that competed for the Oregon track team who also had contacted Oregon. When your university is so renown for track that some of the top talents in the world ask if they can be a part of your program, you have to consider that Oregon track is probably the most famous college sports’ program in the world… that impresses me!

Our new DSA team is now complete! Yesterday, I officially hired Aaron Heisen to lead our team coverage in Eugene. He's a junior at Oregon, has been writing for the Daily Emerald and has really impressed me with his work. I interviewed a handful of candidates -- and we will probably work in some other contributors here and there -- but I had two great conversations with Aaron and am excited to see what he can do for us moving forward.

I'll let him tell you more about himself, but the plan is to have him start immediately and pick up basketball coverage the rest of the way and start working on some football content looking ahead to 2022.

So with that, in addition to the great work Brandon and Scott continue to do and A.J. remaining a valued presence, we've got:

Matt Moreno -- recruiting
Aaron Heisen -- team coverage
Nathan Papandrea -- film breakdown/analysis
Myself -- content planning/editing/special projects

You also saw Axel Louissaint contribute a recruiting story last week and we may add another recruiting contributor as well.

The bottom line, though, is we're at full strength now and ready to roll. Matt and I will be all over the 2023 recruiting cycle starting ASAP with a couple big 7-on-7 tournaments and the start of our Rivals Camp Series later this month. Nathan is close to dropping the first of his film breakdowns, and I'm excited to see it! And Aaron will dive right in.

Also, again, huge thanks to Scott for his steady contributions and for doing some great work at the Polynesian Bowl. And much thanks to Brandon for always keeping the board updated and being on top of any and all news immediately.

Thanks also to the community here for bearing with the transition over this last month and allowing me time to get all these pieces in place. Big things ahead for DSA!

With that, I'll let Aaron introduce himself more thoroughly ...

Says he will visit in the next few months. Anyone have any intel to know if we stand a good chance of getting him or not?

I remember some of you speaking of the booster's influence at AUBS:

https://www.si.com/college/2022/02/04/bryan-harsin-auburn-rumors-upheaval-players

No question he's in the rotation as a Frosh., and he's a 3 and done. An all star bunch of playmakers. No question, the Ducks will need a LT. with 5 starters graduating next year.

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With signing day past, I always do a Flock Talk that talks about the past, present, and future. But this week we learned something different. One of our members lost his wife and I cannot imagine the unbearable pain he must feel.

From a personal level Univera, I want to express my deepest sympathies and heartfelt care for you as a human being. Some may or may not remember, but he and I used to have some pretty 'heated' exchanges; but we found common ground. I have been on this site for darn near 20 years and there is one thing I have learned in that time: this really is like a family. Not a Brady Bunch, everyone is happy all the time family; more like a family where the brothers and sisters have many heated exchanges. Sometimes we agree, and sometimes we disagree. We have wildly different values and beliefs and those sometimes get exposed and we share even more of our personalities. Sometimes we simply rub each other the wrong way.

Yet we come together to celebrate, cheer, commiserate, and discuss our shared passions. In the heat of the moment, sometimes we can lose sight of those shared passions; we can act as if we are not all on the same page; cheering for a university. Often in Flock Talk I have mentioned that football is a sport that brings people together. I have talked about social capital and how football is a chance for us to escape many things and find some sense of commonality on a few Saturdays in the fall.

This site has given us a chance to share that all year round; to expand our passions to recruiting conversations, coaching changes, and all sports which might interest us.

This particular board was renamed after one of the best Duck fans we all ever knew; Dick Busby. FirstDuck. He passed away several years ago and we honor his memory today. His brother Steve (StillOldDuck) passed away last year. As someone with whom Univera was close, I know that this is a sort of double whammy to him. So, I want to make sure I take the time to thank Univera. While he may have his quirks - don't we all? We all know that I can be somewhat verbose at times and ramble on; but over time, most people have just sort of accepted this and I imagine they simply skip over my lengthy posts.

I want you to know Univera, that as a fellow Duck fan, I am here to support you in any way I can. I know that our other members want to do so as well. Please make sure to take comfort in our DSA family. We may be dysfunctional at times, but we are still a family and we will be here for you as much as we can. Through a family of Ducks, we can be strong. In our own crazy way, we love Univera as a Duck brother and we are all here for you bud.

Game thread for the Oregon Ducks' men's basketball game against the Colorado Buffaloes tonight. Ducks (13-7) look for revenge after falling to the Buffaloes (13-8) by four points last Tuesday. For game updates on Twitter follow me @aaron_heisen.

So the O is reporting that Miami signed a recruit over Oregon, Georgia, Syracuse, and one other team.

Turns out...he was never offered by Oregon.

His elaborately staged announcement was a farce...lol

I think that it's really funny and pretty sad all at the same time.

https://www.oregonlive.com/recruiti...ver-oregon-but-ducks-never-offered-video.html