Oregon
Auburn (Mason from Vandy)
LSU
Cincinnati
Texas
Michigan
Arizona (Brown from Mich)
South Carolina
Illinois (Walters from Missouri)
Indiana
Purdue
Arkansas
Missouri
Notre Dame (Freeman from Cincinnati)

Names of DC‘s with their name in the mix for other jobs:

Barry Odom Arkansas
Jim Leonhard Wisconsin
Zachary Arnett Miss State
Kevin Steele Auburn
Rodney Garner Auburn
Jay Bateman N. Carolina
Chris Kiffin Cleveland Browns
Chris Ash Texas
Bert Watts Memphis
David Reeves UAB
Bob Shoop Michigan
Tracy Claeys Virginia Tech

Will Muschamp

Damn. Oh well, we need the Pac-12 to be better.

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Four-star Mich. 2022 ATH Jaden Mangham told me this week Oregon is one of the schools showing the strongest interest in him at this stage of the process. He talks has a comment about the Ducks and his relationship with the coaches in the article linked below:

Didn't see any others so far. Should be a good game. Some serious talent on both teams. Who people got? I'm sick of these 2 and Clemson every year, that much I'm certain of, but these 2 sure look like the hands down best 2 teams and deserve to be there.

PAC12 Top DL! When you consider how he schooled the “Top OL” Vera-Tucker...he’s Da Bestest LINEMAN on either side!

As many of you know, Da'Vell Winters who served as Player Development/Recruiting assistant and Thomas Arends who served as Director of Player Personnel/Pro Liaison have both left.

Winters received a promotion to Chief of Staff for Andy Avalos (which came with a significant pay bump)

Arends has been in football for 12 years and at Oregon for 11 of those. The reality is that the job is extremely draining and he put out a lot of effort with great results over the years. He has left football to work in his family's Central Oregon realty company.

Now, I could put up hot boards for every recruiting position that opens, but the reality is that, unless I update it three or four times a day, it would be somewhat irrelevant. There are literally thousands of people that will apply for these jobs and putting out a few names early does not prove much of anything. If I hear anything direct as a potential pending hire, I will try to get that information to you and some details on the person.

For what it is worth, I really liked both Arends and Winters on a personal level and spoke (briefly) with both and congratulated them on their moves.

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Ducks offered him a year ago and immediately jumped into his top group. Very good OT from up in Washington.

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I just tuned into the WBB game. 3:43 left in the third...Ducks up 68-24. Holy cow.

Altman will be bald soon unless he stays in the locker room until the first ten minutes of the games are over. The first two buckets the Ducks made were harder than the first half dozen or so misses. They seem to love digging a hole and made it ten points deep by half time. Whatever speech he delivered, probably very empathically, during half time he might think about delivering before the opening tip.

Playing against the team with the 5th best turnover rate in the country ... well they slipped a little in the standing before the game was over ... Oregon made it look like it was no intimidating factor to overcome. A team averaging 9.4 of them per game almost doubled that with slightly more than half of them, I think, coming in the second stanza. Oregon can play defense, yet not quite up to the coach's standard if you read between the lines during the post game interview with Williams.

I will say the Ducks have been working on their three point shots. In hindsight, their problems up to now might be related to all of the summer practice opportunity they didn't get. My guess is not many of them have regulation hardwood courts in their back yards, or access to any nearby ones during the shutdowns. Without having seen stats yet, I'd think they shot somewhere near an average game they played last season.

Duarte, almost the new Richardson, led those as he did in just about any way you might look at. He is clearly the best player on the roster while Williams pulled at least nose to nose with Omoruyi who sat more minutes than he played. Not sure what went on with that but it's between him and the coach. William dumped in 19 points and I'm guessing double digit rebounds. Duarte won conference player of the week last week and unless somebody else had a great week he could repeat with 27 and 25 point games which are only the most visible of his contributions. He leads the conference in steals and has had a half dozen 20 point games. I'd like to see where he stands in shooting percentage both from inside and outside the arc but I'm, as usual, too lazy to look.

In a nice contributing role Hardy showed reason why he was accepted as a transfer. If he can keep it up, Oregon will have yet another threat teams have to prepare for. As it is, there is no single player the Ducks seem to set up to make plays for, including Duarte. Franck Kepnang made his first appearance and, though I am sure he has a lot of talent, we can see why it has taken him a while to get on the court. I might be wrong but it appeared he was in the wrong spots on the floor more than on the right ones. It didn't take long for Altman to quietly replace him during a called time out. He was a freshman playing his first minutes of college hoops and they were likely a valuable lesson for him.

I could be wrong but I think Oregon is about to Jell. They clearly have read the memo that they need to play better defense. The second half result, beating the team they trailed by double digits after twenty minutes by an even larger double digit number, drove the point home. Improvement in shooting and shot selection, which should continue, makes this begin to look like typical Oregon late season Altman product. The time is right with the 'Zonas and the SoCals next on the schedule. UCLA and the Trojans are improving though I am not sure what is going on with the Wildcats and Devils. We'll see soon.

PER THE O

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/20...-linebacker-dru-mathis-to-return-in-2021.html

Huge game today for the Lady Ducks.

Oregon women’s basketball game vs. No. 1 Stanford in Santa Cruz, Calif. (11:30 AM PT).

TV

Pac-12 Network

PxP: Krista Blunk | Analyst: Mary Murphy

RADIO

Oregon Sports Network

Eugene: KUGN 590 AM | Portland: KDZR 1640 AM

PxP: Terry Jonz | Analyst: Bev Smith


I'll do live game updates on this thread.

Inside linebacker M.J. Cunningham has entered the transfer portal, bringing the announced defections to three.

Reported today by James Crepea of the Oregonian.

Also in the news today: TE Jack Yary has left UW.

Some interesting NFL Draft decisions IMO. Can’t say I blame them though.