Obviously was coming down to today for his X-ray to get the final clearance, sounds like things came out well:

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How do others feel about this?

I think this is a 4 out of 10 on the sting scale. Would be a whole different thing if this was a 2018 recruit, but never felt like this one was very solid to start with (3rd or so commitment with a long way to go).

Ducks aren't out of it for him, and as was mentioned elsewhere, he seems to fall in love with lots of places.

Sting Factor

Have you seen this guy play? He is averaging 161.6 rushing yards a game at 11.6 yards a carry. He has 11 rushing TD's and he has only played 8 games. He has also passed for 8 TD's and throws a fairly nice deep ball although rushing is his forte'.
Ole' coach "Pepsi" will be downing those babies by the 12 pack planning for this guy. Will be interesting to see how we play against this guy.......eeeeeek!

Once again confirms he will be here officially for the Civil War

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So, a BIG thank you to srduck for allowing us to use a premium parking pass for these last two home games.

I will be in the lot at noon and ready to go. I am hoping as many DSA'ers show up as possible for one of the last two games; with 4:00 starts, the timing is perfect. I had considered bringing the whole television setup, but think I would rather focus on conversation since these will no longer be hosted by me.

I will still have my season tickets and parking space next season, so I will be letting my son use those; he will have all of my tailgate gear, so could conceivably run it similarly for those games I am not in Oregon next season.

Currently the plan for next year is to watch the schedule for two consecutive home games and make the trip out to see both with only one week vacation.

Details: Oregon-Arizona DSA Tailgate
When: 12:00-4:00
Where: Autzen parking lot space 6543
What to bring: Conversation!
Food and Beverages: I will have plenty of beer, burgers, dogs and Brats for this game along with soda and water.
Donations: Gladly accepted at the game or via PayPal (sreed39@canby.com)

How did B.B. ever pass this dude on the depth chart? For real.. he’s got legit quickness and straight line speed and a rocket of an arm. He can make all the throws...must’ve been a log jam at the position and he didn’t get a chance to showcase his abilities:

Here is his JUCO highlights. He was also just named JUCO offensive player of the year...
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Has a player ever transferred out to a juco and returned to that same school later on?

The three UCLA basketball players who were (allegedly) caught on video shoplifting in their host country of China are on their way home. They are very, very lucky dudes.

Wide Receiver out of Georgia...not as yet ranked with stars

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The Ducks face QB Khalil Tate and an option running game this weekend. There will be a lot of pressure on the DL to play assignment football. Any breakdown in a single gap can send Tate or one of the RB's heading into the second level with a head of steam.

Salave'a

Stopping the UA option

I’m sure for the last five weeks defenses and defensive coordinators were echoing the same sentiment, and nobody has slowed them down. We are looking forward to the opportunity. It’s all about gaps, leverage and rallying to that ball.

Henry Mondeaux Team Captain

He is a leader in our room. He commands the room. I’ve really, truly been excited about him and his progress. Change is never easy on both fronts; on the staff and the guys who have been here for a while. All they have done is try to do what we ask.

On UA QB Khalil Tate:

He is going to make his plays. The goal is to minimize them and put ourselves in position to be successful. We have got to execute and have a lot of bodies around him.

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Coach Leavitt from before practice today. He did not think that because Arizona runs the option, they are one-dimensional.

"When he throws he throws pretty well. His percentage is pretty high. He has got some explosive throws. You have got to guard against both. He is getting better and better at throwing."

USC beat them by 14 in Los Angeles two weeks ago. Leavitt said they did it by playing to stop the run first, and that the Trojans had the horses to do that.

"They manned up on everything and brought everybody into the box and kind of just loaded up there a little bit. And they have got some pretty good people doing it."

Click below for the full five-minute interview.

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I know many of you will see who posted this and immediately dismiss it. It will in any case be my last post. Criticize to your heart’s content as I will probably be dead soon anyway. I am sure most of you will be heartened by this. I will be going into the hospital for my 3rd open heart surgery next week for a rapidly increasing ascending aortic aneurysm(near the heart) and have only about a 30% change of surviving. If I don’t have the surgery, I will not live to see next month according to my Cardiac Surgeon. My reason for going ahead with the surgery even though my odds of survival are slim are that my parents who are in their mid 90’s are not doing well health wise. My mother had a devastating stroke last week and I am their only source of financial support for the overwhelming medical bills they are coping with(she needs round the clock skilled nursing) and I owe it to them to go ahead with surgery, despite the long odds, so if by some miracle I do survive I will still be receiving my Military and Physician pensions and Social Security and be able to continue to financially support them as well as my disabled son.

Although this post may seem very critical of the Oregon Football program and is very painful to write, I have loved the Ducks for many years( I watched my first Duck Football Game in 1950), and fervently hope for their success. I have harped on this same topic for most of the season only to be routinely criticized and attacked. I now feel even more strongly about where the Oregon football program is headed. I can only hope that someone in authority in the Oregon athletic program may read this and make the difficult but necessary changes in the Football program before they dig it into a hole so deep it will take a generation to recover.


I have enumerated many times previously that the major problem that Oregon Football has and may well have in the foreseeable future is a competent O.C. that can manage a game plan and make adjustments throughout the game and at halftime. You can have the most talent and still lose repeatably( see USC, UCLA, Texas and other power 5 schools that perennially recruit elite talent but under perform year in and year out.

I recognized this in the first game of the season and am completely baffled by the inability or unwillingness of the Oregon Athletic program to get off their butt and fix this problem. Most of the Head Coaches at elite football schools(Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Michigan State etc. do not call their offensive plays or manage the offense but instead have enough sense to hire an experienced and competent O.C. to run the offense.

The opposite of this is that a team can have very mediocre talent year in and year out but still go to major bowls and compete with the best teams(see Boise State, Kansas State, Wisconsin etc. In this sense, coaching expertise trumps recruiting ability. Until WT recognizes that he is the problem, and that he does not have the skills to manage an offense, the Oregon Football program will continue in a slow death spiral. He certainly is a great Recruiter and a dynamic Head Coach and has assembled a top notch assistant coaching staff, but he is in way over his head as far as a Coach who can competently develop and manage an Offensive game plan.
The jury is still out in my mind about his coaching ability in general. I have failed to see much improvement throughout the season in his players(penalties, missed assignments, mental errors etc. I do concede that many of his players are quite young and inexperienced but I would expect to at least see some improvement as the season progresses, even with Burmeister.

A good example of a coach who can both Recruit and Coach well, although it is in basketball, is Dana Altman. Who would have thought he would, in a few short years, turn Oregon into a basketball powerhouse. Obviously we struck gold in his hire as he can both recruit and coach at a very high level.This is a very rare gift to have as either a Football or Basketball coach. To reiterate, Oregon needs an O.C. who understands how to manage a game or it won't matter how much talent we recruit. I hate to say this but W.T. is either very unintelligent or stubborn, but until he hires a competent O.C., Duck football will continue in a slow death spiral. If W.T. is unwilling or unable to recognize this, he should be fired. Mullens should be fired as well as he has to see the problem but has taken no steps to rectify the situation.

Having co-offensive coordinators like we do is a joke. We need one competent O.C. who alone is accountable for running the offense. We have had excellent O.C.’s in the past, even as recently as Helfrich and Frost, and I am sure that there are many other Coaches nationwide who would be available and thrilled with the opportunity to assume the role of O.C. at Oregon.

The longer this problem is allowed to continue the harder it will be to get the Football Program back on track.

The Oregon men's and women's teams will be departing tomorrow for the NCAA Cross Country championship to be held Saturday morning at Louisville, Kentucky. After finishing third (women) and fourth (men) at the Regional meet, what can we expect from them this weekend? The men's team has a shortage of true 10K runners - the distance that they will be running on Saturday, so they will likely have to rely on several middle distance runners. Two of the more natural 10K runners, Levi Thomet and Matt Maton, will not be competing, so the burden is going to be placed on the consistent team leaders, Junior, Tanner Anderson, and young freshmen, Cooper Teare. Hopes for a top 10 finish will require solid races from the group of experienced Blake Haney, sophomore, Austin Tamagno, and freshman, Reed Brown. Transfers, Connor Clark and James West and redshirt senior, Sam Prakel would have to bring a major surprise to figure in the mix. To be honest, the likely outcome is a top 15 finish, but the Ducks have experience on the course, having run there at the pre-Nationals race.

The women present a different picture, as they could be a podium team, and could even pull off the same kind of upset that led to winning the championship last year. Sophomore, Katie Rainsberger, is a special athlete, capable of finishing in the top 5. Close behind her is likely to be Lilli Burdon, who has been spectacular so far this year. With a good day, she could finish in the top 25, along with experienced junior, Carmela Baez. After those three come the big question marks. Will two other Ducks be able to step forward with the kind of races that will place Oregon in team championship contention? The most likely is Alli Cash, who is rounding into shape after missing most of the season with a lingering injury. After that, the hope would be that junior, Jessica Hull, actually more suited to the mile distance, has a good day and can hang in there, close enough to keep the Duck score low enough. Not to be forgotten, transfer, Susan Ejore, is a mystery. Is she healthy? If so, she has the experience and talent to surprise a lot of people. So, the women's team present a quandry to the observer. Are Ejore and Cash ready for a prime time race? If they are, Oregon will be in the mix. Last year, the winning low score was 125....not likely, but still doable for the Oregon women this year.

League City's own, Will McBride, thrust into starting role after an offseason transfer and 2 injuries. He was a Spring enrollee. Stats so far:

GP COMP ATT PCT ATT/G YDS YDS/ATT YDS/G TD INT LNG SCK SCK YDS QBR
3 17 40 42.5% 13.3 152 3.8 50.7 1 2 22 6 -35 72.7

GP ATT ATT/G YDS AVG YDS/G TD LNG 100+
3 18 6.0 70 3.9 23.3 0 43 0

Despite stats similar to BB's, McBride is receiving a lot of praise. Maybe it's better to be a lightly recruited 3 star than a big time blue chip because expectations aren't as high and you're perceived as a fighin' underdog.

Brandon streamed this live, but ICYMI:

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From Monday, the weekly Taggart press conference.

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FSU commit Marquez Ezzard. There is some chatter about how strong he is to the Seminoles and he has been talking to Oregon more lately.

Just wanted to give you a heads up. His recruitment could get interesting soon.

And hasn't visited. So that leaves Richardson as our best plausible hope?

Bio shows he visited on the 9/29. I think a good PG is a great way to go this class. Brown looks like he could play point in a pinch, but is probably a bigger contributor playing off the ball, and may not be here more than a yr or 2. None of the other new guys look like they have real PG potential.

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2018/will-richardson-171602

He de-committed from Alabama this morning. Here's what I've been told about his recruitment:

Texas, UCLA, Notre Dame, Oregon and USC have really gotten way more involved this season. He committed to Alabama this summer when basically only a few team were recruiting him.

Why he wouldn't choose Alabama's is anyone's guess - but I was told he wants to take visits and go through the recruiting process and thus wanted to open up his recruitment.

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2018/jarrett-bell-197183

about 45 minutes away from game number 2. Should be a bit more of a test for the Ducks, PV has a lot of JC talent on the team. The Ducks will need to step it up on the defensive end and will have a good chance to grow in this game. Hopefully the first effort was partially butterflies for a lot of new Ducks.