Hahaaaa....yikes.

A rough one but I think we saw the effects of injuries and travel and no bye for 8 weeks and our opponent having 2 weeks to prep and maybe even a little complacency.

Don't care, we win. We'll be 12-0 and going to Indy in a few weeks.

Forgot to add....2nd half Defense only gives up 3 points. I love it!

In our final piece for tonight, Tez Johnson talks a lot about his teammates, but was especially excited about Noah Whittington's bulldozing touchdown:

Well, this was lower than I think every offense report card over the last two years:

Today in Take Two - the not fake kneel, plus some thoughts on an underrated 2025 LB target.

All the latest from many top prospects as signing day gets closer:

As early signing day fast approaches, this week on the Weekend Recruiting Wrap, notes on some Oregon targets and commits who were making visits around the country this past weekend.

Last year was our first year with an RV spot and it was literally a life changing thing. We are so much better rested when we head home. We will continue to host this tailgate as long as I work for Duck Sports Authority and ALL members, friends, family are welcome to come by to chat. I always have a game running on a television and almost always have beverages left.

to find us is fairly easy (IMO). We are directly across from the entrance to the Football Ops Center. No matter which direction you cfome up MLK, you will walk up Scout Access Road. The Oregon Trail Council building is on the right. Keep going past that until you see a field on the left with RVs. We are in RV space 88. The Boy Scouts are pretty good with helping you find the spot if you ask. Below will be a map.

Top returning high school discus thrower in US … close but I’ll go 4 stars.

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The Oregon women's basketball team cruised to a 70-54 win to stay perfect this season. Here is our game recap:

I'd like to give a VERY loud Thank You to former Central Catholic Ram Atticus Sappington. This last Saturday was the 3rd time this season that his FG has been the final, winning points of the game. I don't think a kicker gets many opportunities like that through an entire college career, let alone one season. I'm glad he's now a Duck!

Go Rams!

Right here:

Good morning #GoDucks fans. today on the DSA Inside Read we take a 3-2-1 look back at the win over Wisconsin.

USA TODAY:

NCAA sanctions give Southern California ammunition to fire Lincoln Riley and escape contract​

Matt Hayes
USA TODAY NETWORK

The NCAA sheriff handed down some law at Southern California on Wednesday, and the next three weeks just got vitally important for coach Lincoln Riley.
In the simplest terms, the NCAA gave USC a get out of jail free card to fire Riley and escape his mega contract.
The NCAA placed the school on probation for one year, and fined it $50,000 for on- and off-field coaching by non-coaching analysts on staff.
More potentially damning to Riley, whose teams have lost nine of their last 12 games: Southern California agreed with the NCAA that Riley violated “head coach responsibility” rules. This means the school could fire Riley with cause and not have to pay off tens of millions in contract commitments.
That’s right, fire Riley and not owe him a penny.


I don’t want to get into the semantics of why the “head coach responsibility” charge isn’t as damaging because the rule was given more teeth in 2023 (two years after the Trojans hired Riley). All you need to know is there’s now a off ramp for USC in this growing mess.

No more former players ripping Riley and the program on social media. No more longtime Big Ten punching bags stealing USC's conference thunder.
No more days of a top five program in all of college football middling around and losing to the Minnesotas and Marylands of the world.
“You see the level of penalties that were levied,” Riley said. “If it’s something serious, they’re going to suspend the head coach.”

This, everyone, is the crux of the problem with Riley at Southern California. Every problem isn’t as big as it seems. Or isn’t his fault.



Can’t stop anyone on defense? No big deal, we’ll hire a new coordinator.

Can’t win one-possession games? No big deal, we’re only a handful of plays away from being unbeaten.

Can’t win games consistently in the Big Ten? We knew this would be a tough transition.

Can’t recruit the fertile Southern California geographical footprint? The deficits when we arrived demanded recruiting the transfer portal (which also has been disastrous).


There’s always an excuse, always an out. The latest: QB Miller Moss keeps throwing the ball to the other team.

So now UNLV transfer Jayden Maiava takes over (he probably should’ve been playing earlier) to make it right in what has become an untenable situation.

Not only is the season over for the Trojans, the remaining three games are against teams that need it more.

Nebraska hasn’t played in a bowl game since 2016, and this week changed its offensive coordinator. The Huskers need one win to reach bowl eligibility.

Crosstown rival UCLA, which beat USC by 18 points last season, has won its last three games after finding its footing under first-year coach DeShaun Foster.

Rival Notre Dame can’t afford another loss if it expects to reach the College Football Playoff.

Riley is 23-13 at USC without a conference championship, and the coach he replaced (Clay Helton) was 26-10 in his first 36 games — with a Pac-12 championship and Rose Bowl win, and a Cotton Bowl appearance.

Well... Oregon did win ...
Evidently Wisconsin's scoring wasn't that hard to to predict since 9 of us did. Oregon's total on the other hand, and the spread, were much more elusive hiding from all. A special shout is due Tar who almost nailed the spread, predicting 4 but as was the case with most us didn't hit the rest of the numbers as well. There was a tight pack at the top with Duckville leading. Highlighted in red, it was a fairly even group among the experts (I know they don't consider themselves experts) in the middle of the standings.

Duckville 110
Adam 109
10Duck 109
Trent 108
Quack 107
Rockin 107
CKC 104
Ellsmeyer 103
Me 99
64Oregon 84
Ski 81
Scott 79
Youtube Sam 78
Beyond the pond Wisc 78
Brandon 77
Fish 72
TAR 71
Billy 70
Corey 69
Shark 67
Corkey 67
Gray 61
Grave 57

Let me know if I erred or missed someone.

I'm hoping everything gets back to normal for the next contest for the Wasington game. I'll post it in a bit but the game is to weeks away. That means I'll be taking my usual wild guess without looking at the weather or anything else. but ... what the hey.

Thanks for showing up again the week, hope to see all of you and a new face or two in a couple.

Not even the QB whisperer could keep him at the shite show.

5:00 Eastern (for the math challenged, it's 2:00 on the west coast) vs Troy. If you don't have B1G+ it looks like you'll have to catch it on the radio.

Much better basketball for the most part over what they showed vs Portland. Don't know how good Troy is but they have 12 players returning from a decent team last year. Oregon was faster, quicker and bigger so I am not ready to put a lot of weight on the win without seeing Troy having success as their season moves on. The spread was about 16 1/2.

Nevertheless Oregon started out building an early lead and improved on it steadily except for a little scoring by the Trojans during garbage time to bring the game closer than it was. Still plenty of room for improvement. Biddle had a slow night with his outside shooting, which we know he has. At somewhere near the 30 minute mark Oregon was shooting 50% for the game. Bartholomew was the only reliable three point shooter for the second time in a row. Shooting percentage still way bad complicated by a willingness to miss open shots from beyond the arc but they looked like a team that can consistently score deep in the paint for the first time this season. From the free throw line they are decent so far. A real hallmark is their intelligent hustle at both ends of the floor.

They are still playing solid defense. Without looking at the stats they had plenty of steals and blocked shots without fouling heavily. The big positive development is Supreme Cook getting onto the floor. He is not much of, if any, drop from Biddle. He is big and athletic, able to score proficiently at the rim. Haven't seen his outside shooting, if he has any. Now, when Biddle leaves the floor the Ducks do not have to alter their defensive plan and the rest of the squad did a better job of denying and defending the other team's outside game with their backs covered. Portland shot almost at will but the Trojans only had a few badly defended treys. My guess is that, as the Ducks build their chemistry, there will be even fewer of them.

From here the Ducks travel up the road to Corvallis on Thursday, then play three neutral site games vs Texas A&M and San Diego State, then a pair of games in LA before returning home at the end of the first week in December. By then we should have an understanding of what the Ducks are or can be.