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Oregon football’s 2024 full schedule​

• Aug. 31 – Idaho, 4:30 p.m. (Big Ten Network)
• Sept. 7 – Boise State, 7 p.m. (Peacock)
• Sept. 14 – at Oregon State, 12:30 p.m. (FOX)
• Sept. 21 – BYE
• Sept. 28 – at UCLA* (TBD)
• Oct. 4 (Fri.) – Michigan State*, 6 p.m. (FOX)
• Oct. 12 – Ohio State* (TBD)
• Oct. 18 (Fri.) – at Purdue*, 5 p.m. (FOX)
• Oct. 26 – Illinois* (TBD)
• Nov. 2 – at Michigan* (TBD)
• Nov. 9 – Maryland* (TBD)
• Nov. 16 – at Wisconsin* (TBD)
• Nov. 30 – Washington* (TBD)

I’ll be in attendance, so I won’t be doing much posting.

The men are not contenders for the team podium. However, Oregon will have some men competing in the championships. I am particularly excited about seeing Oregon sophomore decathlete Rafael Raap compete. I don’t expect Raap to score team points, but he is a PAC 12 Champion and could be an All American in coming seasons. The guy has a build out of Greek mythology.

The women have one of the top teams in the country. Jaida Ross , Jayden Mays, and Shelby Moran, among others, should bring in some big team points. They are currently ranked 4th in the nation. With the crowd behind them, the women could finish in the top three….. and Jaida Ross likely will be the top women’s field athlete in the NCAA. Our 4x400 team has heart, and will be the crowd’s Cinderella favorite. You got to love that group!
Go Ducks !

Last season the Big 10 started requiring injury reports two hours prior to kickoff. They are going to require it again this year - which means Oregon will now have to follow Big 10 policy.

Does not mean Lanning has to say what the injury is or the extent of the injury - and it still won't likely change the answers given following a game and/or questions during the week as you can be sure Dan Lanning will make sure he does not discuss it until that point where the information is required.

Off to Santa Barbara where they will mix it up with UCSB and San Diego. Santa Barbara has won 14 in a row, San Diego 10 in a row. Duck were 0-2 in PAc12 tournament. Pitching was decent but bats were really dead. It is baseball and anything can happen. By the way, Oregon was the lowest seed at-large team in the tournament.

It appears as he declared for the draft before the deadline as he is listed as a prospect. Not sure if this is a final thing or not.

New Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest movers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-24
Adam Gorney's position-by-position thoughts: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-breaking-down-the-new-rivals250-for-2025

Ducks Digest:
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In just his second year at Oregon, Will Stein is already one of the best and highest-paid coordinators in college football.
EUGENE - One of the most important parts of a head coach’s success is choosing the right man to run the side of the ball opposite his specialty. In Oregon coach Dan Lanning’s case, this meant getting the offensive coordinator right.

After Kenny Dillingham’s high-flying year as Oregon’s offensive coordinator, he left to be the head man at Arizona State, leaving room for current coordinator Will Stein who wow'd in his first year with the Ducks.
Coach Stein is being handsomely compensated for his services, checking in as the 11th-highest paid offensive coordinator in all of college football. Some have batted an eye at a coach as young as Stein being paid this highly but if year one was any indication, Stein will be well worth the lofty price tag.

It goes without saying that Stein inherited an extremely strong offensive roster at Oregon with first-round pick quarterback Bo Nix alongside Denver Broncos rookie Troy Franklin, Bucky Irving, and Tez Johnson. While this undoubtedly helped Stein’s ability to produce an elite offense, many teams have had higher-rated talent and returned far worse results.

Looking ahead to 2024, Oregon’s offensehas the potential to be even better than last year where it ranked first in passing yardage per game and still managed to be 40th in the country in rushing. This type of balance is virtually unheard-of in the college game and is a testament to Stein’s ability to get the most out of a deep and talented roster.
Stein will have Oklahoma transfer and Heisman Trophy contender Dillon Gabrielat quarterback along with highly efficient running back Jordan James and elite receivers Tez Johnson and Evan Stewart. Oregon’s offensive line is also among the best in the country, an element will aid in everything the Ducks want to do offensively.

The future is bright for both Will Stein and the Oregon offense at large. Despite his relatively high salary, Stein appears to be well worth it as the Ducks enter 2024.

If you slide through these photos, you will see a photo of Rodrick Pleasant and his high school classmate Brazil Neal. Both were star sprinters at Serra.

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The Oregon women are generally ranked 4th. Top four make the podium. Arkansas is top ranked and will be a juggernaut.
Oregon has two women top ranked in their event: Jayden Mays 100m. Jaida Ross 100m. Both Jaida and Jayden also will compete in other events; Jayden Mays will compete in the 100, 200, and the 4x100. Jaida Ross will compete in the shot and the discus.

The key to success is always determined by the training strategy. You want to time your workout progress towards peaking at the final meet. If the Oregon women can peak at Nationals, things could be exciting.

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Oregon is not giving up on the four-star QB:

Happy Memorial Day as we remember those who sacrificed their lives for the nation. Today on the Inside Read, a look ahead to the weekend of June 7th when a bunch of official visits start.

Like him or not… he was the only person touting and supporting the PAC for the last 10yrs😪

“The self-proclaimed Conference of Champions will leave quite a legacy, even if most of it will be relegated to the history books.

The Pac-12, founded as the Pacific Coast Conference in 1916, has claimed 561 team national championships -- over 200 more than the next closest conference -- and more than 1,200 individual titles.”

Of course I haven't read the details on the "agreement" but, no matter what the wording is, I can't see this going anywhere but to court with Title IX on one side of the courtroom. Goes to show, in light of reluctance to give women a fair chance to win medals, this is all going to be about money. It will be interesting to dive into the details in the coming days, with leadership from Scott and our legal guys.

My early thought is that this will be the end of the NCAA regarding power 4 football, as they try to separate themselves from the pay window for other sports. Non gridiron athletes might even have the best chance outside of the power 5 if their football teams can contribute to the funding, but that could be a really big "if". There was only one school in the old PAC12 with a statement in the black. I'm imaging the diseased state run's through most power 5 schools but have no idea how it works in the others.

Even if the separation happens, will there still be a lot of billable hours to decided who gets paid what in football and in the minor sports, probably now including Basketball?

Thinking a little further down the line, will schools now "rent" their stadiums and facilities to the teams? Will they take a bigger cut of concessions1?. Who gets what from gear and souvenir sales? Will the teams have to pay to use the university name and mascots? (if they even continue to identify with the schools). Will coaches in some state schools continue to accrue retirement pay as state employees? Will there still be football scholarships or will the players (the ones who care) have to spend their money to get exorbitantly priced educations?

Talk about opening a new can of worms!

I haven't thought this through yet and college football may not have either.

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Trajen Odom is getting closer to making a decision. He has three official visits lined up right now with Ohio State, Oregon and USC set to host him over the first three weekends in June. The Inglewood, California native (who now lives in North Carolina) has been busy crisscrossing the country this offseason getting familiar with many of his options.

Over the weekend he made his second visit to Oregon, and the Ducks continue to make a strong impression on the high three-star defensive lineman. He was able to get a better feel for how he'll fit into the plans for Dan Lanning, and he continues to feel like a priority for the staff.

"Oregon really helped themselves and continued to present me why they are a fit for me. They still sit really high in my list of schools."

Just a reminder of the transfers that Oregon acquired this year.

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What are the best options to get all the games this season?

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