Ugly start, but the offense starting to click and defense has been good. Ducks up 14-3 at the 12:44 mark

Ducks playing the best basketball in the Pac-12 right now

Ducks play host to six significant visitors this week.

Casey Filkins
Bam Amina
Brandon Hernandez
Silas Starr
Clark Phillips
Jordan Butler

fraudulent SAT scores and coaches taking bribes to falsify athletic scholarships. A company helped families get children into prestigious schools. USC, Stanford and UCLA mentioned. It’s all over the media outlets

So we did a round table article on this recently, but curious as to what you guys want to see from spring practice? what are the areas you are focused on?

Let's have a good conversation about the hope that is always evident in Spring!

2021 Richmond Foster WR Cody Jackson's stock has risen this past spring ... Oregon offered and he quickly called it a "dream school."

➡️ https://rvls.co/2HiaIjz

Thank goodness.

"The Titans are expected to sign Saffold to a four-year contract worth $44 million with $22.5 million guaranteed. Here’s a closer look at the veteran offensive lineman who spent the past nine seasons with the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams:

Rodger Saffold agreed to terms on a four-year, $44 million deal that includes $22.5 million guaranteed with the Titans. Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire
What it means: Saffold is an instant upgrade to the Titans' interior offensive line. His experience in a similar scheme with the Rams under head coach Sean McVay should make for a smooth transition. Saffold is a bulldozing run-blocker, which fits nicely for a Titans team that wants to be physical and rely heavily on the ground game.

Adding guard Rodger Saffold is a major boost to the Titans offense. Saffold was 3rd among all guards in ESPN's Pass Block Win Rate (min. 300 blocks) powered by NFL Next Gen Stats last season. Saffold held his blocks for at least 2.5 seconds 87.4 percent of the time."

The Ducks are taking on the Beavers up in Corvallis right now. Of course in the third inning the Lights Went Out in their stadium for about 20 minutes. Unfortunately right now the Ducks are down 6 to 4 going into the top of the fourth

TG4 gives insights into spring camp and much more.

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Great stuff from Heyward today about his unit, the defense and his thoughts on not getting the DC job. Loved his candor.

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Just got back from Wednesday practice. Here are my notes and pics from today.

• One of the biggest notes from today was Verone McKinley III. Sounds like has worked himself into a position as the No. 3 CB behind D Leno and TG4. Coach Donte Williams was telling me after practice that VMIII is doing a fantastic job as a nickel back this spring as well
• Coach Ken Wilson told me that as far as he was concerned, all the LB's were starting from scratch. He was not going to go by last year's depth chart, and everybody would have to earn PT. That said, I can't imagine guys like Troy Dye don't get the start.
• DJ Johnson is up to 270 now and he looks it. Big guy. Surely he can help the DL this year.
• For as big as Sala is, he is actually looking more trim in the waist than he did six months ago. I think the conditioning program here has been excellent for him.
• The starters at WR today looked to be Schooler, JJIII and Jaylon Redd, although in the stuff we were watching Redd may have been a RB. He was in motion every time but did take some direct handoffs.
  
• The second WR's today were Addison, JJ Tucker and Josh Delgado.
• Speaking of Delgado, heard a few compliments of him from other players.
• Looked to me like Sala was running with the No. 2 offense, and walkon Ryan Walk with that group too so not sure what was going on there. But it was the second unit with Shough at QB.
• Addison was wearing a red jersey today but was participating. Cale Millen was nowhere in sight while we were in practice for the first 30 minutes.
  
• Pro Day is tomorrow
• Next practice is Friday although I cannot be there. Nichole will be covering it for us.
• All for now

New weights have been posted on the goducks.com roster. Here is a chart with the players with changes. Click to see.

This was my first chance to interview coach Wilson and I really liked what he had to say.

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New series by my bud Josh Helmholdt: Recruiting 101. In his inaugural edition he goes over the recruiting calendar.

R101: Calendar

The Bellflower (Calif.) St. John Bosco OL likes how Oregon is recruiting him:

https://n.rivals.com/news/ol-drake-metcalf-planning-numerous-road-trips

after yesterdays loss I thought we may end up somewhere other than Portland...…...I like our bracket if we can get healthier and rested up! Hoping Charlie Crème is accurate as he is usually pretty spot on.

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/bracketology

Here is a compilation of my thoughts along with those of Downtown Nichole Brown.

Take Two: Monday

Ducks picked up another series win yesterday beating Hawaii (come from behind 8-7 win)

Ducks ranked #1, Beavers #3- they play tomorrow on Pac 12 network if anyone is interested.




Updated RPI rankings

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