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Great Day For Oregon Track Athletes

On day 9 ex Oregon stars Jenna Prandini and Devon Allen punched their tickets to Tokyo in the 200 and 110h by finishing second in their respective events. Prandini had already earned a spot on the US 4X100 relay team.

Today ( day 10) was even more spectacular. Raevyn Rogers finished second in a stacked final. In the 1500 final Matt Centrowitz finished second and Cole Hocker finished first. Oregon Duck, Cooper Teare narrowly missed making the team with a forth place finish in the 5k. Ex Duck, DeMarcus Simpson, took forth in the long jump. What a day!

That escalated quickly

USC sent out a happy birthday Tweet for head coach Clay Helton, then had to shut it down because of negative comments.


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The Buckeye perspective on JTT: I've always known where I wanted to go."

Video from Buckeye Scoop, not surprisingly, handicaps this as 95% tOSU, 5% Oregon.

Reporter states he has a contact on the Oregon staff and they did not feel confident coming out of the visit. "He wasn't leaning forward. He wasn't engaged. He just seemed tired from all the travel and presentations."

The Buckeye Scoopers see Tuimoloau's cancellation as a clear indication he's all-in with the Scarlet and Gray.

Of course they could be 100% right, but they haven't consulted with A.J.'s dog, perhaps the greatest recruiting handicapper of all time.


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The PAC-12's chance to get out of the perception basement

Perception matters, because it affects rankings and playoff selections. The PAC-12 Conference is just barely a Power Five in football after several down years; Oregon is the only conference team to win a playoff game or play in a national championship in the BCS/College Football Playoff era. The league's taken a beating in bowls and has lower ratings, prestige and results. Then there is the whole time zone thing, which relegates so many conference games to poor time slots and reduced viewership.

It's become after hours, low budget football in the minds of many national college football fans and decision makers.

As we have discussed, the only way to change all this is to prove it on the field, show progress.

The conference will have its opportunity to do so beginning in 73 days.

Week 1, September 4th

LSU at UCLA
Arizona at BYU

also: Stanford vs. Kansas State in Arlington, Texas, Washington State hosts Utah State, Nevada at Cal

Week 2, September 11th

Oregon at Ohio State (Noon Eastern Time on Fox)
Cal at TCU
Washington at Michigan (ESPN night game)
Texas A&M at Colordo
Utah at BYU

Week 3, September 18th

Minnesota at Colorado
Arizona State at BYU
Stanford at Vanderbilt

Week 8, October 23rd
USC at Notre Dame
BYU at Washington State

Week 13, November 27th

Notre Dame at Stanford
BYU at USC

Prove it on the field, or shut up. As Bill Parcells used to say, "You are who your record says you are."

Anthony Brown gains invite to serve as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy

From James Crepea of the Oregonian: Oregon QB-1 Anthony Brown will be one of the college quarterbacks selected as a camp counselor at the 25th annual Manning Passing Academy at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana July 15-18th.

Previous Oregon quarterbacks picked to work the camp include Marcus Mariota and Justin Herbert.



Young quarterbacks pay $595 for the 4-day camp, which includes personal instruction from Peyton and Eli.

Seven #1 draft picks have attended or worked the camp, including Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck.

For Brown, it's an opportunity to measure himself against his peers while gleaning insights from the drills and nightly skull sessions. It's an invitation to a select fraternity and incredible mentorship.


Peyyon Manning exchanged phone calls with Herbert while he was considering returning for his senior year and gave him some valuable advice.


Tyrell Crosby stays home

Former Duck, Detroit Lions right tackle Tyrell Crosby skipped the team's voluntary OTAs this week.

The popular 4-year starter at Oregon, a catalyst in the players' drive to support the hiring of Mario Cristobal as head coach, started at RT last year for the Motor City Mediocrities, but the coaches want to move first round draft pick Penei Sewell into that spot.

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